Featuring a comprehensive toolset suitable for both single artists and large facilities, Shake gives you the most efficient compositing operations for handling large images with pristine quality.
3D Multi-Plane Compositing
Shake’s new multi-plane compositing is integrated directly into the node view, making it seamless to jump from 2D paint, rotoscoping and image processing into a 3D layered composite.
Adding a multi-plane node allows you to “plug in” any number of layers for 3D compositing. Match CGI-rendered elements with live-action scenes by importing 3D tracking data from applications including Maya, Boujou and Pixel Farm. Your layers remain highly interactive while you work, thanks to OpenGL hardware-accelerated previews.
Enhanced Node View
Since every effect in Shake is a distinct node that you can insert into a node tree, use the Node View to select, view, navigate and organise the functions that comprise the node tree. In the Node View, you can access any part of your composite. As you view and select the controls for each node, you can modify them while looking at the final render. You can, for example, paint on a frame that rotates 3D space without viewing the frame in a different window.
Resolution Independence
With Shake 4, you can change the resolution and bit-depth during the compositing process as many times and wherever you wish.
Output a film-resolution 32-bit plate and an 8-bit video-resolution image simultaneously. Shake allows you to work in 8 bits, 16 bits, or 32 bits per channel, all within the same project: No need to have all compositing operations in a project at the same bit depth. You optimise the project, using 16- and 32-bit operations where needed while performing quick 8 bit operations as well.
Tracking on Rotoshape Points
In Shake, you can mask a layer or an effect to control which areas of an image are affected. For sophisticated animations, you can keyframe each mask or track each point on the rotoshape and apply a photorealistic motion blur.
Create multiple shapes within one rotoshape node while modifying soft-edge falloff controls independently on each control point.
32-bit Keylight and Primatte
Shake includes two industry-standard keyers, Primatte and Keylight, that operate with full 32-bit float precision to ensure the continuation of high bit depth throughout a project. Whereas other packages take a “one-keyer-fits-all” approach to keying, Shake allows you to combine keys to achieve the best results.
Truelight Monitor Calibration
Truelight — a complete HD-to-film or film-to-film color management system from Filmlight — is now integrated directly into Shake for pre-visualizing the look of projected film images on LCD and CRT displays. Use Truelight 3D Cube technology to accurately predict the look of your HD or film imagery when printed, without unnecessary film-outs.
The Shake + Maya quality solution
Import tracking data from Alias’s Maya or 3D tracking applications such as PF track and Boujou into Shake 4’s camera for perfect animation matching. Display point cloud data and use it to match moving layers.
3rd Party Plugin: PIxel Farm 3D Tracking
Pixel Farm’s release of PFMatch 2.0 for Shake 4 provides a fully integrated 3D tracking environment that complements Shake’s new 3D environment. The 3D tracking data is passed straight to Shake’s multiplane node and requires no saving or exporting of data. As you work in the tree, there is no duplication of footage required — radically reducing facility storage requirements.
Infinite Workspace
Shake plays a neat trick with the Infinite Workspace: You need never clip an image, even if it goes outside of the frame. With Infinite Workspace, Shake saves you quite a bit of stress in an already stressful environment.
QuickPaint
QuickPaint is an interactive, vector-based procedural paint system for fixing problematic shots. Use it to quickly and easily repair holes in mattes or touch up scratches and dirt on images. You can even modify QuickPaint strokes after they have been placed.
