Why can’t you expose scripting to the timeline like you can in After Effects? Like I could set up a little function to wobble a movie clip around depending on a random amount and then expose that amount to the time line so I could animate the shake getting less over time. Sure this would make developer happier because scripted animation would no longer be designers sitting over their shoulder saying “oh bit slower, bit less easing” they could just chuck them a few variables to mess about with in the timeline.

Also Adobe, soft gradual masking in flash should be as easy as vector masking and fancy features like displacement maps should be more accessible at the design side like they are in After Effects. Sometimes I feel the Flash developer team is too nerd and not enough creative focused, they enjoy programming cool stuff like displacement maps but can’t be arsed figuring out how to let the average user access that stuff.

1:20 pm  •  15 July 2009

After Effects: “After Effects Error: this file has been created with a newer version of After Effects [6.5 (Windows)]. Time to buy the new version!” Probably could have worded that better.

Thanks Thomas R

11:25 am  •  5 June 2009

DEAR AFTER EFFECTS TEAM!

If you are going to put fucking easter eggs in your software then DON’T MAKE THME LOUD FUCKING ANNOYING SOUNDS THAT SOMEONE COULD TRIGGER ACCIDENTLY DURING NORMAL PROGRAM OPERATIONS. Bunch of fucking bellends I’ve got loud headphones on here I don’t need a fucking sheep baaing at high volume because I held shift when selecting multiple effects and then overshot the top effect and activated your stupid fucking SHIT excuse for an easter egg

3:41 pm  •  5 May 2009

After Effects: Affects only all of them? WTF

Cheers Geoffrey

1:56 pm  •  11 April 2009

After Effects: This would be pretty cool if it was intentional

Cheers for the giftastic version EaVan

Update

Apparently this is a driver issue, update your OS X.

Thanks for that Paul

3:43 pm  •  17 March 2009

After Effects: I was working on AE the other morning, basically opened a file rendered some proxies then closed AE did nothing on the computer, opened AE 30 minutes later and now it gives me this and quits.

Google says deleting some preferences fixes it

9:28 pm  •  26 February 2009

After Effects: First AE post here, although AE has an entirely custom UI I let it off because its more of a workstation product and plus its UI works brilliantly. However errors boxes can leave a little something to be desired like this one

Cheers Ian

9:26 pm  •  26 February 2009

Flash CS4 UI: Good intentions fucked up astronomically. 

Its clear Flash CS4 took a lot of UI cues from After Effects, can’t blame it AE is fucking solid as far as a custom UI goes. AE is so good it makes custom UIs look like a great idea, Flash of course makes them look dogshit.

In AE you have many scrubbable little variables and combos so have to scroll loads, so you tend to use the mouse scroll wheel constantly. The Flash developers must have never realised this because they decided to make the scroll wheel also scrub variables/combo boxes so now I’m forced to either find a safe scroll zone like the area outside the red box or just use the shitty little custom scroll bars. 

This gets even worse with the properties panel because before you know it its throwing fucking dialogues at you because many combos have further options in them.

9:32 pm  •  28 January 2009