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Creating groups

Creating groups

- [Instructor] A gizmo is Nuke speak for a macro, a prepackaged groups of nodes that have been collapsed into a single node that is then added to the Tool tabs like any other Nuke node. But to make a gizmo, you first have to make a group. Here's how to make a group. Let's start by getting our purple face guy from Project Media. Mr. purple face, open, type one to hook to the viewer node. So we're going to make a group that will apply a series of operations to this face, and then turn that group into a gizmo. So let's pull in some nodes. We'll select the read node and type T for a transform, G for a grade, B for a blur, and let's say that I want the game to always be set at .5, there we go. But, I want to export and adjust the blur node's size parameter as well as the transform node's scale parameter. So those two controls need to be on the outside of my group. So first of all to make a group, we'll select the nodes we want to have as a group, and the keyboard shortcut is command + G…

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