Add Multiple Effects to a Single Clip at Different Times

Ok, first post here. Just a little history about myself, I am a senior member of the Sony Vegas board, power user of Photoshop, newb of Premiere, and total newb of After Effects. I have looked at every tutorial, PDF, help manual, Google, FAQ, etc. (In other words I have done my due diligence before posting) for the past 6 weeks and feel as though I know next to nothing :/
So many questions, so few brain cells...........The current problem I am having is; say I have a clip in the time line and I want to add an effect to it 10 seconds in (use 'shatter' as an example). When I add the effect, it begins at the start of the clip, so I found the Ctrl + Shift + D trick and thought that would take care of it, but the effect is still in the same point in time (10 seconds) in the newly created clip. I have tried shortening the clip, but it acts more like slip editing and doesn't seem to help. How can I get this to work, and then heaven forbid if I want to add another effect at a later point on the clip? Over the years, I have helped hundreds of people, and answered thousands of posts, I hope someone will take the time to help me. Thanks

You picked a complex one to start off.... The simplest way to get the right timing would be to pre-compose and thus isolate all the timing from the main comp. If you want to stick with the effect in the main comp, then you must animate all the force parameters, including the force value, radius and also the gravity parameter. A third option would be to create a gradient map and animate its threshold. Such a map is simply a greyscale and based on the distribution of the brightness can control which pieces explode first, allowing for some interesting effects when combined with the forces.
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