ABSTRACT
Every version of After Effects for the last several years has included a group of free plugins from third-party vendors (the term “third-party” just means a company other than Adobe). Trapcode creates an entire suite of effects, almost all of which are quite impressive, and greatly add to the effects in After Effects. If the Cycore plugins are the watered down versions of After Effects effects, the Trapcode effects might be thought of as the super charged versions of After Effects effects. The Magic Bullet set of plugins (also marketed and sold by Red Giant Software) was created by After Effects master Stu Maschwitz. This suite of effects was created to make video look more like film, which includes changing frame rate, colors, and more.
