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welcome back to Nuke 2:04

this is class No. 3

and this week we're gonna be going over

one of my favorite features in nuke

which is the gizmo creation

and we only be scratching a surface with

gizmos are capable of today

but it's definitely a nice way to get you started and

start building some your own tools and

start learning how to share

your custom tools with other users and artists and

for your supervisors to create looks and

and be able to

give them to your artists

knowing that the look will stay consistent

um so what I've done

is kind of made my own little script here that's gonna

give us an old timey film look

so we have this um

footage of Angie from FX Guide TV

and I'm just

have a great note here called contrast

uh this is a vignette bezier

so it's just a clone of this vignette down here

and I'll talk about that in a second um

so that alpha is being copied into this

and then I'm blurring the edges

so if we look at that real quick

you see I'm blurring the edges a bit there

and then I grain the entire thing

then I take down the saturation so it's black and white

then I've been yet it and darken the edges

then I tint it I add some flicker

and I add some bump so now we play it back

a few frames cash here

we have an old timey film look

not the most advanced of gizmos or

techniques by any stretching imagination but

it does a cool look

it's gonna give us a lot of examples of how we can

make this instead of all these different nodes with

all this different control

how to make it

one nice little

plugin such as the Gen Arts or the furnace plugins are

uh so that user can just access the

controls they need in order to change

and tweak this image

to give this old timey film look

so there's our image and okay

that'll do it for now

and let's go ahead and just start

anytime you create a gizmo

you need to create a group

you don't necessarily need to build the entire

gizmo prior to this

but you do need to open a group

so I'm just gonna select everything

and hit control G

to create a group

and you'll see that all my nodes disappear

and now they've been put populated by a group

and I have a new tap here

called group 1

and now all the nodes are in here

with input 1

input two and output

so what I need to do

because this

I do not want this vignette

to have an input

so I'm gonna unplug it from input 1

plug input 1 here and delete input two

and then my output set fine

so now if we look at the node graph we have Group 1

input directly going to put one

so now let's just rename our group

so just double click on the group and it'll come up

and let's call it

old timer

as in old timer film look

let's go into the node graph and rename the input

into source

so now you'll see that

the error coming out says source instead of the No. 1

and just for the sake of beautification

let's go ahead and color our

note a different color here

give a little life little rust color since old timey

oops I change the wrong thing

I'll just put that to there there we go

and I'll even make it bold font

alright so there's our old timer

so doing nothing else

everything that I just did is just in a group now

and we've done all the work

and it's if I played it back

it'd be the same exact thing that it was before

no changes whatsoever

but I don't want

any user to have to go into my

group to change any of these things

I wanna give them just the controls

that they need to tweak this old time look

so let's go to the group

let me clear this window

we'll go to the group

and you're gonna right click anywhere

basically in any of the gray areas

just right click and say Manage User Knobs

and you'll get this wonderful menu

and you have a couple different options here

you can add

which gives you tons of options of things you can add

and we'll talk about that in a second

you have pick

which you'll see when I click pick

it now names

and shows me all the nodes that I created by name

so that's why I was so careful when I named them tant

flicker bump etc

so if we were to look at the saturation

we can actually just

keep pressing the

plus sign until you see the control you want

so for example

if I want to be able to control saturation

for the gizmo

I'm just going to click on saturation 1

which is the name of the node

and then saturation and dot saturation

so I'll click

okay on that

and now you'll see

we have a slider for saturation up here

and I'll say done

and you'll see that

let me close this so you understand what's happening

and if we double click on our group again

we now have the control for the saturation

so if I change this back up

or actually just go to one here

you can see now that

we have a film look

but it's not quite um

black and white anymore

it's kind of like more uh

maybe 70s style film

we can even take it down a little bit more

make it more like 60s film

and you can see you have different

couple different looks you can add there

so let's go back to 0

and right click again and say Manage User Knobs

I'm also gonna change the user tab name

