Apple Shake 3.5 User Manual
Installing Your Software
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The following information is intended to get you up and running as quickly as possible and
covers the following:
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Contents of the box
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About online help
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Shake 3.5 system requirements
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RAM requirements
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Shake Qmaster system requirements
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Installing or upgrading Shake 3.5
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Serializing and registering Shake 3.5
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Installing and licensing Shake 3.5 for render-only workstations
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Installing Shake Qmaster Client, Services, and Administration tools
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About installing software and saving files
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Uninstalling Shake 3.5
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Uninstalling Shake Qmaster
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Shake 3.5 and Shake Qmaster support
Important
Be sure to review the Before You Install Shake 3.5 document (in the Shake 3.5
installer or on the installation CD). For the latest information on Shake 3.5, go to the Shake
Web site at http://www.apple.com/shake.
About the Contents of Your Shake 3.5 Box
Your Shake 3.5 box contains the following software and documentation.
CD
The Shake 3.5 installation CD: This is your installation disk. Use this CD to install the
Shake 3.5 and Shake Qmaster software and documentation.
Printed documentation
The following printed instructional material is included in your Shake 3.5 box:
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Shake Reference Guide: Provides information on new features, the Shake user interface,
image input and output, the compositing nodes and Node View, file formats and footage,
keying, color correction and color space, using masks and transforms, working with the
Curve Editor and the Time View, painting and rotoscoping tools, using filters, customizing
Shake and making macros, and rendering.
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Shake Tutorials:
Provide step-by-step instructions for general Shake workflow and the
user interface, basic color correction, using the Z channel, using local variables with
expressions, color correction on premultiplied elements, using
Keylight
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Primatte
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tracking, how to make a macro, and how to create a simple clean plate.
PDF documentation
The following PDF documentation is located in the Documentation folder on the Shake 3.5
installation CD.
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Shake Reference Guide
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Shake Tutorials
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Shake 3.5 Installation Guide
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Shake Qmaster User’s Manual
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Shake Qmaster Late-Breaking News
About Online Help
The Shake Reference Guide , Shake Tutorials , Shake 3.5 New Features Guide , Customizing
Shake , Getting Help , and Late-Breaking News are located in the Help menu of the Shake
application. For information on new features in Shake 3.5, refer to the Late-Breaking News or
the Shake 3.5 New Features Guide . The Shake Qmaster Help and Late-Breaking News are
available in the Help menu of the Shake Qmaster application.
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Online Documentation
The Shake and Shake Qmaster online documentation is in PDF format, and allows you to
access information directly onscreen while you’re working in Shake or Shake Qmaster via the
Help menu. In Shake 3.5, there is also a Help button located in the Parameters tab of each
function. This button opens an HTML page that describes the function. An additional HTML
page that contains information on customizing Shake can also be accessed from the Help
menu. These HTML pages (the function pages and the customizing section) include the
same content as the
To access the online help:
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Choose the Reference Guide, Shake 3.5 New Features Guide, or Tutorials from the Shake
Shake Reference Guide
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Help menu.
The online PDFs are interactive and contain links for easy navigation. To quickly find a
specific topic, use the bookmarks or the interactive index.
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In Shake Qmaster, choose Help > Shake Qmaster Help; in Shake Qadministrator, choose
Help > Shake Qmaster Help; in Batch Monitor, choose Help > Batch Monitor Help
(Batch Monitor is the utility installed with the Shake Qadministrator and Shake Qmaster
Client components).
To access the online help for a specific Shake function:
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In the Node View, click the right side of the node to load its parameters.
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In the Parameters tab, click the Help button.
Note: In the printed reference guide, all function information is included in their
associated chapters. For example, the Move2D function is described in Chapter 12,
“Transforms, Motion Blur, and Warping.”
To access the online help for customizing Shake:
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Choose Help > Customizing Shake.
