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After Effects 5
Wow!
After some discussion in my animation class on Monday about bluescreening techniques, I decided it was time to sit down and try to learn After Effects. About a year and a half ago I bought the Adobe, 'Dynamic Media Collection' which came with Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, and Illustrator. I had bought it because I wanted Photoshop and Premiere and it was cheaper than buying those two seperately. Great sales plan on Adobe's part! After having Illustrator for a while and using it for nothing more than fiddling with PDF files, I started working with it more and discovered that it really does a LOT of neat stuff that I had wanted in Photoshop but not been able to get.
The same seems to be true for After Effects. Every feature I felt was lacking in Premiere was in After Effects. Better bluescreening, MUCH MUCH MUCH better traveling matte control, 3-d rotations of images, crossfading titles, and a bunch of other cool stuff. I also found out there are a bunch of additional things in After Effects that I never even knew I wanted! Forcing faked 3d lighting into 2d images, all kinds of REALLY neat filters and manipulations, render-queue/render farm capabilities, onionskinned Vector-drawing. Forcing 2-d stuff to vectorize and output as Flash, and tons of other really cool things!
I have a HUGE amount to learn, but after 3 hours last night, I am already overwhelmed by all the possibilities it has opened up and all the problems it solves! Definetely a really really cool program if you do video stuff! I'll have to post some results soon! :)
-Sammi
After some discussion in my animation class on Monday about bluescreening techniques, I decided it was time to sit down and try to learn After Effects. About a year and a half ago I bought the Adobe, 'Dynamic Media Collection' which came with Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, and Illustrator. I had bought it because I wanted Photoshop and Premiere and it was cheaper than buying those two seperately. Great sales plan on Adobe's part! After having Illustrator for a while and using it for nothing more than fiddling with PDF files, I started working with it more and discovered that it really does a LOT of neat stuff that I had wanted in Photoshop but not been able to get.
The same seems to be true for After Effects. Every feature I felt was lacking in Premiere was in After Effects. Better bluescreening, MUCH MUCH MUCH better traveling matte control, 3-d rotations of images, crossfading titles, and a bunch of other cool stuff. I also found out there are a bunch of additional things in After Effects that I never even knew I wanted! Forcing faked 3d lighting into 2d images, all kinds of REALLY neat filters and manipulations, render-queue/render farm capabilities, onionskinned Vector-drawing. Forcing 2-d stuff to vectorize and output as Flash, and tons of other really cool things!
I have a HUGE amount to learn, but after 3 hours last night, I am already overwhelmed by all the possibilities it has opened up and all the problems it solves! Definetely a really really cool program if you do video stuff! I'll have to post some results soon! :)
-Sammi