the transition from AE to nuke is hard cause it is really changing the
way you think about comping... you no longer have fx filters, you build
your filters. Nuke gives you the ability to really deal the the hardest
problem cause you have the ability to build every part of your comp and
by doing this, you understand what each node is and what needs to be
done to a shot.
AE is great for what it is, but nuke will make you a better compositor.
If you learn nuke, you will understand how comps fit together and that
is golden.
When I first moved form AE to nuke I found that simple things like
mattes were really hard for me to get my head around, but also my keys
were better than they had ever been.
The thing with nuke is.... it takes time.... the foundry tutorials are
great, they help you understand what nuke can do.
nuke can also desaturate something pretty fast... read-saturation-write
although i do wish nuke had the snapshot button.
do some tutorials and you will love or hate nuke
n
kezly87 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
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