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e.motion
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January 18, 2023
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Affects Effects 2023 is still whacky

  • January 18, 2023
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Well, the latest version of After Effects is horrible - again. First the memory leaked, which they fixed and now its back with a venagence. All sorts of snags and whacky behavior and I know thats not being specific but wow. I'm back to using 2022 and that works mostly with no problems. 2023 is the worst upgrade in the history of Adobe.  I'm so tired of complaing. There will just come a day where we go bye bye Adobe and just stick with Resolve - which always works! 

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    ColbyFulton
    ColbyFulton
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    January 18, 2023

    I find that it can suffer from extreme slowdown after working with it for 30 minutes or so. I'm using a 64GB MacBook Pro M1 Max. When I quit and restart it that sometimes helps, or sometimes I have to restart the whole machine to get it working quickly again. We need to solve this problem quick because we have a lot of projects on the go. Should we switch to stop motion or something? Grr

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    e.motionAuthor
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    January 25, 2023

    Look, this has been going on for years. Adobe is just not going to get their act together because they don't have any real competition. Nobody ever has to use premiere pro again because now we have resolve… But there is no substitute for after effects or Photoshop or even illustrator. They know that they have us by the balls. And there's not much we can do about it. This is not something new or recent, this has been going on for years. Why other companies have not made their version of after effects, just boggles the mind.

    Mylenium
    Mylenium
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    Why other companies have not made their version of after effects, just boggles the mind.

     

    There have been enough attempts like HitFilm, Cavalry or just now Autograph, but the simple answer (and you're not going to like it) is that those knock-offs just try to copy AE and then eventually fall into the same traps. It all looks fancy with GPU acceleration, instancing a million layers and some other admittedly cool stuff, but if your business model is based on trying to draw away from Adobe and their cheap subscription model then it's a battle you can't win. It's a waste of resources and it just seems to me those copycats just don't understand what makes AE and its users tick.

     

    Mylenium 

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