Shawn Miller
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[Steve Connor] “[Simon Ubsdell] “Am I really alone in getting so worked up about this? Or am I just being a grumpy bastard as usual and nobody else feels this way?”
You’re not alone! The other thing that gets me is the current vogue for facing people out of the wrong side of frame”
Yes, that, and framing so that the head is at the bottom corner of the frame… so that you can see branding in the background. 🙁
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[David Lawrence] “[Shawn Miller] “Maybe you could distribute through RedGiant like Trapcode does? It’s an excellent plugin, something every FCPX user should be interested in. :-)”
And if you’re game Simon, I think a lot of Premiere Pro users would be interested as well!”
I would definitely buy it. 🙂
Shawn
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[Simon Ubsdell] “Thanks, Bill. I seriously doubt that we’re going to sell enough units to cover the time we have spent developing it, but that was never really the point. We both became really engrossed in the challenge that it represented and we’ve discovered some really interesting things along the way, so really that’s the payback. Yup, we’re lousy businessmen, that’s for sure ;-)”
Maybe you could distribute through RedGiant like Trapcode does? It’s an excellent plugin, something every FCPX user should be interested in. 🙂
Shawn
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That is just slick.
Shawn
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[Brian Chaffee] “Apple bought and then killed Shake, which still, even to this day, out does Nuke and Fusion hands down and if it had continued to be developed seriously, would still be the number one package of it’s kind in the world as it was back in the day.”
I’m curious why you say this, Brian. In what way does Shake outdo Nuke and Fusion?
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[Simon Ubsdell] ”
I could be wrong too (!) but I think we had optical flow in Motion before they introduced the stabilisation option.”Of the two of us, I’m pretty sure you’re more likely to be right about this. 🙂
Shawn
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[Tim Wilson] “do any of you know where Shake’s tech wound up in the Apple ecosystem?”
I thought Shake’s optical flow technology made it into Motion via their camera stabilization effect… I could be wrong though. 🙂
Shawn
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[Andrew Kimery] “It’s a product that goes too far down the post-production rabbit hole for Apple, IMO. I think it was originally acquired for parts, prestige, and with the hopes that it would be picked up by a much broader user base. After Apple took the IP from Shake that it wanted, and the potential market didn’t seem much broader than the existing market, is when Apple probably decided that it was Done with Shake. Interesting thing about it is that Apple EOL’d Shake in ’06 but kept selling it until ’09.”
I don’t doubt that this completely correct, and it does make the decision to kill Shake a bit more understandable – can’t have someone else mining the same IP after all. Too bad, I always wanted to try Shake.
Shawn
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[Bret Williams] “They could’ve given away shake.”
It’s funny, Shake was still pretty popular among compositors until fairly recently… maybe two or three years ago? I would be willing to bet that a company like Boris/Imagineer Systems, Blackmagic or Adobe could have picked it up, modernized it and made it great again… if it had been for sale, that is. I still don’t get Apple’s reasoning for killing Shake outright. It was still a viable piece of software that didn’t directly compete with any of Apple’s offerings… why destroy it?
Shawn
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[John Rofrano] “I guess it would depend on if the bird was a laden or unladen swallow and if it was of African or European descent? 😉
My take is: If the bird looks real it’s a visual effect… if it looks fake it’s a motion graphic. lol”
Fair enough. 🙂