Apple Shake 4 New Features - Manual (Page 32)

32 Chapter 2 Major Features and New Nodes
For example, you can use Final Cut Pro 5 to superimpose a group of clips that you want
to turn into a single composite using Shake. Final Cut Pro 5 makes it easy to set the In
and Out points of each clip, and how they overlap. You can then send the media to
Shake along with each shot’s edit decision information, freeing you from having to
reconstruct the media arrangement within Shake.
You can also move an entire sequence of clips into a Shake script. For example, you
might do this to add operations to each individual clip in that scene to perform color
correction, or keying.
Once you’re finished in Shake, you can render the FileIn node that was automatically
created when you used the Send command from Final Cut Pro 5, and easily relink the
resulting media in the original Final Cut Pro 5 project.
How Sent Clips Are Arranged in Shake
Regardless of how you move Final Cut Pro 5 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 5 clips are arranged within the node tree using Select and
MultiLayer nodes:
• Clips edited sequentially on the same video track in Final Cut Pro 5 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:
Sequentially edited clips in Final Cut Pro