Stay away from After Effects 7

[Steve Roberts]

AE7 has been around for a while, so I’d imagine that those plugs have been updated to work with it. Have you tried to download the latest versions of those plugs?

[Malcolm Desoto]

I’m using AE Pro 7. Workin’ fine.

[Stanomatic]

I’ve worked with graph editors on Flame, Flint, Hal, Henry, Cinema 4D, Lightwave and After Effects since it was Cosa After Effects. Since 1989. The parameter list on the left (scale x, y)
(position x,y,z) etc… should align with its corresponding graph. AE 7 seems to be missing this basic user interface. Is there a way to change this?

[Stanomatic]

Put a Bezier Warp filter on a layer and try to hide the countless Bezier Warp graph lines. I want to attend to the scale parameters without the distractions. I doesn’t seem possible. Along with the difficult to see subtle color variations rather than a parameter list lining up with the graph lines makes this a piece of software sorely in need of an Information Architect.

[Brendan Coots]

I understand where you are coming from, but compare the price tag of all those fancy applications you listed above to that of After Effects. I find little annoyances in AE all the time, but we all need to bear in mind that it is a broad-use app that caters to many different needs, and at a very attractive price tag.

Just my 2 cents

Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
http://www.splitvisiondigital.com

[Steve Roberts]

I prefer the graph editors in other apps to AE’s editor as well.

Your word has been heard, as AE folk watch this list, and (heh) your topic should have gotten their attention. 🙂

[Tim Kolb]

[Steve Roberts] “Your word has been heard, as AE folk watch this list, and (heh) your topic should have gotten their attention. :-)”

While they certainly watch this and many other lists, posts like this don’t necessarily draw any useful attention.

Sweeping statements of negativity against a product in the subject line that turn out to be based on one particular feature not behaving like a similar feature in another product, or some other user-preferred way of doing things tend to play against the value of whatever the actual input ends up to be…

(There are any number of these threads at the Cow that start with “Stay away from…”, “Such and such is hopelessly broken”, “(Name your software mfr.) ripped us off…”, etc, etc)

I would start such a thread with “Graph feature needs work in AE v7” to get some constructive attention.

(…of course, since that’s no longer the current version, the most useful input would be based on the behavior in CS3.)

TimK,
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[David Bogie]

> Am I wrong here?

The Graph Editor is a kluge compared to AE6.5< Oooh, you'll just l-o-v-e the graph editor in AECS3. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”