you see it's under a tab called user

I'm gonna edit that as well

and I'm gonna name it I'm actually naming it users fine

but I'm gonna label it

old time controls

and now you'll see it's called Old Time Controls

so we have saturation set

but we have a lot more control we want to

add to this gizmo

so I'm gonna hit manages knobs again

I'm gonna go ahead and pick some more here

so I want lens blur because that's gonna be the

size of the blur on the edges

I also want

for now I want

the tent controls someone go to my grade and select

multiplying gamma

and I want flicker

which I only want the mix for that and I'll show you

there's an expression driving the flicker

and I'll show you guys that in a bit here

and let's go ahead and grab bump

which is just a camera shake node

which is also a gizmo

actually camera shake is extra to gizmo

and I'm gonna grab amplitude

and frequency

someone click okay

and now we're gonna see all these populated are seen

are our our group controls here so

um just on the outlook these are completely confusing

we have no idea what these are gonna be for the user um

so we need to label these in such a way that's

understandable

so saturation I'm fine with

size is certainly not gonna help anything because

it's just labeled size

what does that mean

so we're gonna name

let's start with that one

let's edit that

and um let's go ahead and keep the name

the name is what nuke uses

uh in expressions

so in this case lens blur dot size

now that's where it's actually linked to

the lens blur is the name of the blur note dot size

um let's go ahead and keep it that way

and we'll just label it something different

so let's call it lens blur

and click okay

and actually if you got we got a tool to appear as well

and we'll just tell it what tell our user what it does

blurs edge your frame

okay so now lens blur now we know the values of 72

um and then we have our two tint controls

so we can edit this as well and again we're gonna name

we keep the name the same but we're gonna label it

tintiende

and this one we're gonna name tint low end

or label it sorry I keep saying name tint low end

so now we have tint high and tint low end

mixes the flicker

so let's change that to flicker amount

and then we have our camera bumps

so let's edit that as well

okay so now these are all named in a clear way

but it's still

it's not really organized that clean so let's

go ahead and right click and say manager knobs again

and this time we're gonna add some dividing lines

so it's right under here divider line

and we got a couple more of those and just

move them around in a second

so we can just drag these

I'm sorry not drag I just move them down this way

I want tint to have its own section

and I want bump to have its own section

so let's move flicker down a bit actually

and let's move lens blur down as well

all the way to the bottom

and add another divider line

so bump and tinder separate and

let's add one more actually

in between lens blur and flicker amount

okay so this is starting to give us an example of what

we're looking at here

so if we go ahead and look at our output here

now I can again change my saturation up and down

my tint is all wired together right now

and the Tin high and Tin low

and currently they're exactly the same number

and I was considering actually having these be just

one control of just tint and not high and low end

and simply locking these together because

changing the multiplying gamma

is actually gonna give us a little heavier look um

but then I decided

you know what

you are gonna

that's sometimes one duotone images

and for a duotone image

you will want to have these things

separate so for example

I wanted to

bring a little more blue back into the low end

and bring some warmth back into the high end

you can create some duotone looks

that can can that create some

some neat images so

um I didn't wanna take that control away

so and just like any node

I can go ahead and do everything I just did

so we're back to normal

and let's go ahead and manage these knobs again

and besides lens blur

the same bezier also controls

the darkening of the edges

the vignette itself so I want to pick another one

go into my vignette which is the actual bezier shape

and I want to select

under the tracking tab scale and click okay

and I do want it to be next to lens blur so

I also need to change the name of this

or sorry change the label of this to

vignette

size

and you'll see if I change if I

oh I upside down first

if I decrease the size

the vignette actually gets bigger

and if I increase the size the vignette gets smaller

so we need to reverse the controls of this

so we'll click managing knobs again

I'm just gonna write down delete

this vignette size one

and we're gonna have to create a new one and this time

we have to create it with yeah

we can create with an expression

or we can actually have nuke felt an expression for us

so I'm gonna click pick

tracking scale again

but this time I'm gonna say clone using expression

okay edit this

and the name now if I change will actually break

