Now Available for Adobe After Effects CS5
FULLY 64bit ENABLED FOR ADOBE CS5 APPLICATIONS
Nucleo Pro 3 is the ultimate productivity tool for After Effects professionals. One of the most successful After Effects plugins ever released, it's now 64-bit native and fully compatible with Adobe After Effects CS5.
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Nucleo Pro 3 makes After Effects even faster than before — no more downtime while you wait for comps to render. Nucleo Pro 3 includes a slew of powerful timesavers, including our industry-acclaimed Background Render Queue.
As the name implies, you can continue working in After Effects while Nucelo Pro 3 renders your compositions in the background at lightning speed. But faster rendering is just the beginning. Nucleo Pro 3 includes a wealth of fantastic workflow enhancements that will help optimize your time and customize the way you work.
64bit Native
Full 64bit support so you can work faster and preview more in After Effects CS5.
Background Render Queue
Render in the background while continuing to work in After Effects.
Commit to Disk
Replace layers with rendered footage to optimize your workflow.
Spec-Preview
Continuously fills in your After Effects RAM cache for faster previews.
3D Application Rendering
Drag and drop projects from 3D apps into the background render queue.
Pre-Composition Proxies
Effortlessly create proxies that are always up to date.
64bit NATIVE FOR AFTER EFFECTS CS5
Nucleo Pro 3 and After Effects CS5 are both 64-bit native, meaning they take full advantage of all the RAM avilable on your system. This powerful combination will enable you to preview much more than ever before and will give you better performance all round.
If you're a new user, be prepared for a treat when Nucleo Pro 3 kicks in. Imagine working in After Effects at speeds you never thought possible while Nucleo Pro 3 takes care of background rendering on the fly. If time and money are important to you and your clients, you need this tool.
THE END OF THUMB-TWIDDLING, DOODLES AND PAPERCLIP SCULPTURES
The era of render-locked workstations is officially over. Just load all your compositions from a bunch of different projects into the Background Render Queue and keep working on the stuff that really matters: Your After Effects project, your Maya animation or even your Grand Theft Auto game. Meanwhile, Nucleo Pro 3 will render in the background faster than anything you've ever witnessed.
You can even drag and drop comps from 3D applications into the Background Render Queue along with your AE projects. Just specify your render settings and go straight back to work. It'll also let you know when the rendering's done so you can send more comps to the queue.
MAJOR HELP FOR ALL THOSE MINOR CHANGES
There's nothing minor about a "minor change" that takes forever to update, view or render. That's where our Commit to Disk feature comes in, giving you much faster RAM previews.
Simply select any layers that are complete but are costing you valuable time when previewing. Nucleo Pro 3 will then render only those layers in the background as you work. When the render is complete, the selected layers in your composition are non-destructively replaced with the rendered footage item.
INSTANT PREVIEWS
If you're tired of waiting forever for After Effects' RAM previews, you'll love this feature. Spec-Preview continuously fills in your AE RAM cache, bringing up rapid views of your composition on demand. And with 64-bit native support you can preview even more than before.
Nucleo Pro 3 watches your comp closely as you work. As soon as you make a change, it drops the affected cached frames out of your timeline and re-previews. Instead of having to do a spacebar preview like you normally would, you can just keep on making changes and refer to your already cached timeline whenever you want. Fantastic if you've a client sitting at your shoulder desperate to see the result of your changes.
THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRODUCTIVITY
You asked for it, you got it. Nucleo Pro 3 now lets you drag and drop 3D compositions into the Background Render Queue. Most popular 3D rendering applications are supported, including Maxon Cinema 4D, Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Autodesk Maya, Softimage XSI, NewTek Lightwave, and Apple Shake. Just specify the appropriate render settings and let Nucleo Pro 3 initiate and manage the render in the background, so you can go back to work without interruptions.
MANAGING PROXIES HAS NEVER BEEN SIMPLER
With a single keystroke, our Pre-Composition Proxy feature lets you create a live proxy in After Effects CS5. Nucleo Pro 3 also lets you customize the way nested compositions are rendered, streamlining render times even further.
Simply flag a nested composition to render sub-compositions to an internal cache file format, and have the main comp render to any output format you like. Subsequent spec-render times for the main comp are accelerated because the rendering engine doesn't have to render the frames for proxied sub-comps — those frames are simply read from disk.
WHEN YOU'RE DONE, YOU'RE DONE
Turn on Spec-Render and Nucleo Pro 3 will continuously render your output in the background as you build your composition. That way, when you're finished making changes, your final output is finished too. And speaking of efficiency, as soon as Nucleo Pro 3 notices you've made a change, it drops the affected cached frames out and re-renders a new file (or files). Since it's rendering from cached images instead of re-animating every frame, you get faster renders — and the freedom to work on the same project without any slowdown in system performance.
TAKE YOUR CPU TO THE LIMIT
This simple feature was designed to squeeze every last ounce of processing power out of your CPU to give you the fastest possible render or preview.
Fast Render lets you render out to image sequences and movies in any format supported by After Effects. While Fast Preview lets you specify which type of preview you want Nucleo Pro 3 to emulate: Standard (spacebar) Preview, RAM Preview, or Shift RAM Preview.
KEEP YOUR CACHE CLEAN
The Cache Manager tool lets you see and manage caches created by Nucleo Pro 3 for Spec-Preview, Spec-Render and Pre-Composition Proxy jobs. With one simple click, you can view all caches, broken down by project and composition, along with disk space used and the date the files were last used. To regain disk space, just select and delete caches from projects that are no longer current. Or you can permanently delete all Nucleo Pro 3 cache files.
GRIDIRON NUCLEO PRO 3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Please note that Nucleo Pro 3 is optimized to work with Adobe After Effects CS5 (or later) 64-bit support is required.
- Windows: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (Intel Core™2 Duo or AMD Phenom® II recommended); 64-bit support required.
- Mac: Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support;
- Windows: 64 bit Operating System Required: Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 or Windows® 7
- Mac: Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6
- 2GB of RAM (Adobe recommend at least 8 Gb for After Effects CS5)
- Internet connection required for online services such as software activation and updates.
Please visit the Adobe website for more tips on optimizing your system for CS5: Adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/performance/
3D APPLICATION SUPPORT
| Application | Version(s) | Platforms |
| Maxon CINEMA 4D | 9.6, 10, 11 | Windows, Mac 10.4.9+ |
| Autodesk 3ds Max | 9 | Vista (32- & 64-bit), Windows XP Pro (32- (SP2) & 64-bit) |
| Autodesk Maya | 8.5 | Windows XP Pro (32- (SP2) & 64-bit), Mac OS X 10.4.8+ |
| Apple Shake | 4.1 | Mac OS X 10.4.6+ |
| Softimage XSI | 6.01 | Windows XP Pro (32- (SP2) & 64-bit) |
| NewTek Lightwave | 9.2 | Windows XP Pro (32- (SP2) & 64-bit), Mac OS X 10.3.9+ |
Note: Nucleo Pro 3 is intended for use on single standalone workstations, and does not support render farms or distributed rendering.
Note: If you are running older versions of After Effects (CS3, CS4 or version 7) you should use Nucelo Pro 2 which doesn't require 64-bit support. Nucleo Pro 2 natively supports Mac OS X on Intel & Power PC.