Apple Shake 4.1 Mac OS X Retail Box

Shake Advanced digital compositing.
Shake 4.1. The perfect extension for Final Cut Studio.
Shake 4.1, optimised to run on new Intel-based Macintosh computers, is now available at a price that will fit even tight production budgets. Used to create the world's most celebrated visual effects, Shake provides the only compositing software with a complete toolset for both single artists and visual effects facilities.
With Shake 4, you can leverage the creative work you're producing in Final Cut Studio, extending it with an integrated workflow that puts a wide range of tools, sophisticated 3D multi-plane compositing, 32-bit Keylight and Primatte keying, cutting-edge Optical Flow image processing, smooth stabilization, image tracking, and an open, extensible scripting programa at your fingertips.
You can, for example, drop Motion 2 projects directly into Shake to create a powerful graphics and effects combination: then render the resulting project using the shared OpenEXR format for film quality reproduction. The result: now everyone who uses Final Cut Studio has the power to create the most sophisticated film and television visual effects. Without breaking the budget.

Already in a Theater Near You
The choice of Oscar Winning effects artists over the past nine years, Shake now offers a host of new features that give you the highest quality output for film and HD. Use Shake to create convincing, photorealistic, Hollywood-caliber visual effects on a desktop and on a budget.

Unified 2D/3D Compositing
Shake delivers the most efficient compositing operations for handling large images with pristine quality. From full 32-bit float Keylight and Primatte keyers to OpenGL-accelerated 3D multi-plane compositing, no other visual effects software delivers as complete a toolset for individual artists and full visual effects facilities.

Advanced Image Processing
Shake leads the way in integrating the latest image processing technology into a single, affordable visual effects package. Shake's Optical Flow technology uses pixel-by-pixel image analysis to create smooth retiming, incredible high quality resizing and automatic stabilization. The results are cleaner, sharper and more natural-looking images.

Open, Customizable Architecture
Extend the out-of-the-box feature set by using Shake's internal C-like scripting language and macros to make custom effects and functions. This open, extensible architecture makes Shake completely customizable for large production pipelines: Incorporate Shake commands with AppleScript, PERL or other scripting tools. Run Shake from the interface or the Unix Terminal, depending on your needs as a compositor, 3D artist or technical director.

Customer Success Story
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System Requirements

Mac OS X

1GHz or faster PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5 or Intel Core processor.

Mac OS X 10.4.6 or later.

QuickTime 7.0.4 or later.

512MB (or more) of RAM.

1GB hard disk space for disk cache.

AGP or PCI Express graphics card with at least 32MB of video memory and OpenGL hardware acceleration.

Display with 1280-by-1024-pixel resolution and 24-bit colour.

Three-button mouse.

Optional: AJA Kona or Blackmagic DeckLink card required to preview composites on a broadcast video monitor.

Linux

1GHz (or faster) Pentium III, Pentium 4, or AMD Athlon processor or faster.

Fedora Core 4.

512MB (or more) of RAM.

1GB hard disk space for disk cache.

Workstation-class graphics card, such as NVIDIA Quadro2 or Quadro4.

Display with 1280-by-1024-pixel resolution and 24-bit colour.

Three-button mouse.

Technical Specifications

Compositing

Process tree-based compositing

Control over bit depth at a local node level

Mix image resolutions within a composition

3D Multi-Plane node with camera controls

Import Maya compatible camera tracking data

Customizable quad split viewer

Multi-input layer node with blend modes

Boolean and Image Math layer operations

Import Photoshop layers with blend modes

Fully editable node grouping/ungrouping

Channel swapping and copying

Constraint of any operation to channel, field, tolerance or region

External masking capabilities for every operator

Audio scratch track support on Mac OS X

Support for third-party plug-ins including The Foundry, GenArts and RE: Vision Effects

Filters

Film grain simulation

Extremely fast, high-quality Gaussian blurs

User-definable Convolves

Grain, Median, Sharpening, Embossing, Edge Detection, Radial Blur and Z-Depth-based Blur

