Thu Jan 29, 2015 4:33 am
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Thu Jan 29, 2015 7:56 am
VidQueen wrote:They could add more complex features, a la After Effects....
What Adobe has done is made the program financially viable for everyone through the new subscription feature. Great, but it's still like sitting in a 747 Cockpit without an instructor. In comes the 3rd Party Vendors, such as Digital Juice, VideoHive, Pond5 and countless others. They do all the hard work, create amazingly beautiful templates, and all the end user has to do is add their content and make any necessary adjustments. Sound familiar? When using 3rd Party AE templates, the end user doesn't really need to understand anymore than 10% of AE's capabilities. Now, if they want to learn more, there are online tutorials out the Yin Yang that can help; some paid (Lynda.com) some free (AETuts)....the level of learning is up to you. If you want to run on Auto Pilot, rock on...buy a template. If you want to fly it yourself, strap in for what will most likely be hundreds of hours of training....but in the end, you'll be flying like a pro
Just for the record, every 6 months or so I search out and download other Slide Show programs to see if anything better pops up (I'm specifically looking for use of multiple layers, Captions as layers, video files, 3D animation capabilities and, of course, the ability to import 3rd Party content). Nada. Zip. Zilch. Even with a full year of deafening silence, Photodex is still leaps and bounds above anyone else.
Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:31 am
Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:54 am
heckydog wrote:...Using the right click menu system is not the same as the pickwhip system that AE uses, but it's certainly simpler to use than modifiers.
Thu Jan 29, 2015 10:28 am
Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:15 pm
BarbaraC wrote:My question in the simpler parent/child type of setup remains, though it may be because of how I'm likely to choose just one of several things the parent might be doing for the child to follow. Are you saying that you'd right-click one aspect of the parent and then somehow get the child to follow that aspect? How would you choose which aspect of the child you want to do the following? For example, what if I want the child's Y zoom to follow the parent's X pan? And what kind of behavior would the child have? Which type of motion?
Or are you saying that, since this would be out of the realm of the right-click method, it would have to be done on an advanced screen that they'd finally make easier and more logical?
Barbara
Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:26 pm
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Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:58 am
BarbaraC wrote:Interesting. I tried Photoshop CS6 and went scurrying right back to CS3.
I've assumed all along that 64-bit software runs faster than 32-bit. In theory, it should, shouldn't it?
Barbara
Fri Jan 30, 2015 10:20 am