What's So Hot About Nuke? Webinar

You've heard about The Foundry's Nuke and how it is taking the visual effects industry by storm. Youve heard that Nuke site licenses have been purchased by such VFX power hitters as ILM and Weta Digital. But what is it exactly that makes Nuke so much more powerful than any other compositing programs?

In this webinar Steve Wright will lift the hood of Nuke and reveal those unique features that make it the power-on winner in the VFX community. This is NOT a sales presentation designed to get you to buy Nuke, but a hands-on revelation of the production power of Nuke by a senior production artist.

Get the full archived version at http://www.centerfornewmediastudies.com/what-is-so-hot-about-nuke/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Nuke
• 3D Compositing
• Motion Graphics
• After Effects
• The Foundry
• Camera Tracking
• Digital Compositing
• How-To
• Postproduction

[Synicade]

@shinWangXiao Don't bother with that guy, he's probably some teenager who got AE off thepiratebay and thinks he's a pro editor.

[minclLess]

@happygamestvfun1 Premiere? After Effects? Yeah that works for amateur effects and flashy titles. This is Nuke, Academy Award winning visual effects compositing software used on the biggest blockbuster movies.

The lag is the screen capture.

[lightnexgames]

why complain with differences between nuke and ae they do different stuff but ae is what i prefer but i want to learn both maybe u could do the same:D but nuke looks interesting and less laggy but ae is pretty laggy on my computer.

[StudioGoldsmith]

I'm still not sold. From SD to 5K; for Maya + Adobe CS5 there is just no challenge. Some rational critique is welcome, try to convince me of Nuke.

[MOXWELLDIAMOND]

@minclLess Not true at all. Not near Nuke in compatibility, but AE is def used on a TON of TV broadcasting, including many, many TV shows. Premiere sucks, it always crashes but its compatibility with AE is nice. P.S I respect you NUKE geeks but you guys don't have shit on my FLAME skills :)

[shinWangXiao]

@part2themovie Painting with shit? Clearly, you *don't* understand what I'm saying. If shit is what you really needed to get what you wanted, by all means, use it. That does not mean it's the same thing as using acrylic—it's not. Likewise, if I wanted to do motion graphics cued up to an audio track, I'd use Motion or AE. But if I wanted to do, for example, rig removal, I would absolutely use Nuke. Nuke is not just AE with "workflow enhancements." Let me reiterate: it is entirely different.

[part2themovie]

@shinWangXiao i paint with shit, does that make me a shitty artist?

for example before 3dsmax was a nightmare, now so many tools that were plugins are now integrated into it. but that doesnt really aid work flow, it just makes it more convenient. as i said i still use cs3 though cs5 would help my worlflow, BUT the time spent upgrading my tools, adjusting my workflow would diminsih my returns

but i really do understand what you're saying, i just dont agree

[shinWangXiao]

@part2themovie I can do basic retiming and super basic compositing and effects in FCP. I can also do that in AE. This means that FCP and AE have functional overlap. Are you going to tell me they're the same? A sedan and an airplane both get you from point A to point B. That's functional overlap. But which are you going to use if you want to get from LA to Hawaii? Nuke is not just like an upgraded version of AE. It's altogether different.

[part2themovie]

@shinWangXiao how can you have functional overlap and not be the same thing? Workflow has nothing to do with Software, though software aids workflow. if Adobe put AI into PS it would aid my workflow, but rushing into an elevator when you're 10 minutes late doesnt make you 10 minutes early. I still use CS3 and many people would say CS4/5 could improve my workflow, but i have 1000s of presets, plugins, etc that put me on par with the newer software. the learning curve is USUALLY not worth it

[shinWangXiao]

@part2themovie Actually, I think your point is irrelevant.... Sure there's a lot of functional overlap between AE and Nuke, but they are entirely different beasts. In terms of compositing, Nuke is more powerful—this is a fact. And part of that power is in the workflow. Workflow is very important. Why spend three hours doing with AE what you could do with Nuke in one hour? So what if you can make webpages in notepad? You can edit reel-to-reel and composite in the darkroom... but why would you?

[orlanduce]

u can also do that in AE.