From the course: Nuke Essential Training (2014)

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The Reformat node

The Reformat node

Nuke has a unique view on resizing images, it reformats them. The Reformat node changes the size of images, but makes it easy to correctly resize them to the job format. It actually offers three ways of resizing images, to a format, a scale factor, or a specific size. Let's add a Reformat node, I'll select my Read node, come over to the transform tab. Come down here and select Re-format. Here are the three types of resizing, and by default it'll resize to a format. You can pick a format, from the format list here, which is a duplicate of the one in the project settings. So in this particular case, my image is a 2k super 35. It has 133 aspect ratio, that means it's very tall relative to its width. So, let's see what happens if we ask for a HD format. Boom, it has cut the top and the bottom off. Now, if you'd like to shift the image up and down, you put a Position node here above the Reformat node. The next type option is a box. For a safer example, a width of 600, it's going to make…

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