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I hate after effects

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
December 10, 2018
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I hate this program with a passion. All I wanted to do was find a way to play. stop, rewind a clip. You know. The things that every other software in the industry has buttons and symbols for. A little triangle. A square. two smaller triangles. Why doesn't Adobe include this. I hate this program with every fibre of my being. How much money does my school make from Adobe for using this mess of a software? F this program. If you didn't have Photoshop, I would cancel my subscription to your overpriced site.

Correct answer imeilfx

Ok. So your anger is I think as justified as anger of someone who is buying Car factory and is mad because he was actually only in need of a one cheap car.
If you look for something to play some video clips you should use one of many media players from Quick Time media player and Windows media player that are included in most operating systems or chose some free ones like Media player classic, vlc media player etc.
After Effects is not a media player but a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application. So it is more like that car factory not a car itself.
So ... hope that you already found media player that you liked and hope that next time when you will use AE will be to do stuff that AE is made for.

Mo Moolla

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Best to research the software before trying it

After Effects isnt designed to just pay vids. Its far far more than that

VLC player ...plays all codecs and is easy to use

Best of luck

Mo

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One&Done

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AGREED! IT IS UNITUITIVE AF! IT IS FOR GEEKS WHO WANT TO FEEL SUPERIOR, NOT ARTISTS WHO NEED TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES!

Mrtn Ritter

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The issue with such hate posts is, that they go right down the trash. This is a user-to-user forum and Adobe stuff is hardly around. Even if, they can only report bugs to the dev teams.

AE is not a software for geeks, who want to feel superior, but a software for professionals, who are willing to spend years learning and mastering their profession.

It's not very clever to blame the canvas, when you can't draw. You rather learn how to do it, or find another tool to express your art.

*Martin

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One&Done

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Coding is not Drawing.

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Dave Merchant

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And these would be what exactly?

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CreepymanAuthor

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uh...little buttons?

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craigi35826625

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As someone relatively new to AE who has spent the last two years totally immersed studying and learning the app, I do not disagree with the essence of your OP as the product has a dreadfully unintuitive nature almost to the point of conspiracy theory - to keep newbies out so people already in the industry have built-in job security.

For instance:

- menu options on many of the effects are ludicrously named and do not do what you expect them to (who came up with the name "Calculations"?

-effects that refuse to do anything until you change an obscure setting, and do not get me started on C4D, which is a joke

- the multitude of bugs...

That said, this is not the forum to be griping about the product's failings, you should take your thoughts and send them in a letter to Adobe.

BTW you should check out Premiere Pro, which is more of a straightforward video playing/editing application and is IMO vastly simpler to operate. Good luck.

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CreepymanAuthor

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A valid point. Peace.

imeilfxCorrect answer

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Ok. So your anger is I think as justified as anger of someone who is buying Car factory and is mad because he was actually only in need of a one cheap car.
If you look for something to play some video clips you should use one of many media players from Quick Time media player and Windows media player that are included in most operating systems or chose some free ones like Media player classic, vlc media player etc.
After Effects is not a media player but a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application. So it is more like that car factory not a car itself.
So ... hope that you already found media player that you liked and hope that next time when you will use AE will be to do stuff that AE is made for.