Nuke 5 Crashing Issues

[fxnurbs]

Hi, i am looking to switch from shake to nuke.

I read a lot of crashing problems on the new nuke, a lot on mac version to, is there something very common or just a little problem that should be fixed with a little update ?

Cheers,
Olivier

[ior]

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Hi, i am looking to switch from shake to nuke.

I read a lot of crashing problems on the new nuke, a lot on mac version to, is there something very common or just a little problem that should be fixed with a little update ?

Cheers,
Olivier

I've been running NUKE 5 on my Mac Book Pro for a little under a month now. Seems as stable as previous versions but I haven't been using it intensively, or with 2K plates. My only gripes are UI and behavior changes from 4.x.

If you are in the middle of a job, why not stick with Shake until you have time to put the new NUKE through its paces?

-Ean

[general_knox]

We tested Nuke 5 at our studio and decided it isn't ready for prime time yet, at least on the Mac version. I got significant crashing that caused the machine to have to be hard booted and also caused flickering in our Apple Cinema Displays. Very scary.

UI wise I like Nuke 5 a lot better than 4, but 4 was a heck of a lot more stable.

[atitcomb]

For anyone who experienced this hard crash, it was patched in nuke 5.0v2. The problem is actually an OS X bug that we hit in some OpenGL initialization related to stereo display. That initialization has been moved so that it only happens when you activate the Crystal Eyes shutter glasses stereo display mode and the bug has been logged with Apple.

Regards,
Matt Plec

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Matt Plec, Product Manager
The Foundry, 1 Wardour Street, London, W1D 6PA, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7434 0449

[fxnurbs]

I didn't test more on mac, but i have tested the linux version in our studio, it crashed a lot to, sometimes only when moving a slider, (did it on many try, crashed 6 times on 10 try) it was on fine tuning primatte parameters.

It looks interesting on many aspects but some others are just not smart like the matte tool (bezier) who is far to be productif. There is a lot of cool features that i will probably never use and forget the more important.

Well maybe i didn't find it yet, i am still train, even it is hard when i have using shake since many years.

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I didn't test more on mac, but i have tested the linux version in our studio, it crashed a lot to, sometimes only when moving a slider, (did it on many try, crashed 6 times on 10 try) it was on fine tuning primatte parameters.

It looks interesting on many aspects but some others are just not smart like the matte tool (bezier) who is far to be productif. There is a lot of cool features that i will probably never use and forget the more important.

Well maybe i didn't find it yet, i am still train, even it is hard when i have using shake since many years.

We have been running 5.0v1 on 10.4.11 with little issues other than the QT issues and the lack of furnace plugins working.
I just tried to switch everyone to 8 core systems on 10.5.4, and that went nuts. Nuke would constantly crash. The curve editor could lock the system up, even launching Nuke could cause a graphics freakout.

Not sure what I am going to do with this. Even 5.0v2 does not fix the issue.

Fun Fun

[scourge]

gotTheShakes

Have you tried bringing down the threads used in the terminal when rendering by using the -m1, -m2 or the -m4 flag?

[general_knox]

We have continued working with the Nuke team and at least running OS X 10.5.4 and Nuke 5.02 all seems well. Some minor UI flakiness when switching layouts. Shake has been our primary compositing package at our studio. Nuke is MUCH faster than Shake, many compositing functions in Nuke are over complicated and nerdy. I think as the Shake teams re-works Nuke from being an in-house tool to a viable commercial product it will only get much better.

For the time being we will use both Shake and Nuke. It is still a lot easier to find Shake freelancers. Maybe in the meantime The Foundry will get in there and streamline some of Nuke workflow. IBK should be one node, and they need a simple english breakdown of each node in their documents. Clicking on the help function for some nodes is like reading some math phd's thesis. Just read the help for the Bilateral filter for a good sleep aid.