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Each cragl tool can be installed via cragl connect - our free tool to install and manage all of your cragl tools directly inside NUKE. If you haven't already done so please download connect.
By opening connect you will see a list of all cragl tools. You can drag and drop it to the right hand side of the connect window to reveal more infos. Just click on "buy". After purchasing you will receive an install code for your tool. Now simply click "install now" and enter the received install code. The tool will be downloaded and installed automatically for you. So you don't need to struggle with any install issue.
Here you find an overview of the smartElements's versions and its improvements. Please log in to download versions.
• Auto reload library when creating a new toolset
• Fix - Use custom thumbnail when registering a new toolset
• Show HOME section only in gallery view
• Ingestion - Prevent from ingesting when no list is selected
• Run smartElements in standalone mode
• Remember window size
• Create temp playlists
• Implement trash bin
• Use arrow in all QComboBox widgets
• Fix - Replace element thumbnail
• Update to nuke-16
• Integrate FX Elements third-party element web stacks
• Ignore @eaDir when bringing elements into DAG
• Reveal element from selected node
• Clear selection after having inserted elements into
• Fix - Ingest to stack that has been added via environment variable
• data_extraction - Write metadata.nk to element root, not source root
• Fix ingestion data extraction when using soft copy
• Implement element ingestion matrix
• 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
• Add live filter
• Implement to abort ingestion
• Search - Allow regular expressions
• Fix ingest via api in standalone mode exited silently
• Add element history section
• Auto set thumbnail
• Search - Add -is not- and -does not contain- operators
• Use more accurate progress bar when ingesting
• Settings - ingest processors | import processors - show help buttons
• Playlist widget list - do not show playlists that do not exist on disk
• Create element ingestion report
• Add API
• Add additional metadata and search elements by metadata
• Search elements by width, height, frame length
• Update to nuke-15
• Gallery View - Show QuickInfo
• Add Home View showing preview thumbnails for each list
• Implement element Head-up-Display
• Speed up launching time when being in offline mode
• Add button to toggle play/stop all elements / all selected elements
• Notify when trying to ingest to the 'ALL' list
• Fix - color dialog is under smartElements main window on windows
• Add studio model
• Add help menu
• Bulk adjust thumbnail for multiple elements
• Add filter section, order elements in ascending and descending order
• Drive visibility of local 'default' stack by environment variable
• Fix deleting all stacks lets a user not create a new stack
• Make preview frame to use when ingesting configurable
• Configure to mark new elements
• Versionize elements
• Support .mxf video files
• Colorize lists, tags and elements to quicker find items
• Add additional data to elements
• Keep info window fully in screen
• Update to nuke-14
• Implement favorite sync to view favorites from other users
• Add ALL list that shows all elements of a stack
• Add jkl shortcuts to rewind, stop and play video widget
• Toggle flip flop mode for videos using shortcut f
• Fix custom onDrop callback overwrites default drop callback
• Implement media playlists
• Enhance overall performance and speed up ingesting elements
• Show element info as tooltip
• Lock selected stacks via environment variable
• Show current stack in window title
• Add progressbar for ingesting jobs
• Add element ingestion live log
• Add sidebar info on the right
• Add documentation button
• Fix metadata is not correctly ingested when ingesting under Nuke-13
• Fix ingesting broke with previous update
• Add functionality to mark elements as deprecated
• Ingest from .txt file
• Fix filmstrip view does not display the last element
• Implement filmstrip viewing mode
• Add fullscreen player mode
• Add comment to element in thumbnail view
• Improve favorite rating system
• Add context menu command to play all elements at once
• Show progressbar when loading elements
• Use continuous loading for elements
• Add elements view limit
• Fix ImportError for Python-3
• Introduce media playback option, implement to scrub media
• Support ingesting R3D files
• Fix creating full length preview when ingesting .mp4 files
• Add most used section
• Add history section
• Fix dropping license into license window raises UnicodeDecodeError
• Fix reading trial license data fails decrypting
• Send email to license author when machine installs license
• Port to Nuke-13
• Fix Paste tag from clipboard needs Nuke restart to show tagged media
• Show media in alphabetical order in tag view mode
• Fix Sending media with white space to RV does not resolve to path
• Fix Use multiple video files when it has a file sequence like naming
• Fix Setting thumbnail for toolset does not process under Windows
• Upload custom thumbnail: lower file extension to check for
• Add custom media commands to trigger custom code on selected media
• Disable register renderings by default
• Fix search does not contain matching elements
• Remove non matching elements in search in list view mode
• 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
• Update thumbnail directly without creating snapshot in ItemInfo widget
• Speed up running in offline mode
• Filter elements by selected tags using an any-all mode
• Add remember function when asking for re-ingesting or skipping media
• Fix ingesting a mov file shows frames count 1 in metadata
• Fix re-ingesting existing media in gallery mode hid the whole row
• Close tag editor when loosing focus
• Close current tag editor when opening another tag editor
• Add multiple tags at once by concatenating them with comma
• Copy tags, paste tags from one element to another
• Add tagging system
• Keep original aspect ratio of media previews
• Restrict modifying permissions when having environment variable set
• Revamp media video player
• Add functionality to set one or multiple poster frames for media
• Add hotkeys to ItemInfo widget
• Add hotkeys to insert and reveal element
• Set media viewing (normal, flip, flop, flip-flop) and playback speed
• Optimize loading speed
• Add import processor to time offset media
• Fix After render copies from non existent paths under Windows
• Create import processors on importing media
• Fix render whole frame range of video when ingesting a video
• Initial release