It was a long one for me today... I taught almost 8 straight hours (including setup and all of the Q&A's after class). I only had 2 seminars today, but they were both longer than 3 hours each.
The first one was on After Effects and I had a full classroom with attendees at all skill levels. They were a great group with real inciteful questions and very eager to learn. I used the beta of AE CS3 and was able to touch on a few upcoming features including my favorite one (so far) called Brainstorm. It's basically a new user interface that offers variations based on selected design and animation parameters. Choose which properties and effects you want to explore, and Brainstorm will propose animated variations. Very cool. Instant creativity booster at the touch of a button!
My second class was on Premiere Pro and I also decided to try and use the CS3 beta. It was a CRASH fiesta! It turns out that I had the good fortune (or is that bad fortune?) to discover a major bug in the beta in front of the entire audience. While the program works fine on your machine by itself... when hooked up to a projector the demand on either the video card processing or video RAM is just to great. My timeline would stop playing, my program monitor would stop updating, and I would eventually have to Force Quit and relaunch the app. I went through this a few times and finally decided it wasn't worth it. Luckily I was using my Mac Pro so I was able to boot into Windows XP and run the current version of Premiere Pro 2. Not as cool as running the new version that no one had seen publicly yet... but at least I was able to finish the class. C'est la vie.
The first one was on After Effects and I had a full classroom with attendees at all skill levels. They were a great group with real inciteful questions and very eager to learn. I used the beta of AE CS3 and was able to touch on a few upcoming features including my favorite one (so far) called Brainstorm. It's basically a new user interface that offers variations based on selected design and animation parameters. Choose which properties and effects you want to explore, and Brainstorm will propose animated variations. Very cool. Instant creativity booster at the touch of a button!
My second class was on Premiere Pro and I also decided to try and use the CS3 beta. It was a CRASH fiesta! It turns out that I had the good fortune (or is that bad fortune?) to discover a major bug in the beta in front of the entire audience. While the program works fine on your machine by itself... when hooked up to a projector the demand on either the video card processing or video RAM is just to great. My timeline would stop playing, my program monitor would stop updating, and I would eventually have to Force Quit and relaunch the app. I went through this a few times and finally decided it wasn't worth it. Luckily I was using my Mac Pro so I was able to boot into Windows XP and run the current version of Premiere Pro 2. Not as cool as running the new version that no one had seen publicly yet... but at least I was able to finish the class. C'est la vie.
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