Shake and XSI 2

[lee0]

Do these programs work well together ???
If so is there anything I need to know ?
Thanks.

[pnoizat2]

this may seem a tad uninformed,
but i guess this is what a forum is for....
what does shake proved above and beyond the built in compositor.....? (ive only really been exposed to after effects to date.)

[lee0]

The inbuilt compositor is lacking in some areas. It still needs a lot of work.
Plus a stand alone Program will alway's be faster !

[punchatz]

NOt true, I did some basic tests where the XSI compositor was about 6 time faster in some cases.

But Yes it lacks a few tools, but real soon I will never leave XSI to comp!

G

[hellomojo]

It's interesting that the compositor will be in the pipeline, but remember After fx/combustion and especially Shake are becoming very complex tools and eventually may end up being as deep and complicated as a 3d package. After fx now has scripting running underneath. So I like to keep my comping and 3d separate for now.........

[punchatz]

Keep your standalone if you like, me I prefer to be able to link my 3d data (f-curves or any thing else for that matter) to my compostitor to control things like DOF among zillions of other things. Or I can use the compositor to do things to my textures without having to render the images out, in fact I can see my results happen in real time in either open GL or Mental Ray.
XSI compositor is missing a few things for sure, but it is built on a far better core than AE or Combustion thats for sure and the intergration is to die for. And I dont think you can compare AE scripting to XSI's.

[lee0]

I agree to both side of the argument. I hope they make the XSI comp better then combustion 2.. But until then what should I use ????
My question was. is shake 100% compatable with XSI ??

[punchatz]

Yes we use both XSI and shake, if we need to roto alot we use shake if not its XSI all the thru the pipeline.

[lee0]

Thank you for your answer.
This is great someone doing what I need to do.
full production setup. I nknow this might sound funny. BUT

I need a large storage system for all the workstations to access. I'm not sure where to start.
Any help would be great !
Thanks