Optical Defocus

Dilation/Erosion

Image-driven Blurring, Sharpening or Dilation

Keying

Included 32-bit Photron Primatte chroma keyer

Included 32-bit CFC Keylight chroma keyer

Chroma, Luma, Difference or Z-Depth keying

Spill suppression

Colour Correction and Channel Manipulation

Pixel Analyzer gathers image analysis data over multiple frames for use on colour correction

Curve-based colour correction

Colour correction super node

Lookup table colour correction

Extensive set of RGB, matte, Z-depth and HSV-based colour correction tools

Logarithmic/Linear colour space conversion with per-channel roll-off controls

Support for multiple colour spaces including RGB, HSV, HLS, CMY and YUV

Video-legal colour correction

Concatenation of adjacent colour-corrections into one lookup table

Warps

Shape-based warper and morpher nodes

New Lens warp node

Randomization and turbulence

Twirl and Pincushion

Image and expression-based warping

Paint

Procedural, pressure-sensitive vector-based paint

Insert Paint nodes anywhere in the process tree

Clone, reveal and smudge paint modes

Apply tracking data to paint strokes

View Paint strokes in context of transforms

Switch interpolation modes at any time: single frame, persistent and frame to frame interpolation

Animation

Animate virtually any slider or toggle

Flexible split window animation curve editing

Automatic or manual key framing

Copy/Paste Key frames

View audio wave forms against animation curves

Drive parameter animation based on audio

Overlapping Key controls for moving, interpolating and replacing control vertices

Curve controls for maintaining keyframe slopes and values over a range of frames

Resample function

Linking of any parameter to any other parameter

Expressions on any parameter

Engine

Optical flow-based retiming

Open EXR, Cineon and DPX support

10-bit and 16-bit QuickTime support

Apple Uncompressed 8- and 10-bit 4:2:2 support

15 other image file formats supported

Support for custom file header metadata

Hybrid tile-based, scan line renderer

True per-node control of bit-depth, at 8, 16 or 32 bits per channel (float)

Domain of Definition processing optimization

Disk-based or on-the-fly proxy system

Anamorphic image support

Macro creation for frequently used operations

Automatic persistent node caching

C-like scripting language can make calls to any locally available shared programming library

Built-in runtime compiler

Built-in software-based GL-like renderer

Software Developer Kit for software extensibility

Command-line scripting access to all commands

100% software-based rendering for visually identical results cross platform

Generation of anti-aliased text using TrueType and Adobe Type 1 fonts

Rotoscoping

Multiple Bezier style Rotoshapes per node

Independent animation control

Non-uniform edge blurring

Apply tracking data to Rotoshapes and points

Non-uniform, velocity-based motion blur

Shape parenting

Transformations

Infinite workspace, so elements and filters are never cropped when moved out of frame

Pan, Rotate, Scale, Shear and Corner Pin

Tracker, stabilizer and Matchmove nodes

New Smoothcam optical flow based stabilisation

Tracker pre-processing reduces inaccuracies

New Auto-align

Optical flow-based resizing

Concatenation of adjacent transformations into a single move, for speed and quality

Per-transformation or global Motion Blur control

Motion blur with shutter and quality control

Apply Motion blur initial frame setting

Ability to control transformation order

Inverse transformations

In-context direct manipulation controls

Interface

Preview composites on broadcast monitors using third-party supported Mac OS X hardware

On-screen manipulators for transformations

Multiple resolution or channel viewers

Integrated Truelight Monitor calibration

RAM flipbook for viewing of compositing tree at any stage: flipbook playback while rendering

RAM Flipbook playback while rendering

QuickTime disk-based flipbook on Mac OS X

Viewer-specific lookup tables

In-viewer region of interest

In-viewer image compare buffer

Apple Qmaster

Network render management for Mac OS X

Integrated UI for job creation and monitoring

Integrated Maya rendering support

Offloading processor intensive tasks to other computers

Create multiple clusters of Mac or Xserve systems for specific jobs, artists or applications

Fault-tolerant architecture ensures successful job completion and accurate results, even in the event of resource deallocation

Optimized usage of network resources through load-balancing algorithms

Compatible with third-party command line rendering applications running on Mac OS X