How to explain this....?

Question

You know that trick they do in After Effects, where you can superimpose an object, (like, say, a space ship or whatever), floating in the sky above a city skyline, and it stays where it is relative to the city, even though the camera is moving all around, like a hand-held shot. It looks like the object was in the sky when you filmed the shot, and its jiggle motion is locked to the jiggle motion of the rest of the environment. Well, is it possible to do that in PRE7?
Did that make any sense whatsoever...?
Thanks,
Kurt.

Answer 1

Kurt,
Unfortunately, there is no AE Elements. However, much of what can be done in AE can be done in PrE. The main problem is that many of the automated aspects from AE are now "by hand," in PrE, and even PrPro.
There are also add-ins and stand-alone programs, that can duplicate some of the great features from AE, but none that I know of, do nearly so much and with such ease.
For instance, for Title and text effects and animation, one can use Blufftitler, ProDAD's Vitascene and Heroglyph, and there are others. Pixelan's Spicemaster can do a lot of great Transition Effects and many can be applied as Clip Effects.
Still, AE is almost in a world all alone, and does have virtually unlimited powers - it only depends on one's expertise, their time and their budget.
Good luck,
Hunt
PS one of the best acquisitons that I ever made was upgrading to Adobe Production Studio from my Photoshop license. It was not cheap, but it included AE, PrPro, Encore and others, plus additional licenses for PS and AI. Best $ that I have spent in decades.
Good luck,
Hunt