Nuke Essential Training (2014)

Learn about keying, compositing, rotoscoping, tracking, color correcting, and many other vital techniques in the high-end VFX compositing package, Nuke.

1. Introduction

• Welcome
• Nuke 10 Viewer update
• How to use the exercise files

2. User Interface

• The user interface
• Using the viewer
• Playback controls
• The timeline
• Project settings
• Working with nodes
• Using property panels
• Adjusting node parameters
• Keyframe animation
• Using the Dope Sheet
• Navigating the Curve Editor
• Editing animation curves

3. Working with Channels

• Viewing channels in the viewer
• Creating new channels
• The Shuffle node
• The Copy node

4. Merging Images

• The Merge node
• Compositing multipass CGI
• The Keymix node
• The AddMix Node

5. Color Correction

• The color scopes
• The Grade node
• The ColorCorrect node
• The ColorLookup node

6. Transforming Images

• The Transform node
• The CornerPin2D node
• The Mirror node
• The Position node

7. Reformatting Images

• The Reformat node
• The Crop node

8. Tracking and Stabilizing

• The Tracker node
• Automatic tracking
• Keyframe tracking
• Stabilizing clips
• Match-moving

9. Rotoscoping and Paint

• Drawing roto shapes
• Animating shapes
• Setting shape attributes
• The RotoPaint node
• Clone and Reveal
• Roto masking examples

10. Keying

• The Keyer node
• Primatte keyer setup
• Primatte fine details
• Keylight keyer setup
• Keylight fine details

11. Filters

• The Blur node
• Creating 2D motion blur
• The ZDefocus node
• ZDefocus with live action

12. Warping and Morphing

• The GridWarp node
• Animating a GridWarp
• Morphing with GridWarp
• The SplineWarp node
• Setting warp boundaries
• Warping one image to another
• Morphing with SplineWarp

13. Temporal Operations

• Retiming clips
• Retiming with OFlow
• Shifting clip timing
• Freeze frames

14. Compositing: Basics

• The 3D Viewer
• Adding geometry and texture maps
• Adding cameras
• Adding lights
• Rendering a 3D scene

15. 3D Compositing: Shaders

• The Phong shader
• The ApplyMaterial node
• Camera projection

16. 3D Compositing: Modifying Geometry

• The TransformGeo node
• Snapping geometry into position
• The EditGeo node
• The DisplaceGeo node

17. Nuke 9 New Features

• 2D Viewer changes
• 3D Viewer changes
• The menu bar
• The integrated flipbook
• Viewer Capture feature
• Text drop shadows
• The Look feature
• Oflow additions
• Planar Tracker settings
• Planar Tracker workflow
• ParticleBounce
• New node features
• Motion estimation (NukeX)
• Motion estimation speeds (NukeX)