What else is out there othere than AE?

[Carl Larsen]

Personally, I think too many artists overlook their editing software as a good place to begin a motion graphics project. As a mac user, I can tell you I did the majority of my “effects work” in Final cut until I was hired in a dedicated graphics studio. On top of that, motion is a very powerful (free) application that ships with Final Cut Studio…. not as robust as AE, in my opinion, but very good nonetheless.

[Ansab Khan]

Budget is not an issue….please let me know whichs ones have faster performance…?

Thanks Dave….

[Mark]

Personally I think that AE is pretty much the industry standard….rather than spending money on new apps, I would look at spending the money on updgrading my PC to make AE run faster…

Maybe not the answer you were looking for, so sorry for that.

Mark

Mark Harvey
Senior Editor
Le Réseau des sports

[Nicholas Toth]

try to find a place to demo one too — especially before you dump the cash into one of the high end Autodesk suites —

Nicholas Toth
Freelance Animator
nicholastoth.com

[Shawn Miller]

It depends on what you want to do. AE is pretty good for many visual effects tasks and really good for motion graphics. If you’re after visual effects, you’ll want to look at Nuke, Fusion, Shake, Houdini, Combustion, Inferno, Flame, Avid Nitris DS and a 3D animation package like Maya, 3D Studio Max, Lightwave or Cinema 4D. If you want to do motion graphics, you might want to consider (along with your NLE of choice) Motion, Particle Illusions, Boris Blue (or Red) and a 3D application (I recommend Cinema 4D with the MoGraph module) or Zaxwerks Invigorator.

BTW, what kind of work are you looking to do?

Thanks,

Shawn

[Jan Sherlink]

If budget is not an issue…
… why are you working on a “1.67HZ Intel Duo Pro,2GB RAM,120 GB Hard Drive” ? as I can see in your other post.

I could say… try Fusion by Eyeon,
but your budget needs to be spent on hardware first !

cya,

Jan

[David Bogie]

If budget is not an issue, buy a better computer and make it a Macintosh.
You cannot get better performance in effects systems than After Effects offers unless you are going to be throwing money at a dedicated system and every dedicated system we’ve ever owned has gone out of business.

Yet I still have After Effects.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Shawn Miller]

I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying here – not trying to start a fight, but I’ve never seen a remarkable difference in performance between AE for Windows and AE for OSX.x. Then again, I work 100% on PCs these days, so if there’s been a complete jump in performance on the Mac side (for AE), I may have completely missed it. 🙂

Thanks,

Shawn

[Jan Sherlink]

Since both OS’s are running on Intel, there’s no noticable difference in performance. Your configuration is what matters and just choose an OS you like !
but … don’t shoot me,
there’s one small difference wich makes me choose for XP64…
AE on OSX can use 3Gb memory (single instance) and XP64 can use 4GB.
that’s all !

cya,

Jan