Hello Kez. In AE it can become painful to dig within precomps to do something like tweak a portion of a matte that you are using to control spill suppression on a plate. In Nuke, since it is node based rather than layer based, you don't have to dig. Pete
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Michael Bogen <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > -- Pete
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