From: Todd Kopriva <kopriva@adobe.com>
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 13:42:01 -0800
Subject: RE: [AE] top feature requests for After Effects in 2012
Thread-Topic: [AE] top feature requests for After Effects in 2012
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Good points, Tim.

Regarding your suggestion about After Effects breaking free of the project =
and working with a multi-user database: We've given several public demonstr=
ations of the Adobe Anywhere platform that show that that is a direction th=
at we're heading. It'll take a while, of course.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On
> Behalf Of Tim Sassoon
> Sent: 03December2012 13:33
> To: After Effects Mail List
> Subject: Re: [AE] top feature requests for After Effects in 2012
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> I posted this comment (awaiting moderation):
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> AE's main competition now being Nuke, be mindful that AE's continuing
> advantage will be in CREATIVE and design tasks. Pursuant to that, for
> the next version of AE I'd like to see two things I've long asked for:
> PS Brushes and fonts, both embedded in the project or saved as a
> sidecar cache file, so that the file will open with those resources in
> future versions or on basic render installs. I would say better scaling
> too, but you're already on board.
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> For the long-term future, I think the AE project concept needs to
> change for the bigger, and become a multi-user database interoperable
> with it's suite-mate applications, particularly PR and SG, that's
> really about workgroup efficiency and project management. Instant
> updating of artist contributions, history, messaging, speculative
> rendering servers, etc. Instead of being centered on the Project, it
> needs to be centered on the Job, which would consist of many shots
> within a larger program. Each of those shots may have an entire
> Project's worth of stuff going on, and the Job conforms all those shots
> into a finished program.
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> It goes without saying that this isn't a Next Version goal. But one
> might think about the file format(s) needed to accomplish this, keep it
> as open as possible to 3rd party contributions and scripting, and start
> implementing it on whatever level.
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> Tim Sassoon
> SFD
> Santa Monica, CA
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> On Dec 3, 2012, at 12:14 PM, B=B3a=BFej Pieczonka
> <blazej.pieczonka@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 	I am currently at work now, but maybe someone could prepare a
> message covering nodal compositing request, so everyone can paste it on
> http://www.adobe.com/go/wish :> ?
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> 	Wiadomo=B6=E6 napisana przez Todd Kopriva w dniu 3 gru 2012, o godz.
> 21:07:
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> 		There was a trickle of such features this year, but not
> much. Of course, if everyone speaking out on this thread were to add
> their voice here ( http://www.adobe.com/go/wish ), the results would be
> different.
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> 		________________________________________
> 		From: After Effects Mail List [AE-List@media-motion.tv] On
> Behalf Of Brendan Bolles [brendan@fnordware.com]
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> 		To me, this is really a feature request to add a little
> checkbox next to every layer param to get the layer after the effects
> and transformations have been applied.
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> 		Actually, most people would probably want that to become
> the default, so maybe you'd check the box to get the current behavior,
> with old projects getting it checked when upgraded to CSNext.
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> 		I know this feature has been requested before, maybe it's
> just not in the top 10.
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