Walker Effects WE Premultiply

I have CS4 but I was reading an old book by the Meyers, Creating Motion Graphic with AE Vol 1. the Essentials (©2004). On the DVD they have some Free Plugins - by various manufactures. In the chapter projects they mention that some of the plugins work better than those supplied in the AE program (that is AE version 6.5) Since I like the idea of having more toys to play with, of course I want to have them at my disposal in AE CS4
However when I placed them where the manufactures designated (the AE Plug -in Folder) and open up the AE lessons from the book I get the message that those plugin are are missing.
I was wonder 2 things.
Is it most likely that because the plugins are so old they just aren't compatible and therefore don't show up in CS4; and
Since CS4 is 5 years newer than when the book was written and the those plugins made, that it is also most likely that AE now ships with plug ins that are better than any of those old freebies and/or the functionality of AE has improved so much that those plug -in are obsolete.
For instance the WE Premultiply was supposed to be good at knocking out the color of a black solid when using it for a lens flare or other lighting effect. Is it possible that now in CS4 the blending mode "Multiply" is much better and therefore a plug in like WE Premultiply is un-needed.
I'm new to AE with CS4 (2009) so I have no past reference to compare it to.
The Freebies are: Boris Continuum Complete, DigiEffects Delirium (DE FireWorks and DE Glower), Digital Anarchy Screen Text, Digital Tools (WarmCool), Red Giant (IL Alpha Ramp), The Foundry (T LensBlur), and Walker Effects (WE Premultiply)
Lastly, would installing any of these old effects possibly cause conflicts and crashes.
Thank You in advance, I will wait for your answer before attempting to install any of the other Freebies

You're correct that the old AE 6.5 plugins are just too old for CS4 compatibility. Note that even now we're all getting around the fact that CS4 plugins don't work in CS5!
There are a number of ways to unmultiply/premultiply layers. I usually precompose the layer in question, then duplicate the precomp-ed layer and assign it as Luminance Track Matte to the first.
The most common third party Lens Flare Plugins, Red Giant's Knoll Lens Flare and Video Copilot's Optical Flares, both have unmult capabilities built into them, which is why many standalone unmult plugins haven't been updated over the past few years.
But Red Giant Software still offer a free version of UnMult. It's labelled as AE 7 compatible - you could try it and see if it works in 6.5.

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Way over your head, if you are just a beginner...
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#44: FCP acting weird - Trash Prefs
Shane's Stock Answer #44: FCP acting weird or unusual. Just not like is normally should
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http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/trashing_fcpprefs.html
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Lynda.com also offers AE training, but I've never used it.
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There are scripts out there (like VideoCopilot's Trim Compose script) that will make a composition for each layer (each cut, in this case) and you can then render each cut out with your noise removal.
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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
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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.
I don't have the file in front of me but this is a fairly good representation of the 12 step and probably 15 or 20 layer comp it took to pull off the final fire effect. The shot as you see it was then further color graded to enhance the believability of the shot. As Mylenium said fire is not a single click magic button effect even if you pay for a plug-in that specifically was designed to create fire.
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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