Alpha 0.1.0-alpha.5 · testers wanted
A node compositor for film and TV that runs every node on the GPU. It opens Nuke .nk scripts and uses the panels, node names and shortcuts Nuke artists already know, with AI roto and mattes, Cycles rendering and a review app in the same download.
Linux, Windows and macOS (Apple Silicon) · free during the alpha
nuke Python moduleFor Nuke artists
The panel layout, node names, knobs and keyboard shortcuts follow Nuke 17, so an artist can sit down and work. It opens and saves Nuke .nk scripts, groups and gizmos included, has a nuke Python module for your tools, and runs OFX plugins in their own process so one bad plugin cannot take the session down.
import nuke, 309 functions~/.nuke and NUKE_PATHAI on your machine
Then fix only the frames it flags. Depth, normals, relighting, motion vectors, upscaling, clean plates and generation are nodes like any other. Models run on your own GPU; frames never go to an online service.
AI nodes: AICleanPlate AIDenoise AIDepth AIKeyer AIMaterials AIMatteRefine AINormals AIRoto AIUpscale AIVectorGenerator GenFill GenVideo
3D
An interactive 3D view with Cycles as the main renderer, live in the Viewer or as a CyclesRender node with GPU denoising. It imports USD, Alembic, FBX, OBJ and glTF. Karma works through your own Houdini.
Cycles and USD rendering ship in the Linux build today; macOS and Windows get them later.
Review
A separate Review app with a multi-track timeline: conform an EDL, OTIO, XML or AAF, compare versions, draw notes and export shots with their comp files. Notes from review show up in the compositor's Viewer.
Each node is a GLSL shader on 32-bit float images, with a C++ core for evaluation and caching. Nothing is clamped until the display.
A command-line renderer with Nuke-style flags and exit codes, Deadline 10, OpenCue, Flamenco and Open Job Description support, and a built-in network farm.
An AI Assistant and an MCP server let outside agents use the same tools. Every change is proposed first and the artist approves it.
One policy file turns off everything that reaches the internet, cloud AI, updates and usage reports. Model licences are shown and accepted per user.
Generated from the code that builds the app, so they match the download.
--cpu)$OCIO; OCIO transforms run as GPU shaders.blend filesimport nuke with 309 functions.gizmo files in ~/.nuke, ~/.opencomp/gizmos or on NUKE_PATH show in the Tab menu-X, -F, -m, --cont) and exit codes; JSON progress for farm tools/etc/opencomp/policy.json (Linux), /Library/Application Support/opencomp/ (macOS), %ProgramData%\opencomp\ (Windows)"offline": true turns off every internet request; the app and its AI worker refuse connections at the socket level too.oink: plain JSON text, easy to diff and merge; older .ocomp files still open~/.cache/opencomp/logs (Linux), ~/Library/Logs/opencomp (macOS), %LOCALAPPDATA%\opencomp\logs (Windows)| Model | Job | GPU memory | Licence | Pack |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MapAnything | camera solve | 12 GB | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| Wan 2.1 VACE 1.3B | clean plate | 13 GB | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| Video Depth Anything Small | depth | – | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| MoGe-2 ViT-B | depth and normals | – | MIT | standard |
| MoGe-2 ViT-L | depth and normals | – | MIT | optional |
| Grounding DINO Base | find objects by text | – | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| FLUX.2 [dev] 32B fp8mixed | generation | 22 GB | FLUX [dev] Non-Commercial License | research pack |
| FLUX.2 [klein] 4B | generation | 10 GB | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| LTX-2.3 22B distilled | generation | 22 GB | LTX-2 Community License | optional |
| Qwen-Image-Edit 20B | generation | 8 GB | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| Wan 2.2 I2V A14B | generation | 20 GB | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| Wan 2.2 TI2V 5B | generation | 20 GB | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| Z-Image Turbo | generation | 15 GB | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| Cosmos DiffusionRenderer 7B | material passes | 18.7 GB | NVIDIA-Open-Model-License | optional |
| BiRefNet HR matting | matte | – | MIT | standard |
