Shake 4.1

Here's the funniest part of this article: Existing Shake customers can get the upgrade for $49.

So you paid $3K for the previous version, the price dropped to $499, and you STILL have to pay another 49 bucks to get the upgrade?

There are a lot of visual effects houses that use Shake with Linux (Weta for example), so this may be an attempt to turn these companies towards the Mac again.

Holy Cow the U.S. educational discount brings it to $249. I'm keeping my Powermac.

When they cut the price of Aperture (when it went Universal) they offered a rebate. Of course that was only $200, so it wasn't such a big deal for Apple's bottom line, but then again, it was only $200, so it wasn't such a big deal to users as this is..!

You think existing users might be a little pissed?

A friend bought Shake 5 days ago at the full UK price. He contacted Apple and they basically said tough shit!

He is also one of Apple's much vaunted switchers. That switch can go both both ways.

It should be noted that "it really flies on Intel Macs" when compared to the PowerBook G4. Here's what Apple says about it:

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Performance tests on a MacBook Pro have shown that common tasks such as color correction, warping and the application of filters are processed up to 3.5 times faster on a MacBook Pro than on a PowerBook G4.
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This shouldn't be at all surprising. The real comparison should be against the PowerMac G5s.

That's $290 educational in Canada. Wow. It's really too bad I need a studio monitor more...

I'm thinking MacRumours might be right on this one. Why drop the price of professional software by 80% when you're releasing a version for new hardware? The only thing I can think of is pushing sales of said new hardware, but without Intel towers this is a limited market. Shake could sell some MacBooks, particularly 17" ones.

Even that's a bit weird. I've been running Shake 4 on my 17" MacBook, and Shake's three mouse button interface is difficult to emulate when you're sitting in a Starbucks. It's really a desktop application.

I'm all for new, improved software, though. And better Final Cut integration would be good. You have to do some slightly unintuitive things when sending a video to Shake.

MacRumors is reporting that this is the last version of Shake that will be delievered, in lieu of a new application due sometime in 2008.

What makes me laugh is that they was going to stick to that price tag, what would have happened if they did not drop it then found out yrs later that they have been ripping us off, i cant see how they wents from $3000 to $499 thats $2501 difference sorry but that is all weird to me.

That's $250 educational! This is music to the ears of us compositing students. Muuussic.