R.I.P. Shake

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/07/30/apple-finally-discontinues-shake/
A sad day for me and many others. The nail in the coffin of Shake.
Shake forever... Motion never!

Yes, but if Apple thinks a layer based compositor (rumors of Phenomenon) is "Professional" and will supplement a node based compositor then I do think they (who ever is in charge of product definition) may not know about high end production software, or, at least it may indicate a strategic shift in product strategy.
Darn near everything follows the good old 80/20 rule. With the boon in home/indy/smalltime video production that 80% market is getting huge. It would not surprise me at all that Apple may be directing it's engineering talent towards producing NLE tools aimed squarely at that 80% and if the features of the very top end suffer, well maybe too bad. When you look at it from a business perspective that strategy is not at all any different from Apple's entire business strategy. They know there is 20% of the market they will never make happy and they don't care. They are not after that 20%. They want the 80%. Given that Apple own's the PC market above $1000 and they have higher gross margings than HP or Dell, I'd say that is a very good strategy. To me the latest FCS3 release is looking like that is exactly their strategy. Yes, it is a "nice" release and makes some nice fixes but in my mind it's simply a glorified patch. If you figure the lead designers were off the development of FCS2 6 months before the release of that product, they've had close to 3 years of a dedicated engineering team to produce what is now FCS3. An aggressive startup could have made a significant product from scratch in that amount of time. FCS3, in my mind, does not jive or pass the sanity check with what I think they could have done. So yea, I think there is an alternative strategy in mind. I could well be full of it. I hope I am, but if the Shake replacement comes out and it is a dumbed down layer based compositor for the masses we will all know.
PS - Autodesk just announced Maya2010. They have bundled their node based compositor Toxik as well as MatchMover (a previous acquisition) with Maya. Taken together, that is a fairly impressive bundled 3D package.

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R.I.P. Shake

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