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The Timeline

The Timeline - Nuke Tutorial

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The Timeline

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- [Instructor] The timeline shows what frame your job is on and has several features to speed up shot development, as well as to help manage large composites. So, if I play my little clip here, you can see I'm caching it in the timeline. And now, if I stop that, one of the features we have is you can move the play head, this little orange triangle right here, by clicking and dragging on him, put him anywhere you want. You can also just come down to a place on the timeline and click and it'll jump to it. Another important feature here is the current frame number. It's reporting what frame the play head is on. I'll jump to 30, it says 30. However, you can also enter a frame number for it to jump to. Let's put in 25 Return. The play head jumps to frame 25. Now, this may sound like a trivial feature until you're working on a 1,000-frame shot and the tick marks in the timeline are so tiny, you cannot get the play head on the exact frame you want. That's when you enter a custom frame number…

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