Shake Universal price reduction (merged threads)

[Dean Sensui]

Originally Posted by Mike Tesh

Wow! Why such a big drop in price?

Maybe they feel sorry for us? :-)

[Harrison Murchison]

Originally Posted by Mike Tesh

Wow! Why such a big drop in price?

Rumors suggest that Apple is likely going to create a new replacement for Shake due in 2008. Sounds plausible as Shake is the application that is least like other Mac apps down to the framework.

They have the tools to create a Final Cut Suite system that can attack Avid's biz at a higher level.

[Harrison Murchison]

Apple should just create a Toxik killer

Doesn't Apple pretty much already contain the tools to set this up?

Core Data is a liteweight database at the heart of OS X now. If that doesn't work then Apple can certainly utilize the code being worked on by subsidiary Filemaker.

Next shouldn't integrate XSAN into the Final Cut Suite? This would allow for file-locking concurrent access and the ability to manage your storage data on or across RAID Array.

Next look at this rumor

http://www.macosxrumors.com/articles...ive-documents/

If this is true then Apple may be adding the ability to collaborate with any other Mac on any file that would support this potential API. Soooo

Final Cut Studio Extreme with XSAN and a deeply embedded database with hooks into the OS X Core Data database all wrapped up in systemwide collaboration toolsets.

It'd take a few years to smooth out but man you get a few kick arse digital video mavens working in realtime and this suite would be worth i

[Tom Chaney]

I have heard similar info as well.

Tom

[Jeff Sayre]

Originally Posted by Mark Sloan

Word on the street is that 4.2 will be the LAST version of Shake and that Apple is working on an all new product to replace it that is supposed to be well beyond what Shake is. That is JUST rumor though.

Did you mean 4.1? I have not heard about a planned update to Shake 4.1.

Different sources claim slightly different motives for Apple's decision to drop the price so drastically. The one detail they have in common, though, is that Apple is focusing efforts on a new compositing engine that will be released sometime in 2008 (or so).

Here's one source: http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/...19205409.shtml

It's not surprising, but some people have listed their "old" Apple Shake 4.0 on eBay for $1000 or more. One sneaky but sick lister has even listed the new universal binary version of Shake 4.1 for $1500.

[Boyd Ostroff]

Moderator note: we had three threads on this topic which all pretty much covered the same ground, so they've all been combined here.

[Greg Boston]

Originally Posted by Boyd Ostroff

Moderator note: we had three threads on this topic which all pretty much covered the same ground, so they've all been combined here.

I started to do this yesterday but wasn't quite sure just how to go about it. Thanks for cleaning this up.

-gb-

[Jeff Sayre]

A (very) little more information on the successor to Shake:

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/...21173738.shtml

[Harrison Freedman]

Does anyone know if Shake 4.1 will run smoothly on the new Macbook?

[Jeff Sayre]

Originally Posted by Harrison Freedman

Does anyone know if Shake 4.1 will run smoothly on the new Macbook?

Harrison:

Shake will run on your new MacBook--I assume new means Intel-based. The new MacBooks have a sufficiently fast processor to run Shake. If you have the factory configured 512MB of memory installed, you will want to boost that up. The more the better.

Now, it will be difficult to answer whether Shake will run smoothly on your MacBook. It depends on many factors, possibly the most important [other than your definition of smoothly :) ] is the complexity of your composites.

Unlike most graphics packages these days, Shake does not directly take advantage of the GPU on your video card. It harnesses the power of the CPU almost exclusively since Shake is designed as a pipeline compositing application--it seamlessly feeds from and into other production applications. What this means is that many of your composites will have to be rendered first before you can see the results. The GPU is not utilized to offer realtime previewing of your composites as it is in FCP or Motion, for example.

Therefore, the faster your processor and the more processors you have, the better performance you will get and the faster render times. Adding more memory to your system helps with that of course. If you have more than one Macintosh on a network, then you can use Apple's Qmaster application (which comes with Shake) to distribute rendering duties across your machines.

I hope that helps.

[Harrison Freedman]

Originally Posted by Jeff Sayre

Harrison:

Shake will run on your new MacBook--I assume new means Intel-based. The new MacBooks have a sufficiently fast processor to run Shake. If you have the factory configured 512MB of memory installed, you will want to boost that up. The more the better.

Now, it will be difficult to answer whether Shake will run smoothly on your MacBook. It depends on many factors, possibly the most important [other than your definition of smoothly :) ] is the complexity of your composites.

Unlike most graphics packages these days, Shake does not directly take advantage of the GPU on your video card. It harnesses the power of the CPU almost exclusively since Shake is designed as a pipeline compositing application--it seamlessly feeds from and into other production applications. What this means is that many of your composites will have to be rendered first before you can see the results. The GPU is not utilized to offer realtime previewing of your composites as it is in FCP or Motion, for example.

Therefore, the faster your processor and the more processors you have, the better performance you will get and the faster render times. Adding more memory to your system helps with that of course. If you have more than one Macintosh on a network, then you can use Apple's Qmaster application (which comes with Shake) to distribute rendering duties across your machines.

I hope that helps.

Yes thanks. I've got the Macbook 2.0ghz Intel/1GB RAM/100GB 7200RPM so even if I have to wait lengths of time for renders it still will be useful.

[Jeff Sayre]

Originally Posted by Harrison Freedman

Yes thanks. I've got the Macbook 2.0ghz Intel/1GB RAM/100GB 7200RPM so even if I have to wait lengths of time for renders it still will be useful.

It sounds like you will have no problem. Shake is a wonderful application--have fun!