Nucleus

A Department of Post platform

Nucleus

All services

For post & VFX producers

One source of truth. From set to final.

Nucleus is the live metadata backbone for modern production. Information is captured at source, validated once, shared instantly across connected departments and systems, and transformed into automated, metadata-rich VFX pulls for vendors.

Available as a secure web platform or on-premises – worldwide, 24/7.

Live metadata

Change it once. Everyone sees it.

Editorial, VFX, set and vendors stay aligned to the same trusted production data. Nucleus catches bad slates, missing IDs and inconsistent values while the source is still available to fix them.

Live

Synced

One correction, reflected everywhere – every connected department and system reads the same record.

Checked

At source

Find problems while they are still easy to fix, before they become a post or VFX problem.

Flexible

Rules

Validate, format or correct any field, with logic set up for how each production works.

Node-based rules engine

Your logic, configured per production.

Validate, normalise, enrich, correct or route any field as it enters or leaves Nucleus. Rules are built visually, node by node, and are completely configurable for each production.

  • Validate
  • Normalise
  • Enrich
  • Correct
  • Route
The Nucleus rules editor: a node graph mapping ALE and Resolve fields through trim, pad and composite nodes into a VFX pull render job
A VFX pull template in the Nucleus rules editor.

Connected workflows

Connected. Set. Post. Vendors.

Nucleus keeps set, post and vendor systems aligned while teams stay in the tools they already know.

Direct integrations

Avid

Media Composer

Editorial

Blackmagic Design

DaVinci Resolve

Colour & finishing

Colorfront

Transkoder

Media & EXR

Autodesk

Flow

Production tracking

Claris

FileMaker

Production databases

IBM

Aspera

Vendor delivery

On set

  • QTake
  • VFX Wrangler
  • Script Supervisor
  • DIT
  • Camera
  • Sound
  • Editorial

On set, Nucleus brings QTake, VFX, script, DIT, camera, sound and editorial into the same live record. Missing or inconsistent data is surfaced while the crew can still correct it – before it becomes a post or VFX problem.

Nucleus VFX

VFX pulls. Accurate. Automated. Complete.

One submission becomes a checked, metadata-rich vendor package. Camera data, lens info, colour settings, frame ranges and production IDs are embedded directly into the EXR headers – turning VFX pulls into a scalable, automated workflow.

01

Submit

Select the pull once. Nucleus reads trusted shot, frame and handle data.

02

Build + check

Nucleus checks naming and metadata. Colorfront Transkoder creates the media and embeds the EXR metadata.

03

Deliver

IBM Aspera sends a vendor-ready package with picture, context and metadata together – no sidecars.

Nucleus VFX pipeline: Nucleus to Transkoder to IBM Aspera

Let’s map your project.

Tell us how your production shoots, cuts and delivers, and we’ll show you where Nucleus fits.

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