The most highly anticipated release of NUKE in recent years, NUKE 7.0 is coming soon...
Set to be our biggest NUKE release to date, NUKE 7.0 comes with a host of polished and perfected tools to streamline your day-to-day workflow, as well as new additions to complement it's highly acclaimed feature set.
A Sneak Peek at NUKE 7.0
Unrivalled speed and power
NUKE 7.0 features the highly sought-after addition of RAM cache, which has been introduced to give artists real-time playback. In addition this major release introduces a variety of GPU accelerated nodes for NUKEX including MotionBlur, Kronos, Denoise,VectorGenerator, Convolve and ZDefocus.
This is a fundamental change that will allow artists to utilise the power of their GPUs to speed up interactive image processing times. When the GPU is available NUKEX will now take full advantage of that power. If it's unavailable, the software simply reverts back to the CPU without any need to adjust settings.
Day to day compositing the way you want it
The roto tools in NUKE have been entirely redefined to enhance performance and improve stereo support, giving artists more control than ever before.
NUKE 7.0 includes Primatte 5 and a brand new 2D tracker with big updates to the workflow and speed. Support for new camera raw formats has been added including ARRIRAW and the latest R3D SDK.
The SplineWarp node and DopeSheet have also benefited from major improvements.
Blurring the line between 2D and 3D
NUKE 7.0 also brings with it a number of options that allow artists to do more within NUKE. Artists are now able to relight renders in the comp environment using the ReLight node and even model usingNUKEX's new ModelBuilder.
Both of these additions reduce the need to roundtrip to another tool or hand work off to other departments.
The Deep compositing workflow also sees the addition of the industry standard OpenEXR 2.0 Deep file format, and NUKE's 3D systemwelcomes the addition of the Alembic file format.
Features in Detail
NUKE & NUKEX 7.0 include some powerful new features in addition to dozens of enhancements to current features, including:
- RAM Playback Cache
- Improved Roto Performance
- Improved 2D Tracker
- Improved SplineWarp Tool
- Multiple 3D Improvements
- Primatte 5
- Upgraded PositionToPoints Tool
- Upgraded Relight Tool
- Improved DopeSheet and new TimeClip Node
- New Bookmark Feature
- Deep Data & Alembic Support
- FBX 2012 Support
- New Format Support
New features exclusively for NUKEX
- Multiple GPU Accelerated Nodes
- New ZDefocus Tool
- Particle Improvements
- ModelBuilder
- Improved DepthGenerator & PointCloudGenerator
New RAM playback cache functionality - Giving artists real-time playback capability by retaining recently used frames in memory without relying on the OS disk buffering system.
Improved Roto performance - Giving artists more control than ever before, NUKE's roto tools have been completely overhauled, drastically improving interaction speed as well as giving real-time playback of roto overlays and improved stereo support.
Improved 2D Tracker - With major improvements to workflow, speed and accuracy, NUKE's 2D Tracker now lets artists track and correct difficult objects with ease, giving finer control over core tracking functionality.
Improved SplineWarp tool - Giving greater control, NUKE's improved SplineWarp tool lets artists create source and destination splines independently and set separate warp values per layer or spline pair.
Multiple 3D improvements - Giving artists greater freedom in 3D, improvements include: 3D scale manipulator, 3D alpha shadows, create camera option, updated cast and receive shadows functionality and displacement tessellation settings, as well as new stochastic samples control for motion blur.
Primatte 5 - The latest upgrade to Primatte 5 brings with it numerous improvements and new features, including: Improved auto compute, new smart background color select, new hybrid render and adjust lighting features and multiple new output modes.
Upgraded PositionToPoints tool - Create point clouds quickly and easily with newly improved PositionToPoints tool that lets artists alter point clouds with geometry modifiers and choose the channels from one input rather than having to pipe in two.
Upgraded Relight tool - Now a fully supported node giving artists the ability relight renders in the comp environment, removing the need to roundtrip to other packages for quick fixes and adjustments
Improved DopeSheet and new TimeClip node - Gives artists powerful new ways to visually move elements around the timeline.
New Bookmark feature - Gives artists the ability to bookmark nodes or backdrops in the node graph, and jump between them using the assigned hotkeys or the bookmarks search box.
Deep data & Alembic support - Push the boundaries of Deep compositing with new OpenEXR 2.0 Deep data read and write capability, as well as read and write geometry and cameras to and from Sony Picture Imageworks' Alembic file format.
FBX 2012 Support - NUKE now supports FBX 2012 7.2, as well as being back-compatible with all previous versions.
New Features exclusively for NUKEX
NUKEX features the core NUKE toolset complimented with exclusive cutting edge tools to ease day to day compositing tasks without having to leave the package.
Multiple GPU Accelerated Nodes - This fundamental upgrade allows artists to utilise the power of their GPU's to speed up interactive processing when dealing with: MotionBlur, Kronos, Denoise, VectorGenerator, Convolve and ZDefocus. If the GPU is unavailable NUKE will simply revert back to the CPU without needing to adjust setting
New ZDefocus tool - A significant upgrade to the ZBlur tool which now includes GPU acceleration, as well as an improved algorithm and much more.
Particle improvements - Giving greater speed than ever before, NUKE’s particles can now inherit velocity from emitter geometry and emit from the bounding box volume of an object.
ModelBuilder - Create 3D models of sets and props quickly and easily, without having to roundtrip to another tool with NUKE's new ModelBuilder.
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