Several dialogs in Nuke, such as the Frames to render and Frames to flipbook dialogs, prompt you for a frame range. To define one, you need to enter a starting frame and an ending frame, separated by a dash. For example, to restrict an action to frames 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, you would use 1-5 as the frame range.
The following table gives you more examples of frame ranges you can define.
|
Frame Range |
Expands To |
|
3 |
3 |
|
-3 |
-3 |
|
1 3 4 8 |
1, 3, 4, 8 |
|
1-10 |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 |
|
-3-4 |
-3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 |
|
-8--5 |
-8, -7, -6, -5 |
|
1-10×2 (frame range from 1 to 10 in steps of 2) |
1, 3, 5, 7, 9 |
|
1-10×3 (frame range from 1 to 10 in steps of 3) |
1, 4, 7, 10 |
|
1-4×1 8-10×1 12-14×1 |
1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 |
You can use the above ways of defining a frame range everywhere in Nuke. In addition to dialogs, they can be used on the command line (where any frame ranges should be preceded by the -F switch) and in Python statements.