| | | | 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: 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: 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 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 | | | | |
| | | | 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 | | | | |
| | | | 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 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 | | | | |
| | | | 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: 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 | | | | |
| | | | 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 | | | | |
| | | | 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 |
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| | | | 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 |
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| | | | 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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