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Using the Cycore effects - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
Using the Cycore effects
As if the 200 plus effects that ship with After Effects weren't enough, After Effects actually includes a series of third-party plug-ins with every version of After Effects. And the plug-ins included with the current version of After Effects CS5 are just astounding. Let's first talk about the Cycore collection. Go to the Effects & Presets panel and type in cc. You will see a list of effects and actually, I'll just go ahead and press the Tilde key to maximize this panel. You can see these effects that start with cc. All of these affects are part of the Cycore collection. These ship with After Effects CS5 free of charge. Now one of the reasons I want to point these out to you, in this movie, is that a lot of you that maybe work for government agencies, or go to a school, a lot of times these third-party effects that come with After Effects there are separate installations. So, often times when you have like an IT department that is doing your installations for you, they will miss this…
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A showcase of effects2m 34s
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Creating a layer for effects3m 1s
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Applying effects4m 54s
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Animating effect properties4m 29s
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Using Glow5m 34s
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Creating patterns and textures6m 57s
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Creating a fireball7m 9s
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Using the Cycore effects5m 58s
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Adding blur5m 45s
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Creating a galaxy scene from scratch8m 38s
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Distorting objects with effects4m 7s
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Creating and using lens flares4m 21s
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Creating lightning bolts4m 3s
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Viewing random variations with Brainstorm4m 39s
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