Note: In the Shake Reference Guide , extensive information on customizing is located in
Chapter 17, “Customizing Shake.”
Late-Breaking News
The late-breaking news is a link to the Late-Breaking News section of the Shake Web site and
contains the latest information about the software, new features, and known bugs.
To access late-breaking news:
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In the Shake application, choose Help > Late-Breaking News.
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In Shake Qmaster or Qadministrator, choose Help > Late-Breaking News.
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Shake 3.5 System Requirements
Before you install Shake 3.5, ensure your Macintosh system meets the following minimum
requirements.
Minimum Desktop Hardware and Software Configuration
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800 Mhz PowerPC G4 Tower
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Mac OS X 10.3.2 (or later)
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3-button mouse
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QuickTime 6.5 (or later)
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1 GB local disk space for caching and temporary files
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256 MB of RAM
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A video display card with 32 MB of VRAM and Open GL hardware acceleration, such as the
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NVIDIA
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1280 x 1024 display with a required minimum of 24-bit color
Minimum PowerBook Hardware and Software Configuration
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800 Mhz PowerPC G4 PowerBook
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Mac OS X 10.3.2 (or later)
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3-button mouse
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QuickTime 6.5 (or later)
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1 GB local disk space for caching and temporary files
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256 MB of RAM
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A video display card with 32 MB of VRAM and Open GL hardware acceleration, such as the
ATI
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Optional external monitor with 1280 x 1024 display with a required minimum of 24-bit color
4 MX™ or ATI
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Radeon™ 7500
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Radeon™ 7500
Minimum Server Hardware and Software Configuration
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1 Ghz PowerPC G4 or higher XServe
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Mac OS X Server 10.3.2 (or later)
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3-button mouse (optional for render station, required for compositing seat)
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QuickTime 6.5 (or later)
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1 GB local disk space for caching and temporary files
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256 MB of RAM
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A video display card with 32 MB of VRAM and Open GL hardware acceleration, such as the
NVIDIA
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4 MX™ or ATI
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Radeon™ 7500 (optional for render station, required for
compositing seat)
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1280 x 1024 display with a required minimum of 24-bit color (optional for render station,
required for compositing seat)
Minimum Requirements for Render-Only Workstations
The Shake 3.5 render-only workstation requires the following minimum hardware and
software configuration:
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500 Mhz or higher PowerPC G4
Note: PowerPC G4 refers to any Tower, PowerBook, iMac, eMac over 500 Mhz.
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1 Ghz PowerPC G4 or higher XServe
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Mac OS X 10.3.2 (or later)
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QuickTime 6.5 (or later)
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1 GB local disk space for caching and temporary files
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256 MB of RAM
RAM Requirements
Playback performance is a function of RAM, processor, image size, clip length, and graphics
card. In Shake, images are loaded into memory and then played back. Current systems
cannot achieve real-time playback with 2K-resolution images. However, with sufficient RAM
and a good graphics card, files of up to 1K resolution should play back in real time.
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Use the following formula to determine the amount of required memory:
width * height * channels * bytes per channel * images = bytes
For example, a single 1024 x 768 RGB 8-bit (1 byte) per channel image is:
1024 * 768 * 3 * 1 = 2359296 bytes
Or, approximately 2.4 MB per frame.
To convert from bytes to megabytes (MB), divide by 1024 two times (1024 equals the
TIP
number of bytes per kilobyte). Thankfully, all operating systems come with calculators.
For a rough approximation, drop the last 6 digits.
Note: An 8-bit image is 1 byte, a 10 or 16-bit image is 2 bytes, and a float image is 4 bytes.
Installing Shake 3.5
When you install Shake 3.5, its components are placed in the Applications folder of the hard
disk, typically your startup disk. Be sure to review “Shake 3.5 System Requirements” on
page 4 before installing Shake 3.5.
Important
If you’re upgrading from Shake 3 or 3.01, you must have Shake installed on your
computer prior to running the installer.
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