Apple Shake 4 - Manual (Page 133)

Chapter 3 Adding Media, Retiming, and Remastering 133
How Sent Clips Are Arranged in Shake
Regardless of how you move Final Cut Pro clips into Shake, how they’re assembled in
the newly created Shake script depends on whether they were sequentially arranged
within a single video track, or vertically superimposed using several video tracks.
Imported Final Cut Pro clips are arranged within the node tree using Select and
MultiLayer nodes:
• Clips edited sequentially on the same video track in Final Cut Pro are connected to a
single Select node when exported to Shake. The Select node switches between clips
at their In and Out points, reflecting the editing decisions made on the track in Final
Cut Pro. If the clips were originally superimposed across multiple video tracks, each
video track that contains a clip results in a corresponding Select node being created
in the Shake script. All clips that were edited into the same video track are connected
to the same Select node.
Note: The actual edit points for each FileIn node attached to the Select node are
stored within the branch parameter. The data stored within this parameter is not
intended to be editable; any attempt to do so will disrupt the edit points of the
affected nodes.
• All the Select nodes are connected to a single MultiLayer node, which determines
which clips are in the foreground of the composition, and which are in the
background. Their arrangement reflects the arrangement of video tracks in the
original Final Cut Pro sequence.
For example, if you used the Send to Shake command on the following three
sequentially edited clips:
The result would be the following Shake script, with one Select node and one
MultiLayer node.
Sequentially edited clips in Final Cut Pro
Resulting arrangement in Shake