Creative cow has this exciting news, The Foundry will be releasing a non water-marked versions of Nuke with some light functionality restrictions for FREE! Wow!
You can get it here from the Foundry!
Here are the feature differences:
- Output resolution up to HD (1920 x 1080).
- Some nodes disabled including: the WriteGeo node, Ultimatte node, Primatte node, BlinkScript node, and GenerateLUT node.
- 2D format support disabled for MPEG4 and h264.
- Encrypted data storage and limited python scripting.
I am assuming this is in answer to Blackmagic Design basically releasing Fusion for free. Looks like it is time to learn some new compositing software my near future!