Aharon Rabinowitz
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“Drag scale value back to original (scrub, using command or alt to fine-tune).”
Did you try this? It falls apart at this step. You would think that you could alter many keyframes for the scale on the same layer at once but you can’t.
I think you can only do it for multiple layers, and only on that frame.
Please prove me wrong. This would be a better if more involved way to do it.
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just make sure you’ve installed the 3D assistants off your AE Disk.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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More importantly, for a guy who starts a string with a rant of “has adobe lost thier minds?????” it’s amazing that you’d just walk out after you’ve had enough.
Mike, you have the right to be unhappy about the situation, what’s not appreciated here is the fact that you are looking at it from only one perspective – the perspective of someone who owns a non-professional package which adobe can no longer support. It sucks but that happens sometimes. I would also be unhappy if I were in your position, but I also understand economics and realize that there’s apoint where you can;t get blood from a stone.
I’m not clear what it is you do for a living, but you made the comment that all of these tools fall short of being professional. I can’t speak for every package in the suite, but anyone who says that AE is not a pro tool, has never worked in an animation house, advertising firm, or film studio. I have worked and trained at tons of places here in NYC, and I have never been anywhere that didn’t have and use After Effects to some degree, if not primarily.
Furthermore, I will grant you that premiere doesn’t have anything close to the same market that other NLE’s, and that may be the case for the rest of the software in the suite – however if you don’t like them, and don’t think that their good tools, stop complaining about how terrible adobe is being and don’t buy them. Why would you even buy them if they were subpar?
Again, you have the right to be unhappy – but what you did was com in here and start a flame against adobe, and weren’t looking for anything more than for people to agree with you, and that’s not what this forum is for.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Hey, Andrew. Have fun!
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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
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By import file, you mean BG, right? Yeah often. I always render out of AE as a final, but I do bring compressed video in as my BG for reference.
You can use tracking, since it uses XY position data. Just copy the keyframes and then import them into AE.
I’m not into the hard sell, but I have a particleIllusion/AE training DVD that answers a lot of the questions about using them together. You can find more info in the link below my name. Take it easy,
Aharon
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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com -
they aren’t giving any dates at this point. Sorry.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
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available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com -
you mean non-pro upgraders. the pro version of this package has a good upgrade.
Just a guess, but it seems like adobe has decided that the Standard upgrade path that they used in the past can’t sustain itself at the prices they were offering. How hard is that to understand?
And there’s nothing wrong with that. Over the years, I’ve had to change my daily rate to pay for the changes in my costs of living. Personally, I’d prefer it if Adobe didn’t go bankrupt by not covering theor costs.
It’s amazing that not a single person has said “well yeah I use these tools to make money and their good tools, so maybe it’s worth investing in for a production package.” Honestly if you are not using them to make a living, maybe it’s not worth the investment. figure out why you’re buying them, and then decide of it’s worth paying for.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
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“And again, others in this thread and other threads are voicing the exact same thing I am. If the new features were more compelling you’d be hearing praise coming from me in these threads.”
Have you tried the new features yet? Are you sure their so uncompelling. There are testers who have been using this in a production setting and swear by them.
“Cost now to upgrade those exact same apps the same .5 higher:
Price = $666”And if you were paying for the exact same app you’d be right. But these are not the same program. These are upgrades. New technology that money had to be invested in to create and advance. By your logic a house that someone does work on to imnprove it’s value is sdtill the same house and therefore should cost what it did before all that work went into it. Oh, yeah it has a few new things like electrics and a new kithcen, brand new bathrooms, a pool in the back and a whole new floor added at the top. But of course It’s on the same property, has the same address, and even the same peope living in it so it’s the same house… Right? You know that’s untrue.
Adobe has invested money in the app, and has done thier best to make it accessible to peopel that will use it professionally. It will pay for itself in the short run. For those who are students, there are academic prices available. For those who want to buy it just to play around, that;s a choice. But if you use it as a pro, and it will help you and your workflow, and will make money from it, then I don’t see the complaint.
Nobody buys a suit and says I’m not really going to wear the jacket too often so just make me pay for the pants. You either buy the suit or you don’t. And if you don’t need a suit, and only something more casual, you buy a nice pair of pants. But if you need that suit for a business meeting, you buy it or you have to go in without the proper atire.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com -
Check out Trapcode’s particular and also wondertouch particleIllusion – while the latter is not a plugon for AE, it works well with it. Plus it comes with 1300 preset effects (Fire, smoke, water, sparkles…etc.) out of the box, and is easy to customize.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com -
“After Effects Pro is a good app, but after getting a taste of node based flows I am not as keen to use AE except for some text effects and other situational motion graphics that are better dealt with in a layer based comp. But even then I lean towards Combustion 3 because I can do the same comps faster in combustion because the interface is much better laid out to get work done fast.”
The AE interface (along with the rest of the production studio) now share the same new streamlined interface. And if you want to talk speed, well, as far as workflow goes, the new level of intergration between products speeds up everything. Which is why, if you were using the full production studio, it’s worth it to use the whole package.
What you forget is that the price on a bundle of software is an incentive for people to use a company’s products. If you aren’t interested in using all of them, they you pay more. This is not a new thing.
Fusion has much deeper 3D integration. And Fusion’s particle system lets you work with 2D particles or full 3D particle systems. After Effects falls short of Fusion’s high end features.
And while I absolutely support you’re using a great product like Fusion, it costs 5 times the price of AE, so there is no comparison. In fact the entire adobe Production Studio is a third the price of just that one program. It may not be fair for me to compare all of that, but I’m just pointing out that you get a great set of tools for a low price.
” And why remove DVD authoring in a video collection / bundle???”
They haven’t – their professional version still has all of that. They had to draw the line somewhere – while it costs you a few hundred dollars to get everything you want to upgrade (because those professional tools aren’t included in a non-profesional or non-production package) – it would cost them a lot more to just give it away.
Straight up, yeah, I think it would be great if Adobe offered things at an even lower price and gave us all the software we want, but realistically, if they charged too little they’d be forced to shut down. Where would that leave us? Perosnally, I’d like them to keep developing their stuff.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com