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old, young, dinosaur, phone carrier
I posted something on FB today and it’s getting some interesting responses. I thought I’d share what I wrote here:
Just had a dude, interview style, ask me how many years of After Effects experience I have. When I told him 25 years, he scoffed and said AE hasn’t existed that long. I asked him his age. He was 24. Lol
Bless his lil heart.
I was asked about film cutting as fair comparison so:
When I first started editing video in the 80s, I seized every chance I could to hop on a flat bed with film. I knew at the very least lingo would trickle down.
I don’t doubt my ignorance on tips and tricks of old school film cutting but I’d never look at an old editor and tell him razor blades didn’t exist when he was using them.So, which is worse… the person in power not knowing the history of our tools or how to use them, or stating false things as fact? Both are dangerous to the company, of course.
In the end I simply asked to speak with his father.
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Subtle burn, Grinner; I give it a 9:-)
Made me think of the conversation about black and white in this clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KNyf9ExMxQ
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I first touched After Effects in 1997 but didn’t really learn it until version 4. The person interviewing you might have been confused because back in the early 2000s the motion graphics were very expensive to create and in many ways quite simple. What you can build today in After Effects would have blown my mind in 2000. Which is why most people who do motion graphics full time only have about 2-7 years worth of experience. This demonstrates the adolescence of our motion graphics industry and possibly why he couldn’t believe that After Effects was created in 1993.
I have to say I love the future and I’m so grateful I get to create videos for a living. I started out in a newsroom editing deck to deck on BETA SP and I would never go back to those days.
Stephen Smith
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After Effects was originally created by David Herbstman, David Simons, Daniel Wilk, David M. Cotter, and Russell Belfer at the Company of Science and Art in Providence, Rhode Island, where the first two versions of the software, 1.0 (January 1993) and 1.1, were released by the company.
So After Effects is 26 years old.
Greg Ball, President
Ball Media Innovations, Inc.
https://www.ballmediainnovations.com
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