Scripts won't save
by Brian Beard
on
Oct 6, 2009 at 9:36:11 pm
I'm new to Shake and can't seem to save the scripts I'm creating. The book I'm learning from (Marco Paolini tutorial (Shake 4 - Apple pro training series) told me to create a folder in my home directory which it wouldn't do (SAVE SCRIPT ERROR) until I pulled up $Home which is listed as a favorite (I never set up a directory named $Home) in the /home/ directory where it seems to save. But when I try to bring it back up later only one node shows up and it's colored yellow, and clicking near it in the node viewer turns it red.
Re: Scripts won't save by Brian Beard on Oct 7, 2009 at 5:15:05 am
Sorry, I should have been more clear about the situation - I'm working with the full version of Shake 4.1 that I purchased separately from the tutorial. Thanks though for the response.
PS: Should I maybe try and sell this to someone who is familiar with and still working with Shake and for some reason needs the software and just stick with Motion until I can afford a Mac Pro/Intel system and move into the AE world? Or are there still folks out there who think Shake is worth learning from the ground up?
Re: Scripts won't save by Les Stuck on Oct 7, 2009 at 5:32:37 pm
Sounds like you may be having a permissions problem. Did you try using Disk Utility
to repair permissions on your disk?
BTW $HOME is your home directory, i.e. /Users/Brian or ~Brian. It's all the same.
A red FileIn node usually indicates that Shake can't find the file. Look at FileIn's
imageName parameter to see whether it's pointing to a real location.
I hope you can sort things out. Shake is truly an amazing piece of software.
If you plow throught the Paolini book and the Tutorial included in the installation,
you'll have a pretty good idea how to use it. I think you'll understand how
useful the node approach is for compositing.
Re: Scripts won't save by Brian Beard on Oct 7, 2009 at 7:25:57 pm
I tried running the disk through disk repair - no problems detected - permission area not highlighted.
One thing - every time I try to open up anything in the Help menu, such as tutorials, the tutorials PDF opens up but about 5 seconds later Shake shuts down. I've also noticed that "Browse to the $HOME/nreal/Tutorial_Media/Tutorial_01/images directory" isn't available in the $Home directory, only the tutorial PDFs.
Is it a good chance that's an indication that the disk has been corrupted even though disk repair doesn't think so? Should I try to get Apple to send a replacement disk?
I know this is a confusing pain in the butt and I really appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Brian
Re: Scripts won't save by Les Stuck on Oct 7, 2009 at 8:48:33 pm
It's really sounding like your boot drive is the culprit. Are your backups up to date?
It is extremely unlikely that the Shake install disk has problems, unless it's scratched.
It's much more likely that your boot disk has problems. Did you boot off of the system DVD,
and run disk repair and fix permissions?
You may have to manually copy the tutorial media from the install disk to your boot disk.
Re: Scripts won't save by Arnie Schlissel on Oct 8, 2009 at 9:33:32 pm
[Brian Beard]"PS: Should I maybe try and sell this to someone who is familiar with and still working with Shake and for some reason needs the software and just stick with Motion until I can afford a Mac Pro/Intel system and move into the AE world? Or are there still folks out there who think Shake is worth learning from the ground up?"
This really depends on what you want to use Shake (or Motion or AE) for.
Shake, AE and Motion are all completely different animals. Yes, there's overlap, but in the end each has it's own strengths, weaknesses and unique abilities. I use all three. Though not at once, that would be irrationally exuberant!
Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
http://www.arniepix.com/
