Shake 4.1 - Technical Specifications

Shake 4.1 - Part Numbers
Retail	MA434Z/A
NFR	MA436Z/A

 

Minimum Requirements for Desktop Systems

• Macintosh computer with 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, or Intel Core processor
• Mac OS X v10.4.6 (or later)
• QuickTime 7.0.4 (or later)
• 512 megabytes (MB) of random-access memory (RAM)—1 gigabyte (GB) RAM or more recommended
• 1 GB of available disk space for caching and for temporary files
• 32 MB of video memory and OpenGL hardware acceleration
• Display supporting 1280 x 1024-pixel resolution and 24-bit color
• Three-button mouse
• Optional: AJA Kona or Blackmagic DeckLink card required to preview composites on a broadcast video monitor

Minimum Requirements for Render-Only Workstations

• 500 megahertz (MHz) or higher PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5 or Intel Core processor
• Mac OS X v10.4.6 (or later)
• QuickTime 7.0.4 (or later)
• 1 GB local disk space for caching and temporary files
• 256 MB of RAM

Features

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

Color Correction and Channel Manipulation

• Pixel Analyzer gathers image analysis data over multiple frames for use on color correction
• Curve-based color correction
• Color correction super node
• Lookup table color correction
• Extensive set of RGB, matte, Z-depth and HSV-based color correction tools
• Logarithmic/Linear color space conversion with per-channel roll-off controls
• Support for multiple color spaces including RGB, HSV, HLS, CMY and YUV
• Video-legal color correction
• Concatenation of adjacent color-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 stabilization
• 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