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smartElements-2.46.0 - Hello standalone mode

22/10/2024

Big news, smartElements-2.46.0 has been released and amongst others it can now be launched in standalone mode. This opens up new possibilities, watch out for what we have planned for the future.

Find out more in smartElement's Updates docs





smartLib-4.24 - Automatic previews and video player

13/10/2024

smartLib-4.24 has been released and it contains now a video player and automatic preview creation. This lets you compare versions on any frame.

For more information check out the preview section in the documentation.





smartScripter-1.5.0 - Dynamic rows

07/10/2024

smartScripter-1.5.0 has been released and it contains some exciting new features:

Define number of snippets per row: In the settings you can define how many snippets to display per row.

Search snippets: smartScripter contains now a search input at the top right to filter snippets by a given name.

Reveal snippets: Right-click a snippet and choose 'Reveal' from the context menu to reveal the selected snippet in your file explorer.

Remember window size: When resizing the smartScripter main window then the size will be remembered the next time you launch smartScripter.

For more information please have a look at smartScripter's release notes



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smartElements-2.42.0 - Entire FX Elements Collection inside Nuke

19/08/2024

BIG NEWS! Browse the whole FX Elements collection directly inside Nuke :)

We started a collaboration with FX Elements. You can now browse the ENTIRE FX Elements library directly inside Nuke and insert previews of any elements directly into your working files!

You can even download all free elements in full resolution and ingest them directly inside smartElements.

And that's not all. We offer a 25% summer sale (valid until August 31st) on all node locked licenses, site licenses and cragl studio licenses. Simply enter the code:

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For more information please have a look at:
www.cragl.com/smartElements
and www.cragl.com/smartElementsUpdates





smartColect-1.20 - Enter Media Table

14/06/2024

smartCollect-1.20 has been released and it bring some new features:

• Increase Archive startup speed - Archives run now immediately when archiving the current working file. Archiving external working files has also been speed up.

• Implement Media Table - The media table gives you an overview about your used assets and it lets you decide what to archive and what to ignore from an archive.

• Pause/Resume archive - Now you can pause an archival when needed.

Find out more here: www.cragl.com/smartCollectUpdates





smartCache-1.1.0 - Third-Party render integrations and more

26/05/2024

smartCache-1.1.0 has been released which contains the following new features:

• Implement third party render integration. For mor information on that please refer to the Render Integrations documentation.
• Make UI dockable
• Clear all caches

For more information please refer to the release notes.



The smartElements ingestion matrix is here - 25% off

16/04/2024

Today we are celebrating smartElement's 50th update. Within the recent years we have put a lot of work into our element library software and added over 124 additional features to it. Today we have added a dedicated ingestion matrix to it. This lets you more easily bulk ingest and also auto transcode your media on the fly.

Get smartElements 25% off by using coupon code: smart50
Only valid until Friday, 19th April!





smartElements-2.38.0 is here

05/04/2024

We just released smartElements-2.38.0 and it comes with several new features:

• Optimize for fullscreen mode
• Speed up media crawl when ingesting
• Add hotkey overview
• Override hard/soft copy ingestion mode via environment variable
• Keep filter when switching viewing modes and switching lists
• Wrap very long element names into multiple lines
• Move selected elements to other category

For further information please check out the online changelog





Enter smartCache - making caching a one click solution

05/12/2023

We are happy to release our new tool smartCache. smartCache lets you quickly and easily cache parts of your nodes tree with a one button click solution. You don't need to set up anything manually anymore - fire and forget.

Main features:
- Easy to use caching system for Nuke
- Speed up working in your node graph
- Keep track of all your caches in one place
- Bulk update multiple caches in one go
- Auto detect when caches go out of date
- Light-weight caching node

For more information please check out the smartCache tools page on our website.





smartCollect-1.18

01/10/2023

smartCollect-1.18 has been released which brings several new features to you:

- Add nukescript from recent files
- Enlarge left and right sections (hotkeys: 1 and 2)
- Create detailed footage report csv for archive
- Add statistics to archive report
- Skip collecting empty nodes
- Add archival status label

For more information please also have a look at smartCollect's updates documentation page.





Enter smartWrite

28/09/2023

We are happy to announce the release of our new tool smartWrite.

smartWrite adds additional functionality to Nuke's Write, DeepWrite and WriteGeo nodes. You can turn these on and off as needed and apply custom shortcuts to them. These changes get applied on the fly -- no restart needed.
smartWrite offers several features for your output nodes. Reveal your renderings in your explorer, copy file paths to your clipboard, create Reads from Writes, Quickly render out your set in- and out points. Additionally, it creates automatic backups on renderings which can be exploded back into its nodes. Furthermore, it adds a render history and lets you create and share customizable output presets incl. automatic output path assembly. All features can be used on Nuke's Write, DeepWrite and WriteGeo nodes.

For further information please check out smartWrite's tool page as well as our in depth tutorial.





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smartElements-2.33.0 - custom metadata and enhanced search

23/08/2023

smartElements-2.33.0 has been released. It gives you now the ability to add custom metadata to your elements. Additionally it improves the filter section - You can now search elements by resolution, frame length and metadata so you can better find what you need.





