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Deep compositing: Introduction to deep compositing

Deep compositing: Introduction to deep compositing - Nuke Tutorial

From the course: Nuke New Features Consolidated

Deep compositing: Introduction to deep compositing

- [Narrator] Deep images and deep compositing is a major new technological development for visual effects. Used for incredibly complex CG renders and compositing of avatar, it's now an industry standard supported in the release of EXR 2.0. All the images here are in your deep compositing folder of the exercise files. The deep nodes are over here in the deep tool bar. And these are specifically required for working with deep images. For example, if we want to read in a deep image we have to use a deep read mode. So what are deep images? Deep images have many layers of additional depth and transparency compared to a regular image. Let's take a look. I'm reading in this deep falcon image which is in the EXR file format. So I have RGB, alpha, and I also have a deep layer. Course deep data is not at all interesting to look at in the viewer because the numbers are so huge. So we won't do that anymore. Back to RGBA. But we can see what the deep samples are. We hook up a deep samples node…

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