Alternative Application for Media Production

[Thomas Frank]

You can’t??

[Shawn Miller]

[Thomas Frank] “You can’t??”

See the comparison of Motion to AE vs AE to Shake? Truthfully, no. Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Shake designed to be a dedicated paint and 2D compositing tool? AE on the other hand, is much more of a general purpose compositing, paint and animation package. I realize that Shake is a more precise tool for compositing and painting… but you have to ignore everything else AE has or can do (like the Puppet Tool and 3D tracking) to make the argument that it’s less sophisticated than Shake… am I missing something?

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

I should also add that, in comparing AE to Motion one could say that Motion (while good and capable) isn’t used in high end postproduction. The same can’t be said of AE when comparing it to Shake.

Shawn