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Why is there no real time video playback in AE? Is it just so they can sell Premier?
Why is there no real time video playback in AE? Is it just so they can sell Premier?
You should at least be able to play back one layer. Has anyone asked this question? I’ve searched, but cannot find.
Depending on how fast your computer is, AE should play as many layers in real time as it can. Don’t get me wrong. I love AE, but I end up doing my whole commercial in it. Editing, audio, and everything. It just gets annoying having to jump back to Final Cut to do some on camera dialogue editing.
If anyone has a technical explanation I’d love it!
Thanks in advance,
Ian.
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Todd Kopriva should answer this one.
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Definately he should. 🙂
Here’s an blog article on dearadobe.com discussing (nearly) the same topic:
https://blog.dearadobe.com/2009/03/12/the-worst-idea-ever/
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I like Dave’s answer.
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I like Dave’s answer too, since that’s the world I’m in, but the original question of playing back even one layer in real time does open a pandoras box, does it not?? I’m not a Motion guy but I believe it’s better at this than AE…. Might be wrong tho.
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Another explanation I’ve heard on the interwebs is that After Effects essentially expands everything to the equivalent of uncompressed 4:4:4 on the fly, which requires major horsepower to execute in real time ala Dave’s Flame/Inferno reference.
Hopefully Todd can confirm or deny this, but it would help explain why AE can’t play a single layer in real time.
Brendan Coots
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“AE IS NOT AN EDITING APPLICATION. IT DOESN’T WORK LIKE AN EDITING APPLICATION. IT DOESN’T USE THE SAME PROGRAM CODE AS AN EDITING APPLICATION. IT DOES DIFFERENT THINGS THAN AN EDITING APPLICAITON. ”
To me AE is a glorified editing application that doesn’t edit. It has play buttons, trim markers, and I even heard they were thinking of adding digitization (or maybe they have by now). Let’s face it, in a few more years there will be no distinction between the two. I think Adobe just wants to sell their Creative Suite (or everything seperately if need be). Apple too. The only thing stopping them as that no one has jumped on the band wagon yet, and the Flames and Infernos haven’t dropped their price low enough. It just makes since to sell more software. Switching between applications just to have a few more controls seems pointless and really slows me down. Lets face it, Premier and FCP give you just enough effects control to make you not want to use it for that, and AE gives you just enough editing control to not make you not want to use it for that. AE gives me everything I need to put together a thirty second spot of flying graphics and video windows, but to edit the dialogue in one of those flying video windows I have to leave AE, create a FCP project, one timeline, export, etc. just to get the job done. The idea that it should only be a compositing program sounds really professional, just like saying I need a whole room of decks, switchers, and edit controlers to make an edit.
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