Talk:Adobe After Effects

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repeated info!!!

Competitors to After Effects include Discreet Combustion, Apple Shake, Cinelerra, Digital Fusion, Boris RED and Apple Motion.

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It competes with such compositing platforms as Shake, Pinnacle Commotion, Combustion, Apple Motion, Inferno, Flame, and Boris FX.

Yes, yes it was. Fixed now, but don't forget that it's often easier to do it yourself than to post on a talk page! --ZsigE 14:43, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 External Links 2 UI Screenshot 3 On After Effects Clutter 4 New sections 5 Version history section 6 Screenshots of other versions 7 Removed Reviews

[edit] External Links

Wikivid had been a long-time listing in the after effects external links, it serves as an unbiased index of free video tutorials. I recently re-added it only to see it quickly removed. To me this site is more in line with Wikipedia than say 6 separate creative cow links. http://wikivid.com/index.php/After_Effects Your thoughts?

[edit] UI Screenshot

I think the screenshot used in this entry should be the default gray, not this darker variant.

[edit] On After Effects Clutter

I have rewritten the paragraph on clutter in After Effects. After Effects does suffer from layer clutter, however a) the clutter doesn't have anything to do with the timeline but rather with the stacking of layers in the Composition Window and b) I think the article could do without the fish example--discussing what consitutes a 'typical animation' and how to achieve 'extremely realistic results' is beyond the scope of the article. AfterEffects suffers from clutter really because it is the only surviving compositing application not to use tree graphs--which is not necessarily a bad thing. ezgeez

For such a small article, I don't a paragraph on "clutter" is necessary at all. Yes, AE could benefit in some ways from a node-based system being implemented, but it's not as big of an issue as the article makes it out to be. In fact, layer based compositing is seen as being easier for doing animation in many cases. Perhaps a sentence explaining that most other compositing programs like Shake and Flame are node-based, as opposed to AE being layer-based is all the article needs.--Weakmassive 14:45, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New sections

I added some new sections so that the information is more easily accessible and ordered logically. There were a few instances of unabashed praise ('stunning', 'perfectly') particularly in reference to other software products. If these are important opinions and therefore worthy of inclusion I think they should be cited otherwise it reads like an advert. Al001 10:57, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Version history section

I would like to see a section that generally outlines what major improvements each release featured. See the entry for Quicktime to see what I mean. --24.249.108.133 03:09, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

I added a history table with similar detail. --David P Simons 06:42, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Screenshots of other versions

I wanted to know if and were I should add a screen shot of After Effects running on Windows Vista. The article seems to just show MAC and no other OS Rgoodermote 22:10, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed Reviews

Hi, I just commented out the entire Review section of the article. Three of the 5 links were broken and the other two link to reviews of old After Effects versions (6.5 and 7). Hope thats ok with everyone. --Splette :) ^{How's my driving?} 21:09, 28 October 2007 (UTC)