Shake 3.5 at NAB?

shake too $$$$$

Would Apple really put out that invitation to upgrade Shake from 3.0 to 3.5? There's got to be more to this . . . . (at least I would hope so)

Sounds good. I mean we want shake to keep winning academy awards, don't we? :cool:

Now, FCP 5, LET'S GO!

It would make sense that apple might do this, but if that's all, then that invitation sounds like a huge letdown. (like the first quarter of this year....)

According to various rumors, Apple is planning on introducing Shake 3.5 (current version is 3.0) at the National Association of Broadcasters.

My humble preditiction:
1. Shake (to include a X-grid like distributed render farm but not requiring dedicated computers)
2. FCP (4.5?)
3. Maybe PM G5s
However, not necessarily one week from today - just sometime during NAB.
Apple isn't presenting, so they could open their booth any day with new releases.

iSights are definately NOT broadcast equipment, so I wouldn't hope for new ones at NAB (certainly possible during NAB, but not AT NAB)
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Shake 3.5
Xserve dual G5 2.xGHz
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Xserve RAID
FCP 4.5
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I want my quad 3.0 ghz G5's at nab... not some.. shaking thing

just kidding.......

acually not kidding but......

This sounds right. All these other predictions, (New Powerbooks, New Powermacs, New anything hardware) don't make a lot of snese givein this is a media event.

Maybe shake is to be bundled into iLife and sold on all mac machines, talking about mac machines here they are, que range a G5 machines...

Well, it happened last year too.

Don't be suprized if they drop the price with in the year and have an express version of Shake out soon. I met some people from Apple (from Marketing,Training, and Hardware) and they said that Apple was looking into dropping the price of Shake and of creating a "Express" version for students.

Shake is fantastic. I love it. On the purely speculative side, a trainer that I met said that he wouldn't be surprised if Apple doesn’t "dumb" down the engine and create a version that edits only stills. I prefer nodes and noodles to working the traditional "layered" style that Adobe uses.
Then again, if I paid 5k for Shake, I'd use it to edit and batch stills also. Apple trains Shake users with a 2button&scroll mouse. So there might also be a change in Apple's one button mouse ideolgy.

As another side note, this fits Apple’s pattern of creating or purchasing applications to fill most user application needs. In a lot of ways, Apple is looking like Next, which doesn’t bode well for those of us that love Apple’s hardware and software control. I’d hate to see Apple go into primarily designing applications and move away from designing hardware, as Next did.

Post Script: For those of you that have not used Shake, find a way to use it. It is incredibly powerful and a whole lot of fun.