<p>Usually, the workflow goes like this:</p>

<ol>
<li>Capture your plates, real, cg, doesn't matter.</li>
<li>Hop into Nuke, composite your plates, then render each shot individually.</li>
<li>Edit the shot in your editing-software such as premiere.</li>
<li>When the final edit is done, re-import each individually rendered clip into a grading software such as Resolve, apply your color grading, export again and replace the ungraded file in your edit.</li>
</ol>

<p>So just for pipeline-purposes, it's often inconvenient to use a timeline in compositors like Nuke.</p>

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Florian Claaßen
<p>I use Natron. What I want to ask about programs like Nuke, Natron, and Fusion is: Are they only for compositing one frame basically? Or can I composite a video? Just for example there is no timeline. That is, I must first fit all the video at one time and then composite? or are there any timeline nodes</p>

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Timeline in node based compositing
Lyuba  Ivanova
# Timeline in node based compositing

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-07-13)

I use Natron. What I want to ask about programs like Nuke, Natron, and Fusion is: Are they only for compositing one frame basically? Or can I composite a video? Just for example there is no timeline. That is, I must first fit all the video at one time and then composite? or are there any timeline nodes

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2019-07-18. Score: 0 | Accepted answer

Usually, the workflow goes like this:

1. Capture your plates, real, cg, doesn't matter.
2. Hop into Nuke, composite your plates, then render each shot individually.
3. Edit the shot in your editing-software such as premiere.
4. When the final edit is done, re-import each individually rendered clip into a grading software such as Resolve, apply your color grading, export again and replace the ungraded file in your edit.

So just for pipeline-purposes, it's often inconvenient to use a timeline in compositors like Nuke.


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