Appendix A

Shake/After Effects to Nuke Conversion Chart

Important Shake nodes and After Effects (AE) effects/operations are listed in the following tables along with the equivalent Nuke nodes.

Reading/Writing Files

Shake Node AE Effect/Operation Nuke Node
FileIn File > Import > File Read
FileOut Composition > Add To Render Queue Write

Merging/Combining Layers

Shake Node AE Effect/Operation Nuke Node
IAdd Add blending mode Merge (Operator = Plus)
IMult Multiply blending mode Merge (Operator = Multiply)
ISub Subtract blending mode Merge (Operator = Minus)
Max Lighter Color blending mode Merge (Operator = Max)

Creating Shapes/Text and Rotoscoping

Shake Node AE Effect/Operation Nuke Node
Color Layer > New > Solid Constant
AddText Horizontal text tool Text
QuickShape Pen tool Roto
QuickPaint, RotoShape Brush tool RotoPaint

Color and Channel Manipulation

Shake Node AE Effect/Operation Nuke Node
ColorCorrect Color Balance, Curves ColorCorrect
HueCurves Hue/Saturation, Curves HueCorrect
Clamp Levels Clamp
LogLin Color Management tab of the Interpret Footage window Log2Lin
Reorder Shift Channels Shuffle
MDiv Imported files are interpreted as premultiplied or unpremultiplied through the Alpha section of the Interpret Footage window Unpremult
MMult Imported files are interpreted as premultiplied or unpremultiplied through the Alpha section of the Interpret Footage window Premult

Filters and Keying

Shake Node AE Effect/Operation Nuke Node
Blur Gaussian Blur Blur
Convolve (unavailable) Convolve
DilateErode Matte Choker Erode
ChromaKey Color Key, Color Range HueKeyer
LumaKey Luma Key, Color Range Keyer
Keylight Keylight Keylight
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