This does not occur with Compressor 2 included with Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro 5, DVD Studio Pro 4, Motion 2, and Soundtrack Pro.

• 800 Mhz PowerPC G4 Tower
• Mac OS X 10.3.2 (or later)
• 3-button mouse
• QuickTime 6.5 (or later)
• 1 GB local disk space for caching and temporary files
• 256 MB of RAM
• A video display card with 32 MB of VRAM and Open GL hardware acceleration, such as the NVIDIA 4 MX or ATI Radeon 7500
• 1280 x 1024 display with a required minimum of 24-bit color

• 800 Mhz PowerPC G4 PowerBook
• Mac OS X 10.3.2 (or later)
• 3-button mouse
• QuickTime 6.5 (or later)
• 1 GB local disk space for caching and temporary files
• 256 MB of RAM
• A video display card with 32 MB ]]> Sun, 18 Apr 2004 07:33:57 -0500 Release date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:33:57 -0500; Views: 10 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93977
  
  
  
  
  Select the checkbox next to Shake Tutorial Images, as seen in the image above, to install the tutorial images.
  
  The images will be installed in the following path:
  /Applications/Shake3.50/doc/pix/
  
  ]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:33:57 -0500 Release date: Wed, 11 May 2005 06:05:36 -0500; Views: 10 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301477 Apple Qmaster requires a Macintosh computer with a G4 processor as a minimum hardware configuration. Computers with a G3 processor are not supported by Apple Qmaster.
  ]]> Wed, 11 May 2005 06:05:36 -0500 Release date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 07:33:57 -0600; Views: 9 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93387 Symptom
  
  • Shake stops responding or slows in performance.
  • The message, "MIG: server died : CGSExtractEventRecordsFromMessage" appears in the Console.
  
  Products affected
  
  • Shake 3.0
  
  Solution
  
  Update to Shake 3.01. Update using the Software Update pane in System Preferences or from the Shake download page (http://www.apple.com/shake/download/).
  
  ]]> Thu, 20 Nov 2003 07:33:57 -0600 Release date: Wed, 11 May 2005 06:35:17 -0500; Views: 9 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301388 Although Apple Qadministrator currently allows you to create a cluster with unmanaged services, valid clusters require at least one managed service. To make them available in Apple Qmaster and Batch Monitor, you must create clusters with at least one managed service.

  Apple Qmaster can be installed with DVD Studio Pro 4, Shake 4, and Final Cut Studio.

  ]]> Wed, 11 May 2005 06:35:17 -0500 Release date: Wed, 5 May 2004 07:33:57 -0500; Views: 8 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93227 Updates to the Shake Qmaster User's Manual
  
  

  The Shake Qmaster User's Manual says

  Please note that this has changed to the following:

  In the Batch Monitor, only batches with the same owner (login) name as the current user are displayed.

