After Effects - capabilities

[ChuckS]

Making "good" movies is a team thing, if you think you know how to accomplish every task and either attempt to do it yourself or tell others how to do thier job you become the single point of failure, that's what happened on the recent project I mentioned earlier.

A better approach is to build a core team of people you can trust and communicate your vission with and then enable them to go out and manage the extended team of artists, actors and craftsmen.

If you are not mature enough to understand or accomplish this then find someone who is and work with them. When you hear about projects failing and they attribute that failure to ego, this is what they are generally reffering too.

 

[matthewd5]

it sounds like what you are looking for is Magic Bullet.

but then there is the choice of using magic bullet for after effects or the magic bullet for editors that would work with something like adobe premiere pro.

if you are really serious about being able to shape your movies look into your vision then you might want to make the time and money investment into after effects and magic bullet suite.

you can create some amazing looks and what makes it especially useful is that once you create that look you can save it.

you can learn AE and Magic Bullet on an average speed computer but keep in mind, if you want to be able to apply look's to even a 15 minute short your going to need a really serious computer.

if your doing a feature length then you will likely need the above plus a render farm.

matthew