Re: After Effects and Xsi Again

Date : Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:47:06 +0100
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : pingo van der brinkloev <xsilist(at)comxnet.dk>
Subject : Re: After Effects and Xsi Again
I'm not gonna battle compositors like Nuke or Fusion and whatnot, which I believe anytime will be not even comparable to AE for Bigtime FX shots. But for what I do I use Aftereffects all the time. And think an XSItoAFX button it's a pretty small "whish" to have. It doesn't need to do much more than Helges script does, but it really would be a nice internal feature.
BTW please show me any other "compositor", that can match AE in ease of use and production speed in ANY motion graphics project.
- That's a challenge, I would seriously be interested to know if there's something out there worth a look.

C4D and AE work extremely well together (it can also export to some other highend packages). C4D made Mograph which is integrated and they are definitely selling more copies of their software because of these two factors.
- I see more and more of these posts on this list containing the words Cinema4d, Motion Graphics, AfterEffects... Oh and Houdini. And what's funny is that they're all about other software and stuff that XSI can't do. It's interesting.

I agree with David. And I think Soft should use those 10 minutes.

cheers!

On 27/03/2008, at 13.21, Raffaele Fragapane wrote:

It's also guaranteed headache for Soft when adobe releases a new AFX version while they're in a dec cycle with other priorities, not to mention a feature that's only remotely useful for a small percentage of the userbase, and indispensible for none.
It would require a developer to spend valuable time dealing with another app that needs to be maintained and updated and learning things that really aren't that important to XSI as an actual 3D app.
Why don't you ask Adobe to start releasing plugins for 3D softwares? :)

and what "across platforms"?
AFX only runs on win32 of all the platforms xsi works on.

If there is one feature I really don't want to see Soft spending even 10 minutes on, it's one that supports a PoS, overrated, overpriced and overused application that shouldn't even be on the market in first place, let alone have further diffusion supported.


On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:56 AM, André Adam <a_adam(at)49games.de> wrote:
A native solution is a guarantee that the feature is available across
all platforms and, in case of new releases, properly maintained.




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