Friday, September 28, 2007

Proclamation #1: After Effects 7.0 over Shake 4.1

Dear Citizens of the World,

Orlandont has determined that it awards it compositing contract to After Effects 7.0 over Shake 4.1. The justification is quite easy, actually.

1. We own more After Effects books in the Orlandont Private Library, with the greater being After Effects 6.5 Studio Techniques, DV Rebels guide, and the earlier After Effects 5.5 Magic (totally underrated! and not duplicated). Plus we've invested in a LOT OF AFTER EFFECTS TRAINING! (Basically any book on AE we've perused and perhaps even photocopied bits).

2. We own After Effects 7, with full license. We'd have to shell out money for Shake 4.

3. Reading Mark Christiansen's blog, well, he's using it for big budget stuff. And Stu M. made all those great scripts for doing color correction. Why not use them now?

4. We own AE7, and we want to focus on celebrating Orlandont on the screen, not geeking up again on Software. To confess, though Orlandont was founded in 07/07/07, After Effects research and study began by the pioneers since September 2001, working in tandem with Photoshop 6 to understand what's going on.

A final admission. We are using AE7 and PHotoshop 7. The newer versions load too slow.

- Orlandont Loves You