Apple Shake 4 - Manual (Page 898)

898 Chapter 29 Optimizing and Troubleshooting Your Scripts
In the following example, one of the balloon images has a color correction, Defocus
operation, and a Move2D node with a high motion-blur setting.
The Defocus and motion-blur settings are processor-intensive, so once the first balloon
image’s settings have been finalized, that portion of the node tree above the Over1
node at the top can be rendered with a FileOut as a self-contained file. The rendered
output can be read back into the script with a FileIn, and that image inserted into the
Over1 node in place of the original branch of the node tree. The original branch can be
preserved, off to the side, in case you want to make any future adjustments.