Output to .avi from Shake?  I'm very new to Shake and Apple.

Hi, I have just made the switch from PC to Mac. I've got a mac mini and bought Shake solely to use the smoothcam feature to clean up the camera jitter from my videos, especially the video I took of my buddy's wedding. I got suckered into being the videographer.
I imported the original .avi files into Shake and seem to have learned intuitively and from the online "tour of shake 4.1" how to use the smoothcam node, but now how can I output or render the "corrected" video into a .avi or .mov or any format straight through shake.
I know I should probably have final cut pro but I don't have the money just yet to buy it, at the moment I've just got shake and need to use shake to output these files, if that's possible.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
-Pete
Mac Mini   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   1.83 Intel Core Duo, 2 gb 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Peter...
Patrick's FAR from being condescending. Shake isn't for the faint of heart. It's an honest-to-God $3000 compositing program used by the likes of ILM. It was designed for UNIX-heads who don't even use the interface!!
Things as simple as File Ins and File Outs aren't easy and aren't 'Mac-like' -- it will WILL take some reading up on. Doing the tutorials even the first one will give you an overview of the program and how to handle ins and outs.
Now... I have to ask why are you using AVIs?????? What possessed you to capture to avi? How did you get the files on your computer? How will you get them off? Do you have any plans for that? Going to iMovie are you? You know what kind of movie format you need in iMovie?
Before you get too far in over your head on your mac mini... I'd suggest also reading up on Shake in the manual and doing some of the tutorials. Won't take you but an afternoon tops to get thru two or three of them.
Will pay off in the long run and maybe you'll even answer a few questions here so Patrick can help us with really tough questions re shake.
Thanks,
CaptM

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