CS4 Upgrade

:clock; Hello, I was wondering what the general consensus was
regarding CS4 and if there were any compelling reasons to upgrade
from CS3? For me, $599 is a hefty price to upgrade and one that I
can't really afford unless there are compelling
reasons/functionality in CS4?
Thanks in advance!
Tim

What are your needs? If you're purely a developer I don't see
many reasons to upgrade. For animators there are some excellent new
functions: the Motion Editor, object-based animation with
auto-keyframing, and inverse kinematics are all great. A z-value
for objects enables more realistic camera moves. 3D transformation
is potentially nice, though it needs further development to be
useful. And there are silly toys that are bound to be overused all
over the web within a few months: the Deco tool is the most
cringe-worthy.
And there are some small but significant bugs which would
have made me wait until there is proof of a fix before buying, if
only I'd known. Looping graphics resetting when a filter is applied
is a minefield for animators, but unless you're a character
animator it's unlikely to affect you.
It seems that they leapfrog editions: one for the coders, one
for the animators. CS3 was all about ActionScript 3 and was a waste
of money for me as an animator. Developers and coders might feel
similarly about CS4.

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