Hello Nuke-15

31/07/2023

We are happy to announce that all cragl tools have been updated to be Nuke-15 compatible.



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smartRender-3.23 - Instant render previews

19/07/2023

smartRender has been released which contains instant render previews. smartRender offers now instant previews on outputs as they render inside the job log view. When submitting a new job, the preview will fill its frames up (indicated in green) as they are rendering so you get immediate feedback for your render jobs. You can scrub the timeline and play the preview as needed. Inside the job history select a job and press and hold 'P' to show the output frames preview. Release 'P' to hide the render preview.





smartElements-2.31.0 - Quick Info

06/07/2023

The gallery view contains now a configurable quick info that lets you view additional information for all elements like name, resolution and used count so that you can quicker find what you are interested in.





smartElements-2.30.0

18/06/2023

smartElements-2.30.0 has been released which contains now a home view for each stack. The home view shows thumbnails for each list so that you can easier find categories interesting for you. Pressing H navigates you always back to the home view.





smartElements-2.29.0: Enter element Head-up-Display

24/05/2023

smartElements contains now a configurable Head-up-Display (HUD) for all elements. The element information gets displayed once you hover over an element. In the settings you can configure what to see or not see in each corner.





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smartRecents-2.10 released

20/05/2023

smartRecents-2.10 has been released and it contains a bunch of new features:

• Implement table history view, incl. thumbnails and comments
• Add right click menu for items
• Append working file as group
• Take screenshot for thumbnail





smartLog-1.7.0 - Time display: Configure to display time by days or overall hours

04/05/2023

You can now configure if you want to see all time displays in days (default) or in total hours. As an example, a time log for 2 days, 7 hours and 44 minutes correlates to 55 hours and 44 minutes.



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smartRender-3.21 - Enter chunk size

01/05/2023

In previous versions, 1 thread rendered 1 frame. smartRender contains now the functionality to set the chunk size for each render thread so that you can render more frames in a row. This speeds up rendering as it reduces Nuke launching time. This will be primarily visible in larger working files, but also smaller working files benefit from it.

Here is a direct comparison between Nuke's standard rendering and rendering with 8 threads in parallel using a chunk size of 5 frames:





smartLib-4.17

20/03/2023

smartLib-4.17 has been released and it contains the following updates:

• Speed up launching sequence cut
• Make shot info text areas in project view editable for all shots
• Clicking 'open' closes smartLib before opening the working file
• Add Button to apply format values from default values
• Fix Leading zeros get removed in shot name when bulk creating shots
• Fix Import from footage directory returned without importing media
• Fix Apply default format from settings when creating new work file


For more information please have a look at www.cragl.com/smartLib



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cragl studio - accell ALL cragl tools with one license

04/03/2023

Big news! While we will continue our node locked and site licenses, today we are happy to announce our new license model cragl studio.

cragl studio is an annual subscription license at a low price that lets you use ALL cragl tools with one single license. So you get access to every functionality we offer for all of our current tools. And equally to our node locked and site licenses, you will of course get all updates for free. Amongst others you will get:

• A fully fledged element library for Nuke
• A mutli threaded background rendering manager for Nuke
• A multi threaded batch archiving tool for Nuke
• A multi threaded ingestion, conversion and delivery tool for Nuke
• An instant messenger for Nuke and Maya
• A Project and shot management tool for Nuke
• A time logger for Nuke
• An intelligent node linking tool for Nuke
• Fast look development tools for NUKE
• A node and gizmos shelves manager for Nuke
• and many more

But you get also access to all future tools that are about to come (we have already a new one coming soon, stay tuned).

cragl studio is offered as single licenses to be node locked to one machine (which you can transfer to another machine at any time) as well as multi license seats for an infinite amount of machines to equip your whole team. So no matter if you work just on your own or in a smaller or larger team - we have the right plan for you.

Visit www.cragl.com/studio to find out more.

We have also added gumroad as our primary purchase website. This change will make purchasing our tools a lot easier, faster and more user friendly for you. You stay directly in our website and you don't need to register any user account at gumroad, so purchasing is a simple one mouse button process. Note that we will of course continue offering our tools via aescripts.



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Enter smartRender-3.17

05/02/2023

smartRender-3.17 has been released and it contains several enhancements to the job queue. These are the changes:

• Add toggle to show thumbnail for each job in the render queue
• Filter jobs by time in job queue
• Hold ctrl and drag a rendering from the job queue into the DAG
• Add shortcuts for frequently used tasks
• Add button to show changelog, browse online docs and access support
• Various style adjustments


For more information please have a read at our written documentation





smartElements-2.25.0

16/01/2023

smartElements-2.25.0 has been released.

You can now configure the thumbnail frame to render when ingesting and choose from rendering the 'start', 'middle' or 'end' frame. This can become a time saver on certain element type ingestions. For example, many smoke, dust, fire and other element types often start with a black or nearly black frame and slowly expose their relevant data over time. In these examples, configuring to not use the 'start' but rather the 'middle' or 'end' frame of an element saves you from manually setting the thumbnail afterwards for many elements. You can always change this setting when needed.

