The Future of After Effects

Adobe is near releasing the "IBC" update to video apps in Creative Cloud 2015, which itself was just released in June, so community attention is turning towards future features for After Effects.

See The Future of After Effects: feature requests, nodes, GPU at PVC for comments by After Effects product manager Todd Kopriva on the general direction of AE, including interesting hints on the future of nodes and GPU rendering, as well as info on a new initiative by Sander van Dijk to open discussion of feature requests for AE.

Take a survey or two, for the team

Todd Kopriva of AE Help is asking AE users to Please take a survey or two. Pretty please?

These short surveys ask about tasks that video editors might do in After Effects to help Adobe to learn what people are having trouble with and how to make it better: survey 1 TextAnimation and survey 2 Rotoscoping.

FCP, Adobe, & Vegas

Maybe concerned that pro apps don't seem to be a priority at Apple, a recent thread on FinalCutPro-L asked What's Adobe up to? The consensus seemed to be that they were close, except that Final Cut was stable with a lot of clips while actually editing for TV, docs, and movies while Premiere was not stable.

Also of note was that while SONY Vegas was also a bit stagnant in development it had a few features that the other apps should ape -- like audio, background rendering, and especially "Takes" as explained by Timothy Duncan in a branched thread.

Adobe Feature Request/Bug Report Form

With AE and the Production Premium CS3 suite shipping, now is the time to make feature requests, so visit Adobe's Feature Request/Bug Report Form if you think something's missing in any of your favorite apps. Bug fixes are important too and could be squeezed into potential point releases.

Feature Request/Bug Report Form

With AE and the Production Premium suite just shipping, now is the time to make feature requests, so visit Adobe's Feature Request/Bug Report Form if you think something's missing.
Bug fixes are important too and could be squeezed into a potential point release because there will probably be one before the next dot-zero release -- which might be 1-1/2 years out.