Thread: Shake 2.5 vs Shake 4

Hi everyone!

Im new to shake and im using version 2.5 i was just wondering what are the main differences between 2.5 and 4? Is version 4 much much better? What are the key differences?

thanks

Alex.

hmm...some of the things that come to my head are - Tracking data can be applied to roto points, PSD imports, optical flow technology to deinterlace change frame rates and rescale images, "smoothcam" to stablize shots, a very buggy 3D composite space, autoalign node - align up three input images with one another.

Originally Posted by avillabon

Hi everyone!

Im new to shake and im using version 2.5 i was just wondering what are the main differences between 2.5 and 4? Is version 4 much much better? What are the key differences?

thanks

Alex.

4 years and a OS Change...

Updates/Bug fixes: tracker/matchmove work(crashed or bugged out before), rotoshape works(unusable before), undo works 90% of the time(only worked 1/100th of the time before), Primatte/Keylight work in float(previously only 8 bit lin/10 bit log), Curve editor is usable, HueCurves actually have color in the view so you know what color your correcting, caching is better.

New stuff ontop of what abishek mentioned:
morpher, warper, lens warp/unwarp, gpu shader support, 3d space/camera support (ability to import obj models), filmgrain, stitcher(autoalign), steadymove, multi channel exr support, dpx support, blind/metadata support, cache node, FCP > Shake timeline support, audio, 10 bit codec support, 3rd party flipbook support(framecycler), free render nodes on osx, attach quickpaint/rotoshape/rotopoints to tracker, import/export rotoshape and tracker to ascii data.

Bunch of stuff you forget about when you have to go back to 2.5 for a job and all of a sudden your missing a shit load of tools.

the undo working 90% of the time is a bit too optimistic I'd say..

I know I'll never press undo again. I just NEVER know what it actually did.

Originally Posted by unxetas

the undo working 90% of the time is a bit too optimistic I'd say..

I know I'll never press undo again. I just NEVER know what it actually did.

Certain nodes I know for a fact don't work with undo (quickpaint, which has it's own undo), but everything else has worked fine for me.

i was worried... good to know thanks!

Alex

I'd say that the 90% estimate for undo is probably accurate.... It's still slow, and can sometimes take a few presses to get to the stage that you'd imagine should be one undo away. And I have had a couple of times where it's undone 2 or 3 things in one click.

But I'm certainly willing to use it these days, rather than pre-4, which I wouldn't touch it with a barge-pole...