Sami Syrjä
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Try controlling Timewarp by the frame number instead of speed percentage. That should do it.
/Sami
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Yeah I mentioned PS and Illustrator only because they too are made by Adobe. Comparing AE to other motion graphics software will certainly be more realistic. Does Combustion have this feature? Anyway, you are probably right in saying that it doesn’t make sense to set aside people to do a converter. I’m just saying that it would be a nice feature to have, even if it only allowed the projects to be opened in a limited way, without the latest features.
Sami
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Maybe it is only a tiny minority who would find this feature useful, I don’t know. However I’ve encountered the issue several times by now, for myself as well as others.
In my opinion it would be more convenient to be able to transfer projects from version to version, as I always prefer to work in the latest version available. I’m not going to start a project in an old version ‘just in case I’ll need it later on’, and the need may arise much later so I wouldn’t know it in advance. Having older versions on the same computer is therefore useless to me. And of course I’m not going to recreate a large project all over again in an old version of AE, that would take ages. Maybe having all the old versions of AE works for you (do you ever use them?), but I don’t see the point in that. I do admit that I only need to move projects around a few times per year, so it’s not such a big problem that I’d lose sleep over it.
I’m in no way familiar with programming so I may be completely wrong, but allowing the project file to open in another version of the program, as long as it supports the features used in the project, doesn’t seem like a big deal. How much overhead would that add? Photoshop and Illustrator do it.
all the best
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I wonder why it has to be this way. The same thing can be done in other Adobe programs, so why not in After Effects? The advances between versions don’t seem that big, that you couldn’t make the project files compatible at least with the previous one or two versions of the program.
With the way it is now, we have to update all AE licences at the same time to be able to exchange projects between workstations. As an example, I teach AE part time in a design college, and I can’t open my project files there if they haven’t updated the software.
Maybe AE 7.5 could add this feature. I have sent a feature request to Adobe.
Sami
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the only workaround I’ve found is setting the keyboard to US English. Really sucks if your preference is something else: forget to switch it back to US English when you return to AE from some other program, and it disables the shortcuts immediately… and then you restart AE again.
I hope somebody has a real solution for this
Sami
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the stitching function in Photoshop seems quite limited in what it will manage, at least with less than perfectly lined up images. I tried a demo of a program called Stitcher, and it seemed to handle things much, much better. But then, it’s dedicated for exactly this purpose.
Sami
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So nobody has found a solution this yet? Switching to US English every time to have shortcuts in AE will be frustrating. We just updated to Tiger and now I’m having the same problem on our new G5 PowerMac.
Ross, in case you haven’t found out yet, you can change the input prefs in system preferences/international
-sami