From the course: Nuke Essential Training (2014)

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The Transform node

The Transform node

The transform node is one of the most important nodes in New, because it's the one that moves, scales, and rotates images. It can be controlled interactively in the viewer, or by entering numbers into the property panel fields. Let's start by adding a transform node. We'll select the Read node. Come up to the Transform tab, and it's the first node in the list. And because you see the T here, you know there's a hot key, T, to get this node. So, I'll select that. And it inserts itself into the data stream. Let's take a look at the onscreen controls first. This is the onscreen transform control. And you'll notice the cursor changes shape when I approach sensitive areas. There's my rotate control, okay? If I put the cursor inside, you see it gets the plus sign with the arrowheads anywhere in here? Well that's your translation cursor. I move off to the ring, I get the x, that's your uniform scale. So it'll scale equally in x and y. There, I'll undo that. Putting the cursor on the not, here…

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