Nuke 101: Rookie

• Creating Masks: Learn how to create a Bezier node and use a mask pipe to cut-out the influence of a node

• Transforming Footage: Learn how to translate, rotate, and scale using the Transform node

• Simple Colour Correction: Learn the basics of the Colour Correct node and how to use it to change the colour values of an image

• Basic Compositing of a 3D Render: Learn how to quickly composite 3D render passes over live footage.

• Merging Node Outputs: Learn how to create horizontal wipes using the Constant, Transform and Merge nodes.

• Animating in Nuke: Learn how change node properties to produce animations.

• Rendering the Final Composite: Learn how to write images out of Nuke with the Write node

• Getting Started with the Tracker,1 Point Tracking: Learn how to use the tracker to find the position of part of our movie as it moves through time

• Using the Tracker and Translate Nodes to apply animation: Learn how to use expressions to connect our Tracker node to a Transform node, and how to edit the expression to offset.

• Creating a Two Point Track: Learn how to track on a real piece of footage and how to do a two point track so we can put black bars over someone’s eyes

• Editing tracking data in Nuke: Learn how to edit tracking keyframes in the Curve Editor and use smoothing features of the Tracker node

• Four Point Tracking and Fixing Jumping Trackers: Learn how to do a four point track and various methods of fixing a track that jumps points and breaks

• Using a Corner Pin and Edge Blur to replace our TV image: Learn how to composite an image over our TV using our 4 point tracker data

• Compositing the reflection onto the 4 point track: Learn how to use a Merge node set to screen and a Grade node to correctly composite the original reflections onto our new image