I’m pretty sure we’ve covered this before but i’m thinking of a feature request which i don’t think is available right now unlesss there is a clever work around that someone knows.
I’m doing a lot of beauty work on similar shots but obviously all different. Wouldnt it be nice if there was a sort of master batch that that fed all the others. I guess a conected conform for batch.
Be great to tweak one node say A2 Beauty and it effect all the others. Be interested to know wether this would be a worthy addition to the tool set in peoples opinion.
I very often do this kind of thing, compass is a great way to split a batch up into different shots, I just wish you could pull a compass out of a batch when loading.
Yes copying BFX clips is indeed great but this isn’t what I’m suggesting. The thought isn’t about copying the same setup to new clips but more about adjusting a value on a node that effects all nodes on bespoke clips within other batches. Hope that makes sense.
This was brought up recently. It’s involves adding another level of expression recognition to the desktop level rather than being limited to the batch group. I’d like to see that, but if think it would involve a greater level of expression management as well, which there is currently very little of.
You could make one giant batch but keep each individual setup in its own group, but I find the effort is rarely worth it and end up saving the updated node out and loading it into all the other setups.
I just commented and voted but I always saw this as a function of linking across batches where I have ten shots with a “look” that needs to be changed across all shots it would be great if we could link the values and change them all at once but would also need an offset value to say this shot needs this change +5 or some sort of offset.
If I picked up a setup from someone with 5 shots in one batch I would get violent and most likely break the monitor from screaming at it, asking why would someone do such a thing only to find out they linked nodes that I can’t even see how they are linked.
I would see it that any node in batch you could assign maybe a PIN number or reference.
Then when you use that node whatever it is in another batch you could right click and select link too (type the pin code in) and it’s now on mimic values to that node.
could be like keyframes where it has a red link dot next to the linked nodes and clicking on the red circle lists the batches its linked to and clicking on the batch in the list opens that batch.
k one revision it would be nice instead of a circle its a line —> which would be outbound linking <—> bi directional linking <— inbound linking and the rest still applies.
I can’t say that I use it. I’ve tried it, I understand the concepts behind it, but I feel like I have more versatility and control when I build out my own frequency separation rigs. Sometimes A2 Beauty might be part of that in regards to effecting the low pass, but I tend more towards just Gaussian blurs or doll face or infill blur for that (again- just on the low pass). Then you know, playing around with max lighten or min darken transfer modes, etc. I think it’s just different strokes for different folks. Whatever looks good!
At the end of the day, I thiiiiink A2Beauty is already built to be doing a lot of the stuff I’m doing- I just really like to see the procedural stuff in discrete nodes, as it can be a little opaque in a matchbox that just has names for all this stuff that I don’t know what they mean right out of the box. And for me, avoiding plug-ins and building my own stuff from simple and universal nodes keeps me software agnostic and, I find, really helps me understand what is actually happening. This inevitably leads to me finding new ways to retool and hack those tools for more and more uses. But again, different strokes for different folks and not doubting the usefulness of A2- it just doesn’t end up in my batches very often.
In general I don’t do “beauty” spots, but when a client asks for some beauty on a regular spot, that and crok_beauty are my go to’s for quick touch-ups. I used it to take down the shine on someones face the other day.
