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looks more like a dot release?
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“I am looking forward to the new release, but I am starting to wonder of Adobe is starting to pigeon-hole after effects firmly into the mograph world, leaving compositing aside”
The opposite could have been said when AE 7 came out.
There are however a number of features that are extremely important for compositing people (and everyone else too).
AE CS3 has dramatically improved, adaptive motion blur. Goodbye to obvious visible steps. It now figures out how many steps are needed depending on each section of the animation. And it looks gorgeous!
Also, color management may end up being the most important feature in CS3. Trust me on this one. It’s much more important than just having Photoshop files appear exactly as in Photoshop… it’s more like getting an HD monitor for free. How good is that?
Does this help in injecting more enthusiasm?Adolfo Rozenfeld
Buenos Aires – Argentina
https://www.adolforozenfeld.com
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That’s awesome they have sorted out the motion blur!!!…that one has been on the wish lists forever!! …yes, colour management is good, …I’m guessing we’re finally talking about some form of decent LUT’s? …bring that on!! Sorry, I didn’t mean to dis AE, …I’ve been a longtime user since the CoSA days, and still love it to bits, …but yeah, I am finding myself within shake more and more, …AE is great, and I still use it 50/50 with Shake, …but for raw brute compositing workflow and tools, there is a lot to be said about Shake’s/Nuke’s approach (and I’m just frustrated that Adobe have been sitting on the roto goodies they got from the curious gfx purchase, for 2 version revisions).
Still, I am amped to see the AECS3 public beta, and can’t wait to see what other tweaks they have done under the hood.Bring it on!!
andrew
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Ahhh, my ignorance and poverty have provided such bliss. I’ve happily been learning AE7 on my ol’G4 PB 2 gb ram, patiently waiting for the day I could upgrade to an Intel Mac or just afford a throw away PC book for my road warriorism. I’m not new to AE, been dabbling since 4.1, but it was the fact that I couldn’t effectively run Motion (with it’s FCS “integration”) that led me to finally decide to really learn AE and it’s much smaller ram requirements. Now, I’ll probably get a suped up PC book and run the full Adobe CS3 on that, while I learn Shake and continue to edit in FCP on my MacBooks and MacPros. I for one am ecstatic that Adobe hasn’t abandoned Mac Users, it looked for a while that Apple was really testing their patience with the predatory pricing.
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