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About the contents of your shake3.5 box, About online help – Apple Shake 3.5 User Manual

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Installing Shake 3.5

Important

Be sure to review the

Before You Install Shake 3.5

document (in the Shake 3.5

installer or on the installation CD). For the latest information on Shake 3.5, go to the Shake
Web site at http://www.apple.com/shake.

About the Contents of Your Shake 3.5 Box

Your Shake 3.5 box contains the following software and documentation.

CD

The Shake 3.5 installation CD:

This is your installation disk. Use this CD to install the

Shake 3.5 and Shake Qmaster software and documentation.

Printed documentation

The following printed instructional material is included in your Shake 3.5 box:

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Shake Reference Guide:

Provides information on new features, the Shake user interface,

image input and output, the compositing nodes and Node View, file formats and footage,
keying, color correction and color space, using masks and transforms, working with the
Curve Editor and the Time View, painting and rotoscoping tools, using filters, customizing
Shake and making macros, and rendering.

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Shake Tutorials:

Provide step-by-step instructions for general Shake workflow and the

user interface, basic color correction, using the Z channel, using local variables with
expressions, color correction on premultiplied elements, using

Keylight

and

Primatte

,

tracking, how to make a macro, and how to create a simple clean plate.

PDF documentation

The following PDF documentation is located in the Documentation folder on the Shake 3.5
installation CD.

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Shake Reference Guide

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Shake Tutorials

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Shake 3.5 Installation Guide

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Shake Qmaster User’s Manual

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Shake Qmaster Late-Breaking News

About Online Help

The

Shake Reference Guide

,

Shake Tutorials

,

Shake 3.5 New Features Guide

,

Customizing

Shake

,

Getting Help

, and

Late-Breaking News

are located in the Help menu of the Shake

application. For information on new features in Shake 3.5, refer to the Late-Breaking News or
the

Shake 3.5 New Features Guide

. The

Shake Qmaster Help

and Late-Breaking News are

available in the Help menu of the Shake Qmaster application.