how good is shake in a mac??

[Anonymous]

Hi guys,

I want to know which machine will be best to run shake. A PC with Linux or a Mac G5 with Panther? I have to work on 2K OPENEXR file. Which supports it best? How to make wire removal easy with shake?

Thanks for all inputs in advance…..

M

[brightspark]

Hey M!

Having used Shake 3.5 at 2K on both the Linux (RH9 & FC2) and Mac OSX Panther, my experience is that the Linux version runs much faster in the gui and while rendering. We found the Mac version really found it tough rendering scripts with paint nodes. That being said, I’ve found that the OSX version renders flipbooks much quicker than it’s Linux brother. So, I’m not sure if I’ve made your decision any easier!

As for wire removal, well depends on the shot as to what technique. I’m not one to shy away from painting, but I try to use it as a last resort when a procedural method won’t work.

Matt

[Iggs]

If you can afford it, look into Furnace2 for Shake: http://www.thefoundry.co.uk, some amazing tools for wire/rig removal, grain management, plate reconstruction and a lot more. We got Shake on G5 just so we can use Furnace … it’s worth every penny.

As far as Shake on G5 … it seems a bit slow and crashes more frequently then I’d like it to … my G5 is Dual 1.8 with 1 Gig of RAM. We do mostly NTSC stuff.

Cheers, I.

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