best FX program

[Inoran]

anybody know a good program for bullet fire, lasers, etc. ?

thanks alot

 

[oneinfiniteloop]

Pre made or do it yourself?

I personally use After Effects for this, but I like to build my effects from the ground up. AE has some built-in effects, but you will get much better results from creating them yourself.

 

[kai]

I'd have to agree, AE is a very powerful tool to do this type of work.

 

[alpha54]

Try www.fxhome.com

I own a copy of Effectslab Pro; its extremely easy to use and gets you some great results!

 

[djgvinny]

hey alpha,with the fx home program ,can you make holes in the walls and cars and.......
or maybe it will be easy to hire someone to do it

 

[alpha54]

Well, you can integrate stock footage of bullet holes.

 

[CineMark]

You can also do all of that in After Effects. It's not just as easy as plugging them in, but you can create all of that really well — you just have to spend a lot of time if you want it to look believable.

Lasers are a piece of cake.

Just remember it's all in the details.

 

[im.thatoneguy]

Discreet Combustion
or
Shake
or
Fusion
or
Nuke
or
FFI

 

[bbalser]

There used to be a really cool program I used a lot at one time called AlamDV. Don't know what it's current state it, but it was doing really good quality work for us a couple of years ago. Then I started using Shake, so everything else is just obsolete to me.