Week 1 - Introduction

Hello all and welcome to my blog for "Perfecting the Look". This module introduces us to the world of Visual Effects (VFX) and the usage of industry standard tools. This module is taught by Jamie Bhalla. This week we started using Nuke and learnt its basic functions like how to open the software, save the file, how to organise your assets in your folder. Let us first see what Nuke is, i t is a node-based digital compositing and visual effects application used for television and film post -production. After starting Nuke we used the assets given to us from a shared directory. The first thing I did was to go to project settings to set up the name for my project, f rame range, frame rate, and default full and proxy resolution format. For the frame range I set it to 100, for the full size format I changed to "hd_1080 1920x1080" to produce the size screen for my footage as shown below, at the bottom of the screen on the node graph I dragged and dropped the asset file...