Hasta La Motion!

This is a maintenance release of Nuke with feature enhancements and bug fixes.

Release Date
22 March 2011

Supported Operating Systems
• Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” and 10.6 “Snow Leopard” (32- and 64-bit)
• Windows XP SP2, XP64, Windows 7 64-bit
• Linux RHEL 5.4 64-bit

New Features
There are no new features in this release.

Feature Enhancements
• Several improvements have been made to the file browser. • BUG ID 12177 – CornerPin: Added an invert button for swapping the
from values to to values and vice versa.
• BUG ID 14032 – R3D reader: The gamma curve control’s default value
was fixed to ensure compatibility between Nuke versions.
• BUG ID 14782 – Python: It’s now possible to add a channel using Python.
For example:
nuke.Layer(‘myLayer’, [‘red’, ‘green’, ‘blue’, ‘alpha’])
• BUG ID 15018 – Python: Added three callbacks nuke.addAutoSaveFilter(), nuke.addAutoSaveRestoreFilter(), and nuke.addAutoSaveDeleteFilter().
• BUG ID 15779 – Python: Cascading menus were added for enumeration knobs. For example:
knob = nuke.CascadingEnumeration_Knob( "Knob" , "testknob", ["test", "menu/menu a/one", "menu/menu a/two"] )
• BUG ID 16106 – Python: Added a filenameValidate callback for validating file names in Write nodes.
• BUG ID 16165 – Python: Added a Python Flipbook example on using RV flipbooking tool. For more information, see p. 573 of the Nuke User Guide.
• BUG ID 16293 – File browser: The Next button now has a tooltip.
• BUG ID 16371 – Python callbacks were added for Background render
progress tasks: nuke.addBeforeBackgroundRender, nuke.addBeforeBackgroundFrameRender, nuke.addAfterBackgroundRender, and nuke.addAfterBackgroundFrameRender.
• BUG ID 16425 – A write time code checkbox and input/timecode metadata field have been added in order to embed timecode in QuickTime movie files.
• BUG ID 16569 – It’s now possible to set an expression link from the views control in the Write node to other controls.
• BUG ID 16623 – Python: Added the ability to specify the group in which you want to create a new node. For example:
t = nuke.nodes.Group()
k = nuke.nodes.NoOp(parent = t)
• BUG ID 16718 – A new use 8-bit root LUT option was added to Primatte. By default, Primatte will work in sRGB space. If you enable this option, it will use whatever colorspace is set for the 8-bit LUT in the root settings, as in Nuke versions prior to 6.1.
• BUG ID 16729 – Python: A format() function was added to nuke.Node class to enable querying for the format that a particular node uses.
• BUG ID 16781 – Added auto detection support for Iridas ITX LUTs.
• BUG ID 16961 – Added a link to the Nukepedia website in the Help menu.
• BUG ID 17266 – Project3D: A crop option was added for clipping to
camera near and far clipping planes.
• BUG ID 17331 – Python: Added an ability to specify flipbook format. For example, to change the format to cin, you would amend renderdialog.py with the following:
import nukescripts
nukescripts.setFlipbookDefaultOption(‘intermediate Format’, ‘cin’)

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