EFFECTS OF AFTER EFFECTS

Adobes After effects is something which has been my favourite when it comes to creating motion graphics in the process of film making.
Creativity is onething which gets stucked in my mind whenever i think of graphics.
Based upon my knowledge and the craze of creating something out of my creative mind, I decided to make few videos out of after effects using some special effects.
However in the process of creation, I faced 1 big problem and that is the rendering time. And few other times, the entire application got crashed all of a sudden again i had to restart the application. My search for the solution brought me upto this page. In the meantime I learnt 1 method of reducing the rendring time (atleast by 30%) and that is by the use of proxies inside after effects.
Now comming to the possible effects you can create with after effects, theres no end to creativity, each one has varying degrees of creative ideas.
Here below are the links to my creations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSVI0JmlVgA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLgWexcsw-E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaEXq1qpHok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ8H5tuRBvA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X7Ffga0Rnk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1D_Ykiw2ho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ7bhAov-jI
I am in need of suggestions and some tips so that i can improve my creativity and come up with some of the best possible effects with after effects.

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Zaxwerks 3D Serpentine is good for that:
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What do you understand as "old paper"? Unless the paper itself needs to fold and bend, you can find enough textures/ photos on the internet that serve this purpose. CGTextures and similar sites surely offer enough of them, you may just need to combine different ones, e.g. dirty concrete with some ink splats, then adjust the colors to look like paper. Absolutely possible. Failing that, you can easily create some effects of your own and scan the resulting sheet. in any case, it's usually a lot easier to base such work on real sources than trying to create it artificially...
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"A useless fluff question"? lol. I would have been happy to provide more info, but it's not a fluff question and no need to be insulting. Especially when it sounds like you don't understand how AE works your self. Sorry to be blunt about that, but most of what you needed to know was in that question. So you're telling me that your only "useful" information is knowing about my motherboard or audio chipset? Had I posted just that you would have likely told me it wasn't useful and ask me to describe the problem in more detail.   I was already trying not to make the post too long because people tend to skip things. I asked for a simple way to verify my sound was working because I was unfamiliar with AE, and for all I knew I wasn't using the program correctly. That's a logical approach and should have been the first step. Anyone who knew anything about AE could have told me to look at the speaker icon, or confirm the preview pane could play sound after rendered. Or given me a simple 1,2,3 quick list to check the sound. Then we could have proceeded from there.
Did you provide any of that to save time? No. It seems you skipped it. Then you ask me what 3rd party codecs I have installed. What part about me reformatting my ssd and clean installing windows 7 didn't you get? You say there wasn't useful information, but did you even read that? With a clean install, obviously all codecs are provided by Microsoft up until the point that After Effects was installed and it added a few of its own. The only exception was the addition of quicktime after the program was 1st tried without it. Again, 100% clean, fresh system with 100% working hardware. But here: I have an x58 board with core i7 at 4ghz, 12GB ram, using windows 7 built in drivers for high definition audio device, standard version 6.1.7600.16385 working w/ onboard chipset. I was also avoiding installing my creative labs x-fi to keep it as simple as possible. But regardless, AE doesn't communicate with hardware, but the API, as well. Which is why the sound options for WDM and/or ASIO were provided in the settings of AE as mentioned.   That should have been the biggest clue that I was just misunderstanding some step in AE's operation.
That said, I found other ways to verify sound was working. One was to hold the appropriate key while scrubbing and audio and video play simultaneously. One easy click did it.   Only thing is I have to manually move the cursor to hear it. Another was to look at the speaker cone icon on the track. Finally I found that changing the work area size and doing ram-preview let me hear sound anywhere in the video in sections. That made a lot more sense than it jumping to the beginning of the video and trying to render the entire clip. I also found out about adding to the render que which solved the problem of no sound in my outputed video.   So maybe I can get points on this board for solving my own question? LOL.
And as I found out, the where-is-the-sound question is the most common in After Effects. Yet the FAQ's do an absolutely horrible job at making that clear. Sure it may be buried in some abstract way, but if it were my company I'd have an awesome step by step section on explaining the deal with sound and what to expect. Or better I'd allow real time sound playback whenever it could render at 100% or faster as in other programs. Or maybe even 80%. It's kind of distrubing a $1000 program has such inefficient online resources for the most basic things. I can see reading a manual to learn the cool more intricate things, but playing back sound should work out of the box with NO questions asked. If that's not possible, it should come with a great explanation, or read me or something that grabs a persons attention quickly as soon as they install it. That said, it took me longer, but I figured everything out on my own.

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Hey everyone this is my first post here, and it happens to be a question I haven't been able to find an answer to.
Compared to you guys I'm very new at working with After Effects, so, please, bear with me.
I've been meaning to replicate an effect seen in this video:
Specifically from seconds :19 to :23.
The effect consists of showing a flat solid, then the camera angle changes to a perspective in which we see the rectangle was in fact extruded, and had depth.
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The intention is to replicate an effect like that, being able to see an element on screen which is initally seen as flat, and then have tha camera move to a perspective in which we can see the element, in fact, has depth.
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I hope this is the first of many posts I make on this forum.

For the specific case that you show, you could just have a few flat 3D layers joined together at their edges to make a box, and fly a camera around that.
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alright i saw this video and im not sure how to do this i was trying and i can't really get close this is all in after effects no stock footage or anything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqXrSiQxuSE

The fire effect that I created in the example was
A 32 Bit Project
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The pre-Comp with Colorama and turbulent displace
Another nested comp with Fractal noise used as a displacement map
A duplicate of the nested comp with blur and Colorama
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Roto the boy walking in on the top copy of the footage layers
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Manipulation of opacity blurs and color.
A bunch of other masks and color effects on duplicates of the fire, the footage and the light wrap layers to complete the effect.
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To tell you the truth, even compositing footage of real fire in a scene is a lot more than just a couple of layers and a matte. I've also done that on several projects and it always involved 8 or 10 layers to make it look 'real' to my standard of production.

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