Szalam a question? Why is it that on every thread where someone points out the very clear performance failings of adobe in it's care of AE, you keep deflecting the issue by talking about: 1) Irrelevant technical information (about select gpu & multithreaded plugins or features that are supposedly important to your workflow) 2) Random factoids about how to improve general performance (disk cache location etc all of which are clearly posted EVERYWHERE.) 3) Mentioning your clearly useless idle Xeon machine when it is again clearly another strawman distraction. 4) Attacking the credibility of the poster with subtle jabs at their technical intelligence. (with supposed advice about how they can improve their renders... You know what dood, we are on the internet and most of that advice comes up FIRST before someone gets mad enough to write here.) 5) Bringing to light "important" features/feature changes, which could supposedly help us with "our workflow issues?" when they are neither relevant to the conversation nor to the problem in general. (Please elucidate for me how Bezier null controls will help me with rendering my 4k prores 444 or DNx 444, project with a 8k scrolling background faster on 1Processor of my $9000 machines with the fastest EVERYTHING? That were bought because Adobe presented AE as a Professional tool. Seriously?) If you really want to be helpful. A) Stop replying to these threads with empty information. It's distracting and upsetting. B) If you are not a shill for Adobe, use your connections there to focus their attention on how upset we actually are because, it's getting hard to defend right now. Most importantly it's not Adobe that is suffering in this situation, it is people like me who are on the receiving end of real client anger and frustration. No one is being helped by your commentary and cheerleading. We are mostly professionals here, and have either been working with AE for a long time or really in deep in the production trenches for us to be frustrated enough to be reading/posting here. I for one keep feeling insulted every time I see your posts, and keep looking for a way to filter them out. I have been using after effects since it was COSA After Effects version 1, just as I have been using PSD since version 0.5. To hear some kid tell me that there are great workflow improvements and really useful new features that will improve my workflow when I am asking about the basic stability and functionality of a tool my business depends on is really really really disheartening. I committed myself to a big 4k project this year that not only took 4 times the necessary time to create because the 2 dual xeon machines I bought to render the thing were completely useless, I even broke down in frustration and took a schedule hit to buy and set up an additional machine with the highest performance per thread processor + best out there to improve both my rendering & on screen work time, and nothing changed. The difference between a professional tool and a prosumer toy is that you can depend on it to scale linearly with more hardware, as well as depend on it to be SUPER CONSISTENT and INFINITELY STABLE when everything else is controlled for and equal. Software that cannot be depended on, when running on the most stable and controlled environments is by default NOT professional software. As it is, I am very very frustrated that the alternatives have become atrophied by a lack of choice, or a limited pool of talent to operate it. It is currently impossible to seriously consider After Effects when adobe is focused on adding features which as great as they could be are just adding more things to render onto an overtaxed rendering platform. If I was adobe I would clean room from the ground up a new tool based on the ideas/interface of AE and do a transition as they did when they moved from PREMIERE to PREMIERE PRO. (yes I even was around for that and used Premiere to make 320x160 videos on Quadra 650. ) Keep the legacy AE going for a few years so we can convert old projects, but DEFINITELY focus on a new SUPER STABLE MODERN CODE BASE that will deliver a true linear performance scale with additional Processor threads as well as additional GPU processing. Deliver this with a modernized clean interface, that looses its bloat, clears up some of the methodology, and clears up some of the confused metaphors; specifically by using true user centered design to prototype/iterate and test this interface BEFORE adding the random features and plugins that either benefit 3 users or distract 90% of users.
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