my link because it's actually this vignette

underscore scale

nuke named it this itself

and is gonna be using this to control

the scale of our bezier that's inside our group

so we just want to change our RL label

to vignette size again

click okay that's done

and

looks like we broke our

gizmo already so let's go back into it

so all I did was I went to the old timer node graph

which is inside the guts and I'm opening up the

controls for the vignette

and I'm gonna

edit my expression to make sure everything set right

so yeah it looks like there was some

something got screwed up here when I was testing stuff

I must have broken the link so it's parent dot

vignette

underscore scale

okay so now you'll see as I change this

up and down

even yet um now is being controlled

by us but through an expression said before

but it's still going the wrong way

so when I bring it down

the video is actually getting bigger

when I go up the video is getting smaller

so there's still a problem so I need to edit this

expression again

and in front of it I just need to do a 1 minus

so it'll actually be the negative

the opposite of the number I enter

so now when I bring it down

when it does get smaller

I wanna bring it up to when it gets bigger

now the one thing I don't like about this currently

is that my value goes all up to 10

anything above 1

it's not gonna do anything

so I would much rather

have it only give you the choice to go to one

so it's right click

manage your knobs again

and if you look at this we edit it

you don't have the option of changing this line

because scale

is set all the way up to 10

and we can't really change it

so we're gonna delete that all together again

breaking our expression

and so it warns us

I'm gonna say yes

go ahead and break it

and at this point

now we need to go ahead and do it by hand

so I'm gonna add a floating point slider

and it gives me right here the minimum maximum

so I'm gonna let minimum stay zero

but I'm gonna change my maximum to point nine nine

and name will be vignette underscore scale

which if I spell it right of course

would mean our expression is still gonna work properly

and I'll label it vignette size

so now see if we broke the

Nope it's working

so we are connected

and when we bring it up larger

the vignette gets bigger and we bring it down lower

the vignette gets smaller

to 1 at the point where softscreen completely

so there we have that

all controlled exactly we want to be controlled

so let's take a look at our node tree now in our

gizmo here and

see actually what else we want control of so grain

I definitely want some grain control

the ones blur

I think I have all the control I would want

if we can certainly bring that up

and although the bar only goes to 100

we can certainly really crank on it

I really think I want any more controls for than that

although I do want lens blur to be below vignette size

I think it'll makes a little bit more sense so

it's managed to knob to just shift that down one spot

there we go um

saturation we have controls for

that's fine

but yet I think we're

we're gonna have everything we need

um tint flicker and bump

I think we have everything we need there as well so um

let's take a look at the grain

and see what kind of controls you wanna give the user

so quite a different options here

and grain certainly

is this dynamic that we want to be able to change it um

but it's tough because I don't wanna overcomplicate my

gizmo the whole point of a

gizmo is that it's a little bit easier to use

so we have two options here

I could certainly just throw all

these controls into the user and just make it

big and heavy or

I can add a new tab

so that's what I'm gonna do because there's

really no way to give them just a little

bit of this grain control

I mean I can

I could allow them to

with the dissolve

I could have it

just take grain out take grain in um

and you know

let's let's actually do that

so I'm gonna manage the knobs and add

a floating point slider

and let's name it

grain underscore level

and will label it grain intensity

and minimum is zero maximum is 1 that's great

and let's see where that should be grain intensity

I'd like it to be below

saturation cause saturation is really be the top thing

so let's lower that down

and let's add another divider line to keep things clean

and probably we can probably get rid of the

divided line above the saturation

okay so now that's done

so we have a slider now that will move up and down

but it does absolutely nothing

since it's not connected to anything

let's go back into our our old timer node graph

I'm gonna add a dissolve

and plug it into the tree here

and there so now we have

dissolve that will take the grain up and down

no grain lots of grain

now right click and add expression

or just inside you can hit the equal sign

and the expression will come up

so I'm gonna say parent dot

green underscore level

and click okay

so oh I switched around so we wanna actually plug in

the 1 to the grain and zero to the lens blur

so now at level 0 we're getting no grain

