Just wondering how many of you guys have shake. I recently got a macbook pro and have had my eye on Shake for a long while now.

What do you guys think of it?

I heard it was end-of-lined (soon to be replaced by Final Cut Extreme) and that's why the price dropped from many thousands to a few hundred. Get it while you can!

What are you hoping to use it for?

It's an amazing piece of software. Really powerful but really really memory hungry. But definitely get it if you think anytime in the future (near or far) you'll ever be doing compositing on a mac, or at least an Intel mac (seeing as there won't be any more updates for it).

I was thinking about getting Shake, once I had more or less gotten FCP down. But considering I just started to get in to basic compositing IN FCP, I'm still a long ways off from Shake.

By the way, how exactly might a student or indie filmmaker use Shake (besides the awesome camera shake-reducer).

well, compositing is a big hobby of mine. I'm always playing around in photoshop with pictures, and I've always wanted to do it with video.

Shake can get the job done! I try doing it i FCP, but it never looks quite right IE little green line still vidible, etc. So I'm hoping Shake can make it easier.

Yeah. Shake give you a lot more tools and whatnot to use for compositing and such, and once you get it more or less its way easier than using final cut inferior results.

My biggest use of shake is green screen and retiming, because the slow motion in shake for some reason looks better than in final cut and because pulling keys with shake gives such better results (at least in what I've used it for) than Fiinal Cut does. It's also pretty useful for rotoscoping as well.

Also knowing compositing in FCP doesn't necessarily make it easier to learn Shake because they're laid out completely differently (I personally find Shake's interface way easier to work with than Final Cut for compositing). And Shake comes with some amazing documentation that really has most everything in it.

Hope that helped?

yeah, I heard the layout is totally different, but once you get the hang of it, its WAY better.

Do you have any samples of stuff you have done with Shake?

I've mainly been using it for Keying at school so everything is there but there's a few tutorials here and there on the internet that show some of the stuff you can do with it.