Apple Shake 4 New Features - Manual (Page 6)

6 Preface About the New Features in Shake 4
Summary of New Features
This section summarizes the new features that appear in this document.
Topics in Chapter 1
• You can open two scripts at once using the Shake graphical user interface.
• You can save and restore favorite views in each Shake interface area.
• You can enable the ability to use relative paths in the File Browser.
• Favorite directories in the File Browser are now saved automatically.
• There are now lock controls for each parameter.
• There is a new “next” button when you create local variables, which makes it easier to
create many variables at a time.
• A new console tab lets you view the contents of the console from within Shake.
• New global parameters provide additional ways to control new features.
• An enhanced Node View provides options for visualizing animated nodes, expression
links, node concatenation, and noodle color coding and stippling.
• You can now resize the node overview.
• There are four new ways of adding and connecting nodes to a node tree.
• Cloned nodes are now named differently.
• Truelight monitor calibration software is included, which also provide a new Viewer
lookup table (VLUT) option for the Viewer.
• The onscreen controls for transform nodes have been updated, with additional
hot keys.
Topics in Chapter 2
• Shake now supports the OpenEXR format.
• There is new support for clips and sequences sent from Final Cut Pro 5 to Shake 4.
• New adaptive retiming options in the FileIn node use optical flow technology to
create smooth motion retiming.
• New remastering options in the FileIn node use optical flow technology to
deinterlace, change frame rates, and rescale images for high-quality format
conversion.
• A new Cache node lets you specify key points to be cached in your node tree.
• A new clampMask parameter in the mask subtree of nodes lets you clamp mask
image data to a value between 0 and 1.
• The RotoShape node has new features, including:
• The ability to copy and paste shapes between compatible nodes.
• The ability to cut and paste rotoshape keyframes.
• Controls to retime shape keyframes
• New commands for attaching trackers to individual shape control points.
• The ability to import and export shape data.
• The SmoothCam node automatically smooths or locks camera motion in a shot.