Shake Tutorials

Matchmove with roto question by craig whit on Jul 30, 2009 at 4:03:04 pm in the Apple Shake Forum Hi everyone, I'm stuck with a shot I'm practicing with, where I have a clip that I'd like to sky replace. Using the Shake tutorials, I think I've figured out how to track the shot and use the matcmove node...however, the blend mode and the ro Re: Green screen issue! Please help!! Oh God please someone help! by Joseph Owens on Jun 23, 2009 at 12:59:58 am in the Apple Shake Forum An alternate approach, one that is explored in the Shake tutorials, is to avoid using the greenscreen nodes to do the actual compositing. Instead, use nodes to generate what you will modify into being an alpha channel in a simple Keymix. Once you h Re: Tutorials for Motion stabilizing by Les Stuck on May 4, 2009 at 10:19:39 pm in the Apple Shake Forum > Some of the shots are long pans so all the reference points on frame 1 go offscreen after a few seconds. If you're using a tracker, you can track up until the reference point goes offscreen, the move the tracker to a new reference point using c Tutorials for Motion stabilizing by Stephen Vilas on May 4, 2009 at 1:47:00 pm in the Apple Shake Forum I have several shots that I would like to stabilize (or at least see if its worth the time and effort). Some of the shots are long pans so all the reference points on frame 1 go offscreen after a few seconds. I dont fully understand how to adjust ColorX ?? by chris forrester on Nov 10, 2008 at 3:14:08 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum I have been doing some searching around on the internet for something that does the equivelent of the colorX node in Shake. For those who have not used it before it allows you to enter formulas that can effect individual channel values based on the Re: rgb to yuv and back by Matt French on Nov 5, 2008 at 5:59:58 am in the Apple Shake Forum Check the Shake Tutorials and there is a great tutorial on keying DV footage and why you are doing it. There is also a good example of how to key hair shot with DV footage (basically, ColorSpace RGB>YUV, lumakey on the fine hair, roto just the hair Re: Multipass Compositing in Motion by Peter Wiggins on Oct 23, 2008 at 9:58:38 pm in the Apple Motion Forum Keith, http://www.highend3d.com/shake/tutorials/general/8.html I think there might be something in the Shake manual too Peter Re: help applying a depth map by Burt Hazard on Apr 8, 2008 at 6:40:48 pm in the Apple Shake Forum Actually pretty simple to do... 1) Put a Reorder Node after your depth File-In, then put "RGBAR" in the channels input (this tells Shake to create a Z channel from the Red channel of your grayscale image) 2) Then put a DepthKey Node after that 3) Th Re: FCP/SHAKE WORKFLOW NEWBIE by filmasart on Oct 15, 2007 at 8:54:01 pm in the Apple Shake Forum Basically it sounds like you are writing over the file that Final Cut is sending to Shake and this is why its not sourcing it back. The send to Shake command in FCP is a little misleading because it's not as integrated as Motion. You need to render Re: Complex rig removal in shake by Josef Brett on Sep 23, 2007 at 12:51:12 pm in the Apple Shake Forum What about this tutorial http://www.fxshare.com/shake/tutorials/painting_roto/Removal-of-a-camera-reflection-on-a-car-311.html It's not exactly what you're describing, but you may be able to use some of the principles from it. Complex rig removal in shake by UntitleDKingdom on Sep 22, 2007 at 12:37:46 pm in the Apple Shake Forum Hi. I'm looking for advice or a tutorial on a rig removal in shake where the rig has alot of different movement in it. The best example I can think of is the Face Crack tutorial here: http://www.highend3d.com/shake/tutorials/general/134-1.html In t Re: ANyone still using Shake? by byronicman on Aug 31, 2007 at 2:57:40 pm in the Apple Shake Forum Here is a list of a few things I had in my bookmarks that I visit from time to time, some are tutorials some are tips and tricks etc. Check them out- http://www.tahlniran.com/tutorials.html http://www.averpil.com/fredrik/index.php?page=tutorials&id= Re: Remixing old movies? What's my learning path? by wsummers on Aug 19, 2007 at 2:36:37 am in the Apple Shake Forum Anything is possible, but this will also be ridiculously time consuming. Since you don't have the bluescreen footage you are going to have to cut out your actors frame by frame. Check out this expose on Highend3d.com http://www.highend3d.com/shake/ Re: I've Had It... by Serious Lee on Aug 1, 2007 at 2:11:28 am in the Autodesk Combustion Forum I bought Shake and I am getting to know it. Need an alternative to C4 'cause it is pretty awful. BUT While doing the Shake Tutorials it did crash about 3 times in one long day. So .. waddya supposed ta do?? Same with Motion. IT