Nothing.
Zeh, I don't 100% believe you. :) I know After Effects is for motion
effects, and primarily for video, but I could have sworn people have
used it for image sequences for movie clip effects in Flash movies. For
example, there is a neat effect you can do with Photoshop where you
gradually blur a series of small images you are animating in Flash, and
then you play that sequence back in Flash to get a much more visually
fluid motion effect, sort of a little like this (in the intro sequence):
I have also seen some neat sites posted on Flash lists where there were
some amazing effects, and when people asked how they were done in Flash,
they said they had used After Effects, so I don't think I'm completely
crazy.
Well, maybe I misunderstood the question then, sorry. To me, those *are*
"nifty effects in digital videos". In that vein, well, there's an infinite
array of stuff that can be done, so it's hard to predict in what AFX can
help in a Flash movie. Since it's just like Photoshop but with a timeline
and billions of third-party filters possible, you're just restricted to your
imagination as a motion graphics designer.
If you want to check the software when trying to apply it to your Flash
movies, I think there's two things you'd want to check;
First one is scripting. You can script stuff on AFX using javascript. This
means you can create some crazy animations (like you'd do with, say,
actionscript in flash) but, as you output it to a video, execution speed
isn't an issue (since it's not realtime but rendered).
The second one of course is developing motion graphic designs skills to know
*what* you can do on it and how. Again, it's kind of an infinite field, so
it's more of a design thing than a technical thing.
On both cases, there's a lot of sites that might help you. I don't think I
can give an example on how AFX could help you - they're specific for each
different situation.
Website-wise, I personally like this one, about the scripting side of AFX:
http://www.motionscript.com/
Sorry for the long ot/rant, but I'm over now. I hope that helps.
- zeh
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