oh I'm changing the wrong thing sorry

grand intensity

here we go so now

we're all the way up at 1

we see all the grain

and we bring it down to zero

uh we have no grain

and you'll see I can't control it here

I can move the slider

but it will always it just doesn't do anything

the slider moves

but the numbers don't change

so uh when you ever have the note open

you just wanna make sure you close that

so you're not confusing yourself

so let's keep right intensity at one

this is old time of film

we wanted to have lots of grain

so we'll keep that at one

and now we've given our

user another control

so but I still wanna have more control over the grain

everything else I kinda wanna

leave as simple as possible

but it really is worth being able to control the grain

so let's manage your knobs again

let's just see what grain would give us if we wanted to

kind of included here

so we have grain grain 2

now the one thing I would have

allowed it to keep is the presets

I would have loved to give presets control

but I don't know if that's gonna work for us

let's go ahead and try it

so I'm gonna click okay

and sit down and see what happened

yeah I don't see that it came in

presets down the bottom yeah

as you can see it doesn't actually give us anything

so that's not gonna work so what I wanna do instead

is add a new tab

name it green

underscore details and label it

grain fine tuning

and say okay

so I have a new tab appear called Grain Fine Tuning

and I'm going to go ahead and pick again

go into my grain

and under user cause this is also a gizmo actually

and just gonna go ahead and click

all the way down to minimum

and I don't wanna give it any alpha controls

I don't want them to

to be able to affect this through an alpha channel

we can always add that control later if we want to

but for now I'm gonna keep it the way it is

and we probably have seat in there as well

so that was just a control click on Windows command

click on Mac and click okay

and you'll see now we're populated

and I'm just gonna try one more time to see if I can

grab the presets I don't think I can

but I'm gonna try one more time

so yeah it doesn't actually show you the presets

so let's go ahead and delete that

so we don't break anything

and uh I'm sure there is a way to do that um

and if using them

any of you that know Python

can certainly figured out pretty quickly

I'm just not gonna get that deep into it at this point

so click that down

so now we have our grain

our fine tuning

we have our old time controls

which is where most users are gonna

get all the controls they need

and if they wanna

you know change the grain

they can certainly

take it up a level here will make it even bigger

you know lots of different things you can do

so let's just undo all that

and at this point I can't say I'm done making my tool

but I think it's a great time to test it

so let's go back to our node graph

just take a make sure we're looking at the output

and let's go ahead and change some things here

so let's let's make it really bump a lot

and let's change the bump frequency

let's change the flicker amount

let's uh take the saturation up slightly

um let's go ahead and bring up my uh grain intensity

maybe my grain size a little bit too

not quite that much

and let's see what else we want to change

maybe we change the one blur double that up

and take down the vignette slightly

so let's just play that back real quick

make sure we're doing well

I'm making I'm making some very ugly video indeed

and I'll hit 0 to kill the offset

or I'm sorry hit the take off the overlays

so this is the kind of node

obviously a lot of you are familiar with

plugins that do some other things like this

and you can really take this plug in far

you can have that scratches and dust hits

a little hair floating around

you could add scan lines for bad TV instead of doing

grain things like that

there's lots of ways you can make this

and this gives them a very

very powerful

I'm not gonna get into all the different ways

cause it's kind of limitless of non

degrading imagery

that's kind of

major part compositing

so there's lots of plugins

out there that degrade images

and since this is kind of a common one actually

I think it is kind of useful

so now we have some really bad footage

and it's uh doing

too much stuff right now

and a little hokey looking um oh

and actually there's a

there's a really good tip

my vignette is animating

that's not good um

unless I wanted to

which in this case I don't

because most vignettes

are not gonna animate unless

the most it's a dissolve Iris closing or opening

and this is not

the kind of tool where I just want to give the user

the ability to open and close the Iris

I don't really see how

that's gonna

be a look that would require old film look

I mean it's kind of a

neat look potentially

to be able to change that a little bit um

but it's really not what I'm going for

and it's actually a bug right now

so let's go back

and take a look at our vignette

and this is just a clone again so if I hit the

