The short of it is this: AE is a prosumer tool, good for the infrequent user (consumer), and good for pros. As a result AE has alot of quick solutions for basic fx work which Nuke does not.
Nuke on the other hand is exclusively a professional Compositing tool, flexible enough for the most complex/demanding challenges. For craftsmen who use these tools daily, the inconveniences your experiencing are inconsequential as compared with it's capabilities. Hope that helps... good luck. Ari Blue Sky Sent from my iPhone On Sep 2, 2011, at 4:16 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
