Are these plugins usually good value?

[Bret Williams]

I have quite a few. Pay attention to the discounts. You can try these-

60% off any order with code: boo60
70% off orders over $99: boo70
75% off orders over $299: boo75
80% off orders over $599: boo80

Basically, order $600 of stuff for $120 through the 4th. Lots of good stuff there.

[Morten Slemdal]

Thanx (-:
Favourites?

[Bret Williams]

Not necessarily favorites, but I have screen splitter, quick and easy ken burns, lower 3rd title pack and print stacker. All are basically stuff that I used to do all the time manually, and these are so simple to use. Especially the Ken Burns one. That’s almost a can’t live without one now. But I think I got them because a client was exchanging projects and those were the ones she used. So I needed to be compliant to exchange seqeunces. There are others that look good, but I have something similar from somewhere else. The lower 3rd title pack is not much use, but I needed something to go over a price point to get a discount at the time. I have used one however!

A favorite I like for free is “bullet points” from motionmastertemplates.com. Doing multiple layers of text to get bullets to animate is always a pain. And it has to be done in the timeline for sync to the video and efficiency. A was about to take a stab at making my own bullet point template when a search found it. It lets you animate lines of text in the one simple layer/template in X.

A new fav stop is motionarray.com but they’re AE templates. A neat pricing model. Monthly pricing, no contracts. Have lots of backgrounds, templates, music, etc. They’re just getting started. A little baby Digital Juice. But you get a certain number of download credits a month. You can just buy a month’s subscription for what you need and download and OWN (love that word) forever.

[Morten Slemdal]

Thanx!

Do they work fine on Yosemite?

[Morten Slemdal]

I`m looking for a good photo slideshow plugin, With lots of presets. Do you use the Ken Burns plugin for this Bret? Or do you have other recomendations? I just can`t pay 199 dollars for the one from fx factory.

[Robin S. kurz]

You could actually save even more (namely 100%) by simply learning the basics of Motion, since most of these and can be made in 2-20 minutes with medium Motion skills.

Some are in fact even just simple published effects (i.e. made in under 1 minute) that Motion and FCP don’t share by default (for whatever reason).

Damn, I wish I had come up with the idea… 😀

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[Bret Williams]

I have the ken burns. And as Robyn mentioned you could simply publish a bunch of basic moves, but it is a bit more than that. Without messing with keyframing you can choose easing, start position, end scale, whatever. Tons of settings you won’t even need.

The thing I like about FCP effects that make their plugins very very quick to use is that the don’t create ONE ken burns plug and leave you to choose a preset from a drop down. They give you 30 or so ken burns plugs – pan left, pan up, zoom in, zoom in ease, pan lower right to upper left, etc. if I want to zoom in and left I throw a pan left on and then throw on a zoom in.

And unlike keyframing, you can adjust the cut point after the fact, add transitions, and you don’t need to adjust the Keyframes.

[Bret Williams]

Everything from these guys is actually more complicated than that. And they do have some more advanced plugs too for 3D and such. They rig up quite a few parameters that would take a little extra time. And eCh plug is actually 30 or so, so there would be quite a bit of publishing to do.

I know motion and I’m not going to recreate these myself. My time is more valuable than that vs the minimal cost. That said, I wish I’d thought of it too. Lots of people are selling the effects not included in X that are in Motion. Ripple has all the templates from Motion available as published rigged templates in X. At one point stupid raisins published all the text animation presets. You still have to rig up all the variables otherwise all you’re going to be able to do in X is change the text.

I’ve been wanting to put together my AE projects as templates for years now but never get to it. I’m guessing there’s not a ton of money in it unless you’re a big player, but it’d be neat to get a little found money here and there.

[Robin S. kurz]

[Bret Williams] “Everything from these guys is actually more complicated than that. “

I’ll give you “some”, but certainly not “everything”. 😉

Adding in some extra color correction options (??!) into a wiggle effect and the likes is just padding for show and justification imho. But yes, if you’re not already fairly proficient in Motion, then getting one of these for 29 bucks, that happens to do exactly what you’re looking for, can very well make sense. I’m not implying they’re useless, just that I personally would rather spend my money on things that I CAN’T do within 30 mins. myself (or AT ALL as in mObject or various FX Factory plugs). To each his own, relative to his skill and budget. 🙂

– RK

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[Bret Williams]

I’m not saying FCPeffects is the end all, but much on FX factory isn’t any better.

Even a simple effect like Print Stacker is quite the publishing job. And they publish 20 of them, each as a different custom move. And there’s no starting effect in Motion that I know of. It’s basically a border and move. Yes I can create that. 20 different moves all published and rigged? Even if I could do that in 30min, my time is still worth more than that.

Just for example – just like any other plugin… not exactly a hue and wiggle. What were you referring to? Seems like a fine value to me. And when you can buy $600 worth of this stuff for $120… I mean just how many plugins can create and publish for $120?