Automating Tedious Tasks Using Python In Nuke

Who This Guide Is For

This guide is for those who want to better understand Python and learn how to write some actually useful, practical Python scripts for Nuke at a beginner level. 

Automate The Boring Tasks

At some point while compositing, you’ll no doubt have encountered tedious and mundane tasks which purely require repetitive, manual input. 

Tasks which are not at all creative in themselves – only frustrating and time consuming. 

For example: 

• Changing the same setting over and over in many nodes. 

• Creating a large number of the same nodes with different values applied to each of them. 

• Shuffling out and labelling all of the render passes in your CG render and removing the superfluous layers/channels from each stream. 

It can be very annoying to have to manually create hundreds of nodes, open up their properties, and individually change the parameters over and over. 

But the good news is that this is completely avoidable. 

In this large PDF guide, we’ll walk through how to write three very useful and adaptable Python scripts – easy, medium, and a little bit more complex – plus variations of them. These scripts will take advantage of the for-loop in order to automate the repetitive tasks described above. 

💡 You don't need any prior Python knowledge to follow along with this guide.

Written by a Compositing Supervisor with 12+ years of professional experience and multiple Oscar, Emmy, BAFTA, and VES awards and nominations.

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