Render out uncompressed video


#1

I wanna render out an uncompressed work out of nuke so i can use in another nuke project, i’ve the mov file type, but they’ll a little compressed when rendered out.
Any workaround?


#2

best is to render to an image sequence

a) nuke doesnt love MOV files, works better with image sequences
b) if you have an error in your render you just need to replace the wong images not the whole file


#3

yea, just render as a .exr image sequence, all of the defaults are fine. Nuke loves .exr sequences! very good format to use for intermediate files / footage.

I said the defaults are fine, but just to make sure you know they should be written out in linear colourspace as that’s how EXR’s are read in by default.

to write an image sequence you need to specify it in file path in the write node with ###'s for the padding (amount of 0’s to put before a frame number) The old method that you will see in older tutorials will use something like .%04d to put 4 0’s in front of the frame number. in 2014 all the cool kids use hashes (####) :slight_smile:

example:
volumes/coolproject/media/precomps/shot1Precomp_A.####.exr

Rick


#4

Guys it worked! I didn’t have to buy tutorials on this one.
Thanks so so much…