Maintain full creative control
- From pre-production to final pixels with consistent color, data formats, and interoperability with industry-standard VFX tools.
Nuke Stage enables real-time playback of photorealistic environments created in industry-standard visual effects tools like Nuke, onto LED walls.
It brings visual effects artists into the virtual production process and allows teams to iterate on content from pre-production through post-production.
Why Nuke Stage?
Improve quality with end-to-end control
Ensure image consistency
- With a color pipeline that seamlessly blends real and virtual elements. With full support for OCIO and HDR, Nuke Stage provides precise color matching on set and carries creative decisions effortlessly into post.
Save time with better collaboration
- By using the same concepts and language as both cinematographers and visual effects teams you’ll have clarity in on-set communication and achieve in-camera finals more effectively.
Built for optimum efficiency in virtual production
Control your costs
- Through a hardware-agnostic, scalable solution that can synchronise across render node clusters, supporting ICVFX stages of any size.
Spend less time on setup and more time shooting
- Nuke Stage runs on standard hardware, reducing the risks of complex proprietary infrastructure, so your virtual production stage is ready without delays.
Remove friction by staying within the Nuke product family
- Create and comp your assets in Nuke and control them on-set with Nuke Stage.
Features
Purpose-built
A standalone solution that requires no integration with other virtual production software, ICVFX tools, or game engines.
Hardware-agnostic
No need for specialist media servers or bespoke equipment. Nuke Stage is designed to run on commodity hardware in line with specifications found in the documentation.
High-resolution EXR playback
Use industry-standard VFX tools and asset formats to create high-resolution backgrounds, then play them back as 2D, 2.5D and 3D.
Live compositing
Manipulate and blend virtual and physical sets with a powerful node-based compositing toolkit optimized for real-time performance.
Familiar UI
A color management system, industry-standard file format support, and a node-based compositing toolkit similar to Nuke, for building imagery before and during principal photography.
A single production pipeline
Enables refinement of content from principal photography through to post-production, ensuring creative continuity.
Get in contact
Interested in putting Nuke Stage to work?
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