I typically make a bunch of postage stamp nodes connected to a single read
node and hide the inputs.  As a shortcut to clean up an existing script I
would look Nathan's "Duplicate Read Destroyer" python script.

http://www.nukepedia.com/python-scripts/nodegraph/duplicate-read-destroyer/

-deke

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 21:17, Sean Looper <[email protected]> wrote:

> Read nodes do not share file handles even for the same file path. Cloning
> the Read node may give you what you're asking for.
>
> -sean
>
> On Jan 11, 2012, at 7:45 PM, "Richard Bobo" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Here's an open question that I have been curious about… If I have several
> versions of the exact same Read node in my script, is Nuke smart enough to
> know that it already has read in the frame(s) and not do multiple reads? In
> other words, for neatness and sanity reasons, I might copy my Read node
> several times in the script, moving it to different places that I need it -
> because it would be really confusing to pipe a single read all over the
> place. Does that slow the script down?
>
> Thanks for any enlightenment...
>
> Rich
>
>
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