Shake 4.0 - Technical Specifications

Shake 4.0 - Part Number
Retail	M9935Z/A

 
Shake 4.0 System Requirements

Mac OS X

• Power Mac G5; Power Mac G4 or PowerBook G4 with 1GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor.
• Mac OS X v10.3.9 or Mac OS X v10.4.
• QuickTime 7.0 or later.
• 512MB of RAM or more.
• 1GB of available disk space for caching and for temporary files.
• AGP 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.
• Optional: AJA Kona or Blackmagic DeckLink card required to preview composites on a broadcast video monitor.

 
Linux

• 1GHz Pentium III, Pentium 4, or AMD Athlon processor or faster.
• Red Hat Linux 9.
• 512MB of RAM or more.
• 1GB of disk space for caching and temporary files.
• Workstation-class graphics card, such as NVIDIA Quadro2 or Quadro4 with NVIDIA 7664 drivers or higher.
• Display with 1280-by-1024-pixel resolution and 24-bit color.
• Three-button mouse.

 
Licensing

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

 
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.