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2 Right-click one of the selected nodes and choose Macro > Create Macro from the
contextual menu.
A Macro Editor window appears, showing each node you selected as a list, in the order
in which each node was selected.
The macro editor with a Blur node and Color Corrector node.
3 First, enter a name for the macro in the field at the top of the Macro Editor. This name
should be short but descriptive of the macro’s purpose. No spaces are allowed, and
you should avoid special characters.
4 Next, open the disclosure control to the left of each node that has controls you want to
expose to the user and click the checkbox to the right of each node output, node input,
and node control that you want to expose.
The controls you check will be exposed to users in the order in which they appear in
this list, so you can see how controlling the order in which you select nodes in Step 1,
before you start editing your macro, is useful. Additionally, the inputs and outputs that
were connected in your node tree are already checked, so if you like these becoming
the inputs and outputs of the macro you’re creating, that part is done for you.
For each control’s checkbox that you turn on, a series of fields to the left of that
control’s row lets you edit the default value of that control as well as the minimum and
maximum values that control will initially allow.
5 When you’re finished choosing controls, click Close.
6 A dialog prompts you to save the macro. Click Yes.
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