Apple Shake 3.5 User Manual

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Apple Shake 3.5 User Manual

Installing Your Software

The following information is intended to get you up and running as quickly as possible and covers the following:

mContents of the box

mAbout online help

mShake 3.5 system requirements

mRAM requirements

mShake Qmaster system requirements

mInstalling or upgrading Shake 3.5

mSerializing and registering Shake 3.5

mInstalling and licensing Shake 3.5 for render-only workstations

mInstalling Shake Qmaster Client, Services, and Administration tools

mAbout installing software and saving files

mUninstalling Shake 3.5

mUninstalling Shake Qmaster

mShake 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:

mShake 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.

mShake 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 and Primatte, 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.

mShake Reference Guide

mShake Tutorials

mShake 3.5 Installation Guide

mShake Qmaster User’s Manual

mShake 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 Shake Reference Guide.

To access the online help:

mChoose the Reference Guide, Shake 3.5 New Features Guide, or Tutorials from the Shake 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.

mIn 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:

mIn the Node View, click the right side of the node to load its parameters.

mIn 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:

mChoose 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:

mIn the Shake application, choose Help > Late-Breaking News.

mIn Shake Qmaster or Qadministrator, choose Help > Late-Breaking News.

Installing Shake 3.5

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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

m800 Mhz PowerPC G4 Tower

mMac OS X 10.3.2 (or later)

m3-button mouse

mQuickTime 6.5 (or later)

m1 GB local disk space for caching and temporary files

m256 MB of RAM

mA video display card with 32 MB of VRAM and Open GL hardware acceleration, such as the NVIDIA® 4 MX™ or ATI® Radeon™ 7500

m1280 x 1024 display with a required minimum of 24-bit color

Minimum PowerBook Hardware and Software Configuration

m800 Mhz PowerPC G4 PowerBook

mMac OS X 10.3.2 (or later)

m3-button mouse

mQuickTime 6.5 (or later)

m1 GB local disk space for caching and temporary files

m256 MB of RAM

mA video display card with 32 MB of VRAM and Open GL hardware acceleration, such as the ATI® Radeon™ 7500

mOptional external monitor with 1280 x 1024 display with a required minimum of 24-bit color

Minimum Server Hardware and Software Configuration

m1 Ghz PowerPC G4 or higher XServe

mMac OS X Server 10.3.2 (or later)

m3-button mouse (optional for render station, required for compositing seat)

mQuickTime 6.5 (or later)

m1 GB local disk space for caching and temporary files

m256 MB of RAM

mA video display card with 32 MB of VRAM and Open GL hardware acceleration, such as the NVIDIA® 4 MX™ or ATI® Radeon™ 7500 (optional for render station, required for compositing seat)

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m1280 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:

m 500 Mhz or higher PowerPC G4

Note: PowerPC G4 refers to any Tower, PowerBook, iMac, eMac over 500 Mhz.

m1 Ghz PowerPC G4 or higher XServe

mMac OS X 10.3.2 (or later)

mQuickTime 6.5 (or later)

m1 GB local disk space for caching and temporary files

m256 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.

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.

TIP To convert from bytes to megabytes (MB), divide by 1024 two times (1024 equals the 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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