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Shuffle

Shuffle lets you:

• rearrange up to 8 channels from a single image (one input). For example, you can use it to swap rgba.red for rgba.green, and vice versa.

• replace a channel with black (removing the alpha channel, for example) or with white (making the alpha solid, for example).

• create new channels.

To rearrange channels between two separate nodes, like a foreground and background branch, use the ShuffleCopy node. See ShuffleCopy for more information.

To simply copy a channel from one data stream into another, see Copy.

Inputs and Controls

Connection Type	Connection Name	Function
Input	unnamed	The image sequence with the channels to rearrange.

Control (UI)	Knob (Scripting)	Default Value	Function
Shuffle Tab
in 1	in	rgba	The incoming layer that contains the channel(s) to rearrange.
in 2	in2	none	Additional incoming channels to rearrange. If you only want to rearrange channels from one layer, you don’t need this dropdown menu.
[top right dropdown menu]	out	rgba	The rearranged channels are output to this layer.
[bottom right dropdown menu]	out2	none	Additional rearranged channels are output to this layer. If you only want to rearrange channels from one layer, you don’t need this dropdown menu. You can also select new here to create new channels.