From the course: Nuke Essential Training (2014)

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The Position node

The Position node

The position node is intended for situations where you want to position an element such as a background plate, without damaging the image quality from the filtering you would otherwise get using the transform node. It's critical that you do not try to animate the position because it only moves on integer, pixel boundaries. No floating point positions. Animating the position node would likely introduce jutter in the move. I'm starting with this widescreen image here, and I cropped it down to a narrow view like this. What I want to do is position the widescreen left and right so I'm cropping out the sweet spot. And by the way we'll learn more about the Crop node in the next lesson. So I'll select the Read node, come up to the transform tab, and add a Position node before the Crop node. The reason is, I want to shuffle it left or right, and then crop it. Then I come up here, and adjust. By horizontal position to taste. That's all there is to it. The only possible exception to the no…

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