What's New in Shake 3.01 Update
The Shake 3.01 update includes fixes, enhancements, and improvements to the stability of Shake on all platforms. This release has also been optimized for improved performance on the Apple Power Mac G5 and Mac OS X 10.3.

Additional enhancements have been added to make it easier to manipulate shapes created with the RotoShape node. These enhancements include individual transform control over each shape in a RotoShape node, selection-based RotoShape transforms, the ability to move the center of transformation for any RotoShape, a shortcut menu which allows the visibility of individual RotoShapes to be turned on and off, and the ability to select individual points in a RotoShape that fall within a user definable region around the cursor.

The industry-standard compositing and effects solution for film and HD now comes with unlimited network rendering on Mac OS X.

Now optimized for the dual processor Power Mac G5 and Mac OS X Panther, Shake 3.01 significantly increases performance for rendering, on average up to 45% faster than a Power Mac G4 and up to 27% faster than a dual 3.20 GHz Xeon costing over $1,500 more. The Power Mac G5 is now the premiere platform for Shake processing.

Shake renders single images using a "Script" that describes which effects and composites are applied to a series of input images to create one or more output images. Apple created simple Node Scripts to test specific areas of the application for each individual node at various resolutions and color bit depth. While not typical workflow scenarios, they indicate areas of greatest performance optimizations. On average the entire Node tests performed 27% faster on a dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 than the dual 3.20 GHz Xeon. Truly isolating the core function of compositing, a dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 renders Layer nodes significantly faster than a dual 3.2Ghz Xeon. The rendering speed of Color Correction nodes on a dual 2Ghz Power Mac G5 blows away a dual 3.2Ghz Xeon.