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AE 7 – five months later
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[Dave LaRonde] “However, I would direct your attention to the many threads in this forum over the past few months concerning AE 7 freezing… crashing… suddenly failing to run after weeks of trouble-free service.”
Quite honestly you’ll find threads like that in just about every forum around here. Heck the FCP forum is loaded with people who can’t get FCP 4, 4.5, 5.0, 5.0.2, 5.0.4, 5.1 to work, etc…..
There’s so many variables in getting a software to work correctly on a system and certainly how a system is maintained and whether or not it’s on the internet seem to be major issues in how a software will behave on a system.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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I really feel kinda stupid,
every cow-forumleader has been raving about how prefect the new interface is…But i just cannot work as well in this interface as I used to in AE 6.5
At first I thought it would just take some gettin used to, but as the title says: it’s been 5 months.
I really liked the ability to quickly twirl down a property to see what it was doing AND still see the actual keyframes.
The explanation that with the new curves editor ‘you don’t need keyframes’, I just don’t buy it.Also: as soon as I have more than say 5 layers that are 3D, the interface becomes so unresponsive…
for example: i click on the empty pasteboard to deselect my current layers( I know, i can press Command-Shift_A), and then move the mouse: after effects thinks I’ve dragged a selection, and highlights every layer I’ve moved over in the last second, as if the mousebutton was still pressed …Also what happens at least once every two days: I hide after effects, and it will not reappear: it’s still running, and if I work blind (Command-S; Command-Q; Enter) I can save the current project and Quit, but the window’s just not there.
Well, the end of my little rant 😉
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[Filip Vandueren] “Also: as soon as I have more than say 5 layers that are 3D, the interface becomes so unresponsive…
for example: i click on the empty pasteboard to deselect my current layers( I know, i can press Command-Shift_A), and then move the mouse: after effects thinks I’ve dragged a selection, and highlights every layer I’ve moved over in the last second, as if the mousebutton was still pressed …Also what happens at least once every two days: I hide after effects, and it will not reappear: it’s still running, and if I work blind (Command-S; Command-Q; Enter) I can save the current project and Quit, but the window’s just not there”
I noticed the drag and highlight problem too. Weird. Irritating. You can also press F2 to deselect everything, although I know it’s sometimes just easier to click somewhere. The hide thing has been mentioned before. I think it’s a known problem that should be fixed in 7.5. The other thing I hope gets fixed is the audio sync problem when you scrub and preview at half resolution.
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I love 7. started out on 6 then 6.5 and always was trying to find things because i work on a single monitor. no more lost windows. no more clicking on window, look for the info checkmark, yup it’s checked must be somewhere on the desktop, can’t find it, 5 minutes later, oh there it is hiding under the effects palette.
i use the graph editor a lot, but I also use the u key to find keyframes a lot. Never even missed the way 6.5 handles graphs and keyframes like Filip does.
7 is also much faster on my machine and more stable now that i’ve updated my modest collection of plug-ins. they were the only source of any crashes I had with 7. never had a single problem from day 1
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[sam.mltn] “7 is also much faster on my machine and more stable now that i’ve updated my modest collection of plug-ins. they were the only source of any crashes I had with 7.”
Well now that’s a huge issue that can cause a lot of grief, the plug-ins. That’s always so tough when you want to update the software, but the plug-ins may or may not work. Excellent point to bring up.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Wow – I wasn’t expecting this kind of reaction.
Thanks for everyone’s feedback. I think my initial impressions still hold true – it’s not worth it for me to upgrade at this point in time.
I hope Adobe hits a huge home run with 7.5.
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>>Also what happens at least once every two days: I hide after effects, and it will not reappear: it’s still running, and if I work blind (Command-S; Command-Q; Enter) I can save the current project and Quit, but the window’s just not there.<< I came across this problem, too. But after all, I really like the new interface. At work I use AE7, at home 6.5 and while getting used to 7, I really started to dislike the 6.5. With the old interface I need so much more time to get things done. —- No nation – no border! Fight Law & Order!
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Don’t get me wrong, I love 7. Just wanted to get it out there that these bugs are common in case the Adobe folks are reading this.
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Yeah, that’s been documented, apparently.
I double-click on the top of the app window to hide it, and if I click on the tiny represntation to the right of the dock, it comes back. Or I leave it up and use cmd-tab to cycle through the open apps.
I’m liking the interface and the graph editor, but separate graphs for x/y/z position would be nice. Have to use nulls for each, then …
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If it helps Spiro, I’m not pushing for the upgrade where I work either. In a curious state of affairs thereappears to be some money in the budget. Shocked all the support staff atthe school I worked. But I need to be able to say “I want this upgrade because I will be able to do ….(something) that I can’t right now”.
We jumped from Flash MX to Flash 8 because I was able to say “we’ll be able to do flash video”, but AE 7 doesn’t offer anything we need. That’s not to say it’s not worth it, or that there aren’t vast improvements, but the 6.5 upgrade was worth it alone for us for the better media encoder, text pre-sets and stability.
Graham
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