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R.I.P. Shake

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/07/30/apple-finally-discontinues-shake/

A sad day for me and many others. The nail in the coffin of Shake.

Shake forever... Motion never!

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Posted on Jul 30, 2009 2:51 PM

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stuckfootage

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Posted on Jul 30, 2009 3:18 PM

It feels like when a girlfriend dumps you, but doesn't tell you, just stops answering your mail.

It feels like walking into your apartment and realizing something valuable is missing.

It feels like trying to connect this new 24" LED Cinema display (mini Displayport)
into a DVI-based Apple desktop machine.

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MLR

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Aug 12, 2009 3:02 AM in response to hermit63

As alien as Shake's Node interface is to new users, I find Nodes very educational. I can easily see the steps that make up the final result and the desired or unintentional non-desired affect of chaining "Filters" together. Shake's methodology has (by far) taught me things that no other application has. I hope in the near future Apple reuses Shake's Node concept because I will miss it once Shake finally becomes incompatible. 😟 MLR

juanelo

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Aug 13, 2009 12:55 AM in response to avideditor

Is there any official notice from apple about the shake´s disappearance?.It´s so strange that attitude.

Aug 13, 2009 12:58 AM in response to juanelo

Well, the official notice was three years ago. Apple said Phenomenon would be out in 2008 so I don't think even they expected to sell Shake for this long.

Aug 13, 2009 2:17 AM in response to avideditor

Its a weird situation.....

I know apple sold the source code of Shake to some facilities here in London - so what they are essentially doing is updating it themselves... it is such a rock of the industry here that it will be around for quite a while yet.....

saying thaht there are othee places that are slowly starting to transfer over to Nuke- which looks like being the firm winner at the moment in the battle to replace Shake.

avideditor Author

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Aug 13, 2009 5:35 AM in response to Merged Content 1

Hmmmm.... Care to elaborate on which "facilities" these are?

The Foundry? Shake is Brinkmann's baby.

Aug 13, 2009 11:00 AM in response to avideditor

on VFX talk there are ops at Dneg and Framestore amongst others - even the shake wiki site says so....

http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:3CCU-LVqwHIJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_(software) shake+sourcecde&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a

The Foundry isnt really a post house as far as im aware - they are software developer - they make nuke and all the foundry plugins......

avideditor Author

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Aug 13, 2009 11:11 AM in response to Merged Content 1

Right, I understand that... and Ron Brinkmann, original developer of Shake, left Apple for The Foundry a while back to develop Nuke. By facility I wasn't sure if you meant post-house, or developer or what. I read recently that ILM bought a site license of Nuke, but I doubt they moth balled their Shake setup as of yet. It would seem appropriate that a major post house (like double negative) would be able to further develop Shake, but likely for just their own internal benefit, not to resell or offer for free with support to the community at large. It would be great if that did happen though.

Cheers.

Aug 13, 2009 11:30 AM in response to avideditor

On that note, it would be great if Apple open-sourced it.

Aug 13, 2009 11:44 AM in response to Jon Chappell

Jon Chappell wrote:
Well, the official notice was three years ago. Apple said Phenomenon would be out in 2008 so I don't think even they expected to sell Shake for this long.

Apple never even mentioned a date or the name "Phenomenon". All of that was rumors started on the internet. The only thing mentioned in the letter was that they we're starting to work on a new replacement for Shake.

Aug 29, 2009 12:27 AM in response to avideditor

This is tragic... Sometimes Apple makes me ponder.... HOW...again I ask HOW and WHY would you discontinue Shake... I think apple is a great company... but I can't stop from wondering about the lost. I was teaching students Shake recently and as I got to the Macro section shake crashed... Then when I check the console I realized that there is missing programming in the current leopard that is needed for that function. There in class, in the middle of the room, I almost cried... The reality hit me. I really hope that they plan to release new software to fill the void and compete with Nuke. Shake is a much better program to look at.

R.I.P. Shake