Apple has shocked the compositing world, releasing an update to their generally presumed-for-dead nodal compositing app Shake.
You can download the Shake 4.1.1 pdf here. If you’re new to Shake and / or nodal compositing, check out Andrew Shanks’ Shake tutorials at the Creative Cow.
Also included in Apple’s Pro Applications Update 2008-04, FCP updates to 6.0.5, Compressor to 3.0.5, and Color to 1.0.3. You can read all about it here.
Some more exciting aspects include XDCAM 422 and RED plug-in support in Color and improved high-precision rendering in FCP. Yay, RED footage grading!
For all you cautious early-adopters (and rightly so!), Charles Vanderpool on the FCP-L donned his guinea pig halloween costume. He reports:
Everything’s working fine so far. (Knock on Clone) FCP & STP good to go. No Color test yet. Too short a deadline to use it currently.
As always, I recommend waiting to upgrade until you have a business need and you are NOT in the middle of a current project.
proactively • dusting off noodles in my node tree • peter
interesting indeed.
add that to the fact that Apple is looking to hire “Software Tester – Motion Graphics Focus”
see http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/70/859444
ok that may mean anything
but at least Apple is not completely silent.
MacWorld 09 might be interesting?
Phill
Hey Philip, thanks for stopping by. I think a lot of us will have our internets streaming the MacWorld 09 keynote presentation. Looking forward to it.
proactively • peter