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Contents

1 The Stats
2 Buy Nucleo Pro
3 Description
4 Support
- 4.1 Tutorials
5 Reviews
6 Press Releases

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The Stats

Developer: GridIron Software
Version: 2.0
Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows with Multi-Core or Dual Processor Computer
Host Application: Adobe After Effects 7+, Maxon Cinema 4D, Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Autodesk Maya, Softimage XSI, NewTek Lightwave, and Apple Shake.
Compatibility with After Effects 7, Compatibility with After Effects CS3 and Mac Universal Binary

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Buy Nucleo Pro

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Description

What if you could have your cake and eat it too? Now you can.

Nucleo Pro introduces the concept of rendering AND working at the same time, while still maximizing your computers performance. Introducing the Nucleo Pro background render queue.

It's simple - add something to your After Effects render queue, and then tell Nucleo Pro to render it in the background. Not only will your CPU's power be maximized, but you'll also notice absolutely no impact on your computer's performance when working in other applications. Meaning you can now work in different applications...or better yet, on another After Effects project while the last one is rendering.

The Nucleo Pro background render queue gives you complete flexibility to monitor, manage, and control all the aspects of concurrent background renders, allowing you to make sure "all is well" while at the same time, working on something else entirely.

Multiply Your Creativity In addition to background rendering, Nucleo Pro introduces two new concepts never seen before in an After Effects workflow: Speculative Previewing and Speculative Rendering.

Instead of the old process of creating then previewing then adjusting and finally, doing a final render, with these new features you'll be rendering or generating previews ALL the time, while you work, with no impact to AE. Take a comp, drop a layer into it and Nucleo Pro will start rendering it. Make a change, Nucleo Pro will re-render it.

Why should you have to wait to render before you finish the project? With Nucleo Pro, you can streamline your workflow to render while you create, virtually eliminating the need to do a "final" render in the first place.

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Features

Background Render Queue - No more render-locked workstations! When you render using the Nucleo Pro 2 background render queue, you can send items in your AE render queue out to render, and then continue to work in After Effects or any other application. Load the background render queue up with compositions from several different projects and Nucleo Pro 2 will let you know when they've finished.

New Support for 3D Applications in Version 2 - With Nucleo Pro 2, motion graphics artists can manage After Effects and 3D renders from one convenient spot. Simply drag projects for any of the supported applications into the Background Render Queue. Then specify the appropriate render settings and allow Nucleo Pro to initiate and manage the render in the background. Support is available for most popular 3D rendering applications, including

Commit To Disk - If you have layers in your timeline that are complete but are costing you time when previewing, Nucleo Pro allows you to commit those layers to disk. Simply select the layers and have Nucleo Pro render only those layers out in the background. When the render is complete, the selected layers in your composition are non-destructively replaced with the rendered footage item.: Maxon Cinema 4D, Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Autodesk Maya, Softimage XSI, NewTek Lightwave, and Apple Shake.

Nucleo Pre-Composition Proxies - Customize how nested compositions are rendered to streamline render times even further. Now users can flag a nested comp to render sub-compositions to an internal “cache file” format, and have the main composition render to the user specified output format. By doing this, subsequent spec-render times for the main composition are improved because the rendering engine no longer has to render the frames for proxied sub-compositions. Those frames are simply read from disk.

Fast Render & Preview
- Fast Render - Fully utilizes all of your workstation's processors and supports rendering out to both image sequences and movies in any format supported by After Effects.
- Fast Preview - Fully utilizes all of your workstation's processors and allows you to specify which type of preview you would like Nucleo to emulate, Standard (spacebar) Preview, RAM Preview, or Shift RAM Preview.

Spec-Preview - When you're using spec-preview, Nucleo Pro continuously fills in your AE RAM Cache. As soon as it notices that you've made a change, Nucleo Pro 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'd like!

Spec-Render - When you're using spec-render, Nucleo Pro continuously renders your output - meaning that when you're finished making changes, your final output is finished too! As soon as it notices that you've made a change, Nucleo Pro drops the affected cached frames out and re-renders a new file (or files).

Cache Manager - Clean up spec-preview and spec-render cache files.

Optimized Performance - Experience the power of multi-processing in After Effects CS3 or 7.

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System Requirements for GridIron Nucleo Pro/Nucleo Pro 2

Adobe After Effects CS3 or 7
Any version of Windows or Mac OS X supported by Adobe After Effects
Multi-processor or multi-core processor
Minimum 2 Gb of RAM (We recommend at least 4 Gb)

Nucleo Pro natively supports Mac OS X on Intel & Power PC.

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3D Application Support in Nucleo Pro 2

Application	Version(s)	Platforms
Maxon CINEMA 4D	9.6, 10	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	Max 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+