MUX

[rob_w]

Hi, does anybody know what this node in Batch does?

[McArdell]

It simply allows you to put in one input and get out as many outputs as you need. It does nothing to the image.

I also find it useful if I have something in my batch that is far away – so rather than the line extending across the screen you can use a mux or muxes to change the direction (like make go outside the rest of tree).

I also like to use if I am breaking up a batch with pre-renders. I will often put a mux at the start after a pre-render because that resulting clip sometimes needs to feed several places.

Jeff

[Matias Vazquez]

Thanks Jeff.

[peter duncan]

rob_w wrote:

Hi, does anybody know what this node in Batch does?

Hi rob_w,

to complement Jeff’s answer, MUX is a very useful node once you start creating custom Batch nodes. Batch has an interface which allows you to control which inputs and outputs a Group exposes and MUX will allow you to greatly simplify the connections to that Group. So when a particular macro requires the same image source to be parentend to multiple nodes, adding a MUX node upstream will allow you, once you group the nodes into a custom node, only to present a single connection point.

hope this helps

[Matias Vazquez]

Thanks Ameno, I can see how useful it can be incorporating it into macro’s.
Cheers….

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