Saving "PRESETS" for future use?

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Hey All,

I’m still learning Blender and I do many practices in order to learn how to use it and get used to it.
While messing around with the amazing stabilized on Blender’s tracker, just before rendering I need to set up a basic node structure on the compositing. you probably familiar with it already:
Movie Clip > Stabilize 2D > Composite (+ viewer)

So far it’s always the same “structure” of nodes and for now it’s very basic but I’m wondering…
is there a way to SAVE these nodes and LOAD in future projects so I can just select like a PRESET ?

I may use it on more complicated node sets on the future, so creating my own presets could be very useful and time saver.
Is there a way to do it maybe with a specific Addon or the default blender options, can you please explain?

  • Sorry about my bad English.

Thanks ahead!

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Look around online for Node Groups. The idea is you save node setups in groups, then save all those groups in a specific .blend file somewhere, then whenever you need them, you just append them in. It’s very useful!

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Thank you hype!
Looks interesting, I will check this out. :slight_smile:

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Hi Alon.

I found an old addon by Fabio Russofor color grading herethat might interest you … if you could only save the reference values for a single node instead of the entire node would be a nice savings !!! :yes:

regards Bob

Sorry for my bad English … is the fault of Google Translator !!! :smiley:

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Hey Bob Marley (Love your songs) :wink:

Thanks for sharing, I will check this out!
I hope that in the future Blender builds the option to just save and load our own presets will be built-in.

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I wrote an addon that reads node groups from files. It could be usefull for you.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Import-Export/Blend_Library

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Hey @VincentG!
Thank you for making this amazing addon! :slight_smile:

I’ve tried to setup a node group just to see if it works but I’m not sure what I did wrong, can you please help?

1 - I installed the addon
2 - I’ve created a folder for “Compositing Node Groups”
3 - Created a simple compositing with a few nodes
4 - Saved the .blend file with the nodes on the “Compositing Node Groups”
5 - I tried the: Scan / Update button but I still get 0 items on the list.
I also tried to put it on the custom paths and I still get 0 items.

Can you please tell me what I do wrong and how can I fix it?
Thanks ahead!

2D_Stabelize---001a.blend.png1680×988 254 KB

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Is there any errors or warning in the console?
Can you send me the file with your group? It should work with what you’re doing.

What Blender version are you using?

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oh… well, I don’t see any errors.
I’m using the official 2.73 until 2.74 stable release will be out.

Here is the file: 2D_Stabelize—001a.blend (509 KB)

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Ok, I get it. You didn’t make it as a group.

Look at the link above about node groups. It’s a very great way in Blender to reuse node setups. If you can’t use node groups for any reason, you can append the whole scene instead (shift+F1 ----> scene), then everything that you have in the compositor will be imported in a new scene.

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Since I’m still a noob in Blender and it’s the very first time I use groups, I probably did something wrong… again.

Now I can see the group when I click the Scan/Update and IMPORT I get an error:

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It’s probably because of the filepath that should be absolute and not relative. Is it correct? I will change it by default in next update! (EDIT: done)

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OK! problem solved.
I found why it didn’t work for me… a stupid noobish mistake! (sorry for the mess…)

So the only problem was that I rushed to click the IMPORT button before I checked the: “Use Nodes”.
Once I checked it, everything WORKS LIKE MAGIC! :smiley:

Thank you @VincentG for making such amazing tool, I highly recommend everybody else to use it.
it’s a time saver for sure!

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Thanks, I’m very happy you find it useful :slight_smile: