Anybody have one that I can upgrade from that they would be willing to sell for a decent price? I'm wanting to upgrade to AE CS5- I really want to utilize the roto brush tool feature. Just email me via my profile. Thanks guys.
eBay has a few of them. Just make sure that you get an official Adobe license transfer certificate. If an AE license has already been used to upgrade (like all of mine), it can still be transferred, but not used for a further upgrade.
A vaguely related question: can you use AfterEffects as a stand-alone product to process files for import into Vegas, or does AE have to be used with PremierePro?
I use AE with Vegas all the time. Since Adobe improved its previously buggy Dynamic Link feature in CS5, Premiere and AE "talk" to each other a lot better and you can almost avoid re-rendering.
With Vegas and AE, you need some kind of intermediate codec and Cineform does the trick.