| Robust Video Matting | matte | – | GPL-3.0 | standard |
| ViTMatte base | matte | – | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| ViTMatte small | matte | – | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| SAM 3 | matte from text | 8 GB | SAM-License | optional |
| SAM 3.1 | matte from text | 8 GB | SAM-License | optional |
| SEA-RAFT M | motion vectors | – | BSD-3-Clause | standard |
| SEA-RAFT S | motion vectors | – | BSD-3-Clause | standard |
| MiniMax-Remover | object removal | 16 GB | CC-BY-NC-4.0 (weights); code: no licence (non-commercial) | research pack |
| TAPNext++ | point tracking | 4 GB | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| Cosmos DiffusionRenderer 7B | relighting | 18.7 GB | NVIDIA-Open-Model-License | optional |
| RIFE 4.26 | retime | – | MIT | standard |
| DINOv2 ViT-S/14 | shot similarity | 0.5 GB | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| EdgeTAM | tracked matte | – | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| EfficientTAM-S | tracked matte | 2 GB | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| EfficientTAM-TI | tracked matte | 2 GB | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| SAM 2.1 Hiera Large | tracked matte | – | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| Real-ESRGAN x2plus | upscale | – | BSD-3-Clause | standard |
| Real-ESRGAN x4plus | upscale | – | BSD-3-Clause | standard |
| SeedVR2 3B | upscale | – | Apache-2.0 | standard |
| Shot-trained upscaler | upscale | 2 GB | GPL-3.0 | standard |
| MatAnyone 2 | video matte | 5 GB | S-Lab-License-1.0 (non-commercial) | research pack |
<script> | a .oink or .nk script (an .nk is imported first) |
-x | render. Accepted for Nuke compatibility; rendering is the default |
-F <range> | frames: 1-100, 1-100x5 (every 5th), 1,5,10. Repeat -F for more ranges. Default: the script's frame range |
-X <Write> | render only this Write node. Repeat it (or use Write1,Write2) for several. Default: every enabled Write, in render order |
-m <n> | number of threads |
--cont | keep going after a frame fails |
-f | full size (the default) |
-p | proxy: not supported yet (Write nodes have no proxy file path); exits with code 2 |
-V [level] | more output: 1 script loading and the checks, 2 everything, including the engine's own messages |
-q | quiet: only the progress lines and errors |
--view <name> | views to render; scripts have one view, main |
-i | accepted and ignored (there is no interactive licence) |
--gpu [N], --gpu-index N | render on GPU number N (also sets CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=N) |
--cpu | render with no GPU, on Mesa's software Vulkan driver (lavapipe). Same pixels, slower |
--require-gpu | fail with exit code 3 if the machine has no working GPU and the engine fell back to a software renderer |
--renderer any|gpu|cpu | the same choice as one flag, for farm templates: gpu = --require-gpu, cpu = --cpu |
--json | also print machine-readable OCBG {...} event lines |
--no-verify | skip reading each written file back |
--openjd | also print Open Job Description progress lines, which AWS Deadline Cloud shows as task progress |
--path-map <file> | remap file paths in the script (Read, Write...) with Open Job Description path-mapping rules (JSON) |
--list-writes | print the script's Write nodes as JSON (name, enabled, order, output path, frame range, dependencies) and exit; for farm submitters |
--localize | read the local copies made by Localization (when they match their source by size and time) instead of the network files. Same as Nuke's --use-local-file-cache |
--worker | run this machine as a LAN render-farm worker (see LAN render farm) |
--collect <script> <dest> | copy the comp and every file it uses into a folder (like File > Collect Files). Options: --all-frames, --proxies, --ai-caches, --no-ocio, --zip |
--prep-show <edl, otio, folder or json> --out <dir> | analyse every shot of a show (see Prep Show). Options: --shots, --chunk i/n, --merge-only |
--diag-bundle [--out F.zip] | write a redacted diagnostic zip (see Logs and diagnostics) |
--mcp-setup [claude-code|claude-desktop] | connect Claude Code or Claude Desktop to the running app's MCP server |
--version | print the version |
The alpha is free. Each tester gets a licence for two machines, and it keeps working offline for 14 days between check-ins.
