Launching on Mac

To launch the application on Mac, do one of the following:

Double-click the required icon on the Desktop.

Open the application directory (/Applications/Nuke15.0v5/), and double-click the required icon.

Using the terminal, navigate to the Hiero application directory(/Applications/Nuke15.0v5/Nuke15.0v5.app/Contents/MacOS/) and enter:

./Nuke15.0 --hiero to launch Hiero.

./Nuke15.0 --player to launch HieroPlayer.

If you already have a valid license, the graphical interface appears, and a command line window opens. If you don't have a license or haven't installed one yet, proceed to Licensing Foundry Applications.

Startup Options

If you choose to launch the application from a command line, you can append arguments to the command as follows:

Argument

Result

--version

Displays version and copyright information.

--help (-h)

Displays the available arguments with examples.

--hiero

Launches Hiero.

--player

Launches Hiero in HieroPlayer mode.

--usehierolicense

Used with the -t option to run Nuke in terminal mode, but uses a Hiero license instead of the standard Nuke license. You can use this option to allow Hiero to run Nuke for render exports.

Note:  It is not possible to use the Hiero Python API in terminal mode.

-q (--quiet)

Launch the application without displaying the splash screen or startup dialog.

--safe

Launch the application without loading any plug-ins, Export presets, and so on.

project

Launch Hiero and open the project specified. The path to the project can be absolute or relative, such as:

Nuke<version>.exe --hiero C:\Users\mags\myProject.hrox

Nuke<version>.exe --hiero ..\..\mags\myProject.hrox

./Nuke<version> --hiero /tmp/myProject.hrox

./Nuke<version> --hiero ../../myProject.hrox

mediaFile

Specify the location of media to load on startup. You can import specific files or whole directories:

Nuke<version>.exe --hiero C:\Users\mags\Media1.mp4

Nuke<version>.exe --hiero C:\Users\mags\

./Nuke<version> --hiero /tmp/myfile.mov

./Nuke<version> --hiero /tmp/

--script file argv

Run the specified Python script on startup and pass the listed options to the script.

Hiero Analytics

In an effort to further improve quality and reliability, we ask you to allow us to collect usage statistics from the machines on which you license Hiero and HieroPlayer. This usage information also assists our Support team to resolve issues more quickly.

Note:  The port number used to communicate with Foundry is 443, the same one used for uploading crash reports.

The first time you start an application, and on every major release, a dialog displays asking for permission for us to collect this information. You can enable or disable collection at any time in the Preferences under Behaviors > Startup.

Note:  This information is only collected for interactive sessions. Running applications in terminal mode or under render licenses does not upload data to Foundry.

The following list shows the information we'll collect, if you give us permission to do so:

Unique session ID

Anonymous user key

Application version string

Application name

Session start time (GMT)

Session duration (in seconds)

If the session exited cleanly

Peak memory usage

Model

Operating system

System OS version

MAC address

CPU Name

CPU Cores

GPU model name

Amount of GPU RAM

OpenGL driver version

GPU driver version

Amount of RAM

Memory speed