Name: Nuke Stage
Brand: Foundry

Nuke Stage enables real-time playback of photorealistic environments created in industry-standard visual effects tools like Nuke, onto LED walls.

It brings visual effects artists into the virtual production process and allows teams to iterate on content from pre-production through post-production.

Why Nuke Stage

Powerful on–set controls, designed for virtual production

Make informed decisions quicker

Fast, high resolution playback at your fingertips with native support for NotchLC and B44 EXR. Efficient file sizes with NotchLC and high fidelity imaging with .EXR, so you can save time and resources without compromising on quality

Build your storyline with ease

Drag and drop content directly into the sequencer, and use one click key framing to animate elements easily. Use our enhanced feed mapping to bring content from one screen to another to create the story you want to.

Stay on track

Ensure real-time synchronization between physical camera movements and the virtual environment, with native integration to support Vicon, MoSys, Optitrack and other industry standard tracking systems.

Improve quality with real time compositing

Maintain full creative control

With a color pipeline that seamlessly blends real and virtual elements. With full support for ACEScg, OCIO and HDR, Nuke Stage provides precise color matching on set and carries creative decisions effortlessly into post.

Make changes quickly for playback and review

Import and control Gaussian Splats to get high fidelity 3D scenes, or bring your 3D geometry into Nuke Stage and add detail, surface texture, or color to give the scene the look needed.

Data continuity throughout your pipeline

Record every creative decision made on-set with Nuke Stage’s metadata Vault, be confident post starts exactly where set left off, reducing costly rework and increasing efficiency.

Built for optimum efficiency in virtual production

Control your costs

Through a hardware-agnostic, scalable solution that can synchronise across render node clusters, supporting ICVFX stages of any size.

Spend less time on setup and more time shooting

Nuke Stage runs on standard hardware, reducing the risks of complex proprietary infrastructure, so your virtual production stage is ready without delays.

Remove friction with a familiar Nuke Interface

With a compositing workflow that complements the demands of a virtual production shoot, you get more creative control on–set and access to a proven, global talent pipeline with a wealth of expertise.

Features

Purpose-built

A standalone solution for virtual production. No need to build a game or live events studio inside of a production house, meaning you can use experienced teams with a wealth of film-making experience.

High-resolution playback toolkit

Native support for NotchLC and B44 EXR to playback high-resolution backgrounds, with a drag and drop sequencer panel, one click keyframing and with powerful editing and interpolation tools at your fingertips.

Hardware-agnostic

No need for specialist media servers or bespoke equipment. Nuke Stage is designed to run on commodity hardware in line with specifications found in the documentation.

Capture on-set metadata

Capture scene data, camera tracking, lens metadata, timecode, scene settings, and color decisions to enable smooth handoff from set to post, precise reproducibility, and faster iteration.

Live compositing

Import USD scenes that you can edit and override to blend virtual and physical sets with a powerful node-based compositing toolkit optimized for real-time performance.

Familiar UI

A color management system, industry-standard file format support, and a node-based compositing toolkit similar to Nuke that provides access to a pool of global talent.

A single production pipeline

Enables refinement of content from principal photography through to post-production, ensuring creative continuity.

Get in contact

Interested in putting Nuke Stage to work?

Drop us your details and one of our team will be in touch.

Purpose-built for virtual production