Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #52442
From: Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] a very important question for every After Effects user
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:36:49 -0500
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Great point Roland. I also see a lot of people in that forum asking for realtime performance. I don't think that's going to happen, and if it does, it would be at the expense of customizability and flexibility. I don't need another Apple Motion. The hardware gap among users is too difficult to bridge to make any promise of realtime performance, because it's so hardware-dependent. I worry in order to fulfill a promise of "more speed" there would be lots of compromises, discarded effects and features a la the FCP X debacle. 

Maybe Adobe needs to make a stripped down "realtime AE" application that is separate from the AE core. It could be like "AE Live" for realtime video processing and effects, entirely GPU / OpenCL dependent. That would certainly eat into Motion's market share. Todd if you need a project leader let me know.
-TG


On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Roland Kahlenberg (RoRK) <aemaillist@broadcastgems.com> wrote:
I'm wondering if those that want more speed at the expense of everything else are familiar with Blinn's Law.

More info here - http://nevalalee.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/blinns-law-and-the-paradox-of-efficiency/
and here - http://www.cgw.com/Press-Center/Web-Exclusives/2013/Blinn-s-Law-and-the-Paradox-of-Increasing-Perfor.aspx

I would much rather have a balanced approach, for all users, towards any improvement in AE development. For myself, I would prefer to have more development effort set for the creative aspect since that is what we use AE for. Speed enhancements can already be had with a faster CPU, GPU, HDD, more/faster RAM and effectively utilizing AE's myriad of preview/render options and their respective settings.

In short, why delimit your favorite creative tool for something that you can already have, via an alternative route?  Additionally, there is a high probability that you will quite quickly use up any future benefit, marginal or otherwise, to only create something that you can already do today.

Cheers
- Roland Kahlenberg

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