Question regarding compositing and sound mixing.

#1

Hi,
I’m fairly new to compositing and vfx and need some advice regarding softwares. I currently have NUKE and have been playing around with it a little. My question is if I wanted to make a film/wedding video with sound etc, is it possible to do everything in nuke, like edit the video and add in sound? or will I need another software to combine the composited video/images and sound? if so, which software do you recommend? thanks

Whats the difference between Adobe After Effects? I have never used it but i’m guesing its similar to nuke?

#2

I can’t help compare them much because I have never used nuke. Nuke is node-based software, After Effects is layer-based.

If you’re familiar with Photoshop, that’s probably the best way to think of how layers work in after effects. If your comfortable with that, then AE should be fairly easy to pick up. All of the editing and sound work can be done in AE, but it’s clunky. You might be better off doing all your cutting, editing, and sound work in an editing suite like Final Cut, Avid, Premier, or Vegas, and then using Nuke or AE for putting in your effects, titling etc.

#3

Nuke doesn’t even support audio outside the scripting engine nor doies it have an edit timeline. It’s strictly per-shot based. So what use would it be for the things you describe? Beyond that - educate yourself. Even with AE, you would never edit an entire video in it and mix the sound, given that it does very few things in realtime… That’s what proper editing programs like Vegas or Premiere Pro are for.

Mylenium

#4

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