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What's new in After Effects CS5

Apr 11, 2010 9:05 PM

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"What's new in After Effects CS5"

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1. Taverino,

Apr 11, 2010 9:44 PM in reply to Todd_Kopriva

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No Mercury Playback Engine?

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2. Todd_Kopriva,

Apr 11, 2010 9:46 PM in reply to Taverino

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Mercury is just the Premiere Pro codename for a set of performance features.

If you're referring specifically to the use of CUDA (which is only one piece of Mercury), then no. After Effects CS5 doesn't take advantage of CUDA.

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3. Taverino,

Apr 11, 2010 9:57 PM in reply to Todd_Kopriva

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That's a little disappointing, but I'm hoping the ability to use more RAM will speed up playback for my HD comps. The rest of the new features look interesting. More details on the "Dozens of Enhancements"?

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4. Todd_Kopriva,

Apr 22, 2010 8:44 PM in reply to Taverino

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> but I'm hoping the ability to use more RAM will speed up playback for my HD comps.

Enormously. And RAM previews can be much, much longer now.

> The rest of the new features look interesting. More details on the "Dozens of Enhancements"?

There's a link on the page that I linked to to the complete list, but here it is again.

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5. Taverino,

Apr 11, 2010 10:07 PM in reply to Todd_Kopriva

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Thanks, Todd, That is an impressive list! I'm upgrading, but I drank the Kool-Aid a long time ago .

Does it say anywhere when it ships or are they saving that for the big show tomorrow?

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6. Todd_Kopriva,

Apr 11, 2010 10:10 PM in reply to Taverino

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Details about the ship date come tomorrow morning.

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7. bogiesan-gyyClL,

Apr 12, 2010 7:56 AM in reply to Todd_Kopriva

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Way cool.
Unfortunately, my company will wait about 6 months to upgrade to CS5, if we can convince IT to do it at all.

bogiesan

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8. A. Cobb,

Apr 12, 2010 8:44 AM in reply to Todd_Kopriva

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What new toys do we get?

(You knew it was coming, right?)

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9. Todd_Kopriva,

Apr 12, 2010 9:13 AM in reply to A. Cobb

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> Scripting additions? Expressions?
What new toys do we get?

There are no significant changes in expressions.

I'll post back with a list of changes in scripting very soon. I'm actually working on the scripting guide now. (Well, not right now, since I'm at NAB and dealing with a huge launch.)

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10. A. Cobb,

Apr 12, 2010 11:17 AM in reply to Todd_Kopriva

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I'll be looking forward to it.

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11. Szalam,

Apr 12, 2010 12:36 PM in reply to Todd_Kopriva

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Holy fricking frack frack frick! Roto Brush for the win!

Sorry, my giddiness is a bit hard to control. Of course, it may take quite a while for me to get the powers that be to upgrade me, but I think the performance argument alone should do it.

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12. Andy Bay,

Apr 13, 2010 10:11 AM in reply to Todd_Kopriva

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Here are thoughts so far about CS5:

Exciting things:

-Freeform is a really great addition. To my surprise it seems to even support AE-lights which was a very positive surprise!
-Rotobrush naturally is really great news, no more struggling with masks when rotoscoping (I hope)
-64-bit performance is really really nice to have finally

Slight disappointments:

-Still no real 3D or ability to import 3D-files without Photoshop. The experiences with Photoshop import were not very good with CS4 and I didn't read about any work done on that in the change list. I hope I'm wrong on this one!

-I was really really hoping that this would be implemented in AE CS5 http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/videoenhancement/videoEnhancem ent.htm After all, there is an adobe employee involved with project. So this was a bit disappointing for me, but I guess I just have to wait a bit longer.

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13. Todd_Kopriva,

Apr 13, 2010 10:26 AM in reply to Andy Bay

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> -Still no real 3D or ability to import 3D-files without Photoshop. The experiences with Photoshop import were not very good with CS4 and I didn't read about any work done on that in the change list. I hope I'm wrong on this one!

There has been quite a lot of work to improve stability, but the overall feature is the same in After Effects. Because Photoshop has some additions, you can make more useful things in Photoshop, so overall it's an improvement. See this post.
-I was really really hoping that this would be implemented in AE CS5 http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/videoenhancement/videoEnhancem ent.htm After all, there is an adobe employee involved with project. So this was a bit disappointing for me, but I guess I just have to wait a bit longer.
I was really annoyed at all of the YouTube videos that said that was going to be in CS5. It just goes to show that you can't believe what you see on the Internet. ;-)

Seriously, though, those folks are just down the hall from me, and they are always doing great stuff---much of which eventually makes it into products. Several of the cool features from this and previous release have come in part from them. So, don't lose hope.

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14. David Wigforss,

Apr 13, 2010 12:13 PM in reply to Andy Bay

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http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/videoenhancement/videoEnhancem ent.htm

Wow - that was awesome. Love see cool new tech, even if I can't have it... yet

Thanks for sharing.

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15. David Wigforss,

Apr 13, 2010 12:17 PM in reply to Todd_Kopriva

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"I was really annoyed at all of the YouTube videos that said that was going to be in CS5. "

What?!? You mean PS CS5 won't actually clean up my room and make me lunch?

http://gizmodo.com/5504357

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16. Sébastien Périer,

Apr 13, 2010 11:15 PM in reply to A. Cobb

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A. Cobb wrote:

What new toys do we get?

(You knew it was coming, right?)
In scripting you can now access to the label property of a layer and change it's label color.

I've been told that there are some other scripting improvements, but we'll have to wait for Todd's list

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17. Todd_Kopriva,

May 3, 2010 7:42 AM in reply to Sébastien Périer

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> In scripting you can now access to the label property of a layer and change it's label color. I've been told that there are some other scripting improvements, but we'll have to wait for Todd's list

Here's the list of scripting changes in After Effects CS5.

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