Universal Shake due in May

Apple at NAB revealed that it would soon ship a Universal version of Shake, its compositing software with a complete toolset, including 3D multi-plane compositing, 32-bit Keylight and Primatte keying, cutting edge Optical Flow image processing, and Final Cut Pro 5 integration. The Universal version, running on an iMac Core Duo at NAB, is expected to be available in May. According to the report, Kirk Paulsen, senior director of pro applications marketing, demonstrated Apple’s high-end digital compositing software on an iMac Core Duo, saying that it that could have not been possible on a PowerPC-based iMac. "Typically, users of Shake have the most powerful system available to them - like a dual processor Power Mac G5 - in order to run the application. Paulsen said the processors are no longer the bottleneck when running high-end applications like Shake, now it's the speed of the hard drive." Apple also said that it has over 500,000 editors using Final Cut Studio.

by MacNN Staff