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 through the connection of effects "nodes" in a graphical workflow interface. This type of compositing interface allows great flexibility, including the ability to modify the parameters of an earlier image processing step "in context" (while viewing the final
Composite ).
Many other compositing packages such as
Eyeon Fusion ,
Nuke , and
Cineon , also feature a node-based approach.
Shake was originally developed by programmers and supervisors from and
Irix , costing $9900 US per license, or $3900 for a render-only licencehttp://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=52346.
In 2002, compatibility. To strengthen the Mac's position in production studios, the Mac version held a price of $4950 US, and users of the non-Mac operating systems were given the offer of doubling the number of licenses at no extra cost by migrating to Mac OS X. In 2003, version 3 of Shake was announced
2, which introduced the
Qmaster software, discontinued support for Microsoft Windows, and allowed unlimited network render clients at no additional cost. A year later, the release of Shake 3.5 at the
National Association Of Broadcasters show saw the price drop to $2999 for Mac OS X and $4999 for Linux and Irix.
In April 2005 Apple Computer announced Shake 4 at a pre-
NAB event. New features included 3D multi-plane compositing, 32-bit Keylight and Primatte keying, Optical Flow image processing (time-remapping and image stabilisation),
Final Cut Pro 5 integration and extensions to their open, extensible scripting language and
SDK . Shake 4 had no Irix version.
At the NAB event in
April 2006 , Apple announced that Shake 4.1 would be a
Universal Binary version and would ship in May that year. It was actually released on
20 June 2006 and was rebranded as a companion for
Final Cut Studio 3; as such, its price was dropped from $2999 to $499 for Mac OS X (but remained the same for Linux). At the same time, Apple also announced that they would end support for Shake, as they begin work on the next-generation software, expected to be known as codename Phenomenon http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/06/20060621173738.shtml Existing maintenance program subscribers had the option to license the Shake source code for $50,000 USD.
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 with a dancing car. Shake was used by
Broadway Video for restoring the release of “
Saturday Night Live : The Complete First Season” DVD box set.
Other major productions using Shake include the 2005 adaptation of ,
Fantastic 4 ,
Mission Impossible 3 ,
Poseidon ,
The Incredibles ,
Hulk and
Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 .
Shake is also used for video post-production, but in this field
Discreet Logic (now
Autodesk )'s Flint, Flame and Inferno systems are usually used in conjunction with Shake for a fast turnaround of projects. 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.
