Universal Shake Shipping in May

[maxxaddict]

The pros aren't gonna be running iMacs... sure it shows that the iMac can run it, but that's not how the pros are going to run it. If you are a pro running shake you will have a G5 (or a cluster of G5s) Powermac(s) that you are running it on. Intel has also bumped the release date forward for it's next generation processors. I can see all of this stuff being released at WWDC and apple can watch it's competition "shake" in it's boots.

 

[bogen]

i'm still am confused between shake and motion? I think shake its more like computer graphics (CGI)

Shake Highend digital compositor for film and video. Mainly film.


http://www.apple.com/shake/


take the tour.

Hope this helps

 

[bogen]

Shake is a highend Visual effects compositing application. If HD's are the bottle neck well then some is smoking crack. Shakes node trees can grow to anywhere from a few dozen to 1000's of effects all built together in a completly non destructive node tree. Think of it as photoshop on steriods but for moving pictures. CPU IS STILL THE BOTTLENECK. I don't care what that dude says. I use shake EVERY DAY and with I have 200 nodes in a tree it not the HDD's that are the issue.

I agree but if Apple could get some motion stuff into the new Shake(whatever they call the next version) that would be great.

 

[bogen]

Shake is a highend Visual effects compositing application. If HD's are the bottle neck well then some is smoking crack. Shakes node trees can grow to anywhere from a few dozen to 1000's of effects all built together in a completly non destructive node tree. Think of it as photoshop on steriods but for moving pictures. CPU IS STILL THE BOTTLENECK. I don't care what that dude says. I use shake EVERY DAY and with I have 200 nodes in a tree it not the HDD's that are the issue.

Agreed, shake on a really fast raid is fast but not anywhere near realtime. A Defocus at 20 will give a dual G5 a run for is money even if thats the only node you have in the tree.Cacheing has gotten alot better but its still not perfect. I don't even want to talk about undo in shake Command "Z" and prey. All things that I hope apple will address in the next version or this new package that is rumored.

 

[bogen]

wait a minute, hold up... apple releasing a high end app like shake without an Intel based Powermac... I know that it will still run on g5 based systems but still... apple rolling out software at the pro level with no intel hardware to back it up is a bit of an odd move in my opinion...

Studios that have shake in there pipeline will not be rolling out shake on itel mac for a very long time. We were just upgraded to tiger 3 months ago. We even bought some quad G5s but have not yet been able to use them, intergrating all of that takes time, we can't just install stuff and go. We need to make sure it works well witht he render farm and every other aspect of the pipeline. We cannot have downtime. its kinda like Windows Vista, Microsoft is releaseing it to enterprise sector first so they can test test test. Same thing when Shake test, test, test.