Re: COW Reviews: After Effects After Effects 7 by Barend Onneweer on Jan 17, 2006 at 11:19:58 am
[RoRK]"What happened to the mask tools. Wasn't there supposed to be some major improvement in that department?"
Not this time around. Adobe did license/buy Curious GFX technology, which caused a lot of rumors in that direction, but masking remains untouched for the 7.0 release.
Can't have it all, unfortunately. But I'm going to look into Silhoutte Roto I guess.
Runs inside AE. Developed by the people that did Elastic Reality, which besides the industry standard morphing app, also did a killer job at rotosplines.
Re: COW Reviews: After Effects After Effects 7 by RoRK on Jan 17, 2006 at 11:59:32 am
Thanks Barend, unfortunately I was too late in getting on the beta test group so everything is news to me. I recall Perry and his merrymen had even dropped their pricing on SilhoutteRoto a couple of months ago and almost every thought it was an effort on their part to get as many sales in as possible before AE7 was released.
Perhaps it's a 7.1 thingy we should expect.
Cheers
RoRK
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Re: COW Reviews: After Effects After Effects 7 by editing-Jos on Jan 17, 2006 at 11:53:37 am
Ow well I'm almost dissapointed.
Especially when I read that opengl isnt working like it should be.
And the 3D engine is still not revamped! Come on Adobe!!
AFtereffects isnt the fastest program in the world, specially in HDTV.
So a SLI setup would speed up a great deal in previews or even rendering. Still no good support :((
I hope the graph editor works like a normal spline/bezier graph editor like in Fusion/Lightwave/...
Can someone confirm that? Or does it still work with velocity that nobody understands :)
I think the GUI will be a improvement.
So adobe lets make a quick 7.5 with full OpenGL support, better masking and a new 3D engine.
Re: COW Reviews: After Effects After Effects 7 by Mylenium on Jan 17, 2006 at 6:48:23 pm
[George Masters]"For all this focus on the interface what happened to twirl-down comps?"
Nope. Maybe in the next release (though I personnaly don't understand people's desire for this type of stuff - it only increases clutter and even in the editing apps I know you cannot directly edit the content of such "containers" on the timeline without opening the container, you can only do trimming and sliding).
Twirl Down Comps by George Masters on Jan 18, 2006 at 2:58:53 am
I view the ability to navigate two timelines at the same time, within one window a space saver. Would be great to add a dimming feature the for the comp that is not nested when you click on any layer inside of the nested comp (like Flash does with nested movie symbols). As more flash folk begin to discover the Power of AE I suspect this will become a more frequently featured request.
Re: Twirl Down Comps by Barend Onneweer on Jan 18, 2006 at 3:40:22 pm
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.
