Hasta La Motion!

i used to work with shake/flame and while i’m moving to Nuke , i’m experiencing a lot of thing. In some area Nuke is better, but sometime still i found the discontinued-shake is still doing a great job. So i just want to share what to be my request.

Here’s some problem i found or being my request 😀

3d:
– Rotate cam lock: while locking the camera , i cannot rotate in viewer interactively. Most of 3d app can do this 😀 why can’t Nuke ? i know nuke is not 3d app, but this just my request.
– 3d particle ( still long way to go ?? i’ll be patient), fusion particle is cool, apple-motion particle is awesome.

color correct:
– i want to see better and more interactiive UI for grading/colorcorrection : color correct with 3 ball UI like in other app (like color warper in flame or other software based color colrrection). Grade node is great tool, but with better UI it will be awesome .. slider is the last option :D.

rotopaint:
– freehand style rotopaint like i found in adobe illustrator (one curve per frame, as you don’t have to maintain the same amount of control point)
– fill color : i want to be able to fill color like photoshop does (doesn’t have to be raster, i once see vector can do this like in retas pro- software for cartoon animation)
– roto stickiness behaviour (again like illustrator :D) : so spline can snap.
– option for auto tangent adjustment (like in shake) : while moving control point , the adjacent control point is auto adjusting its tangent respectively.
– animation paint (like autopaint in flame or interpolation in shake)
– why can’t i set parameter before doing roto/painting

tracking:
– instant stop when tracking. Usually while tracking i have to press ‘cancel’ button to stop the tracking process. What if simple click the interface (like shake/flame) just to stop. Sometime the dialog box for canceling is not quite responsive.

misc:
– slow response while try stopping/canceling the fx process in node graph (shake is faster in this case)
– i like the transform gizmo like shake (that has bounding box so i can scaling just one side only)
– i love to see a beautifull timeline 😀

render/flipbook
– Dropdown menu frame range : i have to type manually to input frame range … what about drop down menu, at least i have option for input/global selection like in the viewer window. Sorry i’m too lazy :D.
– Pause: i want to be able to pause the render process and playback it while being paused, then continue the render from where it stoped.
– preview window: i like to have an option for a preview window while rendering, so i can see the error immadiately without having to wait the whole rendering process is finished. (i like shake flipbook, simple and fast). Also as i usually work with shake flipbook, the nuke flipbook player is separated, so takes time to load that player.

setting:
– FPS dropdown menu?? this is wierd, Nuke doesn’t have fps dropdown menu in setting (s). Am i too lazy again?
– Frame Range like fusion : where i can drag drop the clip to the player to copy the source (clip) frame range.

gizmo:
– auto upper case when picking parameter : example picking from grade node, grabing the blackpoint will use ‘blackpoint’ as default name/label. so name will be ‘blackpoint’ and lable should be ‘Blackpoint’ – with uppercase B. Just my request 😀 …. again i’m too lazy.

I’m using version 6.0, i don’t know if some of this stuff has been available in 6.1 ? anyway i haven’t use Nuke a lot, for a newbie this is what i experience so maybe some feature is already there but i haven’t found it.

cheers
Andi