Mike Procunier
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They don’t sell AE7 anymore so are trying to get you to buy the upgrade to CS3. Interesting marketing technique. Give away your old unsellable stock hoping it will turn into upgrades. Maybe speak to someone in marketing. Tell them you’d like to try it at least before buying an upgrade.
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Once you start stacking up the layers in Motion, you can start disputing its speed.
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whichever you choose I’d bump the RAM up to 16GB. They recommend a minimum of 1GB per core for AE, but with 2 you’d be singing.
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Call me whatever you want… just don’t call me late for dinner.
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Dave’s right about shooting it, why fake reality when you don’t have to. But, Aharon Rabinowitz did a tutorial where he wrote text on a wall with blood that would give a similar effect to what you’re looking for.
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It’s my understanding that they’ll work fine on a PPC, but you must run AE in emulation (open with rosetta) on a Mac Pro. I haven’t gotten my copy to test yet, but all of the CC effects and Keylight have been updated and run fine in CS3.
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With AE, it’s a much bigger jump from 7 to CS3 than 6.5 to 7 was.
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What kind of footage are you looking for?
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You can create a preset OR just highlight the effects on the first text layer (hit control-E / command-E then select them)in the timeline panel, copy them, then highlight the next 50 text layers & paste.
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I’ve been using the AE8 preview for about a month now. This is a HUGE update for Intel-Mac users. AE7 ran like crap on Intel Macs. Multiprocessor support is also huge. RAM previews and renders are super-fast. As for cost there aren’t too many professional quality products out there that you’d deem ‘affordable’. Other than Shake ($499 or so) which has been discontinued, I can’t think of anything comparable that is less than AE’s $999, or $299 upgrade if you are a current user which it sounds like you are. If you are a student they offer all of their products at a decent discount. For the features that you get at it’s price, AE is probably the best value out there.