Apple Finally Discontinues Shake? [Updated]
Alongside today's introduction of updated Time Capsule models, Apple appears to have finally discontinued Shake, its long-standing high-end digital compositing and visual effects software package. While Shake's product pages remain available on Apple's site, it is no longer listed in the online Apple Store and MacRumors has received word that Apple sales representatives have been informed of the product's discontinuation. Shake had been priced at $499.
Shake was originally launched in 1997 as a product of Nothing Real, which was acquired by Apple in early 2002. Apple continued to update Shake over the next several years, but the release of Shake 4.1 in mid-2006 was accompanied by the announcement that no further software updates were planned. A minor update to version 4.1.1 was issued in late 2008.
At the time of Shake 4.1's release, rumors claimed that Apple's replacement for the software package, code-named "Phenomenon", would be based on Apple's Motion software and released in 2008. While such a standalone product has not surfaced, it is possible that Apple finally views Motion 4 and other components of the updated Final Cut Studio released last week as a sufficient replacement for Shake's features.
Update: Apple's Shake product pages now redirect to the Final Cut Studio main product page.
Shake was originally launched in 1997 as a product of Nothing Real, which was acquired by Apple in early 2002. Apple continued to update Shake over the next several years, but the release of Shake 4.1 in mid-2006 was accompanied by the announcement that no further software updates were planned. A minor update to version 4.1.1 was issued in late 2008.
At the time of Shake 4.1's release, rumors claimed that Apple's replacement for the software package, code-named "Phenomenon", would be based on Apple's Motion software and released in 2008. While such a standalone product has not surfaced, it is possible that Apple finally views Motion 4 and other components of the updated Final Cut Studio released last week as a sufficient replacement for Shake's features.
Update: Apple's Shake product pages now redirect to the Final Cut Studio main product page.
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33 months ago
I guess it was time to move on eventually. It will be interesting to see what comes in its place, if anything.
33 months ago
... it is possible that Apple finally views Motion 4 and other components of the updated Final Cut Studio released last week as a sufficient replacement for Shake's features.
If that's the case, then Apple is dead wrong.
33 months ago
After Effects is miles ahead anyway.
True, it is. But nothing can do a more pristine conversion from 29.97fps to 24fps than Shake.
Just as I keep an old g4 around, why do I see myself keeping a machine simply to run Shake on the 2 times a year I need it ......
33 months ago
So long as they do not cancel Master Shake...then we're good
Actually, I think Aqua Teen got cancelled..sadly.
As for Shake, I really expected a replacement, but I guess most of it can be done in Final Cut Studio (i'm not a Shake user, so I'm not sure).
33 months ago
To say that Final Cut Studio has all of the features of Shake is idiotic to say the least. There may be aspects of shake now available in part within various applications in FCS, but the bottom line is that Shake was not only a package with all compositing features necessary within it, it was unbelievably flexible, supported a plethora of third party plugins, and had a very intuitive workflow for compositing.
I was one of those people that bought Shake when the price dropped. While I haven't used it a lot, for the times I needed to use it when working with background plates, CG elements, masks and various other layers, it became an indispensable tool, and very easy to work with. To discontinue Shake is one thing, because we can always still use it, and there was a faint hope that it would be replaced with something *BETTER*. Not assimilated into various sub-par workflows that weren't designed for compositing. And no, I don't view Motion as a compositor. It is a motion graphics app.
I was one of those people that bought Shake when the price dropped. While I haven't used it a lot, for the times I needed to use it when working with background plates, CG elements, masks and various other layers, it became an indispensable tool, and very easy to work with. To discontinue Shake is one thing, because we can always still use it, and there was a faint hope that it would be replaced with something *BETTER*. Not assimilated into various sub-par workflows that weren't designed for compositing. And no, I don't view Motion as a compositor. It is a motion graphics app.
33 months ago
Actually, I think Aqua Teen got cancelled..sadly.
As for Shake, I really expected a replacement, but I guess most of it can be done in Final Cut Studio (i'm not a Shake user, so I'm not sure).
Unfortunately, you can't do half of what Shake offers in FCS3.
I hate how Apple neglects the "pro" users after it is the "pro" users who made Apple what it is.
33 months ago
Product page pulled from Apple website now - just redirects to the Final Cut Studio page.
33 months ago
it is possible that Apple finally views Motion 4 and other components of the updated Final Cut Studio released last week as a sufficient replacement for Shake's features.
My first thought was:
If that's the case, then Apple is dead wrong.
But then I haven't yet furnished our VFX department with FCS3, so can't really make that assumption.
... however I'll continue to make it, because Motion really would have been pitched as a replacement when it came out last week. I'm wondering how good the compositing really is.
In the meantime, I'm sure our VFX department will be happy to continue their move towards Nuke. :rolleyes:
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