Sending FCP Segment to Shake

Seen a bunch of info searching google, but no solution. Here is what I have.
Warning, im a Star Wars dork, so im working on a fan film, actualy just some test footage to see how much of a pain this is going to be. So I have 11 mins of DV footage, cut it down to a sequence that is 1 min, 11 secs. The video footage consists of a large capture that I split into segments off of DV start/stop points. So what happens, I have this sequence, right click on it, send to shake, and it opens in Shake with 12 video nodes, which all apear empty in the viewer. Under the first clip node, I see listed as the correct file: //Brian-mac/Volumes/Project Data/Final Cut Pro Documents/Capture Scratch/SW Test 1/10-21.mov. Under SFileIn, I see Segment3_from__10_21.
Something is right, or im prolly doing something wrong. Any help would be great!
Thanks!

You've got a few issues here.
1) you don't really understand what FCP sends to Shake and what Shake ends up doing with it.
2) you don't have a very good workflow for your solution.
Ok...
1) FCP sends the entire captured clip to Shake. Shake doesn't do timeline as such (though you CAN see it in timeline order) but as a series of nodes. In this case... the nodes are set thru time by a switcher node. Are your Globals set to show the entire span of time? Each "Clip-node" is turned on by the switcher... so will remain black at a frame that it isn't switched on at... if that makes sense.
2) Most of the time Shake workflow is such.
EDITOR: "DUDE... I need Shot 35B72 done by tomorrow so I can drop it in the timeline for that slacker of a director to see."
SHAKE ARTIST #1: "Man, I've been roto'n that darn thing for a week... whose idea was it not to build that set extension??? Why didn't they drop a green screen behind that tree?? -- ok, I'll pull an all nighter and have it for you by 11pm tomorrow (under breath "stupid editors - always playing golf and I haven't seen the sun in three weeks.")
EDITOR: "DUDE... I need Shot 14C22 done by tomorrow so I can drop it in the timeline for that slacker of a director to see."
SHAKE ARTIST #2: "WHAT??? I just got the robot from that Maya slacker today... they didn't even send me an ambient occlusion pass yet!! -- ok, I'll pull an all nighter and have it for you by 11pm tomorrow (under breath "stupid editors - always playing golf and I haven't seen the sun in three weeks.")
etc etc etc
Shake works best on shots... not so much scenes - though it can.
Build your shots in Shake and export to FCP... then compile and edit there. No reason to send an entire timeline to Shake... only ends up making this program really hard!!
Good luck,
CaptM

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