Issue: NAB 2006: Wednesday, April 26

D2 SHIPPING UPGRADED NUKE COMPOSITOR

LAS VEGAS – Venice, CA’s D2 Software (www.d2software.com), a subsidiary of Digital Domain, brought its now-shipping compositing tool – Nuke V.4.5 – to this year’s NAB show. Attendees can check out the tool within the Avid Developers Community.

Nuke V.4.5 features an advanced 3D compositing workspace, 32-bit floating point rendering, and Open EXR support, including 64 channels of image data. The application also has a new image-based keyer and UI mode.

Nuke V.4.5 is available for Linux, Irix, Windows and Mac OSX platforms. The tools is used by pros at numerous VFX facilities, including Digital Domain, Weta Digital, ReelFX, DNA Productions, and Sway Studio.