coastalmedia wrote:
Hi Jstrawn,
I personally would even be happy with an interim "preference' kind of code adjustment. For what it's worth, it's the only gripe i've come across with the update. I love the enlarged Anchor Point indicators, i've spent much time trying to find those little buggers they seemed to be good at hiding!
I played around for a few hours yesterday attempting to make the suggested preference modifications above work. I did get it to a point where AE would open without any errors, but unfortunately the colour would not change. There is obviously more to it than the "Hot Key Color" hex codeline.
It is however disappointing as i'm sure you can sympathise, after waiting so long for the AE audio scrubbing memory leak to be rectified in the new version, only to be hit in the face with something else that dramatically reduces my productivity.
CS4/CS6 seemed so much more stable to me than CC2014. I just don't understand where software is going.
Apple's doing the same thing with their Mavericks, it's just a giant monochrome bug! Since when is stability and ease of use NOT the main aim?
How does one go about becoming a Beta tester for new releases and what is their requirement? I think using AE for extended periods of time should be a requirement for testing if it is not already. As I, and i'm sure most all of the others who are writing to you here, are professionals using your software (in my case almost exclusively) all day, daily. There is no issue with the blue if you're only looking at it for an hour, it's long term use that fatigues and let's not forget a lot of us have been staring at screens for years so our eyes are already vulnerable!
Kind regards for your honest and humble reply to this post, certainly refreshing after reading the initial nonchalance of an earlier reply from Adobe here.
Many thanks,
Matt
Thanks and you're welcome. We agree on a lot of points. I wouldn't like it if things got changed on me as a user just to make it 'modern'. But that actually wasn't the case here. One thing I've learned over the years is that they do have valid reasons behind such changes. They're just not reasons that please all of our user at once, which is of course impossible. I myself don't always agree with certain changes, but I have to admit that in some case I've come to like things I really didn't like at first. The idea of a pref is good and we may see something like that before long (just a guess, no inside info there). But keep in mind that the UI was fully re-designed with the blue and everything else, so it's not as easy as changing a line of code from , say, color="000001" to color="000002". One thing I can assure you of though, and it's what we've already discussed internally many times, is that it's important for our users to be heard, even if the particular change they want does necessarily come how and when they want it. As for our pre-release testing program, we generally invite users out of the community through our sales and marketing channels (sometimes including forums, etc.). There is also a public request form here: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=prerelease_interest
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