The Foundry announces Nuke 9
Aug 13, 2014 by CGP Staff
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The Foundry announced that version 9 of Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio will be released later this year, with existing Nuke users able to access open betas of all three applications in the coming weeks. New features in the compositing software include:
- Native Flipbook tool – integrated player capabilities for Nuke and NukeX
- Performance updates – covering Nuke’s EXR reader, Deep EXR reader, Particle system and Scanline Renderer, among others
- Enhanced 2D format support – adds support for MXF files, including read from MXF for DNxHD, MPEG2, Sony RAW (F55 and F65), AVCI and DV image files
- OFlow improvements – adds GPU acceleration
- Planar tracker overhaul – provides a single, integrated Planar Tracker node with new pattern matching algorithm to make tracking featureless planar surfaces possible
- Kronos, Vector Generator and Motion Blur 2 – adds a new motion estimation algorithm to improve the quality and temporal consistency of retimed image sequences based on OCULA technology. This engine vastly reduces the artifacts conventionally associated with optical flow, meaning you get the results you want faster and with less tweaking
Some pretty cool features! Looking forward for day when Nuke becomes affordable at special discount for indies, freelancers and small studios!