David Cherniack
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>>Besides, If I’m going to underline something, I’m going to animate the underline to REALLY call attention to it.<< Well now you've hit upon the salient point. I have to learn to animate shapes in the same or complimentary way the text is animating. Maybe I'll just use italics and a larger typeface. Sheesh.
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>>1) Animating individual characters that are underlined doesn’t really work—at least not the way most people would want it to work.
2) Underlining text is usually not used when alternative like italic formatting are available. (In other words, underlined text is generally considered ugly typography.)<< Thanks Todd, for responding. I can accept reason 1. but as for reason 2: Sometimes you want 'ugly' to make a stylistic point. Why do the other Adobe apps allow it? Should After Effects alone stand as a bastion for typographical correctness? Perhaps you guys should get an internal Inquisition going at Adobe and bring the heretics into line 🙂 David
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Hi, Ron.
No to disagree with you in general, but:
1. Underlining judiciously has its place, especially in headings.
2. The other major Adobe apps do it.
3. The discussion is about why it’s not in AE. Not why it should or shouldn’t be done.
4. Why, pray, bring caps into the discussion.
David
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>>I think you’re right: how do you animate underlined text? None of the other three have to deal with that messy little detail.
Actually I don’t think it’s that difficult. I lean towards reason #2. Inertia. You see a lot of old ‘mistakes’ in Adobe products that they don’t bother to fix unless enough people scream at them.
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>>So Adobe might have felt it necessary to adhere to typographic conventions: underlining is bad.
Though I’m sure they had some reason, I doubt this is it…though I could see them trying to explain away the problem with this as the reason 🙂
My guess?
1. May have had something to do with the difficulties posed by text animation.
2. (More likely) AE text has never had underlining. In the world of Adobe that’s a good enough reason not to change things unless users clamour for it.
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Yes to Premiere, Illustrator, and Photoshop
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Well, I’ve played away and discovered a workaround. By setting the size of the document in the batch trace settings of Bridge to be larger than your largest raster the files show full size in AE.
Not terribly intuitive, but then again, who ever accused Adobe of making software that’s terribly intuitive.
David
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The MME uses the same interface and codecs as the AME but does some hardware assist. It SHOULD be faster but YMMV.
David
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Hi Vincent,
My post was in response to Atomic Blister’s suggestion that the problem may have to do with Intel CPUs.
The way I understand it Vista, either as 32 or 64 bits, offers a different addressing scheme to XP and more memory is available to 32 bit programs. Even with XP64 PPro seems to work better.
This doesn’t help those of us running Axio however which only works with XP32 in its present version.
David
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Dual Opterons here with 3GB of ram. Lots of memory problems with 2.0. Anyone who hasn’t seen them just isn’t doing complicated enough projects. Hopefuly CS3 with or without Vista will solve the problem.
I’m about to start a two hour documentary. I don’t know whether I’ll try anything more than a project per act, though. The save time on a large complicated project would just be too long.
David
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