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November 20th, 2009
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| | | | The Foundry Ships Nuke 5.2
Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry, has announced the latest release of its powerful compositing application Nuke.
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| | | | Canon U.S.A. Announces Additions to its Award-Winning Line of PowerShot Digital Cameras
Experience the First-Ever Touch Screen PowerShot Camera; Celebrate the Resurgence of the S-Series Digital Camera Line; Capture a Memorable Shot with the New High Sensitivity System
Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today announced six new PowerShot cameras offering diverse photographic options for users who have just begun their photographic journey or have been mastering their skills for many years. The new camera line-up delivers the unique features users want, with the superb image quality, ease-of-use and stylish design they have come to expect from Canon.
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| | | | Weta Digital buys Nuke site licence
Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry, today announced that Weta Digital, New Zealand’s premier multi-award winning VFX studio, has purchased a site licence of Nuke to enhance its in-house pipeline.
published 4 months ago read more | | | | |
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| | | | Apple Shake
Apple Shake Video Tutorial: An Introduction to Node-based Compositing
 Steve Wright is a visual effects veteran with 70 broadcast television commercials and over 60 feature films credits. Hes also written and taught extensively on many aspects of effects creation. Here, using Apple Shake as an example, Steve introduces the ideas and methods of node-based compositing.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial, Feature by Steve Wright on 09/04/2007 | | | | |
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Keying 101: Spill Suppression
 This tutorial from Creative Cow Leader Andrew Shanks demonstrates various common approaches to getting rid of colour spill after keying.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Shanks on 02/27/2007 | | | | |
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Keying 101: Edge, Core and Garbage Mattes
 Going beyond the one click keying technique most beginners use, this tutorial from Creative Cow Leader Andrew Shanks shows a common technique and includes tips for other ways to tackle pulling a key.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Shanks on 02/16/2007 | | | | |
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Smoothing DV Jaggies
 In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Andrew Shanks demonstrates cleaning up DV/HDV chroma compression artifacts in Shake to allow for better keying.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Andrew Shanks on 02/13/2007 | | | | |
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Morphing in Shake
 IIn this third video in the series, Shake is Money, Creative Cow Contributor Michael Mench demonstrates a brief overview of the Morpher Node in Shake.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Michael Mench on 07/17/2006 | | | | |
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Slow Motion
 In this second video in the series, Shake is Money, Creative Cow Contributor Michael Mench demonstrates Slow Motion in Apple Shake.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Michael Mench on 07/10/2006 | | | | |
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Smooth Cam Node
 In this Apple Shake video tutorial, Creative Cow Contributor Michael Mench begins a series called Shake is Money in which he will discuss how Final Cut Pro editors can quickly learn how to integrate Shake into their workflow for added flexibilty in the studio. In this first video in the series, Michael demonstrates the Smooth Cam Node in Shake.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Michael Mench on 07/03/2006 | | | | |
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How to become a Feature Film Compositor by John Lafauce Jr.
 Have you ever wanted to contribute to building a twenty thousand man army in "Troy", make a mouse fly a plane in "Stuart Little 2", or launch a doomed luxury liner in "Titanic?" You can achieve visual feats you never dreamed possible and accomplish them all through the magic of compositing. Read this article written by John Lafauce Jr., and see... How to become a feature film compositor. A note just to clarify: this article is about high-end 2d/3d compositing for long form media such as films, where the goal is to make the work seamless, integrated and "invisible". Not to be confused with compositing for motion graphics, where the objective is to make the object or design stand out and be "visible" to the viewer.
Tutorial, Feature by John Lafauce Jr. on 02/25/2005 | | | | |
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| | | | THREADS: | | | | |
| | | |  | Re: hating Qmaster...please help
by james gervais in the Apple Shake Forum
Hi Arnie, I took your advise and tried to do a test of the command line rendering. I did a simple comp of just 2 images and applied an over, then attached a fileout node to it and named the file out node "test" and the project name as "test.shk"....
