Digital Arts is reporting details on Adobe's preview of After Effects CS4 at IBC 2008. Little of this was shown in the previous sneak peeks. Here's a few but not all they mentioned, and I'm sure there will be much more in the official unveiling next week:-- After Effects CS4 ships with Imagineer System’s Mocha-AE
-- a Cartoon filter that turns clips into animated movie
-- AE compositions on the Premiere timeline and other Dynamic Link enhancements
-- Roundtrip editing between AE and Soundbooth
-- automatic creation of compositions to match the size and framerate of mobile phone templates from Device Central
-- automatic creation of compositions to match the size and framerate of mobile phone templates from Device Central
Creative Cow also has a short write-ups (another) with additional details like:
-- a Mini-Flowchart and other UI enhancements
-- 3D functionality with raytrace rendering moving between PS and AE
-- export a multilayered AE comp to a Flash project
-- separate keyframes and curves for X, Y, and Z
Update: a Cartoon filter that's fast and works easily would be a good thing, though it might not appeal immediately to strict visual effects types. The full feature set has not been announced; these preliminary reports.
Update 2: Apple Insider says Adobe Creative Suite 4 details emerge, but nothing on After Effects.
Update 2: Digtial Arts jumps the gun again with a beta preview (it's Tuesday in England earlier), and CNET has a teaser:
-- a Mini-Flowchart and other UI enhancements
-- 3D functionality with raytrace rendering moving between PS and AE
-- export a multilayered AE comp to a Flash project
-- separate keyframes and curves for X, Y, and Z
Update: a Cartoon filter that's fast and works easily would be a good thing, though it might not appeal immediately to strict visual effects types. The full feature set has not been announced; these preliminary reports.
Update 2: Apple Insider says Adobe Creative Suite 4 details emerge, but nothing on After Effects.
Update 2: Digtial Arts jumps the gun again with a beta preview (it's Tuesday in England earlier), and CNET has a teaser:
Well, maybe a cartoon filter could be leveraged as an interesting aid in rotoscoping or matte creation depending on how you define the number of levels and edge simplicity/fidelity (like Photoshop's "cutout" filer).
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