Alt E you'll see that they're connected by a clone

okay so there's a vignette and under

Bezier there's a there's a

there's a couple keys where I actually drew the shape

so that was my mistake

so let's turn overlays back on

find out where that is oh

actually it's not in the shape itself

but let's go ahead and say don't add a key

no animation and then huh

actually I guess that was my fault

I guess that was the key okay

so now it shouldn't change so now it doesn't change

and there we have it okay

so that's fixed I can close the van yet now

and now all my controls will work in

just double check yeah so that's back to normal now

now the one thing I

don't like is that it's actually showing me

the busiest shape for the bun yet

which I don't

really understand why it's doing that actually

cause I only have vignette size here

and be I wonder just because it's simply showing me

hmm interesting

it's showing me what

the busy would be as if the vignette was open

let's try something here

I'm just gonna go ahead and

control X and get rid of my group of open it back up

and take a look at the output

double click on it again okay

good so it did go away now

so I think once you open it in the group window

it's gonna for some reason why you're creating this

gonna show you the shape

but now the users will not actually see um

see the busy a shape when I when they change the video

let's make sure that's the case

yes that's good

so now that user does actually

see what's happening behind the scenes

alright so let's take some credit for our work

let's manage user knobs and just add some fixed text

and name it credits

and say

old timey film look

designedly created by

FX PhD

nuke 2:04

okay

let's go ahead and move that down

oops I didn't let it catch up and now I'm going around

there we go oh

and I put it actually

on the wrong tab so I want to

move it up back to

and there we go so I wanna add some more text actually

and name it space

and another one

and name it

space 1

so I can just add some spaces

but leave my credits there

oh it actually drew a line let's see if we can fix that

okay start new line

there we go oh actually it's not gonna work

that's not gonna work so let's delete that

delete the other space as well

and let's see if we can make it as simple as actually

adding some returns

after in our text window here

yeah that works actually

so let's go ahead and add one more space

or return rather okay

okay so we have quite a decent gizmo here

there's turning lots more to talk about

but this is a good start

so I'm gonna click done

and there's our tool

so now let's publish it for users

and we'll go into beta

so that they can start testing our stuff out

and let's just bring this stuff back to a

reasonable level

back to default settings

anything you set these two

it's gonna be kind of your

this is your default settings

so whatever you start with is what

the defaults are gonna be

so let's change saturation back to zero

I want lens blur to be a little bit more reasonable

and let's bring beignet down

so it's just kissing the corners of the frame there

and go back to grain fine tuning

and let's change that

back to a more appropriate level as well

okay so that's an area map with

and actually let's go back to the low end here

I'm just gonna darken it down a little bit

give me a little bit more contrast you look

oh and actually

that's one of the controls I forgot to add actually

so my tab is closed since I deleted the node

so I'm just gonna click

the s key up here to show my group again

and I want control of this contrast

so let's go real quick and just manage the knobs pick

contrast and it's a grade node

and I'm using the multiply in the gamma to control that

okay

and they came into the grain fine tuning

I don't want that

so I'm gonna shift like them both

oh I guess I can't move them both at the same time so

let's move them all the way up

I want them actually just below saturation

and there I go okay

right below saturation and do the next one

okay and actually

I will keep it grouped with saturation

because I think that kind of makes sense

so let me edit that

and I don't want to call it game

I don't want to be labeled gamma

I want to be labeled it

levels

it's called low end

levels

add that

that's your high end level

low end levels better add that one more time

make it just no s and I'm gonna move that one down

so high ends up front

and so there we go

so now we have the saturation high end and low end

so I can darken it here if I wanted to

brighten here if I wanted to

and it gives me all the controls I

want so let's find a default place that I'm happy with

and let's actually take filter

all the way down to make sure I'm not

judging the image based on a flicker frame

and I bring flicker back up

so we have some value there okay

so now I am pretty happy with this

and let's go to beta with the users now

so to create this as an actual gizmo

you wanna go to the note tab

and just say export as gizmo

and a file browser will pop up

and you wanna save it in for Mac at the user Sean

your name username

