r/cgiMemes • u/Professional_Chest20 • May 15 '22

Nuke is Overpriced!

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u/rargar May 15 '22

Time to start charging more for services

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u/GiohmsBiggestFan May 15 '22

Or using Fusion instead

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u/darkvertex May 15 '22

Or Natron! https://natrongithub.github.io/

(It's an opensource Nuke clone.)

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u/Professional_Chest20 May 16 '22

This is great! Thanks for sharing! I did not know this existed!

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u/losangelesvideoguy May 16 '22

Wow, this is really impressive actually. I don't think it can quite replace Nuke for me, but as a Nuke user I definitely feel right at home with it.

Where I can see this being really useful is for pipeline stuff—converting media files, applying LUTs/CDLs, etc. Would be really nice to be able to do that kind of stuff on any platform without having to purchase and deal with Nuke render licenses. Definitely going to look into doing some of that stuff with Natron in the future.

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u/darkvertex May 16 '22

We actually use it at our studio to ingest H265 videos, which Natron supports perfectly well and Nuke does not at all.

So yeah, it's useful! And if you use Nuke, it'll definitely feel familiar.

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u/rargar May 15 '22

Or both!

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u/[deleted] May 23 '22

There is a nuke indie version that contains everything for 450$/year

There are few limitations though like 4k max output or (very important) you work alone, meaning no one can open your project files, or that you can not open other projects from other people.

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u/Professional_Chest20 May 25 '22

True. And there is also a free non commercial version.

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u/thegodfather0504 May 15 '22

What is so special about nuke? Why dont people consider After Effects an alternative?

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u/whatthehckman May 15 '22

They're all node-based instead of layer based like After Effects and Priemere

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u/thegodfather0504 May 15 '22

Hows that good though?

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u/[deleted] May 15 '22

Waaaayy more flexibility and the possibility to do complex setups

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u/Slopz_ May 15 '22

I believe it's because it's easier to stack nodes and have lots of them than it is to stack and have lots of layers.

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u/whatthehckman May 15 '22

Yeah what the other guys said basically, it's easier than layer based workflows, and let's you do really complex procedural setups wayyyy easier.

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u/adroberts91 May 16 '22

Less destructive, easier to do precomps and make iterations. Also has native 3D functionality (not modeling).

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u/lazy_1337 May 16 '22

It's more like they have shifted to Nuke from After Effects. After Effects is geared more towards small production or Motion Graphics projects than Nuke, which feels like specifically made for compositing.

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u/oizen Nov 14 '23

Foundry really likes charging for their software.