Keying projects for Nuke: 27 free project files with notes on what each one demonstrates, linked to their original sources.
27 free project files
The Nuke Survival Toolkit by Tony Lyons is a portable tool menu for Foundry's Nuke with a hand-picked selection of gizmos collected from all over the web, organized into one toolbar.
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Andrew Savinskiy of 48 frames shares the Nuke script from his video in which he takes a shot with a bluescreen background and walks through how he keyed it step by step.
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Andrew Savinskiy of 48 frames shares the Nuke scripts and source materials of the green screen shot from his video on how the keying process is handled in major visual effects studios.
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Keying Mastery is a two-part Foundry Learn course by Paul Ringue, with course files made for Nuke 12.0. It takes a green-screen character shot from setup to final composite, covering keying, despill, edge treatment and…
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LearnVFX shares the Lesson 4 project files of its free NK101 Nuke course, which covers matte extraction and keying and how keyers and screen suppression work under the hood.
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Shubham Soni's IBK Color Master lets you quickly create green or blue screen clean plates and defect maps using the IBKColour stack method.
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Split The Diff (Sebastian Schutt) offers the setup from episode 03 of his Unleash The Node series, a deconstruction setup of different edge extend techniques for getting rid of bright or dark edges while preserving as…
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This green-screen project from EKKA Fx pairs a Nuke script (chroma.nk) with the chroma keying and edge blend tutorial on YouTube.
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SPIN VFX shares this select collection of the Nuke gizmos and tools it used in production. The pack covers 3D (Noise 3D, ReProject_3D camera projection from a world position pass, Relight_Simple from a normal map)…
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Practical Compositing in Nuke is Foundry's official multi-lesson course led by Austin Meyers, with project files made for Nuke 12.0.
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This Advanced Keying Template is a set of Nuke scripts by Tony Lyons (CreativeLyons), published under GPL-2.0 in the 00_Templates folder of his Lyons_Tools_Public GitHub repository.
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despillTK by Timur Khodzhaev is an advanced despill toolset that lets you control the luminance and colour of the suppressed chroma key colour by tinting it or mixing it with the background.
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Andrew Savinskiy shares the Nuke project script from his Russian-language video LumaKeying on his channel Записки композера, part of his 'Keying Algorithms' material on effective methods for keying an image.
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These are Foundry's official project files for the four written tutorials in the Nuke user guide: Compositing Basics, Tracking, Keying and 3D Integration.
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Lucas Pfaff's lp_HairKey is an additive keyer meant for hair and other fine detail, shared on Nukepedia as a Group rather than a gizmo.
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Don Starnes shares his NukeX keying and compositing template and sample footage with his ProVideo Coalition tutorial, which uses NukeX 9.0.
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Tyler Lockard shares this additive keyer, built with a few studio tweaks on top of Rafal Kaniewski's article on the technique.
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Tomas Lefebvre's TX_HueKeyer is an alternative to the basic curve based hue keyer in Nuke. It lets you select the desired hue precisely and quickly with a picker, then finesse the selection by constraining it by the…
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bm_Despill by Ben McEwan is a collection of despill algorithms based on the DespillMadness gizmo, with tweaks and extra features.
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ScreenXchange by Daniel Gonzalez S does not output a matte; instead it replaces a green or blue screen with the background using a different math than usual keying.
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DespillMadness by Andreas Frickinger is one of the most downloaded keyer gizmos on Nukepedia, with more than 47,000 downloads.
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Frank Rueter's AdditiveKeyer is a classic Nuke keyer gizmo on Nukepedia with over 10,000 downloads. It uses additive mixing of foreground and background to help preserve fine edge details when keying.
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Luma Pictures published this set of 14 Nuke gizmos on GitHub. It includes a Despill gizmo that lets you choose one of several types of despill algorithms for keying and use a background image to correct spill suppressed…
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Authority FX shares eight everyday gizmos for Nuke, some of them ported from its afx-nuke-plugins. The set covers keying cleanup with AFXDeSpill, AFXSpillReplace, AFXEdgeExtend and AFXMatteAdjust, plus AFXGlow…
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Jed Smith's nuke-config is a collection of tools and scripts for Foundry's Nuke meant to improve efficiency and quality of life in day-to-day compositing.
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Compositing Academy offers these free project files for its YouTube tutorial on gradient re-mapping and quadratic keying in Nuke.
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Foundry's Nuke documentation links this footage package for the 2D and 3D ToolSet examples that ship with Nuke. The zip holds nine example scripts, saved in Nuke 10.5, with their images: a keying example that combines…
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