Note that you can always adjust the thumbnail for any element afterwards at any time if needed. Simply select an element, hold the *Alt* key and scrub through the slider to find you frame of your needs. Then click the thumbnail button or use the shortcut T.





smartElements-2.23.0 - Get notified about new elements

12/01/2023

Having an element library that contains hundreds or even thousands of elements makes it sometimes hard to keep track of what elements are new. This update helps you with that by marking elements that got newly ingested. This accounts only for elements that weren't ingested by yourself of course as you should probably know what you ingested.





smartElements-2.23.0: Versionize elements & mxf support

05/01/2023

smartElements-2.23.0 has just been released and it contains two new features for you:

• Any element can now be versionized. This is particularly useful to version up elements when needed while still being able to keep older versions untouched and available. Element version paths stay consistent so nothing previously used gets offline.
• This update lets you now ingest .mxf files that are natively readable in Nuke.

for more information please also view the smartElements updates documentation page.





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Hello Nuke-14

18/12/2022

We are happy to announce that all cragl tools are Nuke-14 ready. We did some extensive tests to ensure everything runs on the latest and greatest while keeping backwards compatibility to older versions. If you stumble upon anything that doesn't work please let us know and we will fix it asap.



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Cyber Week

25/11/2022

CYBER WEEK IS ON!

We offer a special discount until Friday Dec 2nd 2022:

Get a 25% discount on all site licenses and node locked licenses. Discount code: CYBER

On top of that: Buy 2 get any 2 additional products of your choice, buy 5 get any 5 additional products of your choice



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smartLib-4.13

05/06/2022

smartLib-4.13 brings some exciting new features to you.

Continuous load

In previous versions, smartLib was blocked until everything was loaded. This update adds a progress bar when launching smartLib and when switching projects. When loading shots it will perform a continuous load which will speed up launching smartLib heavily. Loaded data gets shown right away while further data will get fetched in the background without blocking smartLib or Nuke.

Creating sequence cuts

Right click any shot in the project view and execute 'sequence cut...'. This lets you set up a sequence cut for all your selected shots and watch all latest versions in context to each other to see the state of your current show.

Send rendering to smartMedia

If you have `smartMedia `_ installed on your machine, then you can right click any media in smartLib's shot section and send it straight to smartMedia. You can then convert the media to your needs.

Adjust and uniform style

We have replaced icons and tweaked smartLib's style in favor for an overall dark theme.

Navigate to custom folder when clicking home button

Clicking the home folder in the smartLib main window lets you now navigate into any custom folder. The custom home folder can be adjusted in the settings

Expose settings button and docs button in GUI

You can now launch the settings window and tutorial and documentation pages directly from the smartLib main window. These are exposed as buttons at the top right of the main window

Load selected item when enter key is pressed

When selecting a folder in the system list or a shot in the project view then the selected item will be loaded. This behavior can be unselected to revert back to previous behavior. To do so navigate to smartLib's settings and uncheck the checkbox 'Load selected item on enter pressed' in the 'General' tab.

Show number of shots for currently loaded show

When loading a show, this shows now the overall number of shots it contains.



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enter smartMedia - our multi threaded media converter, ingestion and delivery tool

13/04/2022

We are happy to announce the release of our new tool smartMedia which is a multi threaded media converter, ingestion and delivery tool that runs standalone and inside of Nuke.

smartMedia lets you convert image and video based media from one format into another. It uses Nuke under the hood to drive media conversions. Due to using Nuke's node based workflow this means full flexibility to create any output you like - including custom slates and burnins. Plus you can trigger any custom actions.

Visit the smartMedia page to read mode about this tool.





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smartElements-2.9.0 has been released

31/10/2021

smartElements 2.9.0 has been released which contains some great new features.

media playback mode
In the settings section you can now configure the behavior of media playback. Setting it to 'loop' will loop the media as long as you hover over it. Use 'scrub' to scrub through the media by moving your mouse.

Support for ingesting R3D files
You can now ingest R3D files into smartElements. Simply drag an R3D file into smartElements.

Fix creating full length preview when ingesting .mp4 files
In previous versions a preview sequence had only been created for .mov files. Preview sequences get now created for mp4 files, too.

History section
The tags section contains now a section that shows you recently ingested media. Latest elements get listed at the top. This is great to keep in touch and get notified about new elements.

Top used section
The tags section contains now a section that shows you the most used media. Media that got referenced the most gets listed at the top. This is great to be aware of elements that are frequently used.



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Hello Nuke-13 and Python-3

17/03/2021

We are happy to announce that all 15 cragl tools are running in the latest and greatest Nuke version from day one. And of course they keep being runnable in older versions and are backwards compatible back to Nuke-8. www.cragl.com



Hello Nuke-13 and Python-3

Hello Nuke-13 beta

03/01/2021

All cragl tools are now Nuke-13 beta and Python-3 ready.

