AE 7 from 6.5

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[Kevin Mcquade]

So after reading the article, is it worth the jump… or should I wait?

Kevin

[Steve Roberts]

Wait for what? 🙂

If past releases are any indication, the next serious upgrade won’t come any sooner than a year and a half from now.

Get it when you’re ready — no sooner, no later. 🙂

[Shane Chadder]

Yes. It’s leaping from a tall building to concrete. If you use some 8 bit AVIs it comes crashing down. Neither Black Magic or Targa 3000 clips that worked in 6.5 will work in 7. I’m told there are others but these are my main file formats.

[Mylenium]

Yepp, just like Steve said – not upgrading probably doesn’t hurt your workflows, but upgrading can still improve them at least the tiniest bit (graph editor) even if you can’t make anything of the other features (just like me you might be one of those skeptical motion graphics artists who don’t buy into all that 32 bpc hype). Just analyze what you need or don’t need and then decide. A few things to consider: If you don’t upgrade now you might find yourself struggling even more getting into the new interface and other things even more should AE 7.5 or 8 arrive some day. In addition to that, developers might decide to bring out plugins that only work in AE 7 because they need some of the fancies (32 bpc or OpenGL acceleration). Lastly, you might just tomorrow have a client where you wished you had one of AE 7s features at your fingertips ;-). I’m not saying you should rush things, but I don’t see why one wouldn’t want to upgrade.

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[Kevin Mcquade]

oooh, I use black magic. Does this mean I’d be whooped?

[Agent2a03]

I’m also interested in hearing about this Blackmagic codec incompatibility… I’m thinking of upgrading from 6.5 to 7 but I have tons of 10bit Blackmagic files…Is there a problem with them in 7?

[Kevin Mcquade]

Alright… give us the goods?

[Andrew Yoole]

“If you use some 8 bit AVIs it comes crashing down. Neither Black Magic or Targa 3000 clips that worked in 6.5 will work in 7.”

I use Blackmagic 8bit and 10bit files in AE7 every day without a hiccup. A quick look in the Blackmagic forum doesn’t show a single thread relating to this. If it were true, I suspect there would be numerous complaints from angry customers.

Shane, sounds to me like this is a system-specific problem, and not at all an AE7 issue.