The Foundry Nuke Studio stands as a cornerstone in the realm of film post-production and visual effects, lauded for its professional, innovative, efficient, and collaborative nature. This software seamlessly integrates Nuke's compositing capabilities with advanced editing and organization tools, providing a comprehensive workflow from editing to compositing. It boasts robust timeline editing features, multi-track editing, material integration, and review capabilities.

With a file size of 2.8GB, this version is compatible with Windows and supports multiple languages, making it accessible to a wider user base. The introduction of features that support Apple M chips optimizes the computing power of the latest hardware, offering a smoother experience on compatible hardware.

The software's CopyCat feature has been significantly improved, allowing users to handle repetitive tasks more efficiently, saving valuable time for artists and editors, and enabling them to focus more on realizing their creative ideas. The integration of a USD (Universal Scene Description) based 3D system provides users with more flexible composition options, significantly improving the efficiency and accuracy of image processing.

Powerful compositing features, combined with Hiero's timeline editing tools, allow users to integrate, review, and edit materials directly on the timeline, creating and rendering composite materials seamlessly. The software offers a wide range of creative controls, including almost all 2D compositing tools, a comprehensive 3D system, and tools specifically designed for stereoscopic video and depth compositing. The Inpaint drawing tool quickly removes unwanted elements from videos, supporting GPU acceleration to enhance workflow efficiency.

Nuke's node-based interface, resolution-independent processing, and high level of collaboration provide a broad range of creative and technical approaches. The software is equipped with over 200 creative nodes, including industry-standard keyers, rotoscoping tools, vector painting tools, color correction, and more.

Nuke's depth image compositing tools enable the creation and processing of images containing multiple opacity, color, and camera-relative depth samples per pixel, eliminating the need to re-render CG elements when content changes.

The integrated camera tracker in NukeX and Nuke Studio replicates the motion of 2D cameras in Nuke's 3D space with animation, allowing for precise compositing of 2D/3D elements referenced to the original camera used for shooting. Improved options, advanced 3D feature previews, and lens distortion handling enhance the efficiency and accuracy of even the most challenging tracking tasks.

Nuke provides an infinite, integrated 3D environment for creating and rendering complex scenes composed of 2D materials, 3D models, cards, basic geometry, cameras, lights, and grids. This is ideal for camera projection settings and other tasks requiring simulation of a "real" environment.

Time-saving user presets in Nuke allow you to set and save custom node parameters for use across multiple projects. Node tool sets enable you to automate workflows by creating node group configurations for specific tasks.

Nuke's robust version control features allow you to bring new versions of shots into Nuke Studio's timeline or Nuke's node graph and easily switch between them. This capability makes it simple to compare and review work at different stages and by different artists.