We spent the last couple of weeks porting all 15 cragl tools to Nuke-13 beta with Python-3. The tools contain now a Python-2 and Python-3 variant (so there will be backwards compatibility) and should work out of the box, as usual. The needed variant will get loaded automatically for you.

Please note: Porting to Python-3 was not a simple 2-line-change-and-you-are-done. Each cragl tool contains several thousand lines of code and sometimes there was quite a bit of change needed. Let us know via info@cragl.com if there are any things that have been overlooked and an update will follow.

Happy comping.



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smartElements 2.6.0 is out

05/09/2020

smartElements 2.6.0 is out which contains a few new features and bug fixes:

• Search lists and tags
• Add additional stacks via environment variable
• Add functionality to rename an element
• Fix clicking cancel button will still perform deletion
• Fix move Tag window and Info window onto the top under Linux
• Fix typing T into the tag window's input closes the tag window

For more information please visit:

https://www.cragl.com/smartElementsUpdates
and
https://www.cragl.com/smartElements



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smartElements 2.1.0

22/07/2020

We have released smartElements 2.1.0 which contains now a tagging system for elements. This gives you additional flexibility with sorting your media. You can also restrict modifications for your users if needed and aspect ratios of previews are now respected. More information about all changesin version 2.1.0 can be found here.



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smartElements 2.0.0

13/07/2020

smartElements 2.0.0 is out!

This new version contains multiple new features and speed improvements:

• We optimized the loading speed. Loading a list should now take a lot less time.

• Media videos should now play out of the box regardless the Nuke version. No additional codec installation is necessary anymore.
Please note: If you are updating from smartElement's version 1 to version 2 then you will need to trigger the creation of the video previews once. In order to do so right click one or multiple media in the element browser and choose: Preview -> Generate Preview

• We added functionality to set one or multiple poster frames for media and set a preview image from a poster frame. This lets you mark iconic frames and easily update previews right inside of smartElements.

• We added hotkeys to ItemInfo widget (the window that pops up when holding your alt key while hovering over a media in your element browser):

F1: Toggle showing/hiding the video/static image
F2: Toggle showing/hiding the poster thumbnails
F3: or I: Toggle Insert the media into the node graph
F4: or R: Toggle Reveal the media in your explorer

• We added hotkeys to insert and reveal element from the elements browser:
I: Insert the elements that are currently selected in the table into your node graph
R: Reveal the elements that are currently selected in the table in your file explorer

• The video player's context menu contains two new menus 'View' and 'Speed'. 'View' lets you flip, flop and flip flop the selected media. 'Speed' lets you choose the playback speed of the media. When bringing the selected media into your node graph then the viewing mode and playback speed will be adjusted accordingly by creating the additional nodes `Mirror` and `Retime`.





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smartElements 1.2.0

23/06/2020

smartElement 1.2.0 is out now. This update adds an additional import processor called 'TimeOffset'. By default it is turned off. In order to enable it navigate to smartElement's import processor settings and set ``TimeOffset``'s ``enable`` flag from ``false`` to ``true``.

This import processor creates a dialog on media insertion and asks the user if they want to let the media start at a specific frame or if they want to time offset the media to a specific value. The dialog contains a 'remember' checkbox that will remember the entered values and apply them to all upcoming media insertions as long as smartElement's media browser stays open.





smartElements v1.1.0 - Introducing import processors

18/06/2020

smartElements 1.1.0 gained a new feature called Import Processors. This feature creates a lot of additional flexibility. Import procesors are a mechanism to trigger custom any code when bringing media from smartElement's element browser into your node graph. You can use this functionality in a variety of ways. You can create your own import processors and you can be sure that we will also add a few for you in the future.

Here are some examples what import processors enable you to do. Imaging when bringing media from the elements browser into your node graph, you don't want to reference the media's location from the elements browser, but rather would like to copy over the media close to your currently open working file. Another example would be to increase a usage counter so that you know which elements are used most often. Another example would be to register the usage of media in a database. Yet another usage example would be to automatically start the media at a given frame or offset its frame range. There are plenty more usage examples that you can use this feature to your advantage. Our written documentation contains detailed information about how import processors work and how you can create your own import processors.





smartElements - the media browser for Nuke

17/06/2020

Enter smartElements - the media browser for Nuke.

smartElements enables to use a common pool of media and assets in your team. You can categorize media and sort them in so called stacks and lists. To get data into smartElements simply drag one or multiple files or whole folders onto it and smartElements will scan the dropped data for media and ingest these. No further setup required. To get things into Nuke, simply drag and drop one or multiple elements into your DAG. Renderings can be ingested automatically and if you have some programming knowledge then you can take over full controll and create your own custom pre- and post processors and import processors that run when ingesting media and when importing media.

