Batch provides a flow graph environment where you perform procedural compositing with integrated access to almost all Flame effects and image-processing commands. Simply click the Batch tab to enter the Batch view. You can switch tabs, to Timeline or Tools for example, without losing your current Batch work.
A Batch FX is a setup applied directly to one or more segments on the timeline. Creating a Batch FX allows you to take a selection of timeline segments into a Batch flow graph environment for procedural compositing. You can edit and reorder any Batch FX node without affecting anything else in your pipeline.
You use the Batch processing environment to assemble a process tree of clips and nodes, where the result of each operation serves as the source for the next one. Because a Batch pipeline is not fixed, you have the flexibility of reordering and editing nodes.
Because the Media panel is integrated into Batch, it is easy to switch between the desktop, timeline, and Batch—and still keep track of all of your sources. You can add clips to Batch easily using the Media panel, or use the Read File node within Batch to bring in clips from anywhere on your network. You can bring in clips containing stereo tracks as well as clips of any resolution and bit depth. Some nodes require that the clips be of the same resolution and bit depth. You can change these clip settings directly in Batch.
