anyone here have Adobe After Effects?

cowmumble wrote on 6/13/2004, 7:23 PM
Just curious if anyone on this forum uses Adobe After Effects or will Vegas 5 do eveything that AE does. Is there there anything AE can achieve that Vegas can't?

I'm not really that familiar with After Effects, but I was intrigued by the demonstrations on Richard Harrington's VASST DVD: Photoshop CS: Essentials for Digital Video. Any thoughts?

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Spot|DSE wrote on 6/13/2004, 7:31 PM
AE can do 3D extrusion and track pathing, but otherwise, Vegas can do most of the rest of it. We have some last-rev copies of AE in boxes (AE6) that we are selling on Ebay cheap, if you are looking to acquire, but unless you need extrusion and pathing, there's nothing really there. It's the plugins that make AE fly high, not the app itself.
p@mast3rs wrote on 6/13/2004, 8:35 PM
The new version is pretty nice. Grain surgery, shadow/highlights, auto clor/contrast/levels are pretty sweet. But like Spot said, if you dont need the extras, not really worth getting it.
FuTz wrote on 6/14/2004, 7:35 AM

... and think about the time spent to *learn* it...
Spot|DSE wrote on 6/14/2004, 8:11 AM
Well...we do have an After Effects VASST. :-)
winrockpost wrote on 6/14/2004, 8:14 AM
We use after effects mainly for 2 things,, render to filmstrip to go into photoshop for some fixes,
and have to admit really like the overused shine filter. though the boris freebie with 5 may have a similar effect, havent checked.
David_Kuznicki wrote on 6/14/2004, 9:19 AM
Vegas will definately do a good portion of what AE will do, but not all of it.

There are things I like better about AE (I've never liked the Vegas window for effects, but that's subjective), and things I like better about Vegas. But I'm used to AE, and I still use it for most effects.

But then, AE really only shines (no pun intended!) in the plug-in catagory-- indeed Shine, Stroke etc. by Trapcode are great tools, as is Zaxwerk's Invigorator (which comes with 6.0 PB, I believe), and I think there's a version of PI that will run in AE coming out soon.

The Bottom line-- Vegas will do most of the same work, but AE simply has more depth. Effects are what it's built for. I'd hate, for example, to try to edit a show in AE instead of Vegas. It could be done, of course...

David.
sek0910 wrote on 6/14/2004, 5:49 PM
I understand that Satish may be/is working on a program that will integrate AE plugins with Vegas..If that is something of interest, perhaps some polite encouragement may be in order ;)
p@mast3rs wrote on 6/14/2004, 9:29 PM
I would totally welcome that.
Yoyodyne wrote on 6/14/2004, 10:31 PM
Trapcode stuff in Vegas would be great!
p@mast3rs wrote on 6/14/2004, 11:41 PM
And also steadymove for removing camera shake. Heck, Id kick in some major bucks if he could get this to work.