Apple Shake 4 Tutorials - Manual (Page 7)

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Welcome to Shake 4
This guide includes hands-on tutorials, demonstrations,
and explanations of Shake features and workflow.
In addition to the fundamental topics, this guide also explains specialized topics, such
as 3D compositing, expressions, keying, and tracking. Check the lesson summaries
below for a quick overview of each tutorial.
For further study, you’ll want to explore the Shake 4 User Manual . This is a two-volume
book (also available in PDF format from the onscreen Help menu and in the Shake/doc
directory) that contains detailed information about color correction, keying and spill
suppression, masking, transforms, premultiplication, bit depth, logarithmic color space,
caching and optimization, and other Shake features. The
Shake 4 User Manual also
includes a helpful “Cookbook” chapter with additional tips and macros to improve your
workflow and productivity.
The Tutorial Lessons
• Tutorial 1: “Shake Basics” —This tutorial introduces Shake through a series of common
tasks, including loading and compositing images, tuning parameters, transforming
images, adding masks, and rendering.
• Tutorial 2: “Intermediate Skills” —This tutorial shows how to optimize your workflow
with the SetDOD node, and how to use the Shake Time View, and the Curve Editor.
You will also learn how to add motion blur, how to color-match the elements in a
composite, and how to import Photoshop files as layers in a composite.
• Tutorial 3: “Depth Compositing” —This tutorial demonstrates different methods for
creating “real” and simulated depth in your composites. You’ll start with Z channels
and filtering options. Then you’ll work with Shake’s
MultiPlane node.
• Tutorial 4: “Working With Expressions” —This tutorial shows how to generate
animation with expressions, rather than keyframes.
• Tutorial 5: “Using Keylight” —This two-part lesson covers the basics of using the
Keylight node: pulling keys, applying masking, creating holdout mattes, and
performing spill suppression.