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The Node tab features

The Node tab features

- The Foundry has added a lifetime feature that affects all nodes as well as some very useful new features to the backdrop node, the read node and the curve editor. There's also some big news about the denoise node. Let's take a look at the lifetime feature. As an example I'll just use a blur node here, I'll open up this blur node. I'm going to set a blur size of 10 and it really hammers the picture and when I click the play button, you can see it's active the whole length of the shot. To set the lifetime, just go to the node tab. Turn on the use lifetime feature, and set the frame range. Let's say I want it to come on at frame 10, tab and off at frame 20, okay. Now if I move the play head past frame 10 the blur goes away. Coming back it returns and if I go to frame 20 and beyond it goes out again. So it's only active in the frame range that I set the lifetime. We'll clear this, take a look at the next feature, the backdrop node Z feature. As you know you can have multiple colored…

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