Shake with Snow Leopard Tests

	Re: Shake with Snow Leopard Tests by Aaron Neitz on Aug 28, 2009 at 7:12:37 pm Maybe that's why they completely stopped selling Shake. they know it won't work. I don't have FCP 7 - is Send to Shake still an option? Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Shake with Snow Leopard Tests by Michael Mench on Aug 28, 2009 at 7:30:37 pm Yes, it is still there. Mike Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Shake with Snow Leopard Tests by Phil Hoppes on Aug 28, 2009 at 10:44:37 pm Well, first you need to get the Linux version of Shake. Back when Apple was still selling Shake, the Mac version was $500 but the Linux version was still $5000. Apple knew the ILM's of the world would still pay top dollar for it although I have to guess every big studio that was already using the Linux version had some large site license to begin with so the 5K price Apple was charging was moot. More it was probably to discourage non ILM type's from buying it so Apple did not have to support a different OS. Linux is not too difficult to set up these days but it still is not for the faint of heart. There can still be some issues with drivers and hardware in particular with graphics and audio. I've used Linux for years in a CAE environment but it was more for a server function. Workstation clients were really not taxing the graphics end as things such as texture maps and rendering were not an issue. You want to be sure the graphics card you pick is well supported for the particular Linux distro you use. For me, I would not try using something that was not on the supported distro list from Apple. Not sure what that was but I'm guessing something like Fedora 8 or one of the not so recent versions of Ubunto. Audio still can be a crap shoot especially if you want mp3 support. Windows media and quicktime support is also sketchy. Not that most of this can't be done but it's not your Mac download a .dmg file, double click and install or the similar experience for windows. There can be a fair amount of lower level google this problem. Find the patch. Download it. Install it ... if you know how. Some things install in linux very Mac/Windows like (rpm type files) and other things are less obvious. A file may come as a tar file (.tgz, .bz) With these you need to uncompress them and most times move them to the right location on your hard drive so the installed application can be seen. You then need to change your environment path so the new installed application can be seen and used. Again, not to get slammed by any linux lovers, I am not saying you can't do it and probably do it quite cheaply for a pretty fast machine but Linux is not always just a walk in the park and in particular some of the media support issues can be a real PITA. Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Shake with Snow Leopard Tests by Arnie Schlissel on Aug 30, 2009 at 2:27:53 am [Gray Wilson] "So the linux version of Shake is $5,000? Wow!" Get used to it! The current version of Nuke is $3500 plus another $1000 for the mandatory first year's support contract, Fusion is $5000 plus a $400 support contract. It's cheaper to buy a Mac & Shake than to buy just Nuke or Fusion. But then, Apple is a hardware company. Arnie Post production is not an afterthought! http://www.arniepix.com/ Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index