Destruction Compositing Techniques in NUKEX

In this lesson, we're going to do a short overview of what we're going to do with the shot. This shot was taken with a Cannon 5D with a wide angle lens. So there's a lot of things we can see. And as you can see, this shot is a simple shot, but there's a lot of shake, so that will make the [INAUDIBLE] really hard to-- so we're going to do a solid track. So before I'm going to shoot a shot, I already know what I'm going to do with it. I wanted to make an epic warfield with a robot and a lot of fire, smoke, sky replacements, [? head ?] extensions, a lot of damage on the building, and just to make the shot really interesting. In all of the lessons, we're mainly going to use NUKE, because I just want to show you all what you can do in NUKE only. You don't have to switch around between another program, like SynthEyes or Boujou. You can do a lot of stuff in Nuke. Of course, NUKE is not that great. I mean, I'm talking about the camera tracker is not so great as Boujou or SynthEyes, but if you know how to use it well, you can do a lot of stuff in NUKE. We're going to use NUKEX because the camera tracker is only in NUKEX. So please start it up. I've loaded up already the scene. It's a movie file, but I trimmed the clip, and the trimmed clip you can find in the folder called the raw1080p. So make sure you set your colorspace to SRGB, and also in here in your [INAUDIBLE]. And so this is the shoe we're going to work on. Make sure you set your settings correctly. I'm working on 25 frames a second, because I'm from Europe and that's what we use over here. I know in the States they are using 24, but bear with me. Yes. We're going to use [? 19, 20 ?] 1080. Yep. So everything is set correctly. The frame ranges from 0 to 148, so just type it in here. So this is what we're going to use. We've got some nice foreground elements over here that will make the shot really realistic. And as you can see, there's a lot of shake, so let's fix that. So in this lesson, we did a shot overview of what we're going to do with the shot and in the next lesson, we're going to start the camera trick.