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how do you know how powerful an effect really is?
I just got done with one of the total training for AE 6.5 lessons with radio waves. At first I thought radio waves was kind of cheezy. But then he did a real world lesson with what radio waves can really do. So he made smoke come out of a train with radio waves. The smoke was really cool and realistic looking. But who would have thought that you can do something like that with radio waves! Then he says to play around with this effect and see what cool things you can do. But, I guarantee if I played around with it, without knowing I could do the smoke effect, I would never have found out what it really could do. I know there is a lot of stuff to do with all those other effects, but its not straight forward at all. How do I know what these effects are really capable of? What did you guys do? Sorry this is long. Thanks
Brandon -
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I read the Meyer books and did some Total Training. More importantly, I experimented on my own. Also, check out the COW tutorials.
Mess around, combine effects in the effects stack (effects palette), apply effects twice, drag the settings to weird values.
Steve
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I think a lot of the times it comes from a vision first. When you say it needs to look like this, then you go testing all the things you can think of and weeding things out. I think to a certain extent though one will never understand every possibility and that’s what makes works by ppl so awesome and varied. One of the talents is thinking about plugs or filters in a whole new way.
Especially when reading about FX in the early days. PPl would do jaw dropping visuals with just a few tools because they stretched and pulled what was available.
Some fool somewhere said that poetry without a rhyme scheme is like playing tennis without a net. I wonder if FX are the same way. When you set creative boundries, we find ways to overcome them by firing up the brain in a new way.
just some thoughts. I will add that the Ayato tutorials do impress me when it comes to using basic AE tools in very creative ways.
Chris Smith
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There is no way to know. Just read all you can, do as many tutorials as you can, and play with the effects (especially in combination with each other) to try to find what you need.
The possibilities are infinite, which is why there is no one source to figure it all out.
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Well, quite often you have to understand what mathematically and technically goes on inside a certain effect. Once you’re at this point, whole new opportunities open up. Also try stacking multiple effects and change their stacking order to get cool effects. I also found that not looking too much on other guys’ work really helps (in a technicla sense, creative inspiration is still not evil). A lot of people just try to replicate effects they’ve seen somewhere and miss a lot creative crossroads by not looking left and right.
Mylenium
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