| Apple releases Shake 4.1 Universal. Lowers price to $499! |
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Posted On:
Jun 20 2006 @ 02:06 PM
By:
anim8r
In Section:
Software
Apple released a new version of Shake 4.1 Universal. Shake now runs on both PowerPC as well as Intel based Macs. Apple also lowered the price of Shake 4.1 on MacOSX to $499 making it highly accesible. From Shake List Server Discussion: -------- Letter to Customers from Apple talking about new generation version of Shake -----------
Hello,
We are very pleased to announce the release of Shake 4.1. Please carefully
read this entire email. The important points contained within are:
1. Summary of enhancements
2. Your download user name and password.
3. Software download and install instructions
4. License setup
5. How to get assistance
Shake 4.1 is a Mac OS X Universal Binary which means it runs natively on
both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs
Shake 4.1 is an upgrade to Fedora Core 4 Linux.
Shake 4.1 is a maintenance release. Make sure you check out the
Late-Breaking News link in the Shake help menu for additional information on
Shake 4.1.
-----------IMPORTANT NOTICE-----------
New Mac OS X seats can now be purchased via the Retail box for a modest
price of $499 with unlimited render licenses. Shake 4.1 Linux licenses
remain available directly through .
Apple will no longer be selling maintenance for Shake and no further
software updates are planned as we begin work on the next generation of
Shake compositing software. While we're excited about the innovations we can
bring in the future, we understand you have a business to run today that
requires Shake. To that end, we will provide all Maintenance customers with
the following three options:
A. Customers can continue with end-user e-mail support, as well as SDK
support for the duration of their Maintenance contract.
B. Customers may elect to cancel their Maintenance and receive a pro-rated
refund for the unused portion. Existing software licenses would continue to
function according to the Software License Agreement. Maintenance customers
that wish to cancel their contract must do so by July 23, 2006.
C. Additionally, Maintenance customers may choose to license the Shake 4.1
Source Code for $50,000. The Source Code license includes a 5,000 seat
volume license of Shake 4.1. This offer is designed to help facilities with
significant Shake investments maintain a reliable and controllable visual
effects pipeline. Maintenance customers that wish to license the Shake 4.1
Source Code must do so by July 23, 2006. Apple reserves the right to refuse
any maintenance customer source Code access.
It has been an absolute pleasure to serve the visual effects community for
the past 9 years. We are looking forward to continuing to support you and
are especially looking forward to working with you again.
Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy this new version of Shake.
Best Regards,
Louis Cetorelli
Manager, Shake Support
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I have mixed feelings about this. But when discussing the situation with beaker I realized a few interesting positive points:
1. Now that Shake had become part of Apple, they have not had a full rewrite to take advantage of all of the hardware/software benefits that are available at a core level.
2. Apple had acquired Silicon Grail with Chalice/Rayz and also the technology from Kodak's Cineon: After Kodak stopped making the Cineon compositor, Silicon Grail acquired the technology and incorporated it into RAYZ as Grain/Degrain, Sharpen and CineSpeed. ``A unique thing about RAYZ is it can keep data in Cineon 10-bit log color format'', points out Novy. ``Every other compositor makes you convert to 16-bit linear or to float. With RAYZ you can convert or keep it 10-bit all the way. It will do the internal math with logs.'' Video monitors are 8-bit linear and need LUTs (colorspace lookup tables) to approximate film. ``Because it was part of the Cineon technology incorporated into RAYZ, it can do full-monitor calibration to bring all our monitors into peak performance.''
3. The Shake team certainly has access to many additional development resources as part of the Apple team.
4. Shake needed a full rewrite. There are key areas like 3d and user friendlyness that require rethinking everything. Not to mention much better integration with other tools such as FCP, Motion, etc. Much like the rewrite to highend3d.com/fxshare.com sometimes you have to throw out all your code and start with just the knowledge and experience you've gained from your users to make something better with a longer future.
Im hopeful and excited to see what they come up with. I've worked with the Shake team for years and most of the core team has remained the same since I first met them on v.05 of Shake.
What do the rest of you think?
Shake is dead long live shake! :)
Anyway im kind of sad it comes to this lets jut hope the next gen is better thn shake was. It certainly makes sanse. Nothing lives forever youkonw. But teh price dorp is GREAT for atleast the immediate future.
Infact I think maya and max are likely going to have a similliar future ahead. Thenagain autodesk is known to pump out the spirit of their softeare before they do that ;)
The price drop is fantastic....
A big company buying a software to stop its developement... keeps me deeply me anti-capitalist. I just hope apple will never buy silo or xsi, and will just develop their own tools instead.
holy price droP!...mmhm...a mac eh?
excellent news. I was thinking about purchasing Final Cut Studio when the new round of powermac replacements came out; but now I can drop cash in shake too.
I want to see that price on the Linux version and have it available to purchase without a third party vendor. Apple buying Shake was one of the biggest disappointments ever, and they haven't failed to disappoint with their actions concerning it.
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