u/freckt

Nuke Studio - Lining up vfx shots to multiplte timelines

In nuke Studio, how can I match up a comp layer I've already created for a clip in one timeline to a different timeline with the same source clip but with different in and out points more easily?

So let's say I get 3 edits -

1x60s

1x30s

1x20s

I've conformed the 60s edit and created nuke scripts for all the vfx shots. Now I want to move on to the 30+20s timelines that reuse most of the vfx shots but with different in and out points/frame ranges. I don't want to make duplicate nuke comps of course for these shots so I have get the vfx shots layers over from the 60s timeline and make sure they match timing wise.

I could of course bruteforce this and manually copy/paste every comp layer from the 60s and then match them up and extend for missing frames in either the heads or tails. But does anyone have any python code/tool they use that makes this process easier? Like right clicking a source clip in one of the cutdowns and retrieving that vfx shot using the same name from a different timeline in the project and align it timing wise to quickly see if there are frames missing.

I'm not very python savy which most definitely the reason I haven't figured this out on my own. I work solo at home and would make life so much easier for projects with tons of timeline edits.

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u/freckt — 2 days ago