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n0mmo · 2006-01-16 #35

Originally posted by olsonjj
Pleae Please Please... do NOT dumb down AfterEffects to be more like Flash --- make Flash more like AfterEffects

Thank You!
Finally an intelligent comment! I know that AE is hard to get into, but once you pick up a book or two and run through it a bit you come to see how powerful this program is.

Someone commented on making the timeline more like Flash... Woa. That would be about the most tragic thing ever. Were that to happen I think I'd walk away from computers altogether. Hell, my toaster is easier to use than AE, why not just have one push button and a little slider? Seriously my main complaint w/ Flash is it's timeline, it's just shy of being useless. Dragging keyframes shouldn't hurt so much, and animating multiple parameters separate of each other? Not gonna happen outside of the Tween class or placing a movie clip w/in a movie clip (which is cumbersome and impractical).

So back to the topic how can we make AE integrate w/ Flash? I don't really see why it'd want to. In general you aren't using vectors in AE. AE is a video production tool. What you should be looking to do is scrapping the Flash interface in favour of the more powerful AE one.
Otherwise revive livemotion and give it the Scripting power of Flash.

I guess if you really must work on integration, give AE a set of vector tools and a palette to manage shapes. That's about all you could do without killing a beatifully funcitoning machine in favour of a dummyware interface.

	n0mmo	2006-01-16 #35
	Originally posted by olsonjj Pleae Please Please... do NOT dumb down AfterEffects to be more like Flash --- make Flash more like AfterEffects Thank You! Finally an intelligent comment! I know that AE is hard to get into, but once you pick up a book or two and run through it a bit you come to see how powerful this program is. Someone commented on making the timeline more like Flash... Woa. That would be about the most tragic thing ever. Were that to happen I think I'd walk away from computers altogether. Hell, my toaster is easier to use than AE, why not just have one push button and a little slider? Seriously my main complaint w/ Flash is it's timeline, it's just shy of being useless. Dragging keyframes shouldn't hurt so much, and animating multiple parameters separate of each other? Not gonna happen outside of the Tween class or placing a movie clip w/in a movie clip (which is cumbersome and impractical). So back to the topic how can we make AE integrate w/ Flash? I don't really see why it'd want to. In general you aren't using vectors in AE. AE is a video production tool. What you should be looking to do is scrapping the Flash interface in favour of the more powerful AE one. Otherwise revive livemotion and give it the Scripting power of Flash. I guess if you really must work on integration, give AE a set of vector tools and a palette to manage shapes. That's about all you could do without killing a beatifully funcitoning machine in favour of a dummyware interface.