is crude but wil Re: exporting camera data by R303LX on Jul 13, 2007 at 4:18:21 am in the MAYA Forum Are you exporting camera data, or rendering images with z-depth information? A camera has no z-depth information - a camera has translation and rotation information, focal length information, F stop information etc. An image would have z-depth chan Re: Shake tutorials/books by stunix on Apr 26, 2007 at 9:35:56 pm in the Apple Shake Forum About 6 months ago I bought the Shake Training series from Gnomon. It was very informative and can give some great information you may not pick up from certain books. The dvd series is pretty expensive but I feel it was worth it. Re: Shake tutorials/books by Mattdawgpro on Apr 25, 2007 at 10:49:46 pm in the Apple Shake Forum Thanks! I'll check those out once I'm done with the tutorial book. Re: Shake tutorials/books by Burt Hazard on Apr 25, 2007 at 9:02:23 pm in the Apple Shake Forum Of course you can start with the tutorial book that comes with Shake, then I would recommend: SHAKE 4: PROFESSIONAL COMPOSITING AND VISUAL EFFECTS Marco Paolini (Apple Pro Training, ISBN: 0-321-25609-3) ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VISUAL EFFECTS: THE ULTIMATE Shake tutorials/books by Mattdawgpro on Apr 25, 2007 at 4:53:07 pm in the Apple Shake Forum Hi everyone, I'm just starting out with Shake, comming from a Final Cut/Motion/After Effects background, and I was wondering what good books and tutorials there are out there for a newbie trying to learn the mechanics of the software? Thanks for the Re: How to save the video-tutorials? by Onna_no_hito on Apr 1, 2007 at 7:30:27 pm in the Apple Shake Forum Hi, Sorry I know this thread is a little old, but just wanted to say that I usually download Creative Cow video tutorials through iTunes by subscribing to the podcasts and afterwards I don't need to be connected to the internet to watch them over an Re: List of all shake tutorials currently up here and anyone else keen to make some tutorials? by Nick Jushchyshyn on Mar 3, 2007 at 5:47:28 pm in the Apple Shake Forum Thanks heaps for the feedback Nick, ...really I still feel like a bit of a Shake noob myself (AE being my main area of expertise, Shake being something I have only delved into heavily in the past 6 months), give Kathlyn a yell and see if she can pop Re: List of all shake tutorials currently up here and anyone else keen to make some tutorials? by Andrew Shanks on Mar 3, 2007 at 7:35:14 am in the Apple Shake Forum Totally second that, I love the new version of Steve's book, I bought the first one and found it tough going, but when they revised it they took on board readers feedback and I think got it just right, ...everything you read in there is so easily tra Re: List of all shake tutorials currently up here and anyone else keen to make some tutorials? by Nick Jushchyshyn on Mar 3, 2007 at 4:45:18 am in the Apple Shake Forum But still - I've got to get Wright's book... Do not pass GO. ;) Get Steve's Book .... now. :) The new edition is loaded with new info covering digital that was not in the original book. Also, Steve's approach is very nodal ... very Shake. Re: List of all shake tutorials currently up here and anyone else keen to make some tutorials? by CaptainMench on Mar 2, 2007 at 11:08:53 pm in the Apple Shake Forum Funny -- I came home early too today and started watching your tutorials. You actually have lots of those "extras" in your tutorials... min... max... etc... why you BUILD a key and why not just drop everything on a single keyer... etc. But still - Re: List of all shake tutorials currently up here and anyone else keen to make some tutorials? by Andrew Shanks on Mar 2, 2007 at 11:03:25 pm in the Apple Shake Forum Good response guys. Mark I have emailed you with Kathlyn's email address, and to generally give you some grief about leaving the UK and coming down under ;-) Thanks heaps for the feedback Nick, ...really I still feel like a bit of a Shake noob myself Re: List of all shake tutorials currently up here and anyone else keen to make some tutorials? by CaptainMench on Mar 2, 2007 at 9:23:35 pm in the Apple Shake Forum You know what I'd really like even for my own personnal needs... A basic of compositing... even reading and re-reading the manual I get a sense of when things need to be concontaminated (hee) and when things can be split and rejoined... But when sa Re: List of all shake tutorials currently up here and anyone else keen to make some tutorials? by Nick Jushchyshyn on Mar 2, 2007 at 8:32:20 pm in the Apple Shake Forum I'm interested :) Maybe a seriers on expressions? I'm a leader on the Media Studio Pro Cow board from a while back, but that board is very slow these days. Would be happy to participate more here if you need a hand. BTW...Your