Apple Shake 4 - Manual (Page 108)

108 Chapter 3 Adding Media, Retiming, and Remastering
The selected media appears in the Node View, represented by one or more FileIn nodes.
For more information about finding and selecting files, see “
The File Browser ” on
page 38.
By default, FileIn nodes appear with a thumbnail of the first frame of the media they
represent. In this example, the two highlighted FileIn nodes at the top of the node tree
provide the source images that are modified and combined further down in the tree.
After you’ve finished creating the necessary effect in Shake, you export your finished
shot by attaching a FileOut node to the section of the node tree that you want to write
to disk. For more information on outputting images using the FileOut node, see
Chapter 12, “
Rendering With the FileOut Node .”
Image Sequence Numbering
When referring to an image sequence, you can specify frame padding by adding
special characters to the file name you enter:
• The # sign signifies a four-place padded number.
• The @ sign signifies an unpadded number.
• The %d characters signify either a padded or unpadded number, depending on the
numbers placed between the two characters.
You can also use several @ signs to indicate padding to a different number. (For
example, @@@ signifies 001.)
Dragging and Dropping Media Into Your Script
If you’re running Shake on Mac OS X, you can drag supported media types from the
Finder directly into the Node View tab. This results in the creation of a FileIn node
corresponding to each file you dragged in.