is an image
Compositing package used in the post-production industry. Available for
Mac OS X and
GNU/Linux (support for
IRIX and
Microsoft Windows was once available, but has since been discontinued), Shake delivers
Visual Effects and
Digital Compositing for film,
HD and commercials. It enables complex image processing sequences to be designed by the connection of effects "nodes" in a graphical workflow interface. Shake makes it simple to find, select and modify any element, in context, while previewing the final
Composite in real time.
Shake was originally developed by programmers and supervisors from
Sony Imageworks including Arnaud Hervas, Emmanuel Mogenet,
Ron Brinkmann , Louis Cetorelli, and Dan Candela. Other software like Digital Fusion, Nuke (
Digital Domain ) and
Cineon , feature a similar node-based approach.
In 2002,
Apple Computer acquired Nothing Real, Shake's developer, strengthening Apple hardware's position in production studios.
In April 2005 Apple Computer announced Shake 4 at a pre-
NAB event. New features include 3D multi-plane compositing, 32-bit Keylight and Primatte keying, Optical Flow image processing (time-remapping),
Final Cut Pro 5 integration and extensions to their open, extensible scripting language and
SDK .
At the NAB event in
April 2006 , Apple announced that Shake 4.1 would have a
Universal Binary version and would ship in May that year.
Shake has been used in such films as
Peter Jackson 's ''
The Lord Of The Rings '' and "
King Kong ", as well as
Harry Potter movies. It was also used by The Embassy to create a television advertisement for
Citroën .
Shake is also used for video post-production, but in this field
Discreet Logic (now
Autodesk )'s Flint, Flame and Inferno systems are more popular. Shake's historical strength has been the ability to work better with very high resolution formats such as 2k, 4k and
IMAX used in the motion picture industry.
