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AE plug-ins

Hi, areno--

Yep, After Effects is at the top of the heap; I need to mention (again) that AE Standard is $700 ($200 to upgrade from previous versions) and the Pro version, which has additional plug-ins, an audio editor and advanced matting tools is $1,000--attainable, but a tad pricey if your main creative focus is modeling. If we really want to drift OT, audio editors--for adding sounds to Poser or other animations-- might make a good discussion thread. I use Sony Sound Forge.

Not all that familiar with C4D; I use Maya but haven't experimented with its workflow compatibility with AE--I know AE can import Maya camera data, dunno about alphas.

I thought it was interesting that many AE plug-ins provide still frame effects and I'm a tad disapponted that 3rd parties don't all write Photoshop plug-ins, where applicable. Recently, I needed to antique a bitmap design. I used CineLook's Film Damage filter in AE, toggled the timeline to get a good frame, then exported from AE as a still psd frame. The original image was 8MB and AE wrote it in about 3 seconds.

If anyone would like to talk about other video editors, perhaps less expensive ones, right here's the place, too.

My Best,

Gare