From: John Morgan <John.Morgan@slcc.edu>
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:19:05 -0600
Subject: RE: [AE] Question about Ae
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So true Dave. I followed one of Brian's tutorials for CS6 (3D camera tracki=
ng/tracking text on path to the tree limb). On occasion I've studied other =
tutorials such as creating audio loudness keyframes and using expression to=
 connect loudness to a layer's motion on Z (my only use of expressions so f=
ar.)  As primarily a video editor, I go to Ae for specific things as needed=
 in my videos. Sometimes that means learning how to do the specific thing (=
and then promptly forgetting what I just learned), but over time the cumula=
tive skill level, knowledge/use of hotkeys, tools, masks, parenting, track =
mattes and overall remembering how to do more and more things has increased=
 much. I find this list extremely helpful and really appreciate the cordial=
, supportive community here.

Since you mention the COSA history, my very first exposure to Ae was during=
 a photoshop conference (I was a graphics person previous to video career) =
in roughly 1993. Got into video stuff in 1996 but didn't begin motion graph=
ics until I got Discreet Edit/Combustion in 1998. It was a slow, self-taugh=
t start. Moved to Ae in 2003 and really missed the graph editor function. C=
ombustion had it, Ae did not (at the time.) Still learning Ae but getting v=
ery comfortable with most things other than scripting and expression stuff.

J
-----Original Message-----
From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of=
 Dave Bittner
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 7:26 AM
To: After Effects Mail List
Subject: Re: [AE] Question about Ae

And it's why I always keep up to date with Chris and Trish's latest books, =
or training from folks like Brian Maffit. I've been using AE since version =
2 (still have my COSA dongle around here, somewhere), and one of the traps =
of being a long time user is that you sometimes catch yourself using new to=
ols in old ways. I consider myself a fairly advanced AE user, but inevitabl=
y discover new, more efficient ways of doing even the most basic things thr=
ough their books and videos. It's the old, "I didn't even know that feature=
 was in there!" thing.=20

On Oct 17, 2012, at 5:29PM, Chris Meyer <chris@crishdesign.com> wrote:

> On Oct 16, 2012, at 8:44 AM, John Morgan wrote:
>=20
>> Pretty embarrassing considering how long I've been using Ae (self taught)
>=20
> That's why sometimes structured training isn't all bad (smile).
>=20


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