and then dot nuke um

and basically it's gonna be your home directory

for no matter what I wish you're on

and there's a dot nuke directory in there

or you can make a dot nuke directory in there and um

you don't have to put it in a gizmos folder

so um I just like to keep them organized that way

you can simply put it in a dot nuke folder

but I'm gonna put it in a dot gizmos folder

nuke will automatically check everyone's home directory

constantly it's part of its in nukes

plugins path

so your home directory will always be looked

for new gizmos and things

so as long as you put it in here

you'll be able to access it nuke instantly

so I've already saved a version here

but I'm gonna go ahead and just save over that

and say save

it wants me to override

I'll say yes

and now to test it worked

I can hit X

and just type the command

old timer without the dot gizmo

you just wanna

go old timer

whatever you named yours

click okay and it will pop up

and it's called Old Timer 1

because we already have an old timer here um

so we had to have one with the one on it

but you can see the controls exactly the same

the one difference between

the group and the gizmos that the group has

two arrows on each side and the gizmo only has one

that's because the users no longer

allowed to change or manipulate anything in here

so when we open up the group

I have the option of

clicking the s button to show the controls

when I open the gizmo

I do not have that option

this is now just a tool

that you just can use

and change the controls that we allow them to change

let's go ahead and look at that

so that everything still changes fine

we can bring up the saturation

we wanted to all that

but they can no longer get into the group

now if they want to get into the group

for example

and they're always lock this out

but if you don't mind that they get into the group

if they need to

they can just copy to a group

and now a new groups created

and um they can now again click s

and show the group

so those are the couple different ways you can bring in

a gizmo created

we know that ours is working

that's all wonderful

um but what if I wanna add to the menus

um that's the next step really

cause we now we have a tool

we don't wanna have to you know

just know what's in there and hope for the best

we wanna put it in the menu so we can access it

interactively

so we're about to do can be done in any text editor

but since we're in nuke

let's just go ahead

and do everything we're about to do in nuke

um for those of you that watched the nuke 2:02 class

there was a lesson on gizmos as well

where I did everything in a text editor

this time I'm gonna do everything in nuke

so let's just add a script editor here

so we can now see our script editors

just make a little bit bigger

so we can see Lucy a little bit cleaner here

we're looking at

and I'm gonna start by defining a variable

so we'll call FX PhD Tools

actually let me go ahead and uh

zoom in a little bit what we're doing here

space the equal sign nuke dot

2 bar which is a nuke command

and we're gonna name what 2 bar we're looking at

which in this case we're gonna

put it to the default one which is nodes

single parenthesis

or single posture quotes

close parentheses

and the nodes menu meet is this one here

if you right click to add any two bars under pain

you'll see nodes of the choice

so that's where this nodes name is coming from

and close Murphy's next line will be my menu

oh must be spelled right

equals our variable FX PhD tools

dot add

menu parentheses single quote

FX PhD because that's what I wanna name our category

so for example

this menu is called 3D Menu

so just 3D and then the things below it

you don't see the word 3D um

unless you do the right click menu here

so that we know that it's called 3D

so we want to add a new menu to this and call it FX PhD

so single quote comma another single quote

and now I'm going to give it

the file name of the logo I created for the toolbar

so FX or this

menu FX PhD

underscore logo dot PNG

single quote

close parentheses

and any PNG file will work

I made one that's 5 12 by 5 12 being in on a Mac OS X

um that's just the default icon for the new OS X

operating systems

so I did 5 by 12 by 5 12

and I'll include the um

this logo I created for you guys in class

if you wanna create your own

it's just a good template to

for sizing and such

so next line

I want you to put it in your home directory

so any logos you wanna create for our menus

just put the PNG file in your dot nuke home directory

um and you'll be all set to go exactly where we saved

the gizmos would be would be fine

or 1 level up or in a folder called um

thumbnails whatever you want okay

so next line is my menu

dot add command

as we want to add a command to this menu so what

the second line will do is simply create DFX PhD

menu choice but there'll be nothing actually in it

so we want to add a command to that

FX PhD

is the menu we're gonna be putting it in slash old

timer is the name of the tool

this is what we want displayed for the user

