From the course: Compositing a Sci-Fi Force Field in NUKE

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Controlling bounding boxes

Controlling bounding boxes - Nuke Tutorial

From the course: Compositing a Sci-Fi Force Field in NUKE

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Controlling bounding boxes

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- Now that we've got our shot all tightened up cosmetically, now it's time to tighten it up technically. We're gonna go through and look for bounding boxes that have grown larger than they should be because we want to get those under control so we don't waste processing time, slow down the render, or anything bad like that. So let's start by looking up here at our character. Okay, well, we don't seem to have any bounding box problems there so that's good. So let's go look over here where we built our door animation. And, in fact, if we move our slider over here sure enough we've got a big bounding box. So let's nip that in the bud and that's coming from right here so let's move our guy right over there. There they are. So let's add a crop right after this transform node. I'll hit tab and type up a crop, set that in. Now this is the important part about using the crop node to eliminate the bounding box. By default, the crop node has black outside turned on. See this number up here? The…

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