Thanks, Nathan! This is exactly what I was after. I found it this morning (for some reason, I was looking at methods at the knob level instead of the node).
Thanks again! nico On 4/18/12, Nathan Rusch <nathan_ru...@hotmail.com> wrote: > There are a couple things you could do. > > 1) Call .forceValidate() on your AppendClip node, then grab its lastFrame > knob value > > 2) Call .frameRange() on your AppendClip, then read .first() and .last() > from that (I believe this forces a validate call transparently) > > Hope this helps, > > -Nathan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nico Dufort > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7:04 PM > To: Nuke Python discussion > Subject: [Nuke-python] AppendClip 'lastFrame' value > > Hi everyone, > > I am setting up a small script to build a simple movie out of shot > renders to see them in context, and I decided to go with the > AppendClip node. > > My only problem is to pass the 'lastFrame' value of the AppendClip > down to my Write node's 'last' knob. I noticed that the knob is > disabled by default, and it has a value of 0 until I connect a viewer > to it, which will cause the knob to update to the total number of > frames coming into it. > > The code will run through a terminal session of Nuke, so the viewer > option is not valid for this case. > > At this point, I could track the duration of each Read node and use > the total of all this in the Write's 'last' knob, but I wanted to know > if there were a way to update the AppendClip 'lastFrame' knob through > a script. > > Any advice is welcome. > > Best, > Nico > -- > "Attention, attention. Here and now, boys," the mynah repeated. "Here > and now, boys." > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-python mailing list > Nuke-python@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-python > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-python mailing list > Nuke-python@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-python > -- "Attention, attention. Here and now, boys," the mynah repeated. "Here and now, boys." _______________________________________________ Nuke-python mailing list Nuke-python@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-python
