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AE for Film-Rez Effects
Hi,
This is probably a dumb question (or one that has lots of differing answers) but is After Effects truly comparable, to say Shake, as a film-resolution compositor?
I’ve played with Shake and Digital Fusion – and (of course) they are great – but I really like the workflow of After Effects. Can After Effects stand-up on the big screen?
Would love to know a definitive “Yes” or “No” – and the reasons why?
Thanks in advance,
ALEX
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saw a list once of feature films which had FX shots completed in AE. It was long and included many blockbusters. Films like Talented MR Ripely, Day After Tomorrow, StarTreck…. lots of others. The opening titles for Monsters Inc was done in AE…
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Yes, it can stand up on the big screen. Why would it be soft?
It can make really huge comps, much bigger than 4K, and a pixel is a pixel. AE doesn’t say “sorry, I can only do video res”. It doesn’t care what the res is. As long as you’ve got the processor to render big comps sooner than next Wednesday, and your source is sharp, you’ll be fine.
And it is used for film — just ask Tim Sassoon at Sassoon Film Design.
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I’m told that AE was used a lot in Superman. I know it was used in Sky Captain.
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Thanks for your info, guys. I’m sold.
Regards,
ALEX
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I’ve been using AE 6.5 on my own animated feature film… rendering out complex 10bit 2k comps all day and night for the past year and a half… Some of my plates are 3048 x 2072 and AE works with them just fine and I only have an AMD x2 4400 with 2gb RAM… So yeh AE is just fine for film res stuff, just don’t expect to RAM preview at full res and full quality all the time…
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Stu Maschwitz also mentioned that he and the Orphanage are “AE guys”
Alexander Gao
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