Should Apple release a trimmed down Shake?

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I would love to work with Apple Shake, but it's far to expensive.

Is there any chance that Apple will release a Shake version that falls into the Final Cut Pro price region?

[asparagui]

You couldn't really remove too much functionality from shake to make an "express" version without completely crippling it. Attempting to limit output to a certain res (DV) has its own problems.

The real problem, though, is that a shake 'lite' already exists. After Effects isn't a node-based compositor, but 90% of the vfx you want to do can be coaxed/beaten out of it.

-Brett
www.universe42.com

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I like After Effects, but it's not really fast and doesn't make much use of dual cpu's. Shake however is said to be very fast. I've also seen quite a lot of things in Shake that AE can't do. And node based systems are nice to work with.
Funniest thing however is the 3 button mouse that Apple lists as a requierment for Shake.. :D

[nuckinfutz]

Users needing easy compositing would probably be better served with After Effects.

Shake has wonderful features but if a user is expecting a topnotch GUI they're not going to get it with Shake.