on the PPro product manager popping his head around the door to give a heads up.

[Aindreas Gallagher]

I hear your pain.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

it’s no comment of the year mind you.

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[Scott Thomas]

[Jason J Rodriguez] “Yes, it was called Shake

It was created by a company called Nothing Real, and then Apple bought Nothing Real, dropped the price by 10x so anyone could afford it, and then mercilessly killed the product. How amazingly productive.

I’m aware of what Shake is, and that wasn’t the only compositing app that Apple bought. There was also Silicon Grail’s Chalice and RAYZ.

Perhaps I wasn’t clear enough. I was talking of a node-based compositor and *editor* like Softimage DS or Autodesk Smoke or Flame.

My feeling is that the retraction of the Final Cut Studio from the market and the introduction of Smoke on the Mac are not coincidental, but I don’t have any facts to back that up, but I do think it’s interesting.

Apple isn’t the only company that buys products and disappears them. How about Puffin Designs Commotion? Matador? Altamira Composer?

IMHO Apple is not interested in Pro’s … at least not when they don’t need us anymore.”

Sadly, that may be true, but I look up to the TV and see an ad for the new iPad, and at least don’t worry about Apple’s future anymore.