After effects is used to do things like rotoscoping, where you can mask out clips over layers of video like you would a still image in photoshop. You can see an example of it in my vid Colorblind (http://blackbird-films.com/musicvids/veronicamars-colorblind.zip) Think of the movie Pleasantviller where the world was black and white but then one person was in color. That's rotoscoping.
You can also do green screen type stuff where you put somethign in front of a different moving background (not just a still photo) and you can do more complicated picture in picture stuff where you map points to a moving image so you could make like one of thos pictures in Harry Potter where it's in a frame but it's moving, and the frame is tilted at an angle, not straight on.
After Effects is great, you can do alot in it, but if you don't have a lot of RAM it will take forever to render things.
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Date: 2006-04-13 05:39 am (UTC)You can also do green screen type stuff where you put somethign in front of a different moving background (not just a still photo) and you can do more complicated picture in picture stuff where you map points to a moving image so you could make like one of thos pictures in Harry Potter where it's in a frame but it's moving, and the frame is tilted at an angle, not straight on.
After Effects is great, you can do alot in it, but if you don't have a lot of RAM it will take forever to render things.