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| | | |  | Re: hating Qmaster...please help
by Arnie Schlissel in the Apple Shake Forum
You don't need Qmaster for this. I do this from the command line in a terminal window. I think (but I'm not near my copy of Shake or the Shake manual to confirm) the command is something like "shake exec file_name.shk -v". Omit the quotes, of course. You need to...
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| | | | | hating Qmaster...please help
by james gervais in the Apple Shake Forum
Hi guys, ive been going through the Qmaster manual and through the forums and trying to follow what they say about setting up Qmaster. my problem is im not setting it up on a cluster. i only have one machine to do the render and all i want to do...
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| | | | | Re: Shake with Snow Leopard Tests
by Ivan Sijak in the Apple Shake Forum
Hi Ivan, how was Snow Leopard installed, as update or clean instal? In my case it was upgrade over 10.5.8, and all applications worked well. Soon after i downgraded back to 10.5.8 because i did after period a clean install and i was not able to install some software packages...
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| | | | | Re: Enlarging clip for rotoshape
by Arnie Schlissel in the Apple Shake Forum
Place your mouse pointer over the viewer and press the space bar. It will zoom to fit your whole window. Press "f" and the image will zoom to fit into the viewer. Press + or - and you can zoom in or out. Press the space bar again and the...
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| | | | | Re: Depth Mattes
by james gervais in the Apple Shake Forum
Les thank a whole lot. the script u did is awesome and is going to save my hide from the producers and director. there's nothing like jumping into a new software you've never really used right in the middle of project that has a crazy and almost impossible deadline. also...
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| | | |  | Re: Depth Mattes
by Les Stuck in the Apple Shake Forum
Well, I'm no expert, but this is what I came up with. I'm using the depth pass to do a depth-of-field blur and desaturation. Then I composed the result over your background plates. Les BACKGRD_SC05_SH12 = SFileIn("$HOME/Desktop/james_Sc05_Sh12/shot12/Env/BACKGRD_SC05_SH12.tif", "Auto", 0, 0, "v1.1", "0", ""); BACKGRD_ZDEPTH_SC05_SH12 = SFileIn("$HOME/Desktop/james_Sc05_Sh12/shot12/Env/BACKGRD_ZDEPTH_SC05_SH12.tif", "Auto", 0, 0, "v1.1",...
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| | | | | Re: Depth Mattes
by james gervais in the Apple Shake Forum
cool thanks. copied it into the node view and worked great. thanks alot for helping me out. just one more question, cause i know the director and producer are going to want it done. to defocus the d.o.f. i would add in a defocus node inbetween the copy and reorder...
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| | | | | Re: Depth Mattes
by Les Stuck in the Apple Shake Forum
Try pasting this into your Shake node view: CHAR_COLOR_SC05_SH12_001 = SFileIn("$HOME/Desktop/james_Sc05_Sh12/shot12/Char/CHAR_COLOR_SC05_SH12_001.tif", "Auto", 0, 0, "v1.1", "0", ""); CHAR_ZDEPTH_SC05_SH12_001 = SFileIn("$HOME/Desktop/james_Sc05_Sh12/shot12/Char/CHAR_ZDEPTH_SC05_SH12_001.tif", "Auto", 0, 0, "v1.1", "0", ""); ColorWheel1 = ColorWheel(720, 576, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1); RGrad1 = RGrad(720, 576, 1, width/2, height/2, 1, min(width,height)/4, min(width,height)/4, 0.5, 1, 1, 1, 1,...
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| | | | | Re: Depth Mattes
by james gervais in the Apple Shake Forum
ive uploaded a frame of the project to sendspace and here is the link http://www.sendspace.com/file/o3w6hh i hope the link will go to the forum. Thanks for all the help....its great and much appreciated cheers james...
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| | | | | Re: Depth Mattes
by Les Stuck in the Apple Shake Forum
Maya's Z is a different format than Shake's. It needs to be mapped onto the A channel, inverted, and scaled. Here's a little macro that should convert for you: http://www.creativecrash.com/shake/downloads/macros/misc/c/viewmayaz www.stuckfootage.com...
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This tutorial from Creative Cow Leader Andrew Shanks shows common techniques to better blend your keyed foreground element with the background plate.
