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After Effects World – Where are we?
I’ve not used AE very much in the past two years, so I was curious to get impressions about where things stand.
My impression is that Adobe still has yet to conclude the underlying modernization of the core engine…and that we lack full multi-processing rendering and widespread GPU acceleration. Am I wrong?
Meanwhile it seems the feature set has largely stalled…that the past couple of versions haven’t added much. Am I wrong?
The most exciting thing in AE seems to be coming from third party plugin and script developers…perhaps also from Adobe’s Character Animator module/app.
I’m curious to know from you all what version of AE you are using…and if you think CC2018 is ready for production use? Is Adobe committed to continue to grow After Effects?
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Hi Dave…Thanks for the reply! I know you’ve been a reasonable evaluator of AE over a decade or more. I dropped out for awhile but am pushing back into use of the program.
Are you using CC2017? 2014?
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Sort of like this:
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For about 3 years I stuck with the last non-subscription version. I despised Adobe for moving to slavescriptions.
I broke down some time back and joined the slaves. :- (
I remember some naive folks who promised Adobe would be *faster* in upgrading the program with the new model. I declared with some others that they wouldn’t be motivated to push the product forward.
it’s been five (?) years since they told us they would get modern multi-processing working and not only have they not finished…in some respects the work has gone backwards.
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Sadly true I guesss… I’ve stuck to CS6 since it came out. In my opinion it was the last stable release, though I kind of gave up testing new CC versions. The last version I really tested, control+z was broken…. (tested on multiple workstations too).
And in terms of the renderer getting worse, I’m working on a project right now that has hour long compositions and I tested CS6, 2 versions of CC and Adobe Media Encoder. Guess which was the fastest, by a factor of 8? CS6 with multi-processing. I will add though that it regularly crashes due to an ambiguous “Internal Verification Error. Sorry!”
– Spencer
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