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True-Kida
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June 9, 2017
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What After Effects Features Have I Missed Since CS6?

  • June 9, 2017
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Hello all,

I am interested in purchasing a perpetual license for After Effects CS6. I am curious however as to what all I would be missing in regards to features (as in what updates I will have missed) since that version of the software. If this question can even be realistically answered, I'd greatly appreciate any and all help.

Thanks  in advance,

--Masaomi Kida

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Correct answer Mylenium

Well, the ugly blunt truth is that you probably won't miss much aside from specific CoDec support for some newer formats. Pretty much everything is a matter of "unless you have specific workflows that involve those tools, you may not care", meaning things like Refine Edges, the content aware scaling/ resize, refinements to the 3D tracker and Warp Stabilizer, mask tracker and a few other things. Everything else is too much in a state of flux to really add genuine production value, the many quirks and bugs will drive you insane at times and of course some features like the motion graphics templates are downright irrelevant if you don't have those projects where you need to churn out hundreds of lower thirds for editing in Premiere. Sadly, AE is just stuck in limbo and seems to move forward at snail pace, if at all these days. Too many grand promises that it doesn't live up to. Other than that of course one might be concerned about compatibility issues with CS6 on modern operating systems, which is something you should really research thoroughly.

Mylenium

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Anonymous
June 20, 2017

Hi everyone,

I am wondering which way to go with editing and making our business video, any feedback or advice would be very helpful.

I have Photoshop CS6 and Sony Vegas Platinum 11, we are looking to use AE Intro templates from Video Blocks and Motion Backgrounds etc.

Would I be better to use my old programs or look into purchasing Premiere Pro CC . I don't wish to spend unnecessary money where I can.

Thanks in advance

Samantha

Roei Tzoref
Roei Tzoref
Legend
June 20, 2017

my advice is to subscribe to creative cloud and get all of the Adobe products. you get a fully functional 7 days free trial to test it.

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Anonymous
June 20, 2017

Thanks, Roei, I will look into Creative Cloud

Mylenium
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Legend
June 9, 2017

Well, the ugly blunt truth is that you probably won't miss much aside from specific CoDec support for some newer formats. Pretty much everything is a matter of "unless you have specific workflows that involve those tools, you may not care", meaning things like Refine Edges, the content aware scaling/ resize, refinements to the 3D tracker and Warp Stabilizer, mask tracker and a few other things. Everything else is too much in a state of flux to really add genuine production value, the many quirks and bugs will drive you insane at times and of course some features like the motion graphics templates are downright irrelevant if you don't have those projects where you need to churn out hundreds of lower thirds for editing in Premiere. Sadly, AE is just stuck in limbo and seems to move forward at snail pace, if at all these days. Too many grand promises that it doesn't live up to. Other than that of course one might be concerned about compatibility issues with CS6 on modern operating systems, which is something you should really research thoroughly.

Mylenium

True-Kida
True-KidaAuthor
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June 9, 2017

Thank you so much! I generally edit in Sony Vegas and wanted to spice up my edits a bit. I'll look a little more into some of the updated features you mentioned to see if they're all that crucial. And I am so glad that you mentioned compatibility, as I am running Windows 8.1 and was thinking of updating to 10, which is not supported! Thanks again. You have helped me immensely in making a purchasing decision.

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