On 07.04.2016 13:18, Fabio Pesari wrote: > On 04/07/2016 09:26 AM, mray wrote: >> In my eyes you perfectly sum up the current situation in that matter. > > Thanks, but I'd really like to hear the opinion of video professionals > who use free software for their work. >
I'm very interested to hear a word from them, too - but I doubt that they exist. >> Maybe a short version is: There is no free After Effects. Only workarounds. > > I really don't think there should be. Imitating another program is a > recipe for running into its limitations, without the same budget to work > around them. > I think this is backwards. We currently have a quite depressing situation concerning motion graphics. There is just *no* replacement for AE (not even one that *tries* to imitate it). Blender and Synfig come closest to it but really fall into different categories of software. Having this gap in Free Software tools is the real limitation. > I think people who expect to move to free software and find the same > program but with a different interface present a huge issue. > > It's a huge issue for Gimp, which is constantly expected to be a > Photoshop clone; it is an issue for LibreOffice, which has to suffer > complaints like lacking a ribbon interface or having (very minor) > incompatibilities with MS Office; and it's a huge issue in the audio > world, where many producers and musicians are afraid to migrate to > software that isn't Ableton Live or Renoise, even now that we have > excellent free DAWs (LMMS, Ardour, Qtractor and Non) and I'd sure like > more libre LV2 plugins! > > I think many people overestimate the initial commitment of getting used > to a new program. In the case of free software, it's pretty much a > zero-cost guaranteed lifetime investment in nearly all cases! > > A while ago I proposed organizing crowdfunding campaigns to buy the > rights of proprietary programs to free them. If we really want free > versions of specific programs, perhaps that's what we should do. >
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