Shake has been updated to fix QT issues.

[Stokestack]

Hey all,

Shake has been updated to fix a serious QuickTime incompatibility. You can now use Shake to render greater-than-8-bit color into QuickTime files. This functionality was broken by a series of circumstances that followed the Intel transition.

It's a fix of major importance to Red users who want to do high-quality renders of their comps to QT files.

Note that Shake still does not support interframe-compressed codecs like H.264 and MPEG-2; they require a different QuickTime API that Shake does not use. However, you wouldn't want to archive your comps to lossy formats like that anyway. As it stands, you can render out a high-quality version and then use Compressor to churn out other formats.

Launch Software Update or get it here:
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/download

 

[Steve Sherrick]

Thanks for posting this!

 

[Curran Giddens]

I don't see the Shake update installer on that page.

 

[Stokestack]

From the top of the right column:

"New in Pro Applications Update 2008-04

* Pro Applications Update 2008-04 is a revision to Final Cut Studio 2.0. This update includes Final Cut Pro 6.0.5, Compressor 3.0.5, Color 1.0.3 and Shake 4.1.1. The software addresses general performance issues and improves overall stability."

If you don't have an FCS serial number, you may have to rely on Software Update to retrieve the update.

 

[Curran Giddens]

Thanks. I have a sn. I guess the shake update is included in the Pro Apps update. It doesn't have it's own installer....

 

[Uli Plank]

I really appreciate this. Even if I have been complaining about lots of things in FCS in the past, I consider it highly respectable that Apple has fixed a software that has been announced EOL quite some time ago (and I really love Shake). Thanks, Apple!

 

[Emery Wells]

Looooong overdue!! Thanks Gavin!

 

[Stokestack]

To clarify, you can only download the update from that page if you have an FCS serial number. If you have only Shake, you must use Software Update.

 

[Charles Angus]

I'm still having trouble importing Apple 10-bit UC footage into Shake - no dice. Getting the blue sparkles on the right edge of frame.

 

[Simon Blackledge]

Yip.. it aint fixed it. works on some clips not on others..

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[Charles Angus]

Man, I had my hopes up. Back to using after effects to make tiff sequences again...

Its at the point now where I'm going to have to take a look at Nuke and Combustion. Shake has served me well, but I think it might be time to move on.