Introducing Nuke 12 by The Foundry

Nuke 12 stands out as a cutting-edge film and television post-production effects composite software from The Foundry. It does not require specialized hardware, providing artists with the flexibility to composite and manipulate scanned images with ease. This software excels in seamlessly integrating final visual effects with the rest of the film or TV content, regardless of style or complexity. Nuke 12 also offers seven soft selection curves with a customizable UI, enabling users to activate SoftSelection at the top of the view window or use the N key shortcut to select points or faces, capturing surrounding points within a specific threshold to create natural selection falloffs.

New Features in Nuke 12

• SDI Broadcast Monitor Support: All Nuke versions now support SDI broadcast monitoring on compatible AJA and Blackmagic hardware, allowing for precise color space and aspect ratio checks during review.
• Multi-Track Editing Timeline: Nuke 12 boasts a full multi-track editing timeline for playback, review, and editing of multi-layered sequences that include video, CG, and audio tracks, with the ability to stack an unlimited number of tracks.
• OpenColorIO Color Management: Streamline the color management process with Sony Picture Imageworks' OpenColorIO (OCIO), providing consistent color across all compatible applications through a single configuration profile.
• Extended GPU Support: Leverage your graphics hardware investment with Nuke 12's new support for NVIDIA dual GPU setups, and AMD GPU support on MacBook Pro.
• Node Toolset: Over 200 creative nodes are available in Nuke to tackle a variety of digital compositing challenges, including industry-standard keying tools, rotoscoping, vector painting, and color correction.
• Depth Image Compositing: This tool allows for the creation and processing of images with various opacities, colors, and camera-relative depth samples at the pixel level, eliminating the need to re-render CG elements with subsequent content changes.
• 3D Camera Tracking: NukeX and NukeStudio include camera tracking to replicate the movement of real cameras in Nuke's 3D space using animated 3D cameras or point clouds, enhancing the accuracy of 2D or 3D element compositing.
• 3D Workspace: Nuke 12 offers an unrestricted and highly integrated 3D environment, useful for set replacement and simulating real camera projections with 2D materials, 3D models, cards, basic geometries, cameras, lights, and mesh models.
• User Presets and Node Toolsets: Save time with user presets to set and save custom node parameters for reuse across multiple projects, and automate workflows with node toolsets.
• Version Management: Effortlessly load new versions of shots into the NukeStudio timeline or Nuke node graph and quickly switch between them for easy comparison and review.

Experience the power of Nuke 12 with the following screenshot: