Hasta La Motion!

Sorry, I can’t put up my script so I’ll describe it as best as I can.

My basic set up is –

2d rendering of ground and also one of the jet,
Bring in camera and proxy geo from 3DSMax (Oh, a huge kudos to whoever wrote that Nuke’Em script, what a lifesaver!)
use stock footage of dust to put onto cards and line up in 3d space.

Is there any limit to the amount of cards to use?

I have 5 sequences of dust and I’ve done some retiming on them (to slow them down) and a few other things (grade, blur etc) and then rerendered them and then I’ve plugged them straight into a large amount of cards. I have about 50 cards and some of them I have edited using bicubics to loose a bit of the flat feel. Should I project instead of just pluggin them in? That would be a hell of a lot of cameras and I would think that would slow the script down even more.

My script was starting to get a bis messy so I started to group the cards to keep track of them and then plug several scene nodes into one main scene before the scanline render node. Is this bad? Should I just use one scene node? Or use a copy (or a clone) of the camera for each smaller scene?

Also, I have used Retime nodes to offset the starting of each of the dust sequences for each card, should I use a timeoffset node instead?

I have to try and optimise this scene as it keeps bloody crashing on me and I really, REALLY, want to finish this shot tomorrow as it’s driving me mad! 😡 (And no finished shot will mean no beer for me tomorrow night, and by god after this week I could do with a few!)

Phew!

Any advice would be much appreciated.

anyone here have a clue ?

cheers—

ps : "I tried to crossover from inferno n flame."

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And the font import element in the text node is nothing more than a windows fontfile list – it’s like something from the Middle Ages (note to self: check if they had computers in Middle Ages)

I’m not expecting the imort userface of c/f/f/i* (to me one of the useful and elegant file importers, with added scrubbing) nor do I expect to flip through fonts in an interactive way (dont I? Why don’t I ??… it’s not unreasonable…) – okay, actually, I do now, here in 2010, expect to flip through fonts in an interactive update way.

And to pre-empt answers of
‘Well, pipeline compositors only need DIR UI’s because all their footage is on a server", well, thats fine, but my pipeline consists of two, and both of us like to at least see – if not scrub thru – a shot before loading it, especially when all the file names are just a bunch of frame references, and it’s late, and it was a bad idea to open a beer just to see us through the last few shots.

and as for…

"Only motion graphics programs need font utilities"
Well, either you have a text node or you don’t. And if you do have a text node, don’t force me to open up a $20 font viewer to do the job a $3000 compositor just can’t handle!

Seriously, Im a nuke newbie, so am I missing something? Is there a secret UI friendly button I haven’t hit? Does everyone just use a third party script as standard?

Or does the latest compositing kid on the block really want to make me feel like I’m 20 years old again, typing BASIC into a DEC10?

Discuss! 🙂

In Nuke Furnace Grain Mask is not available , is it possible to add a mask for furnace graining node?

Thanks advance