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How to export animated camera (and basic geometry of scene) from Blender to Nuke?

For example I want to create a ship in the ocean in Blender and to add a people to the ship , using Nuke. I definitely need to add people to the ship in Nuke, not in Blender.

How to transfer animated camera (and the scene) from Blender to Nuke ? In scene I need only basic geometry, (texture, etc. not important).

I tried to use FBX, 6.1 ascii version of the exporter (thanks to @cegaton for help), but in this case, the camera was looking in the wrong direction. In Nuke, in the camera settings I turned on "Compute rotation", then the camera began to look almost in the right direction, but still wrong.

For the test, I used a simple scene with an animated cube and animated camera. https://youtu.be/RMTmptv-Suc - VIDEO TEST (Blender and Nuke)

First Frame in Blender and Nuke: enter image description here enter image description here

p2or
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  • So far, the only way that I found - export from Blender to Maya, and from Maya export FBX ascii to Nuke. Many thanks to Cegaton for advise to use ascii FBX. – Rumata May 01 '15 at 17:27

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Use the FBX import-export plugin. Try to export the scene as FBX 6.1 ASCII - this should work immediately. Go to File > Export > FBX.

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Load it into Nuke via ReadGeo and Camera Nodes and plug both into a Scene Node. Don't forget to to enable compute rotation in the camera property panel.

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p2or
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  • Thank you, but I tried it, in the end I got just the object, without a camera. I also tried to use the same fbx in "read a camera from a file" in the camera settings. In this case, I got a static camera. – Rumata Apr 30 '15 at 17:44
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    Try using the 6.1 ascii version of the exporter. see http://blender.stackexchange.com/a/20860/1853 –  May 01 '15 at 03:17
  • Wow! Thank you, it works almost perfectly! But the camera looks a little bit in the wrong direction, I added video and screenshots to the question. – Rumata May 01 '15 at 10:16
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    So far, the only way that I found - export from Blender to Maya, and from Maya export FBX ascii to Nuke. – Rumata May 01 '15 at 17:25
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    @MaximVelichkin works fine, also camera animation, don't forget to enable compute rotation in nuke's camera panel. – p2or May 01 '15 at 18:50
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    @MaximVelichkin see: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Q1GyM.png – p2or May 01 '15 at 19:05
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    @poor just to have a useful answer for others down the line. Thanks! –  May 01 '15 at 20:09
  • Thank you very much, @cegaton, @@poor, for so great and detailed response! :) But, for some reason, in my case it does not work. I exported the scene as FBX, with exactly these settings via the menu Export, but in Nuke camera still looking in the wrong direction (compute rotation turned on). I added in the description above screenshots from Blender and Nuke, and video illustration of camera animation.

    Maybe I understood you wrong? FBX import-export plugin - is menu export in Blender? http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1X6DoYHiOGgnMHsLKHoLfYDfpJJPo0

     – Rumata May 01 '15 at 21:01
  • @poor Sure, here it is: http://www.pasteall.org/blend/35857 I tested it in Nuke 9.0 – Rumata May 01 '15 at 21:26
  • @poor double check works as unchek, in this case the camera is rotated in a completely wrong direction. – Rumata May 01 '15 at 21:28
  • @MaximVelichkin Works great for me, same result in nuke, see: http://i.stack.imgur.com/FOJPV.jpg - I meant check it 3 times to update it. – p2or May 01 '15 at 21:46