12. Customizing Nuke with Gizmos

One of the wonderful things about Nuke is that it’s completely and utterly open. By open I mean that it’s customizable in a way that I haven’t encountered before in a compositing application. You can change the interface, add functionality, and change the behavior of so many parts of the application that you can really make it do anything! If your coffee machine were connected to your network, it would make coffee for you, too.

Nuke offers several levels of customization. I showed you very basic customization in Chapter 1—customizing the interface by changing the size of the panes and what they contain. I also showed you expressions and TCL scripting in Chapter 3. Other levels of customization include Python scripting ...

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