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It would be intriguing to figure out how layers in that twirled open comp would behave when the comp has been time-remapped back and forth. This would basically call for a particular keyframe to show up in multiple places of the timeline, and if you change the value of one, it would also change in the other place.
It’s definitely an interesting thought, and I’ve requested it myself some time ago, but I’m also kind of curious how it would work in those situations… You might be able to create weird time-loops etc.
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[Guy] ”
Window > Four Comp Views
maybe not as elegant as AE7, but it WAS there, don’t say it wasn’t”I suggest you try the demo and see if you still feel it’s the same then…
Sure, I can buy both Fusion and AE. But it’s not fair comparing the value for money between them.
The thing is, I’ve been working with 7.0 in production for six months now, and will never go back. The new interface is THAT big a deal.
Maybe the upgrade scheme is unfortunate for a share of the current users. Me, I think paying around 600 dollars for the upgrade to the Production Suite Premium is a pretty good deal, considering I’m getting an extra license for Illustrator with it.
Anyway… I’m really sorry you don’t appreciate my pissing. I’m just trying to explain what I enjoy about the new release – as someone who’s been working with it on a daily basis for a couple of months now.
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Nope, AE 7.0 is still 32-bit, and the Mac version is not Mac-Intel native.
On the other hand, not all my hardware has 64-bit drivers available, so I can’t switch to XP64 anyway…
How fast the Mac version will run on the new Mac-Intel machines remains to be seen. As soon as they ship, I’d love to see benchmarks. I’m led to believe that because of the Rosetta emulation it will be slow. But since the new MacBooks are very fast compared to the current Powerbooks, maybe that just about compensates the loss of speed from the emulation.
Now as soon as AE is MacTel native, the new Macs would probably smoke!
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Well, if Apple doesn’t offer Final Cut separately anymore, it looks like that ‘s your situation…
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Well, if Apple doesn’t offer Final Cut separately anymore, it looks like that ‘s your situation…
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And I think you can’t use Adobe’s European support.
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2 features I’m absolutely shocked that Adobe hasn’t included are 1394 (firewire) capture/output support…”Do you really want the AE dev team to spend their time creating functionality that most people already have in other apps?
I don’t. Considering development resources are not endless, there’s a ton of things that I prioritize way over capture.
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I’ve never installed a tryout version of AE on a system that I’m actually running my main version of AE on. I guess there’s no issue with having both installed on one machine (an iBook in this case!)?”No problem at all. Give it a try.
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The new interface. Well I haven’t tried it yet so I can’t really say but the mere mention of application window makes me think of that other OS.”Yes, that was the first response of other Mac users. But I think most people will love the new interface and never want to go back to the way it was. I’d say give the demo a try once it’s up next week and see for yourself. There really is a lot more to the new UI than just a different look.
For one thing: you can now have two different comp windows open, and edit in a nested comp while watching the results in the final comp. May seem like a small thing in writing, but I find it a huge help in efficiency.
The Lens blur in Photoshop CS has been ported to AE. Very welcome.
And floating point is interesting for anyone who doesn’t want to worry about clipping their highlights.
The Graph Editor? Have you ever wanted to syncronize animation of two properties, one in a bottom layer and the other in the top layer, when you have around 20 layers? You’d have to scroll up and down to the layers and play around and adjust the curves. Now you can actually select those properties, overlay them on top of eachother in the graph editor and edit like you would edit a spline in Illustrator. Including selecting multiple vertices and scaling them…
But yes, some of the big new features in this release are more aimed at the film VFX people. The previous couple of releases seemed more tailored towards motiongraphics people. I don’t need text animators. And what’s with animation presets?
But some of the best stuff in this release is in efficiency and workflow. Not something that may seem very glamorous. But seriously, give the demo a try for a couple of days and then see how you like it. I haven’t touched 6.5 since august.
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The new interface. Well I haven’t tried it yet so I can’t really say but the mere mention of application window makes me think of that other OS.”Yes, that was the first response of other Mac users. But I think most people will love the new interface and never want to go back to the way it was. I’d say give the demo a try once it’s up next week and see for yourself. There really is a lot more to the new UI than just a different look.
For one thing: you can now have two different comp windows open, and edit in a nested comp while watching the results in the final comp. May seem like a small thing in writing, but I find it a huge help in efficiency.
The Lens blur in Photoshop CS has been ported to AE. Very welcome.
And floating point is interesting for anyone who doesn’t want to worry about clipping their highlights.
The Graph Editor? Have you ever wanted to syncronize animation of two properties, one in a bottom layer and the other in the top layer, when you have around 20 layers? You’d have to scroll up and down to the layers and play around and adjust the curves. Now you can actually select those properties, overlay them on top of eachother in the graph editor and edit like you would edit a spline in Illustrator. Including selecting multiple vertices and scaling them…
But yes, some of the big new features in this release are more aimed at the film VFX people. The previous couple of releases seemed more tailored towards motiongraphics people. I don’t need text animators. And what’s with animation presets?
But some of the best stuff in this release is in efficiency and workflow. Not something that may seem very glamorous. But seriously, give the demo a try for a couple of days and then see how you like it. I haven’t touched 6.5 since august.
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