you need to shoot the video in a specific way to make it ‘pre-matted’ like the video copilot stuff …
so for smoke/fire you set it up in a studio with black behind.
for ink, you might want to use a white background then shoot black or coloured ink dropping into a vase or tank…
splatters/grunge could just be paint/dirt thrown onto a canvas …
…or you can re-create many of the smokey/ink like patterns using fractal noise combined with other effects …
tv noise you could fake with AE’s noise and distort effects or just capture some TV noise straight in from the TV…
Michael Duff –
Bearcage Productions, Australia
http://www.bearcage.com.au