Hi everybody, this is Lars Vermeer for Nukipedia and welcome to volume 7 of our video series
– Useful Nukipedia Tools.
Today's video is about the Victor Tool Suite version 2.0 by Victor Perez.
This is the link where you can find the Victor Tools on Nukipedia.
First of all, I have to thank Victor Perez for creating this amazing suite of Nuke Tools
and for recording an in-depth video in which he goes into great detail and explains what
you can do with his tools and how to use them.
This is the link where you can watch Victor's in-depth video on Nukipedia's Vimeo channel.
If you want to scrub to a particular tool, you can find a chapter index in the description
of the video that tells you where to scrub to get to the tool you're looking for.
This video will be slightly different to the previous UNT videos.
Rather than focusing on a single tool, this time I will outline three tools from Victor
Suite.
I do have to mention that Nukipedia discourages arbitrary tool collections, as it makes it
impossible for the community to find a given tool inside those collections via the search
features or the upcoming new bridges search and filter functions.
However, since Victor has put a lot of effort into the tools and the respective in-depth
video, which has been very popular, this is a bit of an exception.
The tools or gizmos from Victor Suite that I will be talking about in this video are
the multi-labeler, the color rendition chart, and the slate.
Now there are some other tools on Nukipedia, like the auto backdrop replacement or the
super slate that are similar to some of Victor's tools.
The tools from Victor that I'll be talking about are just one way to do a particular
task.
There surely are many tools on Nukipedia that do similar things but are still useful in
their own right.
Before I start talking about Victor's tools, I just wanted to tell you that I will not
go into great detail of how to use them.
For a detailed review of Victor's tools, you can watch Victor's in-depth video.
Okay, so let's start with the multi-labeler.
The multi-labeler is my personal favorite, because I love clean node trees that are easy
to read, and this is exactly what this tool can help you to accomplish.
It is a script organizer that lets you categorize your nodes, backdrops, dot nodes, and sticky
nodes with colors, labels, icons, and it gives you many options to create your own presets
and much more.
It's very helpful and important if you are working in a team to make it easier for everybody
to read your script.
The color rendition chart is a digital and mathematically correct representation of
the X-Rite color checker that you can use to neutralize the colors in your plate.
This chart, and now I mean the physical version of it that you can buy online, is also called
the Macbeth chart, and it is a very essential tool to have on set as opposed to supervisor.
The slate is a customizable shot slate that lets you display important information over
your shot like the shot name, the name of the project, the task, the name of the artist
who worked on the specific shot, and much more.
It also gives you an overview frame that provides you with the most important information
of your shot.
But as if all of that wasn't enough, Victor provided us with four more awesome scripts
that you can either access over the upper menu where it says Victor, or by using the
shortcuts he applied to these scripts.
The first of these scripts lets you create a custom backdrop by selecting your nodes
and pressing Alt, Command, and B. It has all of the backdrop presets that we can find on
the multi-labeler, and it also lets you assign a custom label.
The second script generates a postage stamp node from your selected node, which can be
very helpful if you need to put some instances of your read nodes in your script.
The third script can generate read nodes from your write nodes, and script number four can
convert the gizmos in your node tree into groups, which is very important to make sure
that the gizmos that you have used can also be used by any other Nuke artist who might
not have your gizmos installed.
I'm really enjoying to see an experienced artist like Victor Perez contributing so much
to the Nuke user community.
Therefore, I want to thank him and every other member of the Nuke and Nukepedia user
community for sharing their knowledge.
Alright, that's it for this episode.
If you have any tool suggestions, just send an email to admin at nukepedia.com.
Again, my name is Lars Vemmier, thanks for watching and goodbye everybody!
