Stereo Hardware for Nuke

Hi, I´m looking to buy a stereo system for work in nuke. Maybe somebody can help me with some recommendations.
For start I have this links, one for quadro graphics cards and one for monitors. (I have the computer, only looking for Monitor/3DGlasses/VideoCard).

quadro
http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_…cs_boards.html
monitors
http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-visi…uirements.html
glasses
http://store.nvidia.com/DRHM/store?A…tID=227658600#

one last question, Its ok for work the 3D Vision Wireless Glasses Kit? Or I need the Vision Pro version?

thanks a lot.
Max

fxphd nuke trainer course

Hi guys!

I would like to ask for your opinions.
I am not professional compositor, but know and use Nuke for some years.
So there will be a trainer course for Nuke. I am interested, but I don’t know that if it is worth to start it. If I finish this course I could do training in my spare time, 1 or 2 days a week. I live in Uk, London.

Is there a need for such trainers? If somebody is not trained as compositor, I cannot teach them compositing, because maybe they will need man who knows it better. If they are compositors, but need knowledge about Nuke, why would they pay for this training, they surely know some package (Fusion, AE, Shake, etc), so they need just some extra knowledge to change to Nuke. Not really complicate to change to Nuke (my opinion).

Is it worth to invest money for this training? I like to train (and earn some extra money for my other projects), but will I get chance to use this?

Thanks in advance!

Best wishes!

Caitya

Canon 5D->FCP->Nuke Question

Hi guys,

I need some workflow recommendations on Canon 5D Footage (H.264) that has been edited in FCP – and as compositor, I need to bring this footage from FCP to nuke to do some compositing work.

What the client gave me was the entire FCP file, hard drive with all the footage. So I have to do the FCP exporting.

The 5D footage is H264, so I was wondering if anybody had recommendations on what type of export I should bring these clips into nuke. And when I’ve finalised my FX, should I export back to H.264 for delivery in it’s original format.

I know this question might have been asked before, but I read that someone mentioned about exporting from FCP as Prores, and then convert to EXR. But I didn’t see the need for this, as the footage is not high-dynamic in anyway or anything.

A little help would be appreciated, a little bit of a noob here.

Thanks.

3d projection for wire removal

Hi everyone,
I’m working at my first showreel and I want to put a 3d projection exercise on it. I was following a tutorial but I don’t understand everything.
I’m struggling a bit with the 3d projection but what is driving me nuts is the painting. If you watch at the tutorial (min 5.20) he connects a group of node with a painting already done. Can someone please tell me which node the guy used in that tutorial? I’ve tried with the clone tool but the result it’s really really bad.
cheers
Riccardo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l375fjCk68

Nuke rendering with threads in Linux

Hi everyone,

I have recently attempted to obtain some benchmarks for Nuke rendering on Linux systems. One thing I have noticed is that sometimes when rendering a scene with threads set to say 4 it may not render at all or rather it just looks like it hangs. I would have to decrease the number of threads for it to respond. I’ve even witnessed a few instances where my only option was to set threads equal to 1 for it to actually render. I am working with a (2 cpus / 12 cores) Fedora 14 system which also has hyperthreading enabled. Just wondered if anyone has any experience with using Nuke on Linux systems and perhaps share your experience with why opening up too many threads (which I should be able to) can cause rendering to hang.

Thanks.

Green screen question

To my surprise, I just received a over the shoulder 2 shot on green screen with a rack focus.

The green screen does go in & out of focus.

So My question is,

Is this ok or a nightmare? I never pulled a key with a rack

“Camera Tracker” Node’s “Track Quality” Option

I’m using NukeX 6.2v1

I was watching a tutorial on "Camera Tracker" and how to do basic 3D track inside Nuke. They were using Nuke 6.0.

They showed at one point that, after tracking the features of a footage we can see the "Track Quality" by using the "Display Options", and then Nuke shows our Track Points in Green/Yellow Color. But in my version of NukeX, I thing the "camera tracker’ node is modified. I can see the Display Options but I can can’t choose to see "Track Quality". I really stuck on this. Hope some you can solve this problem soon.

Screenshot URL:-

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_-…016%202011.png

IBK question

hi , i tend to get some noise in the alpha channel after using the ibk keyer….do you guys do anything like degrain or remove the noise after keying, and if you do , how?
thanks

what is the right way to compose 3d ‘glass’ obj.

Hi, does anyone know any tutorial about composing ‘glass’ obj ? i need to know the right way to do that, it involves transparent/reflection/refraction pass. Is it better to render out from 3d in the beauty pass as premultiplied or not (render background through the tranparent) ? or any other method ? anyone has any experience in this matter ? or can anyone point me to any good tutorial on the web.

Thanx.

removing the stretched pixels?

total noob question here. i’ve looked all over for an answer dealing with keylight and transform, but i get one or the other. nothing dealing with shooting greenscreen and then scaling it down.

i have a scene i’m shooting stopmotion for that has a spinning tower in the foreground. rather than spinning the tower while i shoot the rest of the scene i shot the tower against green screen and have keyed it out successfully with keylight, but when i try and scale it down to put in the foreground, i either get that damn "black outside" option or just stretched pixels on the sides and a black top and bottom.

what do i need to do to see my scaled down image overtop of the rest of my animation?

Thanks.

Timmeh.