From the course: Nuke Essential Training (2014)

How to use the exercise files - Nuke Tutorial

From the course: Nuke Essential Training (2014)

How to use the exercise files

If you have a premium membership, you can download the project files that go along with all the videos. When you begin the course, just click on the Exercise Files tab near the top of the course page, and download the exercise files to wherever you want on your computer. If you have a basic membership, then you can't download the project media, but you can still follow along with your own media. All of the Nuke scripts use relative addressings. You can place the exercise files folder anywhere you want, and Nuke will still connect to the media. The key is to keep the entire exercise file folder intact, and not rename or move anything. Here's how the Exercise Files folder is organized. Each chapter has a folder with the Nuke scripts used for each video. All the media is collected in this Media folder which contains three sub-directories, Clips, Geometry and Stills. Again, the new scripts will find their media if you keep the Exercise Files folder intact. If you open a Nuke script and you find these error messages, this big red banner up here, and a read node that has the word error on it, that means it's lost connection with the media. Reconnecting to the media is really easy. Go to the Read node in question, double-click on it to open up its Properties panel, and here is the field where the path name goes we're looking for. To reconnect the media just go to this file folder icon, click on it and it'll open up the browser window. Go to where you keep your exercise files, select the Media folder, and then decide whether it's a clip, geometry or still. And Nuke thoughtfully remembers the name of the file right here in the read node. So we're looking for an image called marcy.tif, which is in the Stills folder. And we'll cruise down. There's marcy.tif. Select that. Click on Open, then select Yes from the confirmation window. Now be sure to save the new Nuke script so that it remembers the path name. You could keep the entire exercise folder intact and you won't have any lost media problems no matter where you locate it. Okay, so now we're all set to begin the Nuke 8 essentials course.

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