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NATRON: The FREE robust alternative to NUKE & AFTER EFFECTS
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NATRON: The FREE robust alternative to NUKE & AFTER EFFECTS

Add the power of the industry standardnode-based compositing to your workflow with the free alternative to NUKE & AE
Created byVFX 3D Pro
Last updated 7/2018
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What you'll learn

  • Learn compositing using a free alternative (Natron) to the industry standard (Nuke)
  • Be able to work with Nuke, using Natron knowledge, from day one even if you have never opened nuke before

Course content

1 section • 11 lectures • 2h 45m total length

  • A quick start: compositing in 10 minutes10:26

    Dive directly into fast compositing by merging levitating children with a lake background and a foreground rock, removing the green screen, then adjust size, position, and blur for depth.

  • What learning Natron means for you3:39

    Discover Natron’s free, open source, node-based workflow that mirrors industry standards, featuring a node graph, viewer, curve editor, dope sheet, and properties for color correction, saturation, and color lookups.

  • Configuration5:39

    Learn how to configure Natron, a cross-platform open source node-based compositor, focusing on caching and disk cache path, ram usage, and performance optimization.

  • Interface26:18

    Explore the Natron interface by setting project options, frame rate, and frame range, importing image sequences with read and write nodes, and configuring multiple viewers for efficient compositing.

  • Tracking rules during filming10:51

    Learn the essential tracking rules during filming, including on-set VFX supervision, marker placement and contrast, and strategies for marker usage with green screen.

  • Tracking and screen or sign replacement15:52

    Configure Natron tracking by placing markers, adjust contrast with a color correct node, and compute tracking; replace screens or signs using a checkerboard test and a merge.

  • Color Grading: GRADE, COLORCORRECT, HUECORRECT, HSVTOOL19:40

    Learn to color grade in Natrium with color correction, color correct, and hsv tools, adjusting shadows, midtones, highlights, and saturation using histogram feedback and rgb values.

  • Rotoscoping: ROTO, ROTOPAINT - duplicate or remove someone18:43

    Learn rotoscoping in Natron by tracing with bezier shapes, smoothing corners, and using Roto and roto paint to duplicate or remove a person, and refine with clean plates.

  • Green Screen Keying44:55

    Master green screen keying by planning markers, maintaining even lighting, and keeping distance from the screen, then refine with image-based keyers (ibk/pick) and a clean plate for high-quality composites.

  • Free Plugins2:53

    Learn how to find and install free Natron plugins, including Ignite Express, from community pages. Download zip files and place them in the correct folder to expand your toolset.

  • Render6:18

    Render and export workflows in Natron, saving image sequences as EXR, choosing frame ranges, naming composites, and ensuring correct hash numbering for a reliable sequence export.

Requirements

  • Actually, nothing is required. You can take this course as an absolute beginner in Nodal compositing, or even if you are an experienced compositor in After Effects

Description

Nuke is the industry standard in compositing Visual effects, but it costs a lot.

Natron is open source and Free, It has the same interface, same workflow, similar nodes and and functionality.

By learning Natron, you are also learning Nuke

You can apply in Nuke everything you've learned in Natron, from day one, even if you have never opened Nuke before. Natron is the Free Nuke alternative.

- You will make your first compositing in 10 minutes

- You will navigate easily the interface

- See the huge similarity with Nuke

You will learn:

- settings for a faster workflow

- Tracking and Screen or sign replacement

- Color correction using several nodes (Grade, ColorCorrect, HueCorrect, HSVTool)

- Rotoscoping to target an object and for example change it

- Use Rotopaint node to duplicate or make somebody disappear from your footage

- And of course green screen keying

- You will also add more free plugins to Natron

- and you will learn how to render

This is an opportunity to learn 2 compositing applications in one course, and add, using a free application, the power of node based compositing, the industry standard.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to learn compositing, and use a free robust nodal compositing software, Natron, being the "free NUKE"
  • After Effects users who always wanted to get the power of NUKE but found it not affordable

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