Nuke

Installation

Place contents in the .nuke folder of your $HOME directory (if at the school lab that’s your Z drive).

Windows

You can find the $HOME folder by typing %HOME% or %USERPROFILE% in an Explorer Browser.

MacOS

In the finder menu select go>home. This folder is hidden by default. To show it Press CMD+Shift+Period in the Finder.

Tools/Gizmos

• Shuffle EXR
  Created by Nacho Igea. The older EXR shuffle was incompatible with Nuke 13. The new one has options to extract all AOVs or select the AOVs to extract.
  Located in the User tab of a Read node.

• bm Optical Glow
  Created by Ben McEwan. Adds exponentially-increasing blurs together to produce a more optically-correct, natural glow.
  Located in the Studio menu.

• bm Optical Light Wrap
  Created by Ben McEwan. Adds exponentially-increasing blurs together to produce a more optically-correct, natural light wrap.
  Located in the Studio menu.

• Optical Z Defocus
  Created by Jed Smith. A physically accurate ZDefocus, which controls circle of confusion (coc) size based on lens geometry using the depth of field equation. Set your lens and film-back characteristics, your focus distance, and adjust the size of your bokeh with the aperture size, just like a real lens.
  Located in the Studio menu.

• df Night Adaptation
  Created by Derek Flood. Simulate perceptual loss of color and blue-shift in low-light conditions by desaturating and color balancing low luminance colors. Based on ZoneSat and ZoneGrade tools by Jed Smith.
  Located in the Studio menu.

• Write dailies mov
  Created by Derek Flood. Writes a JPG image sequence for dailies with options for resizing and auto-generated burn-in text (text includes script name, output color space, and frame count). Burn-in text placement is based on resolution in project settings.
  Usage: Set desired resize scale, file path, and Output Transform. Click “render movie”
  Located in the Studio menu.

• ACES Ref Gamut Compress
  Created by the ACES Gamut Mapping Workgroup. See the ACES Ref Gamut Compression page for details.
  Located in the Studio menu.

• mm Color Target
  Created by Marco Myer. Neutralize film footage with a Macbeth color chart to a target color space.
  Located in the Gizmos menu. Note that this Giszmo requires NumPy. For Windows you can unzip the included numpy_win_python3.7.zip file and place it in your .nuke folder. See the video below for an example.
  Located in the Studio menu.