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On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 1:16 PM, kezly87 <nuke-users-re...@thefoundry.co.uk> wrote: > Good day all! > Before I start this topic (also my first), I wish to make it clear that I am > not ranting, or trolling, or moaning for the sake of it, I'm a brand-new > user to Nuke, and I just don't get it. > > I'm looking to hopefully get into the FX industry one day, and have noted > that a lot of advertised jobs say "must have experience with Nuke", so I > downloaded the personal learning edition of Nuke yesterday, and have spent a > whole 30minutes on it so far (I do intend to spend more), and it just seems > long-winded and tedious so far. > I've been using After Effects for my digital work for about 5 years now, and > obviously I'm going to be biased towards that as it's what I know and > understand, so I will give you an example of what I found rather frustrating > about my first experience in Nuke. > > Scenario 1: Take footage, desaturate it, and play it back. > > After Effects: Import footage, drag and drop 'black and white' fx on top, > hit render button. > > Nuke: Import footage (I couldnt figure out how to do this. I found 'import > script', 'import image', 'Import project', but no 'import video'. So I just > ended up dragging and dropping a file in from windows explorer). > Drag on > saturation node > connect footage output to node input, connect node output > to viewer input > desaturate > attempt to play back, but video is fuzzy and > plays about 4fps with no sound. > > It's not the computer (before anybody suggest my machine isn't powerful > enuogh), it's a 4.3Ghz i7 with 2gb Nvidia quadro semi-pro graphics card and > 16bg of Ram. > > So what am I missing here? If Nuke is an industry standard program, why (in > my opinion) is it so long winded? > > Like I mentioned before, I'm very interested in developing my skills in > this, I just wanted to question it first. > > Nice to meet everybody! > Kez > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > _______________________________________________ Nuke-users mailing list Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users
