Shake has been used on so many of the Academy Award winning films for Best Visual Effects over the past six years - all of them, in fact - and is required courseware at so many major film schools worldwide, that listing its credits would require several pages. Shake's reputation as the affordable high-end post-production solution for film and video professionals is about to get another big boost.

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Because with the inclusion of unlimited network render licenses and render management software on Mac OS X, visual effects artists can now distribute rendering tasks across multiple PowerPC G4-based Macintosh computers. Full Specifications What's new in version 4.1.1. Shake 4.1.1 addresses general performance issues and improves overall stability. This update is recommended for all Shake 4.1 users. For owners of Shake 4.1 who do not own Final Cut Studio 2, the only way to get this update is through the Software Update feature in Mac OS X General Publisher Publisher web site Release Date December 16, 2008 Date Added December 16, 2008 Version 4.1.1 Category Category Subcategory Operating Systems Operating Systems Mac OS X 10.3.9/10.4 Intel/10.4 PPC/10.5 Intel/10.5 PPC Additional Requirements None Download Information File Size 22.24KB File Name UNKNOWN Popularity Total Downloads 9,311 Downloads Last Week 3 Pricing License Model Purchase Limitations Not available Price Paid.

Several years ago, Blackmagic Design put world-class color grading tools into the hands of the masses when they released. Now they're doing the same thing with Fusion 7, a professional node-based compositing and 3D animation software that has been used on countless Hollywood features and shows. It's powerful, it's free, and it's now if you're a Windows user. Back at IBC 2014, the announcement that, the original developer of Fusion, kind of snuck under the radar, likely due to the explosion of new 4K cameras that were announced at the trade show. However, it may very well turn out that this acquisition will do for the visual effects world what Blackmagic's acquisition of DaVinci did for color grading, in which case this is a massive announcement that will likely have a tremendous impact on the quality of visual effects in low-budget films over the next few years. So let's take a look an interview from IBC 2014 that sums up perfectly why this announcement is such a big deal. Here's a rundown of some of the incredibly powerful features that are available in Fusion 7 from Dailymotion user.

Like DaVinci Resolve, Fusion 7 has both a free and a paid version, which comes in at $995, that is designed for post houses in need of additional high-end features like a full stereoscopic toolset and network rendering. The free version is not limited in any significant capacity with the exception that it doesn't offer support for 3rd party OFX plugins and it can't output resolutions higher than QHD. Otherwise, it's an astoundingly full featured piece of software that is capable of professional and polished results. The biggest kink in this release is that it's currently only available to Windows users. Obviously a sizable portion of content creators these days are using Macs as their primary computers, so limiting this software to Windows users would obviously limit the impact that Fusion 7 will have on the world of low-budget visual effect creation. However, in a, Grant Petty revealed that a Mac version is indeed in the works and the Blackmagic engineers are hard at work rewriting the code. Here's an excerpt from that post.

Yes, we are working on a version of Fusion for, but there are some important things to know about that. We are lucky that the engineering team who has been working on Fusion 7 has kept the codebase very modern and clean so that allows us to move it forward. However there is some Windows specific code in the buttons and menus in Fusion, and that code is being changed out right now. What that means is the time it's going to take to do a version of Fusion is a bit unknown, and so it's impossible right now to specify any kind of release day.

It's impossible to even know when we can show a Mac OS X version too. Ultimately, Fusion 7 seems likely to have a massive impact on the visual effects community because one of the most advanced pieces of VFX on the planet is now completely free of charge. That in and of itself is a massive deal. However, until a Mac version is released, we won't know the extent to which Fusion will be adopted by the lower-budget end of the film industry.

If DaVinci Resolve's ubiquity is any indication, it's likely that Fusion could very well be a household name for filmmakers within a few years. You can find out more about the features in Fusion 7, and download the software, over on the. What do you guys think of this announcement? Will Fusion 7 revolutionize the world of low-budget visual effects?

Let us know down in the comments! On Linux it's Nuke for compositing. The only other package you really see is Flame in commercials. AfterFX has made some inroads for things like split screen and cleanup, due to it's direct integration with Premiere.

Maya, Houdini, Softimage and Modo run on Linux. 3D Max is the exception, although it is not widely used in high end vfx. There are many smaller and some midsize houses that are all Windows. Some houses are a mix. Windows for the 3D guys, compositors on Linux.

The motion graphics people are usually Mac. Things improved for Windows with Win 7, but there are many reason to go Linux for a large scale facility. One big reason is cost. If you have 1000 workstations Linux is a bargain.

Acer aspire 5100 series windows 7 64-bit driver for mac. Buying a Windows license for that many machines would be very expensive. Same for a farm with hundreds or thousands of blades. Linux is lower maintenance, faster in many cases etc.

Editors used to mainly be Mac, but since Apple fumbled with and Premiere made a comeback, Windows is an option, again. The vast majority of Avid boxes I have seen are Mac. The new Mac Pro looks to be pretty popular with editors. I see a lot of people upgrading to theTrashcan. The big editing package on Linux is Lightworks, but it is nowhere as widely used as /Avid /Premiere. November 12, 2014 at 2:20AM. This is a little something of a fluff press piece.

None of the major visual effects houses use Fusion. Not Weta, ILM, Digital Domain, Scanline, R&H, Imageworks, Dreamworks, Disney, DNEG, MPC, Framestore or anyone in-between. The biggest Fusion user was probably Prime Focus, who used it in their stereo conversion pipeline, but even there it was phased out in favor of Nuke. The industry standard is Nuke, which was developed by Digital Domain (for which they won a tech achievement Oscar) in the early 1990's. Eventually Nuke ended up at the Foundry, where it became a commercial product.

If anything Fusion has been decimated in recent years by Nuke and AfterFX, which is probably why BM was able to purchase them cheaply. Before Nuke made the transition from an in-house package at Digital Domain to the Foundry and public sales, the market was dominated by Shake. But Shake was purchased by Apple, who utterly botched it and killed the product within a short time. November 11, 2014 at 12:04PM, Edited November 11, 12:04PM.

Although I totally agree with everything you say about Nuke being the standard I think you miss the point here though dude (not to be rude or anything), this isn't really about Fusions past but it's future. The headline was 'Professional Node-Based Compositing & 3D Animation Software Is Now at EVERYONE's Fingertips'. What I gathered from this article was that Fusion is going to be accessible to everyone, not just the high-end facilitates (or people with a few grand knocking about) and also it's definitely going to be one to watch now that it's been acquired by BMD. For me the Fusion UI is the thing that puts me off so far but after a few years of development this could be a total beast, especially if they integrate a half decent NLE like with Resolve. Hell, imagine if they had full integration WITH Resolve!

I mean, (like others have said) imagine if it had the speed and power of resolves planar tracker. That alone would be reason enough to dabble in it from time to time. November 12, 2014 at 1:50PM.