Nuke (Software)

Nuke is a compositing and effects software for the professional sector of film and video post-production. The software is currently developed and distributed by The Foundry.

Function

The program provides tools for complete manipulation of moving images. These are, for example, color correction, keying, creating and animating masks and effects, image transformations in three-dimensional space, combining and manipulating individual channels in image files, combining multiple images / animations or Typo animations.

The graphical user interface is based on nodes. A node describes an operation in the compositing script. This may include image data manipulations or effects. Nodes are linked together in a tree structure and affect the final result.

By not using an elaborate graphical representation of the surface appears simple and functional, what the workflow benefits. Using the Tcl scripting language, the user can arrange and customize all tool palettes free. The user interface and scripting based on TCL. It will also be offered a software development kit (SDK ) for creating plug-ins on C - based.

Nuke offers the possibility to import OBJ files. Thus, 3D objects and cameras can directly three-dimensional animated in Nuke or provided with shaders and textures. The calculation of 3D objects by the integrated Scanline rendering.

Nuke is available for all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Irix ) are available. As an interface for plug- ins from third-party manufacturers, the OpenFX plugin architecture is used ( OFX ). For this plugin packages from leading manufacturers such as The Foundry or Primatte offered.

2007 Nuke was acquired by The Foundry and developed. Since version 5, which was released in 2008, contains Nuke functions for the processing of stereoscopic material. 2009 saw The Foundry nor an amended version, Nuke X, on the market. This package includes an integrated motion tracking function even more plugins.

Competing products

  • Apple Shake
  • Autodesk Composite, Flame, Flint, Inferno and Smoke
  • Autodesk Combustion
  • Eyeon Digital Fusion
  • Avid
  • Adobe After Effects ( not based on nodes but on a layer - UI)

Features

  • Integrated Primatte Keyer
  • 64- channel OpenEXR data support
  • Scanline -based image computing
  • Support for many file formats to 32- bit floating-point
  • HDRI support
  • Multi -processor support for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
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