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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 demonstrations of the Adobe Anywhere platform that show that that is a direction that 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 > > I posted this comment (awaiting moderation): > > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > > Tim Sassoon > SFD > Santa Monica, CA > > > > On Dec 3, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Błażej Pieczonka > <blazej.pieczonka@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 :> ? > > Wiadomość napisana przez Todd Kopriva w dniu 3 gru 2012, o godz. > 21:07: > > > > 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. > > ________________________________________ > From: After Effects Mail List [AE-List@media-motion.tv] On > Behalf Of Brendan Bolles [brendan@fnordware.com] > > 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. > > 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. > > I know this feature has been requested before, maybe it's > just not in the top 10. > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media- > motion.tv> > > > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> > > |