single quote comma single quote again

and then we're gonna call upon the nuke

um call to create nodes which is nuke dot

create node capital N

parentheses

and this is the one weird thing

you do double quotes here

which I constantly forget to do and

scratch my head for a few minutes for now

why my commands don't work

so keep in mind here you need the double parentheses

and single quote comma

single quote again

and I'm gonna give it a hot key

so I'm gonna do Alt plus O

single parentheses

are single I quote and parentheses alright so the first

the first line just simply defines a variable forest

the second line is gonna create a menu forest

and the LA and add a logo to it and the

last line is actually gonna create a tool in that

that calls our

gizmo so the old timer in quotes here

it's just like we had typed when we typed X

and brought in our gizmo

um through the

script command which is this

and type in old timer

um this is doing the same thing

it's gonna look in all the paths that nuke looks in

and it's gonna look for something called

old timer dot gizmo

so now I wanna execute that command

so let's go ahead and zoom out

so we can see the whole thing again

and execute the current script

I'm just gonna click on

actually go ahead and copy and paste this first

that can be useful

case I made any errors

I can quickly paste back in

and just execute the whole script

and result is nothing over here

but you'll see that I now have an FX HD menu

there's my little icon

right there

and if all went well inside here should be FXPG

old timer bring that in

and there's our gizmo

and it has all the settings we'd expect

let's see if it looks the same as

the one that was already in here

it looks exactly the same so that's all great

now let's check our hot key Alt O

and there's Old timer again pops up in the enforce

now I didn't have to put it in an F x

B G menu because obviously the 3D menu

doesn't actually say 3D when you bring it in

um but this would be good in case I wanna do multiple

all the multiple things in here

so say this one

I can actually call filters

I can put another one here called

transforms any of the gizmos

this is kind of a nice way that

anything that's custom through effects HD

I know that I can have multiple menus in here

instead of just having everything at the same level

I wanted everything at the same level

I simply could have done the same command

except take off

the old timer part here

the FX PhD part here rather so

let's go ahead and run this script

and you'll see in here we now have two

so we have old timer right at the root level

as well now none of this is gonna be saved

I did all this great work in nuke and I put my menus in

that's all wonderful

but none of this is gonna ever show up again

if I close this this instance of nuke and open it again

this menu will be gone

and there'll be no record of it ever existing

so what I need to do is edit the menu

py file my home directory

so me copy and paste this again

and I need to open my menuw file

so I'm in my dot nuke

I'm gonna load menudopy

now many of you won't have a minidopy file in your

home directory

and if that's the case

you can simply just save what we just did

so let me just go ahead and open mine

cause I don't wanna ruin everything

and I'm going to

add my lines

and you'll see some other tools I have going on in here

and simply save the script now

and I'm not gonna do that for me

cause I don't want the FX HD tools

but now I would

every time I launch nuke

I would see this menu bar

or this menu um

option and all the tools in the hot key would be chosen

and all that stuff

so everything be the same

so that is how you add

and customize your toolbars

and you can even create your own toolbar

so you can create an entirely new toolbar

so you can actually change this command

let me clear this current thing actually

and cut and paste that again so if I change this

instead of nodes I said users

I'm actually now gonna create an entirely new toolbar

called users so if I ran this script

and if I look under my pane

I now have the choice to bring in a new toolbar

which is called users

which only has FXPD in it and nothing else

if I switched out the one up here

for example

and said users boom

I have my XBC menu

but all my other notes are gone um

which this can be useful because you can certainly um

have multiple tool bars open at the same time and

and bring those in and uh

and really keep uh

keep if you have a lot of gizmos

and things to keep them well organized

um okay well

that's it for

new stuff for this week

I do want to talk a little

bit about the stuff I covered in new 2:02

which was creating a slate um

I'm gonna go very quickly

I just so that those of you that didn't take nuke 2 o 2

um have access to it because creating slates

and overlays is actually something that

although kind of on the boring side

is a really common tool and very

very useful

so let's take a quick look at that

before we wrap up for the week

okay so this is the result of my

new 2:02 class on gizmos

we created um

