What is the “Value” indicator in the viewer?

Hey all,

I’m trying to figure out what the viewer indicator for "Value" is really telling me. That thing at the bottom of the viewer. It’s showing me the R, G and B values, as well as H,S,V and L. Lightness gives me the average of RGB, as it should. An RGB value of 0.5 however, returns V=0.74, while a RGB=0.21404 returns me a V=0.5.

Putting down a new Constant node with the V set to 0.5, still gives me a V=0.74 in the viewer.

From what I understand, Value is simply max(r,g,b) which in a gray-scale image would make no difference.

I’m guessing there’s some gamma:ing going on somewhere. What am I missing?

edit: oh, and I’m talking about 16-bit images, if that matters.

NukeView | Quickly open sequences with Nuke viewer on OS X. . .

NukeView is a simple app that allows you to easily open an image sequence in the Nuke viewer without going through all the steps of opening the app, creating read nodes, finding the sequence, etc. You can simply drag and drop any file in the sequence onto NukeView and it will open Nuke in viewer only mode, then begin playback of the sequence.

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The 2010 Emmy Awards for Best Main Title Sequence are as follows in alphabetical order…


Curious Pictures for Bored To Death • HBO
Tom Barham – Director, Marci Ichimura – Compositing/Animation, Dean Haspiel – Illustrator


Imaginary Forces for Human Target • FOX
Karin Fong – Creative Director, Jeremy Cox – Art Director, Cara McKenny – Creative Lead


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Steve Fuller – Creative Director, Mark Gardner – Creative Director, Corey Weisz – Editor, Cara McKenny – Creative Lead


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Steve Fuller – Art Director, Ahmet Ahmet – Art Director, Peter Frankfurt – Art Director, Lauren Hartstone – Designer


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Creative Director – Michael Riley, Designer/Animator – Zee Nederlander & Dru Nget, Creative Lead – Bob Swensen

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Extended Clean Plates Projection ?

hi…

I’m removing some unwanted stuffs on floor.. shot is like camera dolly in shot..

frame 1 i ve made clean plate & projected. and frame 50 i ve made cp and projected… i got black edge.. so i extend my cp. it’s bigger than my plate size..
my extended cp. not matching with original plates. of-course it wont match… i i ve to reposition my ext. plates.. but How to do that… if i use Transform or crop disable in Project3D and not working out.. as i want… how do u guys handle this situation …
extended clean plates Projection on original plate ?

Thanks

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