Expose To Block

Updated: 19 Dec 2025

Managing Exposed Parameters #

expose node

The Exposed Node is where you will do all of you exposed property management. Similar to the exposed node for assets, from here you can manage some of the metadata about your exposed property, such as its Name, Property Ranges, and IDs.

Exposed Node Properties #

Label	Description
Scope	Determines which properties are displayed in the UI for editing. - Global, Shows all exposed properties for all compositions in your project simultaneously. Useful for managing all of the exposed properties in a project at once. - Composition, Shows only the exposed properties for the current composition. Useful for focusing on just the exposed properties in one composition.
Show Exposed As	Determines how exposed parameters will be displayed in the exposed nodes panel UI. This setting only determines how the properties are displayed inside of Notch, not the Media Server or Remote. - Groups: Properties will be organised by Group, which can be created and managed by the user. This is how exposed parameters will ultimately be displayed in your Media Server or Remote. - Nodes: Properties will be organised by the node that they were exposed from.

Label

Description

Scope

Determines which properties are displayed in the UI for editing.
- Global, Shows all exposed properties for all compositions in your project simultaneously. Useful for managing all of the exposed properties in a project at once.
- Composition, Shows only the exposed properties for the current composition. Useful for focusing on just the exposed properties in one composition.

Show Exposed As

Determines how exposed parameters will be displayed in the exposed nodes panel UI. This setting only determines how the properties are displayed inside of Notch, not the Media Server or Remote.
- Groups: Properties will be organised by Group, which can be created and managed by the user. This is how exposed parameters will ultimately be displayed in your Media Server or Remote.
- Nodes: Properties will be organised by the node that they were exposed from.

Configuring Exposed Properties #

Label	Description
Exposed Name	This is the name that will appear next to the parameter in your media server or remote. It’s good practice to name it something descriptive and explicit (not that type of explicit).
Group	The group the exposed parameter is assigned to, and will appear within. See Groups for more.
Go to Node	Will select and auto center your node graph on the node property this parameter relates to - with the property selected.
Unique ID	This data is used to differentiate the properties when exposed. By default, all exposed parameters will be given a randomly generated Unique ID, but these can be overridden to match existing setups or to combine properties across compositions. Use the [icon] icon to re-generate a new unique ID for the parameter. See Workflow for more on working with Unique IDs.
Slider Min	Sets the minimum value the slider can be set to.
Slider Max	Sets the maximum value the slider can be set to.
Expose Property	TBC
Read Only	Sets the exposed parameter to read only, so it can be read but not written. This allows data from Notch to be passed to an external app.
DMX Offset	Pass through a DMX offset for use within the media server. Useful when making frequent changes to your exposed parameters, which can change the IDs generated within the media server used for its own DMX setup.
DMX 16 Bit	When Enabled, two DMX entries are treated as one value, doubling the bit depth for the value. This is useful for extending the range of possible values in some unique cases.

Groups #

Groups can be created by clicking on the dropdown menu on a property, and selecting “Create Group”.

Properties can be re-assigned to different groups through the same group dropdown menu, by selecting different groups from the list.

Once created, a group can be renamed by clicking on the pencil icon next to the group name.