Key features:
• 2D, 3D and toolsets manager
• Use a common pool of media & assets in your team
• Categorize your elements by stacks and lists
• Simply drag and drop media into your DAG
• Create custom pre- and post processors
• Auto register your renderings on render finished

Where to buy:
https://aescripts.com/smartelements-for-nuke/

For more information please have a look at:
https://www.cragl.com/smartElements

Tutorial video and in-depth written documentation can be found here:
https://www.cragl.com/smartElementsTut





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stay home - 50% off all node locked and site licenses

23/03/2020

50% discount on all node locked and site licenses. #stayhome Covid 19 affects us all. The best to do now is staying at home and hoping that this terrible time will pass as soon as possible. To help companies and artists who may be experimenting with new infrastructures and/ or new software, we will be running a 50% discount on all our node locked and site licenses. Simply apply the following promo code on checkout:

CraglStayHome

Here you can find all our tools: https://aescripts.com/search/?q=cragl
For more information please visit: https://www.cragl.com

Valid until 24th May 2020



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enter smartLog

11/02/2020

Time tracking is finally coming to Nuke. enter smartLog.

Although time tracking might not be the most sexy topic in VFX, it's still quite important and nice to get a fully automated overview about how much time you spend on versions, shots, sequences and projects.

smartLog tracks time you spend for all your working files in the background. It offers multiple viewing modes and time range adjustments, an adjustable idle detection, day rate calculator and time tracker to get automatic notifications after a custom set amount of time.

Time logs can be exported out of smartLog to different formats and can be imported back into smartLog from various formats.

You can also inject custom code to send selected time logs to your database, email them to your producer or send it to any other third party app.

several artists can point to the same log root and thus you will get a better overview about who is working when on what for how long.

Key features:
• Automatic time tracking incl. idle detection
• Auto notifications using custom intervals
• Day rate calculator
• Multiple viewing modes
• Import and export time logs to multiple formats
• Inject custom code, connect to third party apps

Where to buy:
https://aescripts.com/smartlog-for-nuke/

For more information please have a look at:
https://www.cragl.com/smartLog

Tutorial video and in-depth written documentation can be found here:
https://www.cragl.com/smartLogTut





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smartLib 4.5

06/10/2019

Sometimes it's the small things that are great. We have added a small feature to smartLib that was requested by one of our customers. It brings a size slider to smartLib's shot section. As always, if you have ever bought smartLib, you will receive this and all upcomming features and bug fixes. For ever, for free.





smartEdit - edit knobs on the fly

08/09/2019

We are happy to anounce the release of our free tool smartEdit.

smartEdit helps you to quickly edit knob values right inside the DAG without the need to access a node via the properties bin. So you can fully concentrate on your node graph. You can store quick access knobs per node and for all nodes of specific node classes.

In addition, smartEdit offers a feature called quickscripts which lets you execute any python code per node class. These quickscripts can be shared within a team and all users can point to the same quickscripts root directory so that everybody can benefit from a pool of functionality.

Come and grab your free copy today. You can download it directly inside Nuke with our free tool connect.





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Own all cragl products

13/05/2019

Site licenses have been implemented and we are running a one time only deal until 16th May 2019.

Buy one smartMessage node locked license and you will get one node loked license for each other cragl product as well.

Buy one smartMessage site license and you will get one site license for each other cragl product as well.



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site licenses for all cragl tools available

08/05/2019

We are happy to announce that from today on we will offer site licenses for all of our tools.

Site licenses can be used on an infinite amount of machines and are not locked to the machine. The machines don't need to be connected to the web (this also applies to our node locked licenses!) You can also use site licenses on athera and any other dockerized environment. And you can blacklist and whitelist machines in your cragl backend. So you always have the power to decide which machine will be able to use the licenses.

And as always, once you have purchased any cragl product you will always get any update - forever and for free. That's what we call a fair deal.



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smartRecents 2.3

08/05/2019

We released smartRecents 2.3 which adds a small but useful new feature to open/ append working file(s) via drag and drop from main window into DAG. For more information please follow www.cragl.com/smartRecents



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smartRender 3.3 - enter site licenses

01/05/2019

smartRender 3.3 is out now and we offer site licenses. site licenses can be used on an infinite amount of machines and are not locked to the machine. The machines don't need to be connected to the web (this also applies to our node locked licenses!) You can also use site licenses on athera and any other dockerized environment. And as always, once you have purchased any cragl product you will always get any update - forever and for free. That's what we call a fair deal.

For more information, please visit:
https://aescripts.com/smartrender-for-nuke/
www.cragl.com/smartRender



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connect 2.3 - enter site licenses

01/05/2019

connect 2.3 is out now and site licenses are ready. We are starting with smartRender. And you can now install any cragl tool with your cragl login as well. No need to copy and paste any installation code - although still possible. For more information please visit www.cragl.com/connect



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smartLib 4.3

13/04/2019

We just released smartLib 4.3 which speeds up our tool, especially when your shot contains lots of files because we added functionality to turn automatic shot folder scan off. To read more please follow our update section in our documentation.



