How to Export a Sequence in Apple Shake
Although discontinued in 2009, Apple Shake — a motion graphics compositing tool primarily used in video post-production — is still widely used. Although Apple’s Motion and Final Cut Pro include much of Shake’s functionality, Shake remains among the most comprehensive tools for advanced video compositing. Shake projects take the form of node trees, each node representing an image, video or effect laid out in logical sequence. To export a Shake sequence, a special node called FileOut must be used.
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Instructions
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Launch Apple Shake and load the sequence you want to export by opening the “File” menu and selecting “Open.” Locate the sequence in the Finder pop-up and double-click it. Shake loads and displays the sequence.
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Click on the “Node View” tab to view the sequence as a node tree.
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Locate the end-point of the node tree. It will usually be located at the bottom and labeled “Over1,” but you may have given it a different name when creating and saving the sequence. In any case, it will be the node to which all other nodes in the tree ultimately point.
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Click on the last node in the sequence to highlight it.
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Open the “Tools” menu and select “FileOut.” Apple Shake creates a new FileOut node beneath the last node in the sequence and Shake’s File Browser window appears.
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Select the location to which the sequence will be exported in the File Browser window and enter a name in the “imageName” field.
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Open the “Render” menu and select “Render FileOut Nodes.” The “Render Parameters” window appears.
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Click the “All” button at the top of the “Render Parameters” window and ensure that the “timeRange” and related parameters correctly reflect the sequence’s length and quality settings as established when you created the sequence.
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Click the “Render” button in the “Render Parameters” window. Apple Shake renders and exports the sequence to the location selected in Step 6.
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