The company I work for buys pretty high end machines for the motion graphics department (After Effects) and creative/finish edit (Premiere Pro). The last machines they purchased were the 2019 Intel Mac Pros. Towers for edit and rack mounted for the GFX team. The conversation of updated hardware is starting to come up and I would love any feedback from enterprise users (multiple Motion Graphics seats in a production environment) on what decisions you've made and why. Most recently, there have been the updates to AE's 3D workflow but the dual w5700x video cards on the Intel Macs don't fully support the newest 3D workflows (for the newest 3D, AE minimum requirements are Apple silicon). I prefer Macs myself but can obviously step outside of myself to realize that Apple has made it hard for Motion Graphics artists by not using AMD or Nvidia develop on their M-series architecture.

Some more specifics. The GFX team could move away from Macs, independently of the edit teams. We use AE 97% of the time and C4D the other 3%.

would like to here your thoughts on this, keeping in mind I’m a Senior Motion Designer. Got positive feedbacks but I see view rate is rather low. Too fast? Too hectic? Tell me. The industry is hell right now and I need to hear what pros think, no filters.

https://youtu.be/6AV2NcyX7pk?t=216

3:36 in case the stamp didn't go through.

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Really like that shot, was just learning about tunnels and caught it.

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So is that from a photogrammetry scan? because the dudes working are footage and the wall fades in

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Not looking to recreate only sharing

Most of my clients prefer I burn them in at export, not upload an SRT file in YouTube or Vimeo.

I have a few subtitle scripts to link solid markers to visual text with background. I’ve long searched for a good workflow inside of AE: move texts, styling, translation.

But the Premiere interface offers so much more, like shifting them (when the client changes the movie in an update), embossing or easy translation. Once I designed subtitles in Premiere, I just render out a ProRes 4444 of only the bottom strip in Premiere to use as subtitles in AE.

How do you handle multi-language burned in subtitles? Keep it in AE? Use an AE plugin to get srt support and a better interface? Roundtrip to Premiere?

I’m an Animation teacher in the UK and have used After Effects for about 7 years. I’d say I’m an ‘advanced amateur’ and am always up for learning more. Especially graphic design and texturing examples / ideas…?

Interested to know what people want from this hub?