Your Essential Premiere & After Effects Plugins

[Ahheck01]

What plug-ins for both programs do you find essential to your workflow, and why? We're converting over to CS5.5, so looking to see what other people have found essential.

 

[mBox]

Trapcode

Trapcode...nuff sed!

 

[Ahheck01]

Trapcode...nuff sed!

Looks helpful. What all do you use it for?

Any others?

 

[mBox]

Looks helpful. What all do you use it for?

Any others?

Mostly in AE. Not sure if all work in PPro.
You can build a whole look around some of em.
Back in the day Shine took over Lens Flare as the most abused effect.
Now I use it in subtle ways and not to be the focal point.
Love Particular. Too much to explain with that but its the closest I can get particles like in Maya Dynamics. Here is a base example from the creator himself http://www.trapcode.com/sharelog/2009/12/29/particular-v2-massive.html
Do the research itll do you good

 

[handsome pete]

All of the Red Giant stuff is pretty great.

Though I prefer VideoCopilot's lens flares to Knoll Light factory.

 

[mBox]

All of the Red Giant stuff is pretty great.

Though I prefer VideoCopilot's lens flares to Knoll Light factory.

I do to considering that our KLF version is too old to work with AE and recent Avid
There used to be a ton of AE plug-ins but of late, not as much.

 

[YESimBLUNTED]

The Trapcode plug-ins are a must.

Also Video Copilot Optical Flares is a great plug-in as well.

Also the Sapphire suite, RE:Vision (Real Smart Motion Blur), Magic Bullet Suite, and Knoll.