The Switch From a layer based compositing App to a Node based on is going to take some getting used to. The thinking is different. You have to start thinking in Nodes not layers.
Here are some resources: http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/training/display_training_articles.php http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/articles/2008/08/09/102/fxphds-compositors-guide-to-nuke/ http://www.nukepedia.com/ I hope this helps. Have a good weekend everyone. mb On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 1:16 PM, kezly87 <[email protected]>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 > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >
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