From the course: Nuke Essential Training (2014)

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Working with nodes

Working with nodes

Nuke has a great many node operations to speed up the creation and editing of Nuke scripts. Here we'll take a look at just the most common one that you'll use most often. I'm using this script here from the exercise files. I'm going to increase the node graph area so we got more room to play. Now, the navigation commands for the node graph are identical to the viewer. So if we want to pan in the node graph, that's Alt, left mouse, click and drag. If we want to zoom, Alt, middle mouse, click and drag, left and right, or use the thumb wheel. If the node graph is big enough to go out of frame, then this navigation map shows up. And you can use this to navigate your way around your node graph. I'm going to rehome the node graph with the same command as the viewer, F. There's three different ways to add a node. I'm going to click over here, and then come up to the Tool tabs. And let's say, for example, from the Filter tools, I want a blur node. It'll go where I clicked. The second way is a…

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