  In the Batch Monitor, client users can view the status of other users' batches, allowing them to see how much activity is happening in a cluster at a given moment. However, users still cannot modify other users' batches: When they select a batch or job submitted by another user, the Stop, Resume, and Delete ]]> Wed, 5 May 2004 07:33:57 -0500 Release date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 07:33:57 -0600; Views: 7 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93211 Shake 3 System Requirements Before you install Shake 3, make sure your Macintosh system meets the following minimum requirements. Minimum Desktop Hardware and Software Configuration 800 MHz or faster Power Mac G4 Mac OS X 10.2.5 (or later) 3-button mouse QuickTime 6.1 (or later) 1 GB local disk space for caching and temporary files 256 MB of RAM A video display card with 32 MB of VRAM and Open GL hardware acceleration, such as the NVIDIA 4 MX or ATI Radeon 7500 1280- by 1024-pixel display with a required minimum of 24 bit color Minimum PowerBook Hardware and Software Configuration 800 MHz or faster ]]> Wed, 3 Dec 2003 07:33:57 -0600 Release date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:33:57 -0500; Views: 7 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93765 Tip: After you change the cluster user password, you also need to quit and reopen the Batch Monitor in order to monitor any batches in that cluster. ]]> Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:33:57 -0500 Release date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:47:39 -0600; Views: 7 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301038 After you create a cluster in Qadmin, you won't be able to drag a node into the cluster if you have updated to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. As a workaround, disable IPv6 in the Network preferences pane. ]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:47:39 -0600 Release date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:39:20 -0600; Views: 7 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301167 If an imported Motion project is included in a Shake script, and you choose Render Disk FlipBook, the Motion project contents will not be included in the resulting Disk FlipBook. Other nodes will be rendered appropriately, but the Motion node will not be rendered. As a workaround, choose Render FlipBook instead, or output the node tree using a FileOut node. ]]> Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:39:20 -0600 Release date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:34:33 -0500; Views: 6 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301859 Shake 4 modifies the way the Rotoshape node works. As a result, rotoshapes created and rendered in Shake 3.5 could potentially yield slightly different results when rendered in Shake 4. This difference is more prominent in shapes with hard edges, though any potential difference is minimal (a 3-pixel shift along one edge, maybe) and should generally not be an issue. To avoid potential issues, keep the following in mind: Never mix rotoshape-heavy rendered frames from Shake 4 and Shake 3.5 (for example, frame 1 was rendered in Shake 3.5, ]]> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:34:33 -0500 Release date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:33:57 -0500; Views: 5 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93230 Shake Qmaster Uses the sh Shell to Execute Commands Shake Qmaster uses the sh shell to execute the UNIX commands you submit for processing. This is useful to keep in mind because some syntax required for the sh shell, such as the environment variable syntax, is slightly different from the syntax required for the tcsh shell. (The tcsh shell is the Mac OS X default shell.) This information comes from the Qmaster Late Breaking News for Shake version 3.0. You should refer to the Help menu on your computer if you have a different version. Updated or expanded information may also ]]> Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:33:57 -0500 Release date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:33:57 -0500; Views: 5 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93229 Using Shake Qmaster With Shake-to-QuickTime Conversions Shake Qmaster does not support distributed processing on more than one computer when the Shake file format output is QuickTime. However, you can do one of the following: Instead of specifying QuickTime as the output format, choose an intermediate, framebased format such as TIFF, and then bring the multiple resulting files into a conversion tool like QuickTime Pro and export them as one file. Submit the job to a cluster that contains only one service node. This way the job results in one QuickTime movie file on one computer. This information comes from the Qmaster Late Breaking News ]]> Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:33:57 -0500 Release date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:33:57 -0500; Views: 5 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93226 Supported Cluster Configurations The recommended Shake Qmaster cluster configuration is one that contains a maximum of 20 computers running a maximum of 40 processing services. What counts as a processing service? It's important to understand that each of the following services counts toward this maximum of 40 processing services: The Unix Processing service enabled in Shake Qmaster System Preferences. An additional instance of the processing service added in Shake Qmaster System Preferences to maximize dual processing. Instances of extended nodes added in Shake Qmaster System Preferences. For example, you could have 20 dual processor computers, each configured to have two instances of the Unix Processing ]]> Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:33:57 -0500 Release date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 08:45:23 -0500; Views: 5 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303544 Some node configurations in Shake 4 may result in imagery that appears to have horizontal lines on some edges, resembling interlace artifacts, as seen in the following illustration: One way around this is to apply an Other-Bytes node to promote affected nodes to 16 bits. This should remove the artifacts. You don't need to apply it to the entire script, just to the areas you find the behavior occurring. The script in the following illustration shows a scenario where you might ]]> Wed, 5 Apr 2006 08:45:23 -0500 Release date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:00:50 -0600; Views: 4 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300584 Symptom Shake does not display the source material image thumbnails of FileIn nodes in the NodeView window. Products affected Shake 3.5 Solution Create a definition file for configuring your environment and specify a folder to which the disk cache should be written. You can create a definition file using a plain text editor such as TextEdit. Here's an example of how to create a definition file: Open TextEdit. In a new document, type the ]]> Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:00:50 -0600 Release date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 07:33:57 -0600; Views: 3 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93225 The format of UNC (entire file path) is: //computername/volumename/directoryname/filename However, because UNC includes the computer name, if you move a file to a different computer, the path to the file is broken. This behavior can be changed to absolute in the Globals tab. The format for absolute naming (local file path) is: /volumename/directoryname/filename Since absolute naming does not include the computer name, it can be moved from computer to computer, provided ]]> Tue, 2 Dec 2003 07:33:57 -0600 Release date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:33:57 -0600; Views: 2 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93236 Symptom When a script is created with FileOut and rendered twice, it overwrites already rendered frames. Products affected Shake 3.0 Solution To avoid this, do not render files with the same name and extension to an existing directory. ]]> Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:33:57 -0600 Release date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 07:33:57 -0600; Views: 1 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93669 To prevent this from occurring, do the following on each installed node: From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences. From the View menu, choose Energy Saver. Set the slider for "Set the computer to sleep when it is inactive" to Never. ]]> Fri, 6 Feb 2004 07:33:57 -0600