Apple Shake 4.1

Shake 4.1 description:

The Apple SHAKE 4.1 Mac OS X Software. Create convincing, photorealistic, Hollywood quality visual effects on your Macintosh, superb for Final Cut Studio users.

The Apple SHAKE 4.1 offers a host of features that give you the highest quality output for film and HD. Use Shake to create convincing, photorealistic, Hollywood-caliber visual effects on a desktop -- and on a budget. Shake 4.1, optimized to run on new Intel-based Macintosh computers, is now available at a price that will fit even tight production budgets. Used to create the world's most celebrated visual effects, Shake provides the only compositing software with a complete toolset for both single artists and visual effects facilities. With Shake 4, you can leverage the creative work you're producing in Final Cut Studio, extending it with an integrated workflow that puts a wide range of tools -- e.g., sophisticated 3D multi-plane compositing, 32-bit Keylight and Primatte keying, cutting-edge Optical Flow image processing, smooth stabilization, image tracking, and an open, extensible scripting program -- at your fingertips. You can, for example, drop Motion 2 projects directly into Shake to create a powerful graphics and effects combination; then render the resulting project using the shared OpenEXR format for film quality reproduction. The result: now everyone who uses Final Cut Studio has the power to create the most sophisticated film and television visual effects. Without breaking the budget.

The main features of the Apple SHAKE 4.1 include:

• Create convincing, photorealistic, Hollywood quality visual effects on your Macintosh, superb for Final Cut Studio users
• Unified 2D/3D compositing delivers the most efficient compositing operations for handling large images with pristine quality
• Integrates the latest image processing technology into a single, affordable visual effects package
• Final Cut Pro 5 integration
• Open, customizable architecture lets you extend Shake by using internal C-like scripting language and macros to make custom effects and functions
• Drop Motion 2 projects directly into Shake to create a powerful graphics and effects combination
• Hardware Requirements: 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