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dimamel · 2006-01-15 #15

I've worked extensively with both flash and after effects on countless projects as well as a slew of other compositing applications such as shake, digital fusion and flame.

It seems that at this point the only thing that after effects lacks is the ability to bring in vector data straight from flash (swf) � which is only a concern if you are doing something for the web.

Aside from that, AE is a very powerful and a simple to use application. If you�ve used flash and photoshop, adapting to AE is smooth.

Just to comment of "urbanstory" 's feedback - after effects does have a very powerful timeline preview. Just hit the 0 num pad key. Also keep in mind that there should be no comparison between the way that you scribe through flash timelime comparing to AE. AE needs to make a billion more calculations due to the complexity of the layers/3D layrs, filters, blanding modes etc...

	dimamel	2006-01-15 #15
	I've worked extensively with both flash and after effects on countless projects as well as a slew of other compositing applications such as shake, digital fusion and flame. It seems that at this point the only thing that after effects lacks is the ability to bring in vector data straight from flash (swf) � which is only a concern if you are doing something for the web. Aside from that, AE is a very powerful and a simple to use application. If you�ve used flash and photoshop, adapting to AE is smooth. Just to comment of "urbanstory" 's feedback - after effects does have a very powerful timeline preview. Just hit the 0 num pad key. Also keep in mind that there should be no comparison between the way that you scribe through flash timelime comparing to AE. AE needs to make a billion more calculations due to the complexity of the layers/3D layrs, filters, blanding modes etc...