After Effects needs to be Rewritten or We're NOT Using this F*ing Program | CorridorCast EP#137

Adobe reminds me of autodesk too. They both became the industry standard for years, and now they have actual competition (some of it is even free) they just assume their industry standard status will do all the work for them

24:54 You guys should have a race: Adobe Suite Team vs Da Vinci Resolve only Team to see how fast they can edit the same raw videos into a short movie. :)

Niko lying down and talking about the things he does so passionately is such a bro vibe

This podcast is the most accurate depiction of how I've been feeling for a while now.

I haven’t resonated with an issue so DAMN hard in a while. Especially with premiere, thousands of crashes. Wren, i feel your pain.

After 30 years of Adobe, and 20 years of seeing them care more about the share holders than making a decent product, this was pure stress relief - Thanks! BTW, I use Blender and Resolve daily!

One of the best things about DaVinci Resolve is that the free version can do nearly everything a small studio or individual might need. Barring the limitations of the free version, it's only $295 for the full studio version, and you get free upgrades to newer versions afterwards for life. That's less than HALF of what they're paying for one license of AE for a year.

Full time AE generalist here: Most of the functionality I like in AE comes from 3rd party plugins and scripts which makes every update a total crap shoot potentially breaking multiple plugins or causing hard to diagnose problems. Add that to daily crashes, slow playback, and general jank i've been feeling all the same pain.

We need those songs on spotify

Man Fenner and Jordan have been such fantastics addition to the crew in general.

4:50 Rendering MOV 12:43 Filter on multiple layer + specified adjustment layers 13:28 Shifting to DaVinci Resolve, Nuke, Fusion 19:19 Crashes 21:55 GPU usage 24:19 No drama with saving in DaVinci Resolve 48:55 Offer to Foundry 55:00 Davinci Resolve ist free, like Blender, like Unreal Engine 56:18 AI Object Masking in Davinci Resolve

I’m a professional motion designer and After Effects is the worst god damn application on the planet. I’m so glad you guys are talking about this. A company I was working at a couple years ago was acquired by Adobe and I immediately went and found another job and turned down their job offer because I’m so beyond frustrated with their software. I felt their lack of innovation and lack of care would likely show through in my employee experience. The shitty part about all of this is I’m completely locked to AE as a motion designer. There’s really no replacement at this point. You compositors at least have Nuke as an option. This most recent Adobe update has been the straw that broke the camels back. They took the time to redo and revamp the UI for premieres exporter, but can’t fix the fucking eye dropper tool crashing the system. It’s beyond ridiculous.

The whole studio?!?! 😱 We need to lie down as well

Oh yeah! Please have the ceo of adobe on! Everything is so buggy. I would have switched already I I had the time to learn a new program.

Three years ago I switched religions from Mac to PC because of two things: a) wanted something optimized for Blender, and b) wanted a machine that would finally have a GPU that AE would recognize. Good news... Blender runs GREAT!

Professional Motion Designer here: completely agree about after effects crashes... it's really brutal.

and all of Blackmagic Design has 1,500 employees. I would loooove to hear a conversation between the Crew and Grant Petty

The fact that most other animators and video editors I interact with are using older versions of the adobe software should speak something about the quality of the product vs the desire for stability of artists & designers. I can't afford to lose a week/month worth of work because of random unexplainable tech issues, opening a file that was working 15 minutes ago to find it corrupted after my lunch break, or DYNAMIC LINKING being an absolute DUMPSTER FIRE and virtually unusable... So I use older patches of after effects because they are at least 80% stable. Sucks that we settle for such low standards because they are a main stream tool. #PleaseFixAfterEffects

I switched to Resolve last year, never looked back. And my god, Resolve looks so much nicer and more modern as well. Premiere looks incredibly outdated compared to it. There are also hundreds of quality of life improvements, like live effects preview on current footage, creating zooms and pans just based on visual square previews, STABILITY, etc. Way too much to list here.

I've been using Blender for 5 years now and I feel this same enthusiasm from the development team for their product. That not only creates a fantastic product but a great community of artists that are genuinely excited for update's the software. They're not constantly in fear that an update will kill the program or project file. I feel like I'm working with the program instead of against it. Really interesting conversation guys!