Ganbar R. - NUKE 101. Professional Compositing and Visual Effects - 2011

GETTING STARTED WITH NUKE 11
Another thing that happened is that a Properties panel appeared in your Properties
Bin. This Properties panel represents all the properties that relate to the newly created
Read1 node (FigUrE 1.16).
You will learn about editing properties in Chapter 2.
FIGURE 1.16 Using
the Properties panels
you can change
the functionality of
your nodes.
rhe VieWeR
Another important part of the Nuke user interface is the Viewer. Without it, you will
be lost as far as compositing goes. The Viewer is used to view your work as you
go, receive feedback when editing nodes, compare different images, and manipulate
properties on the image. You will explore each of these as you work through
this book.
Notice that aside from the Read1 node you created there’s also another node in your
Node Graph, called Viewer1. Also notice that your Viewer panel is called Viewer1.
Every Viewer node represents an open Viewer panel. To view an image in Nuke, you
simply connect the Viewer node’s input to the output of the node you want to view.
It will then appear in the Viewer panel itself.
You can connect any node to a Viewer node in two ways.
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You can click the Viewer node’s little input arrow and drag it from the input of the
Viewer node to the node you want to view.
Pipe
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You can do the reverse and drag the output of the node you want to view to the
Viewer node.
Either method will connect the node to the Viewer node’s first input, called input 1.
The connecting line that appears between the two nodes is called a pipe. It simply
represents the connections between nodes in the Node Graph (FigUrE 1.17).
FIGURE 1.17 A process
tree is a series of pipes.