Power, speed and flexibility at a more affordable price
- • Crank up your creative toolkit using the industry’s most powerful node-based compositing software
Features
Multi-shot management, editorial, compositing and review
With Nuke Studio at its core, Nuke Indie is the perfect creative hub for all your projects, offering improved control and transparency over each thanks to an editorial, conform and review environment.
Powerful VFX compositing software
Nuke Indie delivers the same experience as Nuke to help you tackle the diverse challenges of digital compositing, with just a few limitations. Expect over 200 creative nodes, including industry-standard keyers, 3D camera tracking, 360 video stitching, and much more.
Seamless node-based compositing for complex projects
Visually organise and manage complex projects with ease thanks to Nuke’s industry-leading node graph and take on any scale of project with confidence thanks to powerful resolution independent floating-point processing.
Export projects in high-quality 4K
Deliver on your solo projects with the same finish and finesse as the industry’s leading VFX studios by exporting your creations in high-quality 4K.
Nuke Indie Benefits
Join the Nuke community
- • Be part of the global community of artists and explore, excel, empower—together
Create award winning projects
- • Broaden your horizons with the same tool and features used in the creation of award-winning blockbusters and boxsets
Scale your projects, seamlessly
- • Take on bigger, more complex projects with confidence thanks to advanced compositing tools like Keylight, 3D CameraTracker, toolsets for clean up, retiming and much more
What’s new - Nuke 14.0
In Nuke 14.0 we’re introducing the first stage of a completely new 3D system built on USD as well as Cattery, our free library for third-party machine learning models, updates to UnrealReader and more.
Compare Nuke Indie
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Usage
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For Commercial UseEligible users earning up to $100k per year
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For Use in Pipelines
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Licensing ModelSingle-user loginSingle-user loginNode Locked / Floating (Multi User support)
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Online Access Required
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Version Timeout After 180 Days
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Customer SupportCommunity OnlyLicensing and Exclusive CommunityFull Customer Support
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Feature Support
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Supported Export Resolutionsup to 1080pup to 4kUnlimited
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Read Support for Nuke (.nk) and Hiero (.hrox) projects and Gizmos (.gz)
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Save Support for Nuke (.nk) and Hiero (.hrox) projects and Gizmos (.gz)Saved project files can only be read by Nuke Non-commercialSaved project and data files can only be read by Nuke Indie
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All Core Compositing NodesPrimatte and Ultimatte not available
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Advanced NukeX Plug-insSome Nodes and/or node functionality, have been restricted
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Timeline Playback and Versioning Support
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Ingest and ConformAll formats except H.264 and AAC compressed audio
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EDL / XML Export Support
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LUT Export SupportMatchGrade will not export LUTs. GenerateLUT disabled
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Geometry ExportWriteGeo node export disabled
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SDI Monitor Out and VR Headset Support
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H.264 (AVC) Variants Support
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AAC Audio Import Support
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Sync Review Support
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V release - FileIO SDK Support
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UnrealReader node [Beta]
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APIs and Scripting
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BlinkScript Support
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Python API SupportLimitedPython usage limited to 10 commandsLimitedPython usage limited to 10 commandsFully Supported
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OFX Plug-in Support
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NDK SupportFor Approved Third Party Developers
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External Rendering Support
Am I eligible?
Nuke Indie is a functionally limited version of Nuke Studio specifically designed for solo artists. Combining industry-leading node-based compositing with formidable speed, power and flexibility, it’s the ultimate tool for solo artists wanting to create high-quality visual effects, at an accessible price. This is for you if:
- Your annual gross revenue is less than USD$100,000/year (or local equivalent).
- Only one license can be used per user or organisation.
- Cannot be used in a pipeline with other Nuke commercial or Nuke Indie licenses.
For further details on eligibility, please see Nuke Indie Eligibility Requirements.
Pricing
Subscribe
$499/yr*
- Commercial Nuke Studio access for Solo Artists
- Nuke Studio’s editorial and conform environment
- All NukeX compositing tools
- Up to 4K output resolution
- Basic Python support
- Access to product updates
- Community support with exclusive Nuke Indie forum
FAQ
Can I trial Nuke Indie?
There is no trial of Nuke Indie. Nuke Indie features the same experience you get in Nuke Studio and NukeX, with certain functional restrictions. You can start your Nuke Studio trial here
What are the technical and hardware requirements of Nuke Indie?
Nuke Indie follows the same hardware requirements as the Nuke family. See the Tech Specs page for supported operating systems and hardware for the latest release.
Which versions of Nuke support Nuke Indie?
Nuke Indie is available from Nuke 12.2v1 onwards. Nuke Indie builds timeout after 90 days so users must update to the latest release to continue using Nuke Indie. Any release higher than Nuke Indie 13.2v1 will TimeOut after 180 days
How do I access the Nuke Indie Community?
Upon subscription, users are automatically given access to the Nuke Indie Community. Vist Foundry’s community and log-in using the same credentials used to purchase Nuke Indie. The Nuke Indie forum will be visible under Nuke Indie Community.
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