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
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