[Michael Munkittrick]

$18,000 is not what the rep quoted…by a long shot, but I don’t doubt that the cost is much higher than that of DVDSP or Encore. Truthfully, I read in a periodical this month that Aobe is looking to incorporate some level of HD DVD into Encore by the next release, but Adobe’s website is zipped tighter than a nuns habit.

Anyway, thanks for the insight and I’ll look around a bit more.

Thanks…

Michael Munkittrick
Gainesville, Florida USA

[Michael Munkittrick]

Hey man, thanks for the help. The one that I need actually falls in between the “Borra” and the “Jetta” years…but I really do appreciate it.

Michael Munkittrick
Gainesville, Florida USA

[Michael Munkittrick]

I am willing to bet that you will be more accurate in your answer than any of us. The best rule of thumb is to know your service, its value and it relative cost to you. Only after you’ve considered those points will accurate pricing be calculated. Also, the variable many forget is to consider the fact that your market, talent and status will play a huge factor.

Good luck!

Michael Munkittrick
Gainesville, Florida USA

[Michael Munkittrick]

Great info! Thanks again…

Michael Munkittrick
Gainesville, Florida USA

[Michael Munkittrick]

If you do a quick search on Google, there are about thirty that pop up. I’ve got no experience with any of them, but the underlying structure must be very similar.

Michael Munkittrick
Gainesville, Florida USA

[Michael Munkittrick]

Great site Mylenium! There’s lots of valuable stuff there.

Thanks…

Michael Munkittrick
Gainesville, Florida USA

[Michael Munkittrick]

[TonyLeTony] “it’s status in the production world will be reduced to “toy””

A personal observation, but certainly from the minority side of the fence. There was a time when I felt that AE 4 was the end-all, be-all of desktop compositing…and then came 5. Faster, more integrated tools and a whole host of additional features that just a year prior were bought at an additional cost often costing hundreds more. 5.5, 6 and now 7 follow that trend nicely making tools that were relegated only to the old iron like Discreet’s Inferno and Quantel systems. Sure there are people who will not find immediate uses for the software package, and many might just want to maximize compatibility with other outside studios, but the toolset has grown nearly 100% since I purchased my first After Effects.

[TonyLeTony] “How I wish Adobe would have bought Alias”

Yeah, that was the general thought among a lot of Abode and Alias people alike, but Adobe has almost single handedly advanced the desktop digital revolution and any money spent to acquire a tool that is already at its pinnacle would prove to be a poor investment over time for profitability. Traditionally, Adobe makes very staunch, even robust acquisitions based on a tool’s potential in the years to come, not its current marketability.

Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia was a step that cost countless assets to be pumped into a suite of tools that were by many accounts already finely tuned. Moreover, this purchase took the legs out from under its only head-to-head rival in each packages specific niche. Reducing your competitors not only allows you to breathe in for a moment, but it also create innovative ways for these legendary software giants into one, mega-sized, and integrated solution for almost anything. This logic might be bad for the consumers, but let’s be realistic, Adobe is a corporation FOR PROFIT, and that profit fuels an entire industry of creative software.

Ultimately, there was no perfect path for After Effects to follow due to the millions of opposing points of view and ideas of perfection. I personally would have liked to see a more robust implementation of OpenGL for the elite video cards. My NVIDIA Quadro can whip through a 900 frame animation with hundreds of items and depth of field far faster than AE can drop a 300 layer After Effects composition to disk

[Michael Munkittrick]

I kind of assumed as much.

Thanks…

Michael Munkittrick
Gainesville, Florida USA

[Michael Munkittrick]

Preaching to the choir my friend, preaching to the choir…

Thanks. At least I know it’s not personal. I was beginning to get a complex, like maybe my deodorant stopped working.

Michael Munkittrick
Gainesville, Florida USA

[Michael Munkittrick]

In fairness, I was warned prior to my research about Maxwell Render’s practices…and I didn’t listen. (THUD as my head hits the desk).

Everyone here has stressed the Advanced Render module and Final Render for C4D…and considering the current lack of communication with them, I can’t justify the purchase at present.

Thanks…

Michael Munkittrick
Gainesville, Florida USA