Foundry launches Nuke 12

Foundry has released the new version of Nuke with major improvements to make the user experience easier and switching between Nuke Studio, NukeX and hiero smoother.

Nuke 12 features a new playback engine designed and optimized for color-managed workflows and multichannel EXRs at high resolutions and high frame rates in particular. Another new feature that Nuke users are sure to appreciate has to do with large projects with more than 1,000 nodes. They have improved the user experience by making it easier to work through encapsulated node groups and live groups that respond and load faster in such large projects.

Foundry highlights the work done on the speed of reading EXRs very noticeable in PIZ, Zip16, DWAA and DWAB compressions from both networks and disk. This also helps the software in reducing rendering times.

Among the many new features added in version 12, we can highlight the soft selection tool. In conjunction with the lasso tool of the previous version, you can now modify geometric shapes in the 3D viewer and modify edges, vertices and faces of the figure faster and in real time making last minute changes or changes in projection settings easier.

Another of Nuke’s new nodes is the edge stretching node that allows you to contract or expand the selection region to extract pixels from inside an alpha to avoid artifacts or noise in the image.

Not only have they updated and added new nodes, they have also updated the list of universal formats and standards. RED SDK has been updated to version 7.1 with support for RED file decoding in Nuke and NukeX. Sony SDK is updated to version 3.3 and supports Sony Venice v4 files and the new X-OCN XT formats. More files supported by Nuke 12 are .mxf DNxHR files. For monitor output cards, the Blackmagic and AJA SDKs have been updated to the latest versions.

Other nodes that appear in this version is the grid warp tracker, they have integrated the CARA VR node in NukeX, etc… There is a trial version where you can see these and many more new features of Nuke version 12.