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| | | | |  | wpp exrby Antonia Patterson 4 weeks agoHi, I received exr files from a 3d animator. She told me there are wpp channel within them. How do I use them in Nuke, they said it was to avoid tracking. I'm baffled. Thank you AP | Re: wpp exr
by Conrad Olson 2 weeks ago
I am assuming you mean "world position pass". These passes give you the position of each pixel of the render in the 3D space that it originated from. You can use this pass to visualise the render in t
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| | | |  | Green screen transparacy problemby Charlotte Wills 1 month agoI am teaching myself Nuke and keeping things basic at the moment and working my way up to the complicated. My current project is live action footage with a green screen which I have cleaned and replac | | | | |
| | | |  | Roto Node and Invertby Jonathan Smith 1 month agoWhen creating a roto shape in Nuke X 6.2v4 I am able to invert the mask getting the result however when I add another roto shape under the same node and do the same invert command the effect is revers | Re: Roto Node and Invert
by Conrad Olson 1 month ago
I don't quite follow your setup. Are you using two different roto nodes Are you using a separate invert node or are you inverting the shapes inside the roto node I've experienced wierd results when me
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| | | |  | Altarnative to Apple ProRes 422 (HQ)by terence fernandes 1 month agoHi, Urgently looking for a solution to give the final output to our client. Our work is only CGI based (2048 x 1152 @ 24 fps) - to be assembled and edited on FCP. - Avid DNxHD is not an option as the | | | | |
| | | | | restoring alpha channel with rgb???by sam williams 1 month agohello, the alpha is messed up in my image - but the rgb looks perfect. Basically i was wondering if there was a way of creating the alpha channel again using the rgb of the image. I have tried it with | Re: restoring alpha channel with rgb???
by Conrad Olson 1 month ago
How was your alpha created in the first place You can use a shuffle node to get rid of your bad alpha and you can use a copy node to add an alpha from another stream. Creating a new alpha depends on y
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| | | |  | Star Wars Text Scrollby Chip Hess 2 months agoClient is looking for that old fashioned serial look we saw in Star Wars. Text starts huge and close at screen bottom and diminishes in size at it moves into the distance and offscreen, skewed. How do | Re: Star Wars Text Scroll
by Conrad Olson 2 months ago
The easiest way would probably be to create regular scrolling text and then use the corner pin effect to add the perspective. --- conradolson.com
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| | | |  | Match Frame in After Effects?by David Markey 2 months agoI'm dealing with timelapse footage (stills imported as a sequence), and I need to edit certain frames in Photoshop. If I'm looking at a certain frame of an image sequence in After Effects, what's the | Re: Match Frame in After Effects?
by Conrad Olson 2 months ago
You can add a text effect to your layer and write and expression that changed the on every frame to display the frame number. I'm not sure if you could go further and get it to look up the frame name.
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| | | |  | Article: John Carter VFXby Debra Kaufman 2 months ago Adobe After Effects John Carter VFX Cinesite Visual Effects Supervisor Sue Rowe approached the mammoth job of creating 831 visual effects for John Carter -- which marks the live-action debut of noted | Re: Article: John Carter VFX
by Conrad Olson 2 months ago
As most of the compositing work described in this article was done in Nuke it would be good if you could post this to the Nuke forum too. --- conradolson.com
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| | | |  | Dolly track removal adviceby Stuart Samuels 2 months agoHi. I have a clip that contains a long dolly shot that pulls out away from the subject. I now want to remove the dolly track rails from the floor of the shot. I've painted out the last frame of the sh | Re: Dolly track removal advice
by Conrad Olson 2 months ago
Here is a video tutorial on how to use Mocha for a job like this. I haven't watched it for a while so don't remember the details: http: library.creativecow.net articles larsen_carl simple25d_rig_remov
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| | | |  | A bit of compositing adviceby alex dinnin 2 months agoHey All, I've picked myself up a little 3d job.. basically just some text.. The problem I have is I want it to look really big.. scale wise.. has anyone got any good tips how to fool the eye into thin | Re: A bit of compositing advice
by Conrad Olson 2 months ago
And remember that when you shoot something on a wide lens you get a lot of lens distortion around the edges. If you add a subtle fish-eye effect to your render it will help. --- conradolson.com
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| | | |  | Nuke forum weirdnessby Burt Hazard 7 months agoHello Cow pasture, The Nuke forum has been acting weird for awhile in that has had threads in it that have seemed to have overflowed from other forums like the AE, FCPX Debate, etc. At first I thought | | | | |
| | | | | Stabilize Anomalyby Robert Ober 9 months agoHello, I am getting an odd artifact after stabilizing some clips. An example is at: http: www.audiocrazies.com storage Easter2010PProCS5.5RenderedPlayback.mp4 Please ignore the compression artifacts, | Re: Stabilize Anomaly
by Conrad Olson 9 months ago
Have you tried just using the point tracker to do the stabilize I don't think the artifacts are caused by rolling shutter. I think that it might be the warp stabilizer that's introducing them. --- con
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| | | |  | Streaks with Footageby Mark Saliba 1 year agoHi, I've got a problem. It's more of a technique problem rather than anything else. I've been testing and trying out different ways for a week and can't find the perfect way to this. What I want to ac+1 | Re: Streaks with Footage
by Conrad Olson 1 year ago
Ideally you need a 3D camera track and an object track of the car in 3D space. Then you setup the path for your particles in 3D space and the camera movement gives you the movement.You can probably us
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| | | | | is shake worth learning?by mark francis 2 years agois shake worth learning i heard its being discontinued and apple are not making another compositing app. how long do you think the industry will still be using shake after shake is gone for good | Re: is shake worth learning?
