Re: Is it worth it to upgrade to AE7? by Steve Roberts on Nov 19, 2006 at 9:15:53 pm
Yes. AE 6 was not very good.
And don't wait for an AE upgrade to come soon. They usually do releases every 18 months, and if I recall, the last one came at the beginning of this year? At any rate, neither I nor anyone here knows anything or can say anything about that. So just buy 7.
Re: Is it worth it to upgrade to AE7? by Andrew Shanks on Nov 20, 2006 at 5:58:31 am
The upgrade is totally worth it, ...the interface change alone is worth the price of admission, ..granted the first couple of days you'll be pulling out your hair wondering where all those filters are now stashed (they've rejigged a few of the filter headings) and just getting used to how things work, but once you get used to the new UI, its just so productive, that its very very hard to go back to v6.x.
...I wouldn't wait for 7.5, ...as has been mentioned already, Adobe tends to do releases about every 18 months on AE, so we might see 7.5 towards the end of next year, ...but who knows. My advice is if you can afford the upgrade to 7, get the upgrade, you'll be glad you did.
Re: Is it worth it to upgrade to AE7? by Andrew Shanks on Nov 20, 2006 at 7:03:05 pm
AE6.5 will remain on your system and fully working (which can be handy sometimes if you need to use an old plug-in that won't work in AE7). The plugins you have in AE6.5 won't automatically be part of AE7 (since it creates a new folder for AE7), ...but depending on the plugin, you should be able to copy and paste them from the AE6.5 plugin folder to the AE7 folder (I just tested this with Silhouette Roto, and it worked). Maybe just do a google search for AE7 compatible plugins first though (and download any updates for those that need them).
