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Product Overview

Shake 4

Editing and E∂ ects

Pipeline Integration

Visual e∂ ects are a key component of ﬁ lm and television production workﬂ ows. One

of the challenges comes from creating a seamless, e∑ cient workﬂ ow with editing and

other post-production operations. Shake 4 o∂ ers new levels of pipeline integration, as

well as the ability to expedite rendering in order to avoid post-production bottlenecks.

Integration with Final Cut Pro 5

Now the leading ﬁ lm visual e∂ ects software can be combined with the world’s leading

nonlinear editing software for a powerful integrated pipeline for editing and e∂ ects.

Cuts and layers from the Final Cut Pro 5 Timeline can automatically create a Shake 4

node tree. Shake 4 will automatically launch from the Final Cut Pro 5 Timeline, cut-

ting down the need to re-create the edits and layers in Shake 4 from scratch. Use the

powerful keying, retiming, rotoscoping, and paint tools in Shake 4 or quickly bring in

one shot to stabilize it using Smoothcam. Once you ﬁ nish, you can render using the

distributed rendering feature in Shake 4 while you go back to Final Cut Pro 5 and

continue editing.

Free Distributed Rendering on Mac OS X

It is common to have hundreds of frames to render, with each frame taking several

minutes or even hours of rendering time. Rather than tie up the local machine to

render a shot, the renders can be sent o∂ to a render farm (Xserve cluster nodes).

Distribution to a render farm can easily be done by any queue management software

(such as Rush), but also by Apple Qmaster, included with Shake 4 for Mac OS X.

Quick clustering

In small shops that have one or two artists, managing the network rendering schedule

is less of an issue. In fact, having to administer and conﬁ gure a “quick cluster” of com-

puters into a render farm is a hassle. Apple Qmaster can enable any computer on the

network to be used as a render farm node at any time. This is perfect for systems that

aren’t used during the overnight hours. Just schedule them to become available at a

certain time and you have created an “instant” render farm.

Auto-mount cluster storage devices

When a rendering task is distributed using any render queue software, disk storage

must be shared by all the machines involved. This typically must be set up by the

system administrator via AFP, NFS, or other network facility.

Setting up and administering cluster storage is not trivial. Apple Qmaster o∂ ers a

way to mount the cluster storage device on all of the render nodes assigned to work

on the job, thereby making it easier to set up and conﬁ gure the render farm.

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