I love the AE interface. It is great for broadcast design. Combustion seems more suited to effects work. Which IMHO is usually less layers so Combustion's setup works better.
Why do you think Discreet dropped thier price? They see the writing on the wall, their big hardware is doomed for SDTV.
AE6 also incorporates Keylight. A plug in that Inferno users pay $6k for. So much for Combustion's superior keying.
And for myself and a lot of people who tried to use the particle system in C2 for production work got smacked in the ass because of crashes. It took Discreet 9 months to get a stable version of C2 out. Sad cause AE is such a rock solid performer.
Avid got paid by Intel to port to its architecture and use Windows NT. Avid had announced that were going Windows only (only diehard macheads stopped that.)
Avid's flagship systems, the DS (which came from SoftImage which was once owned by Microsoft) and Symphony were Windows only! Now there is a mac Symphony but still no DS.
Steve Jobs does realize the importance of software for Apple. Final Cut is a killer app for the mac, premiere was not. Losing Premiere must have been a consideration for Apple. When FCP 1.0 "premiered," its price was set at 2x the street price of Adobe Premiere. And the price of Shake at $5k is clearly positioned so it won't hurt After Effects (which went for $1600 when the Shake deal went public).
After Effects won't get the boot. It is a program at the top of its game. AE6 is due in August and looks amazing. I've already requested my upgrade.
Premiere on the other hand was a leaking ship and one good blow from Apple killed it on the mac side. I expect Vegas and Pinnacle's Edition to add fuel to Avid's fire and sink premiere on Windows too.
As for Encore, it would be nice but Apple DVD Studio is great. And Audition? It would also be nice to have that too but then Apple Logic does everything CoolEdit (Audition) does and more.
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I love the AE interface. It is great for broadcast design. Combustion seems more suited to effects work. Which IMHO is usually less layers so Combustion's setup works better. Why do you think Discreet dropped thier price? They see the writing on the wall, their big hardware is doomed for SDTV. AE6 also incorporates Keylight. A plug in that Inferno users pay $6k for. So much for Combustion's superior keying. And for myself and a lot of people who tried to use the particle system in C2 for production work got smacked in the ass because of crashes. It took Discreet 9 months to get a stable version of C2 out. Sad cause AE is such a rock solid performer.
Avid got paid by Intel to port to its architecture and use Windows NT. Avid had announced that were going Windows only (only diehard macheads stopped that.) Avid's flagship systems, the DS (which came from SoftImage which was once owned by Microsoft) and Symphony were Windows only! Now there is a mac Symphony but still no DS.
Steve Jobs does realize the importance of software for Apple. Final Cut is a killer app for the mac, premiere was not. Losing Premiere must have been a consideration for Apple. When FCP 1.0 "premiered," its price was set at 2x the street price of Adobe Premiere. And the price of Shake at $5k is clearly positioned so it won't hurt After Effects (which went for $1600 when the Shake deal went public).
After Effects won't get the boot. It is a program at the top of its game. AE6 is due in August and looks amazing. I've already requested my upgrade.
Premiere on the other hand was a leaking ship and one good blow from Apple killed it on the mac side. I expect Vegas and Pinnacle's Edition to add fuel to Avid's fire and sink premiere on Windows too.
As for Encore, it would be nice but Apple DVD Studio is great. And Audition? It would also be nice to have that too but then Apple Logic does everything CoolEdit (Audition) does and more.