NUKE NUGGETS

Want to become a better, more productive compositor? Get a new NUKE nugget, including tips on lighting, color matching, grading, cloning, rotoscoping, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome to NUKE Nuggets Weekly

1. Nuke Nuggets Weekly 2016 Q1

• 001 View wireframe over a clip
• 002 Photorealistic light glows
• 003 Create a perfect orbiting camera move
• 051 Remove uneven lighting from a texture
• 004 Reformat node tips and tricks
• 005 Match two clips with a Grade node
• 006 How to do math in parameter fields
• 007 How to make trick gradients
• 008 Animate a 3D Flag with DisplaceGeo
• 009 How to read the node indicators
• 066 Hierarchical roto
• 068 Curve editor

2. Nuke Nuggets Weekly 2016 Q2

• 010 The unpremultiply operation explained
• 011 Unpremultiply workflow examples
• 012 Get more out of the Merge node
• 013 How to do relative addressing
• 014 How to create a bump map
• 015 How to do a glam pass
• 016 Edit your demo reel in NUKE
• 017 How to work with interlaced video
• 018 Work with 3:2 pulldown video
• 019 Protect your shots with a Soft Clip
• 020 How to clone and reveal with roto shapes
• 021 Create a true path of motion
• 022 Automate your flickering lights

3. Nuke Nuggets Weekly 2016 Q3

• 023 Fix video chroma subsampling artifacts
• 024 Paint through backgrounds with RotoPaint
• 025 Faster shot production with bookmarks
• 026 When not to use the screen operation
• 027 How to make your own starfields
• 028 Instant starfields with the GenStar gizmo
• 029 Add photorealism to your starfields
• 030 Productivity tips: Toolsets and workspaces
• 031 How to use NUKE expressions
• 032 Power your composites with math functions
• 033 Understand transform concatenation
• 034 Quickly color match two clips

4. Nuke Nuggets Weekly 2016 Q4

• 035 Roto workflows for every occasion
• 036 Be more productive with NUKE's timeline
• 037 NUKE's secret chroma keyer
• 038 A new feature in Roto node
• 039 Power down node groups for productivity
• 040 Add a true velocity control to your animation
• 041 Techniques for better luma keys
• 042 Screen leveling for even better luma keys
• 043 Roto node edge feathering
• 044 Introduction to User Knobs
• 045 Advanced User Knobs
• 046 Speed development with a master disable
• 047 Secrets of the Grade node

Nuke Nuggets Weekly 2017 Q1

• 048 How to use conditionals for more control
• 049 Reconnect all your media with one command
• 050 Mastering NUKE's viewer wipe controls
• 052 Work faster with NUKE's viewer
• 053 Projections
• 054 Side by side
• 055 Gain without grain
• 056 Time markers
• 057 Position pass tracking
• 058 Field mask
• 059 Image array
• 060 TimeEcho clean plate

Nuke Nuggets Weekly 2017 Q2

• 061 Normal relighting
• 062 Image lineup
• 063 Viewer magic
• 064 About time
• 065 More about time
• 067 Precorrect bluescreen
• 069 Animation time
• 070 IBKColour node
• 071 More about the IBKColour node
• 072 IBKGizmo node

Nuke Nuggets Weekly 2017 Q3

• 073 Fog
• 074 Edge grading
• 075 Resize rotos
• 076 Edge extension
• 077 Color nodes
• 078 Wound reveal
• 079 Solutions for tracking out of frame
• 080 Transferring luminance between images
• 081 Tracking long pans with the Planar Tracker
• 082 Preventing distortion of a spherical texture map
• 083 How to ripple edit a roto
• 084 Using the Emboss nodes

Nuke Nuggets Weekly 2017 Q4

• 085 Rendering camera projections as UV maps
• 086 Working with the Dilate and Erode nodes
• 087 Grade node clamp settings for RGB images
• 088 Grade node clamp settings for mattes
• 089 Best techniques for the Grain node
• 090 FillMat, MergeMat, and BlendMat Demystified
• 091 Ignore masks for the Planar Tracker
• 092 How to paint on perspective surfaces
• 093 The secret life of Transform nodes
• 094 Dialing in your animation with a speed knob
• 095 Control math functions with curves
• 096 How to change output frame numbers

Nuke Nuggets Weekly 2018 Q1

• 097 Avoid artifacts by sharpening in log space
• 098 Easy marker removal with blur and grow
• 099 Easy wire removal with blur and grow
• 100 Spill suppression using unspill
• 101 Smart grain management workflows
• 102 Node operations to speed shot development
• 103 The mysterious Reconcile3D node
• 104 Make movie magic with slot gags