Fill in the form; the licence comes to your email address.
The app checks for new builds and offers to install them. Help > Check for Updates... checks right away.
Help > Report a Bug... writes an email to support@megasupersoft.com with a diagnostic bundle you can read before sending.
Alpha and beta builds send crash reports and anonymous usage counts so we can see what breaks; never footage, file paths or names. Turn it off in the app. Studios can force it off with the policy file. Stable releases have it off by default.
Anything else: support@megasupersoft.com.
It is free to download during the alpha. You need a free alpha licence: request one here.
Not yet. This is an alpha: expect bugs, missing pieces and the odd crash. Test it on real shots next to your current pipeline, and keep delivering with what you trust.
There is no date to announce. The beta comes when clean installs work everywhere, the Nuke shortcut list is complete and the app has no stalls in everyday work.
No. Oink is proprietary software by MegaSuperSoft. It includes open-source components (FFmpeg, OpenImageIO, OpenColorIO, Cycles, Electron and others); their licences and source are listed with every download.
Yes. .nk scripts open: nodes, knobs, expressions, groups and links are translated, and anything that cannot be is listed. You can also export back to .nk and copy and paste between the two.
.oink is Oink's own comp file: plain JSON text, so it diffs and merges cleanly in version control. .nk stays a first-class import and export format.
Gizmos load from ~/.nuke, ~/.opencomp/gizmos or NUKE_PATH and show in the Tab menu. OFX plugins run in a separate process, so a crashing plugin does not take your session with it.
Yes, with 9 deep nodes: DeepRead, DeepToImage, DeepMerge, DeepHoldout, DeepTransform, DeepCrop, DeepRecolor, DeepFromImage, DeepReformat.
Python 3.13, bundled with the app. import nuke gives you 309 functions of Nuke's Python API, enough for most pipeline tools and menus.
Any GPU with OpenGL 4.6 on Linux, or DX12 / Metal on Windows and macOS, runs the compositor. GPU Cycles and the AI tools are built for NVIDIA cards.
The compositor will. The AI tools and Cycles fall back to the CPU, which is much slower, and the largest AI models need more graphics memory than most laptops have.
No. The macOS build is for Apple Silicon and needs macOS 14 or newer.
x86-64 with glibc 2.34 or newer. It is tested on Rocky Linux 9; other current distributions should work but are not tested yet.
Not yet. Cycles and USD rendering ship in the Linux build today; macOS and Windows get them later.
No. Blender 5.2 LTS is optional and only adds EEVEE renders and opening .blend files.
Yes. Point $OCIO at your config, as you would for Nuke; without it, Oink uses its bundled config.
Alpha and beta builds send crash reports and anonymous usage counts: never footage, file paths, comp or shot names. You can turn this off in the app; stable releases have it off. Otherwise the network is used only for things you start: licence check-ins, updates, model downloads and bug reports.
Yes. A policy file with "offline": true blocks every internet request, usage reports included. The alpha licence needs a check-in at least every 14 days.
An alpha licence covers two machines, for example a workstation and a laptop.
The app checks a signed release list and asks before installing (studios can switch this off or make it automatic). Pick the stable, beta or alpha channel; Help > Check for Updates... checks right away.
Help > Report a Bug... writes an email to support@megasupersoft.com with a diagnostic bundle you can read first. File paths, names and tokens are removed from the bundle before you see it.
~/.cache/opencomp/logs on Linux, ~/Library/Logs/opencomp on macOS, %LOCALAPPDATA%\opencomp\logs on Windows. Help > Open Log Folder takes you there.
Windows: Settings > Apps or the Uninstall entry in the Start menu. macOS: drag the app to the Trash. Linux: run ./uninstall.sh in the installed folder. Your settings and caches are kept unless you delete them.
Alpha builds are not code-signed yet, so the system warns once. The first-launch steps in Downloads get past it.
Download the alpha, open a plate, and tell us what got in your way.