Shake 3.5 - Technical Specifications

Shake 3.5 - Part Number
Retail	M9124Z/B

 
Shake 3.5 System Requirements

 
Mac OS X

• Power Mac G5; Power Mac G4 or PowerBook G4 with 800MHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor; or Xserve G5 or Xserve G4 with 1GHz or faster PowerPC processor.
• Mac OS X v10.3.3 or later.
• QuickTime 6.5 or later.
• 256MB of RAM or more.
• 1GB of available disk space for caching and temporary files.
• Graphics card with at least 32MB of video memory and OpenGL hardware acceleration.
• Display with 1280-by-1024-pixel resolution and 24-bit color.
• Three-button mouse.

 
Linux

• 550MHz Pentium III, Pentium 4, or AMD Athlon processor.
• Red Hat Linux 9.
• 256MB of RAM or more.
• 1GB of available disk space for caching and temporary files.
• NVIDIA workstation-class graphics card such as Quadro2 or Quadro4.
• Display with 1280-by-1024-pixel resolution and 24-bit color.
• Three-button mouse.

 
Availability

• Shake 3.5 for Mac OS X is available as a single workstation license or a floating network license.
• Shake 3.5 for Linux is available as a floating network license.
• Shake 3.5 is available as a render-only license on Linux and for free on Mac OS X.

 
Compositing

• Unlimited number of nodes in a process tree.
• Resolution and bit depth independence.
• Control over bit depth at a local node level.
• Multiple image resolutions within same composition.
• Boolean and Image Math layer operations.
• Ability to view audio wave forms in animation curve editor.
• Audio scratch track support: Play and scrub audio on Mac OS X.
• Multi-input layer node with common blend modes.
• Import Photoshop layers with blend modes.
• Fully editable node grouping/ungrouping function.
• Keyframable shape-based masks.
• Expression-based layer operations.
• Channel swapping and copying, including Z channel.
• Constraint of any operation to channel, field, tolerance or region.
• Screen and Z-based compositing.
• External masking capabilities for every operator.
• Support for a wide variety of third-party plug-ins including The Foundry, GenArts, RE: Vision Effects, Ultimatte and others.

 
Filters

• Film grain simulation.
• Extremely fast, high-quality Gaussian blurs.
• User-definable Convolves.
• Grain, Median, Sharpening, Embossing, Edge Detection and Radial Blur.
• Optical Defocus.
• Dilation/Erosion.
• Image-driven Blurring, Sharpening or Dilation.
• Z-Depth-based Blurring.

 
Keying

• Chroma, Luma, Difference or Z-Depth keying.
• Included Photron Primatte chroma keyer.
• Included CFC Keylight chroma keyer.
• 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.
• Expression-based color correction.

 
Warps

• New shape-based warper and morpher nodes.
• Randomization and turbulence.
• Image-driven warping.
• Expression-based warping for an infinite variety of warps.
• Twirl and Pincushion.

 
Paint

• Procedural, pressure sensitive vector-based paint node.
• Insert Paint nodes anywhere in the process tree.
• Flexible paint modes including clone, reveal, smudge and more.
• Apply tracking data to paint strokes.
• View Paint strokes in the context of transform operations.
• Switch interpolation modes at any time: single frame, persistent and frame to frame interpolation.

 
Animation

• Animation of virtually every parameter, including toggle switches.
• Flexible split window animation curve editing with multiple spline types including Linear, Hermite and C-Spint.
• Automatic or manual key framing.
• Copy/Paste Key frames.
• Ability to view audio wave forms against animation curves.
• Audio analysis feature drives the animation of effect parameters based on amplitude.
• Overlapping Key controls for moving, interpolating and replacing control vertices.
• Curve controls for maintaining specific animation behaviors like slopes and values over a range of frames.
• Resample function.
• Linking of any parameter to any other parameter.
• Expressions on any parameter.
• Improved hot key access to common curve editing functions.

 
Engine

• Improved playback caching.
• Playback limiting support.
• Imporved 10-bit and 16-bit QuickTime support.
• Improved Apple Uncompressed 8- and 10-bit 4:2:2 support.
• DPX Image header preservation.
• Support for custom file header metadata.
• Flipbook customization.
• Hybrid tile-based, scan line renderer.
• True per-node control of bit-depth, at 8, 16 or 32 bits per channel (float).
• Disk-based proxies or low/hi-resolution image substitution.
• Anamorphic image support.
• YUV 10-bit support.
• Cineon, TIFF, IFF, QuickTime, as well as 15 other formats supported.
• Macro creation for frequently used operations.
• Automatic persistent node caching.
• C-like scripting language can make a call to any available shared programming library on your system.
• Built-in runtime compiler.
• Built-in software-based GL-like renderer.
• Software Developer Kit for software extensibility.
• Command-line or scripting access to all Shake commands.
• 100% software based Batch rendering for visually identical results cross platform.
• Supports all major image formats.
• 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.
• Improved shape drawing techniques.
• Non-uniform, velocity-based motion blur.
• Shape parenting.

 
Transformations

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• Infinite workspace, so elements and filters are never cropped when moved out of frame.
• Tracker, stabilizer and Matchmove nodes for data gathering and processing position, rotation, scaling and corner-pinning information.
• Tracker pre-processing reduces inaccuracies from noise in the image.
• Adaptive filtering.
• Concatenation of adjacent transformations into a single move, for speed and quality.
• 3D Move, Scroll, Rotate, Scale, Shear and Corner Pin with Motion Blur.
• Per-transformation or Global control of Motion Blur parameters.
• Motion blur with camera duration, shutter start and quality control.
• Motion blur can occur on first frame without previous motion.
• Ability to control transformation order.
• Inverse transformations.
• On-screen controls for transformations.
• In-context direct manipulation controls.

 
Interface

• Broadcast monitor support on Mac OS X for previewing composites using common 3rd party supported hardware.
• Onscreen manipulators for image transformations.
• Multiple viewers at variable resolution or channel display.
• 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 for longer clip playback.
• Preview QuickTime flipbook out to a broadcast monitor using AJA Kona supported 3rd party hardware.
• Viewer-specific lookup tables.
• Identical interface on all supported platforms.
• In-viewer region of interest.
• In-viewer image compare buffer.
• Reconfigurable user interface.

 
Shake Qmaster

• New Shake integrated UI for job creation and monitoring.
• Integrated Maya rendering support.
• Network render management solution for Mac OS X, maximizes utility of existing resources, increasing ROI of Mac equipment.
• Distributed rendering provides uninterrupted workflow for artists by offloading processor intensive tasks to other computers.
• Qmaster can create multiple “clusters” of Apple G5 and G4 computers in order to create pools of processing power dedicated to 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 ensures efficient operation and timely job completion.
• Compatible with third party command line rendering applications running on Mac OS X.