Shake price drop.
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Looking on the Apple site it seems to imply that you can only get the crossgrade if you had a previous version of Shake (Which means it aint a crossgrade!) unlike being able to crossgrade from say Motion to FCP Studio.Greggl said:
I hope somebody proves me wrong though!!
Regards
Indy.....
oneinfiniteloop
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crazycatz said:
Thanks for the comment, here is the basic workflow on how I did that shot.
On set I stuck a piece of ribar in the ground, then I layed on my back and positioned the camera accordingly (since I didn't have a tripod that would get low enough). I had the girl stand there with her hand resting on the ribar for scale/allignment in post. I then layed there while my crew put a pigs heart on the end of the ribar and doused it in lighter fluid and lit it afire.
Now, I brought a piece of black posterboard to put behind the burning heart so I could use some garbage mattes and an add node (transfer mode) to comp in the heart, but I forget to use it on set since I was laying on my back keeping the camera steady, so I had to rotoscope the flames the best I could, which was a task to say the least. I ended up doing the roto in PS because it was easier to paint a mask rather using a rotoshape in Shake.
I then took the two plates and painted out the ribar in the shot with the girl, then took my heart roto and put it over her hand. I had to roto out her fingers to put the heart 'in', then added some heavy light/fire wrap and some adds of the fire over itself after being blurred to give it that bloom look.
I can post a still of the shake node tree with some other stills of the footage if anyone is interested in seeing it.
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krestofre said:
I'll post it here tonight, when I get home.
oneinfiniteloop
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Mines a little less complex than that, but it only has 2 elements and a little roto work.
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One thing I realized when I first started using shake was that I need a bigger monitor. I use node tree's nowhere close to that amount and it's still cumbersome.
Greg, have any tricks/tips to manage that kind of tree? How do you get the color blocks to show up? I've been meaning to read up on these UI things, but I keep getting mired down in learning other parts of the program.
Greg, have any tricks/tips to manage that kind of tree? How do you get the color blocks to show up? I've been meaning to read up on these UI things, but I keep getting mired down in learning other parts of the program.
Greggl
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oneinfiniteloop said:
Those are the groups... you can lasso a collection of nodes, then 'group' em into one. When expanded, the nodes in the group are all on the colored 'curtain'.
I guess you should just work logically. Its basically 'chutes and ladders' so start
at the top with source images and work from there. Create groups for things
that logically go together to create a stage or element. Those groups can then
be cached or even 'pre-rendered' and replaced with another 'file in' node.
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What's the hotkey to group the nodes and to expand them?
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Here is my tree for the burning heart shot. Not quite as elaborate as Greg's but this is one of my first attempts at comping in Shake.
The whole tree...
The original girl plate, and the painted one
The original burning heart
After roto work
With the mask for the fingers
With light wrap around the fingers
And the final comp
The whole tree...
The original girl plate, and the painted one
The original burning heart
After roto work
With the mask for the fingers
With light wrap around the fingers
And the final comp
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Nik Manning
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I don't see the images.oneinfiniteloop said:Here is my tree for the burning heart shot. Not quite as elaborate as Greg's but this is one of my first attempts at comping in Shake.
The whole tree...
The original girl plate, and the painted one
The original burning heart
After roto work
With the mask for the fingers
With light wrap around the fingers
And the final comp
Nik Manning
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Anybody know of any websiters that have free shake tutorials?
oneinfiniteloop
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Nik Manning said:
Try now, I had to change the extensions to be PC friendly.
Go to www.highend2d.com, you'll find some stuff there.
oneinfiniteloop
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Does anyone know if Internet Explorer can load tif's? I can't see my pics now that I'm at work. Any help?