Would anyone use a macOS native animation editor?
Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
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#252As a motion designer, I'm curious what features does this has that AE doesn't.
I'd say that the main feature is that it lacks a subscription payment requirement.
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#253This is truly incredible. I want to remind everyone about Blender's humble beginnings. Great work, I look forward to seeing your product pop back up as others discover it.
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I click and drag on the timeline play bar or a key frame widget in a layer; then, if I release the mouse button with velocity; the play head and key frame keep moving for a little bit, even though I am not dragging them anymore, as though they have momentum and are being dragged to a stop; the widgets should not behave this way. The big picture feedback is that often there is an alignment between “I have a lot o…
> IMO just copy AE’s UX affordances first if your goal is to make something you want other people to use. @clementpiki I second this advice and strongly suggest to document it as a guideline for your project as soon as possible. Surf on the shoulders of AE's UI giants! Otherwise a small but vocal number of devs users who implicitly love FOSS software will end up rationalizing all the little UI quirks as features. Wor…
The greatest failing GIMP had (and still does) is that has almost nothing in common with Photoshop UI-wise - or numerous other photo editing tools. I've used them all my life and every time I open GIMP, I can't seem to do anything.
It's like walking into a car dealership and they tell you their car is free, and you ask where the seats are, and they say "why, on the ceiling, of course. We didn't want to copy all those other car companies."
You pop open the hood and there's no engine. "Where is the engine?" "On the roof!"
"Where is the gas tank?" "It's that plastic bag you keep on your lap."
Re: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
#255Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I click and drag on the timeline play bar or a key frame widget in a layer; then, if I release the mouse button with velocity; the play head and key frame keep moving for a little bit, even though I am not dragging them anymore, as though they have momentum and are being dragged to a stop; the widgets should not behave this way. The big picture feedback is that often there is an alignment between “I have a lot o…
Although this seems like the right way to go about it, isn't there some kind of limit to how much you _can_ copy AE before it becomes a copyright issue?
You can't copyright capabilities. I believe an exact copy of AE is perfectly legal so long as it isn't fooling people into thinking it's AE, and doesn't use any of the original code.
The visual look can be protected, some novel or distinctive features can be patented or trademarked (like Amazon patented one click purchases??), but the core functionality is up for grabs
The big Oracle / Google lawsuit a few years back is a good example. Google rebuilt the Java compiler to avoid paying licencing fees (?), and argued that because they did it from the API specs, without referring to the existing code, it was aboveboard. The functionality is not copyrightable, just the specific implementation.
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#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a totally reasoble way to do it, but it leaves you with other blindspots People will tell you what they want anyway but also, sometimes people aren't aware of what they want or need Non visible parts of aproject tend to get neglected a lot more if you just ask your users What will get more people talking to you, a 10% speed up split among many small interactions, or a visual glitch that doesn't affect usabilit…
> sometimes people aren't aware of what they want or need And analytics won’t tell you that, so I don’t see your point. > Non visible parts of aproject tend to get neglected a lot more if you just ask your users Do they? Perhaps if you keep relying on analytics, they do. In my experience, users will just tell you anyway. And some of them will be better at feedback than others. Treasure those. Also, and this is anothe…
I'd say Analytics can give you an aditional data point that can guide you to conclusions your users might not / can not be aware of. For the same reason you'd want to track things personal experience would be unreliable with.
A good example is time tracking, people are notoriously bad at this, ignoring non events that consume time and over assigning time to task that demand attention
On the other topic, no real reason. I just suck at prose; I'll take the comment in consideration to improve that. That comment in general is just poorly written all around, I'd love to edit it, but the time window has passed
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#257This is from my point of view as an experienced developer and VFX artist, including in-depth knowledge of AE. A 30fps limit is surprising 23.976 as an fps does not seem to be dealt with gracefully Clicking report bug should take me to a bug report form with info Interacting with "rectangle" is surprising because the corners aren't draggable. Probably should default to full size I should be able to wind input fields b…
"Doesn't support NTSC framerates" is a "tremendous amount of product development"?
To me, it's "author / project lead has no background in the industry or even basic knowledge of video."
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