my god would you look at those keyframe temporal acceleration curves

[Justin Crowell]

WOOO this makes me excited. Gonna make the switch as soon as I can get this batch of projects out the door. No more fumbling with teeny-tiny buggy FCP7 keyframes!

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

yep – also just to say – really sorry to hear – awful news from boston.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

and also maybe hold off til 7 if you’re jumping in, it’s four weeks out – 6 is good, but 7 is effectively the mother lode. It actually is warp drive FCP8.

ProRes native – speedgrade looks as adjustment layers drops – the entire nine yards. It’s a mental release.

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[Erik Lindahl]

Those curves look like what AE had back in like version 6.0 (not CS6). I’m surprised Adobe doesn’t just take the AE keyframe and curves engine and build it right into PrPro.

[Dennis Radeke]

[Erik Lindahl] “Those curves look like what AE had back in like version 6.0 (not CS6). I’m surprised Adobe doesn’t just take the AE keyframe and curves engine and build it right into PrPro.”

Essentially, we did. 😉

[Erik Lindahl]

Take the AE CS 6 engine or the AE 6.0 engine? 😉

Not to be bitter but it looks like it’s from the 1990’s instead of 2000’s. With the Mercury Engine PrPro could be an AMAZING online tool. It just seems to fall a bit short every time I try to do that “online” stuff there and I end up in AE for even simple things.

[Dennis Radeke]

I agree that the UI could use a bit of updating. However, when we added the graphing view in AE CS2, not many people really gravitated towards it. It’s a tricky proposition on how to update it and guarantee acceptance. Good thing today is that the key framing is powerful and familiar.

If you have ideas about how it should be done, be sure to file a feature request…

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Aindreas Gallagher]

to be fair this makes absolutely no sense – you’re suggesting throwing the user into the full keyframe graph editor view?

How exactly is that supposed to work in that real estate? er, the graph editor replaces the timeline in AE?
Does that make sense to you in this context?

My point was actually that I specifically liked to be working in the pre-graph editor keyframe apparatus in this context. Sometimes you really miss it.
You have the same degree of control more or less, but it’s inline and not as dis-orientating as the switch to the graph editor can be.

But more basically – this keyframing completely kicks FCP7, X, and Avid’s asses off the street and down the lane.

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[Craig Slattery]

Too confusing for my little brain.

[Aindreas Gallagher]

ha ha. poor man 🙂
God love you with the new audio plug-ins in X – seriously – don’t open them, they’ll freak you out completely.
best stick with the old brightness contrast and a nice ken burns effect…. tee hee.

seriously though – you’ve never used curves or ease on a keyframe?

Aaaanyway – point still stands – its an excellent keyframe setup, and x really isn’t easy for keyframing, even for people easily confused –
it’s just pretty brutally badly designed?
For me – Apple’s biggest problem is that they removed tabs as a gui option. That just created a host of problems.

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