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smartRecents 2.1

13/04/2019

We just released smartRecetns 2.1 which adds two new features:

• Add search input to search for working files
• Remember window size





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smartLib 4.2

12/03/2019

We released smartLib v4.2 which brings some great additions:

• Export project report as html version
• Export project report as csv version
• Bring back exporting the project report in Nuke-11 (only html and csv)
• Import csv data for multiple shots of a project and into single shots
• Assign custom user to shot
• Change default shot image's mode (light, medium, dark)
• Update icons
• Add sphinx documentation



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smartRender 3.2

25/02/2019

We just released smartRender 3.2 which enables multi threaded rendering for custom executable nodes and smartRender now finds executable nodes nested in Groups and Gizoms.

Here is the complete changelog:

• Collect executable nodes that are nested in Group nodes and Gizmos
• Ignore executable nodes where no file path has been set
• Add create render directory command to executable nodes context menu
• Open up render process for executable nodes that write to disk
• Add job log button for each job in the job queue
• Add sphinx documentation

We have also updated the documentation to make it easier to read. It can be found on the smartRender page: www.cragl.com/smartRender as well as here: www.cragl.com/smartRenderDocs



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Enter smartRescue

07/01/2019

We are happy to abounce the release of our free tool smartRescue for Nuke.

smartRescue is a standalone application that lets you repair working files that won't open anymore. It offers several so called steps that run over your working files to update them so that you should hopefully soon be back working in your files. And if you have some programing knowledge, you can create your own steps and share them with your team.

For more information please check out www.cragl.com/smartRescue





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smartRender 3.1

07/11/2018

We released smartRender 3.1 which will now evaluate tcl expressions inside the Write node file paths.



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Released smartScripter

02/09/2018

smartScripter ist out now.

• 100% free
• Store, retrieve and execute any commands
• Supports Python, TCL and Nuke nodes commands
• Easily collaborate among artists
• Keep track of your favorite toolsets

Simply download it via cragl connect. www.cragl.com/connect

For more information please visit: www.cragl.com/smartScripter





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connect 2.1

26/08/2018

We just released connect 2.1 which improves launching speed heavily due to some caching mechanisms. It also prepared all necessary steps to download free cragl tools. Yes, free cragl tools. We'll be sharing some awesome news very soon. Stay tuned. www.cragl.com/connect



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smartLink out now

17/02/2018

Happy to announce that smartLink is now available:

• Node linking and easy navigation
• Favorite any node
• Jump to your nodes and cycle through links
• Backdrop Manager
• Shortcut Editor
• Customizable to your needs

www.cragl.com/smartLink A tutorial can be found here and the written documentation can be found here: www.cragl.com/smartLinkTut





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smartCommand out now

04/12/2017

smartCommand is a window inside Nuke that lets you quickly execute commands from all menus and sub menus (inclusive custom menus). It offers easy access to all commands in one list and provides search functionality to find commands quickly. Used commands get stored in your history. You can create custom collections for your favorite commands and assign colors and hotkeys to them. In addition, it offers the scriptlets menu to execute any kind of custom python commands.


smartCommand offers a variety of settings and lets you customize your collection- and scriptlets root so that you can either work on your own or share and use the collections and scriptlets among other artists.


You can purchase smartCommand here: https://aescripts.com/smartcommand-for-nuke/





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smartCollect

19/09/2017

We are happy to announce the release of smartCollect for Nuke - A multi threaded batch archiving tool which will collect all your Nuke scripts dependencies in a quick and efficient way.

• Batch archive Nukescripts multi threaded
• Collect ALL used sources, not only footage
• Run standalone
• Detailed logging information
• Recreate sources paths
• Create relative or absolute source paths You can find out more about smartCollect here:

www.cragl.com/smartCollect





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smartCollect - Multi threaded batch archiving, comming very soon

06/09/2017

We are almost finished developing our new tool called smartCollect - a mutli threaded batch archiving tool for Nuke that will archive ALL your Nuke scripts dependencies. Here is a small preview. smartCollect will be published very soon.





All cragl tools are Nuke 11 ready

20/07/2017

We are happy to announce that all cragl tools are Nuke11 ready and contain major code updates and code improvements.



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Published smartMessage 3.0

20/07/2017

Today we published smartMessage 2.0 which is NUKE 11 ready and contains major code updates and code improvements.



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Published smartRecents 2.0

20/07/2017

Today we published smartRecents 2.0 which is NUKE 11 ready and contains major code updates and code improvements.



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Published smartLook 2.0

20/07/2017

Today we published smartLook 2.0 which is NUKE 11 ready and contains major code updates and code improvements.



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Published smartShelves 2.0

19/07/2017

Today we published smartShelves 2.0 which is NUKE 11 ready and contains major code updates and code improvements.



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Published smartLib 4.0

19/07/2017

Today we published smartLib 4.0 which is NUKE 11 ready and contains major code updates and code improvements.



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Published smartRender 3.0

18/07/2017

Today we published smartRender 3.0 which is NUKE 11 ready and contains major code updates and code improvements.



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Published connect 2.0

18/07/2017

Today we published connect 2.0 which is NUKE 11 ready and contains major code updates and code improvements.