tutorial series has b Re: List of all shake tutorials currently up here and anyone else keen to make some tutorials? by Mark Tran-Tremble on Mar 2, 2007 at 10:07:54 am in the Apple Shake Forum I might be. ;) But i'll be going awol for a couple of months May/June as i move hemispheres. I'll have a look at doing some tutorials after that. M. List of all shake tutorials currently up here and anyone else keen to make some tutorials? by Andrew Shanks on Mar 2, 2007 at 3:01:40 am in the Apple Shake Forum Hey guys, just wanted to say the link for shake tutorials on Cow is here (it has all of mine and Capt Mench's efforts there). http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=154&page=http://www.creativecow.net/articles/script_gen/pro Shake Podcasts by David DuBois on Feb 23, 2007 at 10:46:42 am in the Creative COW podcasts Forum Hi All Love all the podcasts! The tutorials live on my ipod incase i need to refresh myself on a technique that I've not used for ages. BRILLIANT! Just one question though. Andrew Shanks has been releasing shake tutorials which I'd love to be ab Help with an expression by Brian McGovern on Feb 21, 2007 at 2:12:11 pm in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum I looking for an expression for an egg (just before the chick is about to break open the egg) to shake up and off the ground a couple of times before the egg cracks open. I know of a lot of shake tutorials out there, but is there something else? Any A mini-how-to (tutorial) on removal of camera reflection on car by Aram Coen on Feb 21, 2007 at 8:43:55 am in the Apple Shake Forum Hi all, I hope this is ok to post here. I had to remove a reflection of a camera on a car and took notes: http://www.fxshare.com/shake/tutorials/painting_roto/311.html Feedback is welcome. Thnx, Aram Re: Keying with Primatte or Keylight HELP!!! NEW TO SHAKE and KEYING!! by Andrew Shanks on Feb 13, 2007 at 5:45:30 am in the Apple Shake Forum I'm working on getting my keying series of video tutorials done and online in the next couple of days (fingers crossed!), until then here is a basic example of keying (doesn't talk about spill suppression techniques though, ...I tend to go outside of Re: Captain Make Another Video On 4 Corner Pinning...PLEASE ? by Andrew Shanks on Dec 21, 2006 at 5:49:42 pm in the Apple Shake Forum I know the manual has been mentioned here (and the Capts video tutorials kick major butt :-), but have you had a look at the Shake tutorials that come with the package? The tutorial on page 208 (in the tracking and stabilization section) I think is p Re: Rotoscope dancer by John Lafauce jr. on Nov 26, 2006 at 10:23:21 pm in the Apple Shake Forum Hello Scott- Have you ever seen "Kung Pow - Enter the Fist"? I wrote a Shake tutorial on a shot I composited for that film which demonstrates the type of techniques that could help you with your scene: http://www.highend3d.com/shake/tutorials/gene Re: Newbie Problems with Apple's Shake Tutorials by Matthew Ingram on Nov 13, 2006 at 7:22:28 pm in the Apple Shake Forum ah ha! thank you mark. Re: Newbie Problems with Apple's Shake Tutorials by Mark Tran-Tremble on Nov 13, 2006 at 6:58:22 pm in the Apple Shake Forum When you copy and paste any node it takes the keyframes and info with it. If you want a linked node so any changes you make to one changes the other, then you need to paste it with Shift+Ctrl+V or select paste linked from the right click menu in the Re: Newbie Problems with Apple's Shake Tutorials by Piotr Janowski on Nov 10, 2006 at 8:16:17 pm in the Apple Shake Forum hello, try with the N key greetings piotr Re: Newbie Problems with Apple's Shake Tutorials by Matthew Ingram on Nov 10, 2006 at 12:44:25 pm in the Apple Shake Forum this answers my first question http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=154&postid=855815 anyone for the second? Newbie Problems with Apple's Shake Tutorials by Matthew Ingram on Nov 10, 2006 at 12:38:26 pm in the Apple Shake Forum Working my way through the Shake 4 Tutorials book and i've come across two problems: 1) When I drag one node on top of a noodle connecting two others at no point do the two points at the top and bottom "glow yellow" I am unable to "insert a node in Re: Send to shake problem by Piotr Janowski on Oct 17, 2006 at 8:06:26 pm in the Apple Shake Forum Hello Thank You, Captain Mench for Your reply. I really enjoyed Your Shake tutorials by the way. Well, coming back to the problem: what I did initially was in fact sending a single clip from the Timeline and not the Browser itself. the clip in sha Re: Welcome Michael Mench to the Apple Shake COW leadership team by ntz on Oct 10, 2006 at 10:39:28 pm in the Apple Shake Forum Well, first let me say that your 3 tutorials are WAY above Gnomon's. The last Gnomon I