Animationist

This is my first ever review on the Mac App Store. I’ve never been so compelled to write a review. A couple weeks ago I downloaded Synium’s Logoist. I cannot tell you how impressed I was with it. Fantastic, also felt like, but didn’t, write a review. Because of how great that software was, I purchased Animationist. Many issues with this software. 1) Next to NO training or tutorials. The ones I could find, even within the app, seem to point to an older version. The youtube tutorials are mostly very unhelpful and attempted trainings by people that should not be in “training” others. After much surfing around I still have very little knowledge on how to get the program to do the cool animation things I think it’s capable of. 2) Started having an issue with my system where my cursor would jump, lag or freeze up altogether. I have a year old MBP and contacted Apple Support, besides a half day of troubslehooting, Activity monitor and so on.. Started really questioning whether or not this was related to other apps I recently decided to try out.. Logoist and Tumult’s Hype. It’s clear to me now when I use Animationist it is the cause of my machine being brought to a screeching halt practically. 3) Last thing that pushed me right over the edge.. thought I would toy around with it at work today. We are pretty slow and I could mess around in between work tasks. Clean boot on my MBP. Launched Animationist and went to File: Open Recent and there was my file (stored on my desktop) I was playing with yesterday. I tried to open it and it told me this: The Document could not be opened. This "logosit” document has been created with a new version. Then it dawned on me after I contacted support.. this file wasn’t even created in Logoist! It was created in Animationist. And it shows up in the Animationist Recent Files. Can we say BUGGY?? When I clicked ok, it froze up my system. I had to use my lagging and jumping track pad to get into Activity Monitor after 5 minutes of being froze.. then kill the process of Animationist. Immediatly my machine is back to normal. Until I hear from Support I am going to dive into Logoist and Hype a ton and see if I have ANY issues with my track pad or system or memory.. processes whatever. I will post back on that as well. FYI.. Machine was really gone over by Apple Suppport and myself to try and discover issue with bluetooth, system, etc.. and my Mac book is really running great… until Animationist is launched. Perhaps it’s simply not ready for Yosemite, but as you can see it says it has fixed Yosemite issues with this version.

I just started using this application a couple weeks ago. I have made some simple anamations because that how you get started doing anything. I paid $30 for the software and don’t regret what I spent. There is some things I noticed that could have been done better. But hopefully that will come with upgrades.

I was very disappointed in the quality of the renderings. I'm running a very powerful MacBook Pro Retina display, and the work I've done with the Animationist app does not look good nor move smoothly enough for my Final Cut Pro projects. Perhaps this app is more suited to amateurs. I am requesting the Apple App store refund my $14.95 and I will happily return this app. No offense meant to the developer; this is just not the high quality app I expected for the money.

I have always admired software engineering from Germany. Animationist proves how creative the folks at Synium software are. Animationist is perfect for beautiful titling for any kind of video project, from Keynote to Final Cut Pro. In other words, it is great for consumer programs as well as professional video layout programs. It is quick, and delivers. If you are on a budget, this is the program you can afford. Disclaimer: I am not part of the Synium engineering team. I am just a budget minded creative who appreciates good engineering. Kuhnen.