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In depth interview at The Virtual Assist

16/04/2017

Here you can read an in depth interview of cragl vfx tools at the virtual assist:
http://thevirtualassist.net/cragl-vfx-tools-nuke-plugins-maya-simon/



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Released smartLook

30/03/2017

We are proud to having released smartLook for Nuke. smartLook offers multiple features to enhance look development inside Nuke. It offers the snapshot browser to take snapshots of your work, flag and comment snapshots and work collaboratively on look versions for your comps. Furthermore, it lets you save, edit, import and export looks for each node as well as import and export toolsets.
No matter if you work in a team or on your own - smartLook will enhance your productivity.

Main features


• Enhancing look development inside NUKE
• Snapshot browser
• Create, save, edit, import and export looks
• Quickly toggle between different looks
• Infinite global toolset directories
• Set your viewer resolution faster than ever before
• Customize smartLook to your needs.
Please visit cragl.com/smartLook to find out more about it.





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smartShelves 1.2

21/03/2017

We pushed smartShelves to work with it even faster. Each smartShelf menu will now contain a quick edit menu that lets you do the following:

• hide smartShelf
• edit smartShelf
• import gizmo to shelf - smartShelf automatically selected
• register node to shelf - shelf automatically selected

the quick edit menu can be enabled and disabled in the smartShelves window in the "advanced" section.



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smartRender 2.0 is here

21/10/2016

smartRender2.0 is here. 3 awesome new features are waiting for you:

• render info panel to quickly access and edit your renderings
• batch render multiple shots
• rendering external nuke scripts without opening them





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smartLib 3.0 is here

10/10/2016

smartLib 3.0 is here. Thanks for all the nice feedback and the great feature requests. We have added the following features:

• user setting to set the user for the currently opened shot
• setting default formats for nuke scripts
• changing the format of a nuke script on the fly (shot template creation, tree hierarchy current shot, creating new shots from template)
• pin/ unpin smartLib main window to stay always on top or not
• ignore nuke script in shot dropdown(e.g. backup- and annotation scripts)
• delete preview shot image
• inline tooltips on all major widgets and elements (smartLib main window and settings)
• overall code improvement, stability and speed ups





Released smartRender 1.1

29/08/2016

Today we released smartRender 1.1 which includes some new awesome features:

• Added global node changer window
• Added automatic cache write node creator
• Added input mode to frame range in smartRender window

As always: Once purchased you will get any tool update for free. Have a great day.





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smartRender in The Foundry's official plugin list

22/08/2016

Thank you The Foundry, smartRender is now listed in The Foundry's official plugin list:

https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke/nuke-plugins/



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smartRender out now

15/08/2016

Today we released smartRender - a multithreaded background rendering tool for Nuke for Nuke that works in Linux, Mac and Windows. Using smartRender you can heavily decrease your rendering times. You can manually set the threads to use for rendering and use all your hardware resources. Now you will also be able to get super fast feedback on preview renderings faster than ever. And you can even export a detailed render log.

As every cragl tool you can try it for free. Simply launch Nuke, open connect and click the 'trial' button on the right. You will get a fully featured time limited trial version of smartRender.

For more information about smartRender please check out our smartRender product page: www.cragl.com/smartRender
For an in depth tutorial video that shows you how to use smartRender please check out: www.cragl.com/smartRenderTut

Have an awesome day.





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smartLib 2.3 with 10 new awesome features

28/07/2016

Today we have released smartLib 2.3 with ten new awesome features that will even more simplify and speed up your daily compositing work. As always: If you have purchased smartLib you can update for free. Have a nice day. And please check out the feature video below.





cragl features in DigitalProduction

06/06/2016

We are happy to be featured with a three pages article in the latest Digital Production, the major magazine for digital images in Germany. If you can read Deutsch here you can find the article.



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Released smartLib 2.2

06/06/2016

• double clicking the saved projects opens the currently clicked project in the project view
• fixed bug that caused problem when setting the thumbnail image in windows 10
• custom status color - color picker now in edit window
• functionality to set the padding delimiter to an underscore or to a fullstop



Released smartLib 2.2

Customer Review on smartLib

02/06/2016

A big thank you goes to Andrew Shanks from New Zealand who published a nice little article about smartLib in which he talks about how smartLib changed his way of working inside Nuke.

The article can be read here: http://www.vfx.co.nz/tutorials/cragl-smartlib-the-awesome-little-25-nuke-shot-manager/



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smartLib 2.1

07/05/2016

We released smartLib v2.1:

• added functionality to set render path for a shot outside the shot folder. Works also for whole shot templates (Please refer to to the smartLib documentation at 3.4.5.3) Setting a custom render directory).

• Fixed Bug that caused errors in creating shot thumbnails in windows



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Nuke10 ready

27/04/2016

Nuke 10 is released and we are happy to announce that all cragl tools are Nuke 10 Ready.



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25% off discount

29/02/2016

If you buy all 4 cragl tools smartMessage, smartLib, smartShelves and smartRecents you will get a 25% discount. The discount will get applied automatically when purchasing all 4 tools in one go.



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smartLib 2.0 is released

29/02/2016

We have published smartLib v2.0. Thanks to the feature request of Tom Tiller.