slights and overlays and masks and things like that

so here's our actual gizmo

has lots of different controls in it

we go to frame zero

you have to see the slate

so slates are lots of

have lots of information on them

there are less required now in the sense that we don't

print film as much for production

we usually work digitally until the very last minute um

but even that it's good to have color bars on them

it's good to have the gray chip

the grayscale chip truck on them um

and lots of other information about version numbers

and notes and things like that um

so it's a really great tool um

uh for keeping track of your data and of course

if you're working alone

it's not really that needed

but when you start working with clients

and you start sending stuff out of house

so that clients can look at it online or on DVDs

being able to have them reference the shot name and

the version number and notes and all that kind of thing

it's very very useful

and even the time and date it was done

so this gives most pretty robust

and we go ahead and show the group here

currently just a group in the script

you can see it's actually pretty robust

it's actually more complex than what we did today

in a lot of ways

and there's lots more expressions

and things that are tying things together so I

I really encourage you guys to look through this stuff

those you that really kind of wanna

if those of you that know Python

I would really recommend it

cause you're gonna

if you know Python

you're learning nuke

this is gonna be

eye opening

how quickly and easily you can do stuff

and for those

you don't wanna be

having interest in being TDS

or more technical compositors

this is a good script to start with

it's very basic

in the sense of what else can be done

but it's certainly uh

gonna get you started so um

this is just walking the backdrops as well do

so anything called static

it's just fixed art

so for example

the logo here doesn't change

so it's static

anything called stacks of these two things

and everything else is actually

although there are some things that are static

potentially

most of them are going to be expression driven

values that come from the user

so for example here

this one's called shot

and it's asking for knob shot

and this is the knob shot

so it's gonna be named right here

so I could change this to demo

and it would change my shot name demo

like change my version number to 8

what not and a lot of this can be automated

even more so than I already did um

but I just ran out of time

I should have taught the cat class

and it gives you guys more things to do um

and obviously this was a very

very quick introduction to Python it

I can't even call it introduction of Python

it was just simply some new commands

that happened to be Python um

so there's definitely a lot more to dig into

and I'm not the person to teach you Python at all um

I'm more of a hacker

I basically steal from other people's Python scripts

and make them my own when I create my own gizmos and

and tweak other people's settings um

so what else about this

okay so there's overlays only

so basically this thing does both it

frame 0 is gonna be the slight frame

which actually you define down here

so if I change this to frame one

you'll see the slate goes away

but my overlays aren't really working either

so let's go back to frame 0

and now my slate will be there

and I have overlays with the nuke scratchy

the overlays working fine

so I have frame numbers here

I have the the nuke script name is here

all being filled out dynamically um

I can disable the 3 3 5 mask so you see the whole image

I can change the mask color

so I can make it red for example

I can say it's a work in progress

shafts go back to the slate

and I have a couple different check boxes here

so I can make it a work in progress

which means it's green

and if I say no

it's not a work in progress

red means stop work cause it's done

and then I have the option of saying with sound

or without sound

so I popped up a little MOS in there

so I'm just gonna include these files with uh

this this week's class although

I didn't teach you guys how to walk through this um

based on the lesson that you will know a lot of

the basics that

you need to go through this script as well

so I encourage you to do that

and for those you that are really into this stuff

and want to create your own gizmos

please do and also

if you're willing to share them

we always love new gizmos on FX PhD

and there also are some cool ones you can download

for free at Effectshare

com um and I highly recommend

you guys take a look at Effectshare

com to check out some of the cool gizmos

and things that are usually

almost always free

and I got some really good tools in there

um alright so that's it for this week

thank you very much

look forward to your questions on the forms

and as far as Python questions go

hopefully someone else will be able to answer them for

you because

Python knowledge is pretty limited

just to nuke specific items

okay thank you very much

have a great week

and I'll see you in class number four