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WOW, still £1999 on the UK site though.
Paul
Anyone know if the Linux pricing has changed?
Ahh – from the FAQ:
s Shake still available on Linux?
Yes, Shake 4.1 for Linux is available through [email protected]. Pricing has not changed for Linux.
Can you say loss leader? Of course it probably will work, once the workstations are out and can dual / triple boot I’ll probably get one.
😯 😯 😯 Completely amazing…
FLGB wrote:😯 😯 😯 Completely amazing…not that amazing. looks like apple is getting ready to RUIN shake. dug this up off of highend3D’s website Via CGFORUM.org…
New Mac OS X seats can now be purchased via the Retail box for a modest
price of $499 with unlimited render licenses. Shake 4.1 Linux licenses
remain available directly through .Apple will no longer be selling maintenance for Shake and no further
software updates are planned as we begin work on the next generation of
Shake compositing software. While we’re excited about the innovations we can
bring in the future, we understand you have a business to run today that
requires Shake. To that end, we will provide all Maintenance customers with
the following three options:A. Customers can continue with end-user e-mail support, as well as SDK
support for the duration of their Maintenance contract.B. Customers may elect to cancel their Maintenance and receive a pro-rated
refund for the unused portion. Existing software licenses would continue to
function according to the Software License Agreement. Maintenance customers
that wish to cancel their contract must do so by July 23, 2006.C. Additionally, Maintenance customers may choose to license the Shake 4.1
Source Code for $50,000. The Source Code license includes a 5,000 seat
volume license of Shake 4.1. This offer is designed to help facilities with
significant Shake investments maintain a reliable and controllable visual
effects pipeline. Maintenance customers that wish to license the Shake 4.1
Source Code must do so by July 23, 2006. Apple reserves the right to refuse
any maintenance customer source Code access.
so it looks like apple are working on a next generation compositing system (still shake though) but they are allowing big companies like Weta and ILM complete access to the source code so they are not inconvenienced by the transition.Well they expect to release this neww app by 2008, so I guess there might be some minor upgrades.
Although it seems weird, it is no a surprise, as I recall Apple bought also Silicon Grail with nothing real. I guess the once two teams can now dedicate themselves to work on a truly next gen app for the new Quad Core Intel Macs and integrate them to Final Cut Extreme (which does exist, check out the red camera report)
on what promises to become a complete dominator on the market…BTW Shake at $500 is going to make a lot of folks switch, specially when the MacPros are released at the WWDC this august.
Goodbye Shake… hello iComp. Arrrghh!
It’s time to leave shake for good.Keyser_Soze wrote:Goodbye Shake… hello iComp. Arrrghh!
It’s time to leave shake for good.what’s the matter!?!? dont you like brushed steel pull down menus and shiny colorful little buttons all over everything?
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sidewalksurfing wrote:Keyser_Soze wrote:Goodbye Shake… hello iComp. Arrrghh!
It’s time to leave shake for good.what’s the matter!?!? dont you like brushed steel pull down menus and shiny colorful little buttons all over everything?
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It’s been going downhill since version 2.5
Apple has sucked the soul out of this program and now I’m afraid it’s going to be lost forever.fusion !!! BAH !!!!
NUKE it baby !!!!! its the FUTURE !!!
-swerve
Pff, Toxic!
i really dont know why everyone is saying bye bye shake.. because most of the post production houses are using shake for all their work, i think it will be a while before studios ditch shake as most of them have their pipelines based around shake anyways…
Cheers
HaZ
haz wrote:i really dont know why everyone is saying bye bye shake.. because most of the post production houses are using shake for all their work, i think it will be a while before studios ditch shake as most of them have their pipelines based around shake anyways…Cheers
HaZ
Yes but I think the transition for them to convert to other software has begun, give it 2 years, my guess some will go fusion others toxic,
Interesting how many people guess fusion and toxik will be the outcome package of choice. What about Nuke. Only one of the three that is cross platform. And best of my knowledge is the only one that has the ability to work with 64 channels and exploit openexr file format to the fullest, Works pretty darn fast pumping film rez float frames around. Works on a pretty modest machine specs as well. hahahah, yes i am biased.
cheers.
swerve.
Price: £329.00 at Apple UK
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