Main features:
• creating and edititng custom status
• export project information as pdf

smartLib is a shot and project management system for Nuke. For more information please checkout: cragl.com/smartLib

This is the chngelog for v2.0:

• code optimization
• added Status/Report Tab in Settings (see documentation 4.2)
• added functionality to create custom shot status (see documentation 4.2.1, 4.2.2)
• added functionality to export the current project with all thumbnails, status and comments (see documentation 5)
• added shortcut to system section. Pressing enter will now enter the currently selected folder
• added shortcut to system section. Pressing the backspace key will now leave the current folder and navigate to the parent folder
• added reveal in finder functionality to right click menu in system section
• fixed bug that caused the status to be redrawn to the previuos status in the current project section if a shot note is written
• fixed bug that caused problems with loading a project that had non well formed metaxml files





FREE SMARTMESSAGE licenses! Valid until 04 March 2016

24/02/2016

FREE SMARTMESSAGE licenses are here!!! Valid until 04 March 2016: test our tools and submit your feedback to www.cragl.com/feedback and you will get a FREE smartMessage license which can be installed on 2 machines!

All cragl products can be tested and installed with our free tool connect, directly inside Nuke.
www.cragl.com/connect



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Thanks Lesterbanks

23/02/2016

Thanks for featuring, Lesterbanks http://lesterbanks.com/2016/02/cragl-vfx-tools/



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Install any cragl product in under 30 seconds - for free

22/02/2016

Installing a plugin shouldn't take longer than 30 seconds, or what do you think?





Try all cragl tools for 14 days instead of 7 days

20/02/2016

Valid till end of February:
Download connect and you can try all of our products without any restrictions for free for 14 days. Download and install them in our free tool connect - directly inside nuke. For more information please have a look at: www.cragl.com/connect If you like our products please don't forget to follow us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cragl/



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Free trial for all cragl products

17/02/2016

don't forget: you can test out all of our tools as a fully featured trial without any restrictions: www.cragl.com/connect

Up to 20% off when purchasing multiple licenses

17/02/2016

All cragl products are now available with discounts:

Buy 2 and save 10%
Buy 5 and save 15%
Buy 10 and save 20%

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released new tool: smartMessage

16/02/2016

smartMessage - instant messenger for Nuke and Maya

smartMessage is an instant messenger for Nuke and Maya. You can use it as a local network and let all your Nuke and Maya artists in your company communicate with each other to let them work more efficiently as a team. And you can also use it to get connected to a global network of digital artists. Using smartMessage you can write message and exchange data like node setups, images, 3D data like cameras and even animated geometry. Speed up your workflow and enhance the collaboration among artists.

For more information please visit www.cragl.com/smartMessage





released new tool - connect

10/02/2016

cragl connect - free cragl tool manager that downloads and installs cragl products fully automatically

connect is a free tool that lets you manage all of your cragl tools directly inside NUKE. connect offers a window which shows all available cragl tools - directly inside NUKE. You can browse tools, get direct connection to purchasing them and getting more information.

For more information please visit www.cragl.com/connect





released new tool - smartLib

10/02/2016

smartLib - project ans shot management for Nuke

smartLib is a project and shot management system for Nuke. If you find yourself often switching between different projects and/ or shots then this tool will become handy for you. You can easily navigate between different projects and shots, set shot status and write notes. Other artists in your team that use smartLib too can see the shots status and comments and can add and edit them. In addition you can create new shots out of fully customizable shot tempales.

For more information please visit www.cragl.com/smartLib





released new tool - smartShelves

10/02/2016

smartShelves - shelves and gizmo manager for Nuke

smartShelves lets you manage your node shelves in a simple, fast and intuitive way. To create and edit custom shelves you usually need some knowledge about python scripting. With smartShelves you don't need to script anything at all. You can add new custom shelves and assign nodes and gizmos to them. You can also assign hotkeys for your nodes and gizmos. You can always edit and change your custom shelves. If you work on a centralized repository you can set up smartShelves with a custom gizmo path so that all gizmos in the specified directory are imported automatically on your machine. Everything is done visually without the need to write even one line of code.

For more information please visit www.cragl.com/smartShelves





released new tool - smartRecents

10/02/2016

smartRecents - script selector for Nuke

Don't waste any time searching nuke scripts manually in your explorer. All your recent work is immediately accessible. smartRecents offers a window to quickly access your latest nuke scripts. You can also reveal a script directly in your explorer. In the settings you can decide how many scripts you want to see in the smartRecents window and if you lime to have the smartRecents window pop up whenever you launch NUKE or if you like to see it just when you need it.

For more information please visit www.cragl.com/smartRecents





Hello World!

10/02/2016

Hello World!
Today we are happy to announce our release. We are cragl vfx tools and we have specialized in writing tools and plugins for the vfx industry, mainly focusing on The Foundry's Nuke. We focus on simplifying, automating and accelerating every day's compositing tasks. All cragl products aim to lead in a more productive workflow in which the artist doesn't need to struggle with repetitive tasks.



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