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To center the rendered movie in the FrameCycler viewer, press Ctrl+Home. To
scroll within the viewer, Ctrl+MMB+drag. To zoom in or out, set the Zoom menu (directly
above the time controls). To see the render at full size, set the Zoom menu to Resample Off.
You can interactively scrub the timeline by RMB+dragging left or right in the viewer or
LMB+dragging the playhead bar on the timeline. The time controls function as they do in
any standard player. The first time you play the timeline, the rendered frames are reloaded
into memory. You can save a flipbook movie as an image sequence, QuickTime, or AVI
by clicking the Render tab, choosing an output tab in the Render dialog box, and click-
ing the Render button. You can load previously rendered sequences or movies by pressing
the Desktop tab and browsing for files. To add a file to the timeline, press the + sign that
appears over the file icon. Multiple movies and image sequences can exist on the timeline
simultaneously.
Additional Resources: FrameCycler Documentation
FrameCycler is a robust player that includes support for basic editing, color grading, 3D LUTs,
version management, network file sharing, command-line control, and stereoscopic vision. For
documentation on the extensive interface and built-in toolsets, see the HTML Documentation
Index in the FrameCyclerWindows/doc/ folder located within the Nuke program directory.
Writing an Image Sequence
To render a composite to disk, create a Write node. To do so, select the node whose output
you wish to render, RMB+click in the Node Graph, and choose Image
→ Write. Browse
for a location by clicking the browse button beside the File parameter in the Write node’s
properties panel (see Figure 1.30). Add the filename to the path cell using the format
name.#.extension. For example, enter C:/render/test.###.tga if you are rendering
between 100 and 999 frames. Click the Save button. The program automatically recognizes
the filename extension and sets the File Type menu for you. Each File Type setting adds a
unique set of quality menus to the bottom of the properties panel. For example, TIFF adds
a Data Type (bit depth) and a Compression menu. Once you’ve set the quality menus, click
the Render button. In the Frames To Render dialog box, enter the desired frame range. For
instance, if you want to render frame 10, enter 10. If you want to render frames 5 to 20,
enter 5,20.
Figure 1.30 Write node properties panel
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