Final Cut Pro 5: Using the Send to Shake command
Summary
Final Cut Pro 5 features a new menu command, "Send to Shake," which provides an automated way of moving media between the two applications. To do this, select one or more clips in a Final Cut Pro 5 project, then choose File > Send to Shake. Final Cut Pro exports the selected clips using a Shake script, which then opens the clips directly in Shake.
Products Affected
Final Cut Pro 5.X
The script creates placeholders in the Final Cut Pro project to automatically link the corresponding media output from Shake back into Final Cut Pro. Each clip exported from Final Cut Pro 5 is brought into the Shake script through individual FileIn nodes, even if two or more clips originate from the same master clip. Once you’re done editing in Shake, you can render the FileIn node and easily relink the resulting media to the original Final Cut Pro project.
For example, you can use Final Cut Pro to superimpose a group of clips that you want to turn into a single composite using Shake. Final Cut Pro 5 makes it easy to set the In and Out points of each clip, and how they overlap. You can then send the media to Shake along with each shot’s edit decision information, freeing you from having to reconstruct the media arrangement within Shake. You can also move an entire sequence of clips into a Shake script. For example, you might do this to add operations to each individual clip in that scene to perform color correction or keying.