From the course: Nuke Essential Training (2014)

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New node features

New node features

- The Foundry has added a lifetime feature that affects all nodes, as well as some very useful new features to the backdrop node, the read node, and the Curve Editor. There's also big news about the Denoise node. Let's take a look at the lifetime feature, as an example, I'll just use a Blur node here. I'll open up this Blur node, I'm going to set a blur size of 10 and it really hammers the picture and when I click the play button, you can see that it's active for the whole length of the shot. To set the lifetime, just go to the node tab. Turn on the use lifetime feature and set the frame range. Let's say I wanted it to come on at frame 10, tab, and off at frame 20, okay? Now, if I move the play head past frame 10, the blur goes away. Coming back, it returns; if I go to frame 20 and beyond it goes out again, so it only active in the frame range that I set the lifetime. We'll clear this, take a look at the next feature, the backdrop node, Z feature. As you know you can have multiple…

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