NUKE Rendering

By Florian Girardot
This course will teach you about the basics on how to render your comp, to advanced information on color space management. You'll also discover every aspect of the Write Node. Software required: NUKE.
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Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Mar 30, 2017
Duration
3h 2m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 1m
Understanding the Write Node
Course Introduction 4m First Render in NUKE 4m Rendering a Frame Sequence 5m Adjust Frame Range and Offset Frame Numbers 6m Size Formats and Bounding Box 10m Rendering Channels 7m Rendering Multiple Views 5m Proxies 9m Read File Mode 2m Rendering Multiple Write Nodes and Background Rendering 4m Add a Soundtrack and a Timecode Track to a QuickTime File 4m Other Knobs of the Write Node and Summary 4m
Using Code to Optimize Rendering
Using Callback Python Functions with the Write Node 8m Render with Variables and Relative Path 7m Render a NUKE Script from the Terminal 8m Curvetool and Autocrop Function 9m Expression to Enable/Disable a Node When Rendering 10m
Look Up Tables and Rendering
What Is a LUT and a Color Space? 7m What Is a Linear Workflow? 6m Write Node and Color Spaces 5m Create a New LUT 5m Viewer's LUT and Input Process 3m OCIO Overview and Summary 5m
Main File Types, Codecs and Compressions
High Dynamic Range Images and Floating Point Values 6m Using Movie Files and Image Sequences 4m The OpenEXR 10m DPX 3m TIFF 2m Targa and RLE Compression 2m JPEG, YUV, and Sub-sampling 5m QuickTime Movie 7m Other Output Formats and Summary 5m
Description
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Mar 30, 2017
Duration
3h 2m
Description

Get the confidence you need to be able to render easily in NUKE. In this course, NUKE Rendering, you'll learn everything about rendering in NUKE. First, you'll go from the basics on how to render your comp, to advanced information on color space management. Next, you'll go through Look Up tables, color spaces, file formats, variables, and expressions to setup your renders. Finally, you'll discover every aspect of the Write Node. By the end of this course, you'll be really confident about all the facets of rendering in NUKE. Software required: NUKE.

About the author
Florian Girardot
About the author

Florian Girardot is an artist specializing in computer graphics, compositing, video projection, and photography. Florian’s leitmotif is always to find the perfect balance between art and technologies, just to amaze people.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
Section Introduction Transcripts

Course Overview
Hi everyone. My name is Florian Girardot, and welcome to my course, NUKE Rendering. I'm a digital compositor and a motion designer. Some of my projects include Godzilla or Despicable Me 2. In this course you will learn everything about rendering in Nuke. You'll go from the basics on how to render your conf, to advanced information and color space management. You'll go through look-up tables, color spaces, file formats, variables and expressions to set up your renders. You'll discover every aspect of the write nodes. By the end of this course you'll be really confident about all the facets of rendering in Nuke. No more questions, no more confusions. Nuke's workflow will be yours. This course is an intermediate course, but beginners will easily follow as well. Everyone will find information in this; however, having the basics of Nuke will be better. I really hope you'll join me on this journey to learn Nuke's powerful rendering techniques at Pluralsight.

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