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http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=697
Shake 2.5 for Mac OS X announced
By ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac
July 22nd 2002
The first fruit of Apple''s acquisition of the high-end compositing app will be picked
in August
Apple has announced Shake 2.5, the industry-leading compositing and visual effects
software, available for the first time for Mac OS X. Shake has been used in the
production of over a hundred motion pictures including the past five winners of the
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,
Gladiator, The Matrix, What Dreams May Come and Titanic.
"Shake is the industry�s most advanced compositing software used by major motion
picture studios and leading visual effects houses," said Philip Schiller,senior vice
president, worldwide product marketing, Apple. "Shake 2.5 joins an impressive roster
of best-in-class applications, including Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Adobe
PhotoShop, and Alias|Wavefront�s Maya, that are helping make Mac OS X the ultimate
digital film and video production environment."
"Shake is deployed facility-wide as the primary compositing software at Weta Digital,"
said Scott Houston, Weta Digital�s CTO and long-standing Shake customer. "We couldn�t
have done Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, without it."
Shake is high-performance compositing software designed for large format productions.
Shake features the fastest rendering engine on the market, an extensive and mature
compositing toolset and an imaging architecture that simultaneously supports multiple
bit depths and provides superior image quality. Shake 2.5 adds an improved image
input, a disk-based proxy system and the ability to limit the rendering process to a
portion of an image for quicker processing.
Shake 2.5 is scheduled to be available in August for Mac OS X, Linux, IRIX and Windoze
through Apple Authorized Pro Film Resellers. Shake 2.5 will be available for Mac OS X
for a suggested retail price of $4,950 with annual maintenance of $1,199, and for
Linux, IRIX and Windoze for a suggested retail price of $9,900 with annual maintenance
of $1,485. Existing Shake customers will be given the option to double the number of
their existing licenses at no additional cost by migrating to Mac OS X.
Shake 2.5 for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X version 10.2 Jaguar, 256MB RAM and is
designed to run on the following Apple products: Power Mac G4, PowerBook G4 and Xserve.
Analysis: Apple''s "discriminatory" pricing, both for the app and maintenance, perhaps
signals that it aims to eventually discontinue the IRIX version somewhere down the
road. Also, the company had announced previously that v2.5 will be the last to run
under Windoze.
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