Developer: The Foundry
Type: Compositor
Website: The Foundry - Nuke

Nuke is a powerful compositing application that delivers unparalleled speed, an efficient multi-channel scanline rendering engine, and a first-class feature set that is unrivalled in the desktop market. If you are in the business of creating high-quality digital images Nuke is a production proven visual effects tool that brings speed, functionality and flexibility to your VFX pipeline.

Nuke's powerful 3D workspace supports OBJ import, projection mapping, geometry modifiers, and more. This true 3D environment creates powerful workflows and exciting new ways to approach compositing.

Nuke delivers the industry's broadest support for EXR images. Read, process and write over a thousand channels, improving data management and workflow.

Nuke’s exclusive Image Based Keyer (IBK) gives artists powerful tools for dealing with uneven backings.

Savable layouts, GUI customization capabilities, and features like the 'bullseye' and 'input' buttons, make managing large, complex composites easier than ever.

Even when processing high resolution footage at 32-bit floating point precision on modest hardware, Nuke's multi-threaded, scanline-based rendering engine gives rapid feedback.

Nuke offers an extremely open architecture. Both its node graph and user interface are accessible through the Python scripting language, making it possible to customize Nuke in innumerable ways. If you really want to drill down, Nuke supports the industry standard OFX plug-in API as well as a native developers’ kit (NDK) for creating your own tightly integrated plug-ins.

All of The Foundry's OpenFX (OFX) plug-ins are fully compatible with Nuke. Currently, the Keylight keyer, the Tinder collection (which includes lens flares, warpers, and lens blurs), and the Furnace collection (which includes motion vector retiming, wire removal, clean plate creation, grain, and texture tools) are available for OFX, with more collections added all the time.