{"id":17962,"date":"2013-01-27T08:21:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T16:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=8425"},"modified":"2013-01-27T08:21:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T16:21:33","slug":"happy-birthday-after-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/27\/happy-birthday-after-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, After Effects!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m talking to these guys,&#8221; I thought. &#8220;They&#8217;re spending their time talking to <em>me<\/em>&#8211;and they&#8217;re so down-to-earth!&#8221;<br \/>\nThat was in 2000, when I first met the brains behind After Effects. (I&#8217;d just joined Adobe, aspiring to build &#8220;AE for the Web.&#8221;) 13 years later, I still feel just the same. In any industry full of half-hit wonders acting like they&#8217;ve just cured cancer, I find Dave, Dan, and all the AE guys as relentlessly humble &#038; passionate as can be.<br \/>\nSo &#8220;Happy 20th anniversary to After Effects, the video package you keep promising yourself you&#8217;ll learn someday,&#8221; as I saw Matt May <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnack\/status\/291303101875511296\">quip<\/a> the other day. Here some pros salute this game-changing app:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AdobeTV Video Player\" width=\"425\" height=\"246\" src=\"http:\/\/tv.adobe.com\/embed\/1149\/16147\/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m talking to these guys,&#8221; I thought. &#8220;They&#8217;re spending their time talking to me&#8211;and they&#8217;re so down-to-earth!&#8221; That was in 2000, when I first met the brains behind After Effects. (I&#8217;d just joined Adobe, aspiring to build &#8220;AE for the Web.&#8221;) 13 years later, I still feel just the same. In any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17962"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}