Hi all,
[Disclaimer: this information may be out of date as I haven't been on
the Nuke team for a while, but odds are it's still reasonably accurate]
Nuke's monitor output was only really written for viewing individual
frames, and not optimised for real-time playback unfortunately. Feel
free to send a request to support if real-time playback is important to
you, though - the more people who want it, the higher priority the fix,
after all. I'd always wanted to spend time making it faster myself, but
we just didn't have the opportunity back then.
Turning on monitor output also means a few viewer optimisations, such as
GPU processing, have to be turned off, so that means things will
generally be a bit slower in that case. The reason for that is because
we need the final processed data to send to the monitor output card from
the CPU rather than the GPU.
Sorry that's not the best news, but hopefully it's useful to know.
- Chris
On 22/03/11 08:48, Johan Boije wrote:
Also - if we are talking external monitor - the viewer's gl buffer
depth setting will be linked to performance as higher bith depths will
be slower to process. This is from the manual:
"Please note that selecting a monitor output mode with the phrase 10
bit in its description will only output true 10-bit color if a gl
buffer depth of either half-float or float is selected. Half-float and
float modes are considerably slower to process, so it is recommended
to stick with byte mode for monitor output unless 10-bit color is
specifically required."
I have also noticed that if you are trying to paint with monitor
output enabled, interaction will be very slow, so that isn't ideal either.
J.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Michael Thomas <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
With the proper drives would I be able to get previews of heavily
layered comps?
Michael Thomas
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The viewer is all disk playback, not ram. What kind of drive are your
files and cache located on? Also try dpx format as they have a much
smaller footprint then exr and tend to playback better.
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=30
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 13:08, Michael Thomas <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I'm able to get it out to the monitor that way, but I can't seem
to get real time playback. It's only a 90 frame 1080p clip with no
effects, hooked straight to a viewer.
>
> I'm on a new 12 core Mac with 16 gigs of ram
>
>
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> You can only get the viewer to do this, not framecycler (FC only
> supports SDI out from an nvidia daughter card). To output the
viewer
> hit the "MonitorOutEnable" button in the upper right corner next to
> cliptest button. Also in the viewer, hit the "s" key to bring
up the
> settings window where you can change the device, resolution,
fps(near
> the bottom).
>
> -deke
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:43, Michael Thomas
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> I've been through the manual, and posted to Cow. How do I get
flipbook to output through the Kona3G card and out to my broadcast
monitor.
>>
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