Copy,paste, duplicate with clones and expressions?


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I have a number of nodes making up a mini comp. I need to replicate a number of times in a number of different shots, but still allow access to make changes. (i.e. not precomping, not gizmo, etc)

If I copy & paste or duplicate this group of nodes, any cloned nodes link together with any other clones in other groups already in the project. Handy for certain things but is there a way to disable this behavior? (i.e clone only linked to local clone nodes within a group)

Likewise if I have expressions such as nodes getting values from user knobs in a NoOp when these are added in any way to a project with existing nodes they are renamed by Nuke to prevent 2 nodes having the same name. However the expressions are not updated so these end up linked to the wrong nodes. Is there a system method for keeping expressions in sync?

I know I could write a python script to build each full script but wanted to see if I was overlooking a simpler method. Thanks.