remember seeing is color correction, and its basically just a groceries list of nodes (he just lists node by node what it does), without giving examples that are u Welcome Michael Mench to the Apple Shake COW leadership team by Kathlyn Lindeboom on Oct 9, 2006 at 9:20:29 pm in the Apple Shake Forum Most of you here already know Michael as CaptainMench as he's been contributing for quite some time to this forum. He's got a few Shake tutorials in our library. Click on his picture to find more about Michael or find links to the tutorials. Michael Re: I'm shaking... by ideaspring on Jul 11, 2006 at 12:26:28 am in the UG: Denver FCP Forum I am so proud of you, Congratulations! Just watched the speed tutorial and it is great info. Just remember that you don't always have to go through FCP, if that part gets a little confusing. It might make sense to just do the clips individually, b Re: Just offered a job - need to learn Shake like, now! Please help! by Peter Wiggins on May 16, 2006 at 8:59:28 am in the Apple Shake Forum Do the Shake tutorials & also buy this;- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321256093/002-4679413-1768069?v=glance&n=283155 Peter Free Motion Templates http://www.peterwiggins.com Morphing Tutorials?? by djLeary on Dec 9, 2005 at 9:31:59 pm in the Apple Shake Forum I've spent the last 1 1/2 hours searching the Shake tutorials and the internet. I cannot find a simple "How To" run through of the Warp Tab- specifically Morphing. Can anyone tell this total beginner to this application how I can find this info? Tha Re: Tutorials... by Deke Kincaid on Sep 20, 2005 at 6:59:07 pm in the Apple Shake Forum There are a few on highend. I also added Tahl's from vfxtalk, but there are more than just those. Go through the different topics on the left hand side to see them all. http://www.highend3d.com/shake/tutorials/ -deke Re: gnomon shake dvd's by John Lafauce jr. on Sep 13, 2005 at 1:59:04 pm in the Apple Shake Forum One must not forget that Shake is only one tool of many fine compositing apps on the market. Developing your compositing problem solving skills and techniques will help you when working in any app. Brinkemann's book is rather on the tech side; th Re: Combustion OR Shake for Mac? by Rayk Hemmerling on Aug 23, 2005 at 5:26:13 am in the Autodesk Combustion Forum morning! well, the only big difference regarding to paint tools is that you have a very clever paint-on in shake. if it comes to image processing or maybe it's the workflow you are refering, i can tell you that most of the shake tutorials you can tr Re: Best Shake Tutorials by jim tucker on Feb 8, 2005 at 11:58:13 pm in the Apple Shake Forum go to http://cmivfx.com also: chris@cmiVFX.com Chris Maynard owner Apple Shake Keying 101: Spill Suppression This tutorial from Creative Cow Leader Andrew Shanks demonstrates various common approaches to getting rid of colour spill after keying. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Andrew Shanks Apple Shake Apple Shake Video Tutorial: An Introduction to Node-based Compositing Steve Wright is a visual effects veteran with 70 broadcast television commercials and over 60 feature films credits. Hes also written and taught extensively on many aspects of effects creation. Here, using Apple Shake as an example, Steve introduces the ideas and methods of node-based compositing. Tutorial, Video Tutorial, Feature Author: Steve Wright Apple Shake Keying 101: Light Wrap and Edge Blending This tutorial from Creative Cow Leader Andrew Shanks shows common techniques to better blend your keyed foreground element with the background plate. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Andrew Shanks Apple Shake Keying 101: Edge, Core and Garbage Mattes Going beyond the one click keying technique most beginners use, this tutorial from Creative Cow Leader Andrew Shanks shows a common technique and includes tips for other ways to tackle pulling a key. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Andrew Shanks Apple Shake Morphing in Shake IIn this third video in the series, Shake is Money, Creative Cow Contributor Michael Mench demonstrates a brief overview of the Morpher Node in Shake. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Michael Mench Apple Shake Smoothing DV Jaggies In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Andrew Shanks demonstrates cleaning up DV/HDV chroma compression artifacts in Shake to allow for better keying. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Andrew Shanks Apple Shake Slow Motion In this second video in the series, Shake is Money, Creative Cow Contributor Michael Mench demonstrates Slow Motion in Apple Shake. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Michael Mench

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