by Conrad Olson 2 years ago
I've never used the Gnomon stuff so can't really say. If they teach good compositing theory, not just press this button in Shake, you should be able to take a lot of what you learn over to Nuke. You m
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| | | | | clientserver crashingby Conrad Olson 4 years agoHi guys, I'm struggling to get a particular encode to work. I have a full HD clip 1920x1080 25p as an animation QuickTime and I'm trying to encode it into a 29.97 H264 clip. I've switched on the PAL N | Re: clientserver crashing
by Conrad Olson 4 years ago
I've just experienced another clientserver crash, this time trying to encode H.264 from an HD source. The one thing different about this clip is that it's 60fps. Ended up having to use Compressor inst
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| | | | | Bad edit point keyframes since upgradeby Conrad Olson 4 years agoHi guys, I had a decent H.264 preset that I'd created a couple of months back. I was using it to encode HD material in to HD H.264 and it was looking pretty good. Since I ran the update the other week | | | | |
| | | | | Another 25PsF questionby Conrad Olson 4 years agoHi Guys, I know there have been a few posts on this whole 25PsF thing but I'm still not quite sure how to set up my sequences. Our projects are primarily aimed for computer viewing so we want out fina | | | | |
| | | | | QuickTime Codecby Conrad Olson 4 years agoHey guys, I'm sorry for all my posts recently but I'm getting to grips with Episode and the more I use it the more I appreciate it. My next issue is the choice of QuickTime codecs. When I choose MOV f | | | | |
| | | | | Divx Encoding on a Macby Conrad Olson 4 years agoHi Guys, I'm not very familiar with the Divx format. We usually deliver WMV or QuickTime files to our clients but for this particular project we've been asked for Divx files that will be played on som | Re: Divx Encoding on a Mac
by Conrad Olson 4 years ago
Hi Daniel, Well after two days of messing around with the DivX Converter, ffmpegX, MPEG Steamclip etc. I tried the trial of Episode. To start with it didn't seem to have the options I needed but then
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| | | | | Confussed about time between compositionsby Conrad Olson 5 years agoHi Guys, I thought I was being really clever. I had a layer in a pre-comp with a wipe transition effect on. This pre-comp was nested in side another comp which was the main comp for the project. I wan | | | | |
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| | | | | Am I doing this right?by Conrad Olson 5 years agoI am trying to teach myself how to use expressions (with a lot of help from this forum I should add). One thing I've needed to do several times in my projects is to work out the direction that somethi | Re: Am I doing this right?
by Conrad Olson 5 years ago
I've just got a version of the porject working with your solution Dan (I'm still only guessing what the array values from the velocity are) but the angle seems to be more jumpy as the particle emmiter
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| | | | | Can I do this in 3D Invigorator?by Conrad Olson 5 years agoHi all, I have downloaded the demo of 3D Invigorator with the hope that it will work on this project and I can convince my boss to buy it. It looks like it's not going to work and I'm going to have to | | | | |
| | | | | Menu overlays for 16:9 and 4:3by Conrad Olson 6 years agoDear all, After testing a DVD that I created last week I was becoming frustrated at the inconsistant behaviour of my button overlays on different machines. All of the footage on the DVD was 16:9 and I | Re: Menu overlays for 16:9 and 4:3
by Conrad Olson 6 years ago
I am using a PSD file with two layers. One layer that has the menu (flattened) and the other as the overlay. In Photoshop they line up perfectly, it's just on our two DVD players that they don't and t
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| | | | | Is there and easier way to shuffle?by Conrad Olson 6 years agoDear all, I am creating a DVD with all of the music videos that our company has produced over the years, there are 22 in total. We would like the user to have three options, play all (in chronological | Re: Is there and easier way to shuffle?
by Conrad Olson 6 years ago
Thanks Mark, I haven't used the SPRM values much before. Would you have to write 22 different scripts, one for the end jump of each story So the script at the end of song 2 would say "if random presse
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