Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv — Message #63970
From: Chris Zwar <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: Re: [AE] Trapcode - buggy and undependable now?
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:29:22 +1000
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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I use particular and form a lot, almost every day.  Not so much their other plugins, although shine and starglow still get used often enough.  I haven’t used Mir or Tao because they need a GPU and the two studios where I do the most work have render farms that don’t have GPUs (Mac Minis and windows blades).  That alone is a bit irritating.

I just finished a project that relied on Form and I had some big issues on both Mac and Windows machines.  It was quite tedious and cost me over a day of work on a very tight deadline.  I raised a support ticket and I’ll see what happens.  I suspect some of the problems will be blamed on a custom obj.

I can live with instability, but what I really have issues with a random render glitches that I have to manually find and fix.  The big issue I had when using form a  few weeks ago was that some frames would randomly render with alpha only, and only black in the colour channels.

I haven’t had any issues with Particular, but I’m using it right now so I’ll see how it goes…


-Chris

On 18 Apr 2018, at 7:00 am, Michael Powers <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

The Trapcode products used to be dependable workhorses - now they are buggy, undependable trouble spots that I need support for nearly every time I use them. Is anyone else having problems with the new suite products?
 
I'll be replacing with plugins like Stardust soon.
 
 
 

Mike Powers
Director of Animation \ Cramer
 
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