After Effects: From Import to Export

Advantages: Fast and user friendly
Disadvantages: The price

...makes After Effects so easy to work with is - if you use the standard window is the size of the timeline. To work with the keyframes is extremely user friendly according to me compared to Final Cut. After Effects come with many effects - thats true but some of them are bit too used so you're always looking for news plug-ins. But one thing is the speed. When you apply and effect it is right there maybe not realtime but you get the idea and that is nice. Cause you don't need to waste to much time. Personally I've learned a lot from trying and trying. And the nice thing about that is you discover so many other things about After Effects. At the same time I watch many tutorials and most of them are really good. And by good I mean easy to understand. For tutorials and stuff like that - creativecow.com and videocopilot.com are really good....

vilumdeluxe 08.03.2009 (14.03.2009) · Read review
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Review of Adobe After Effects 5 Complete package

Outstanding Effects

Advantages: Just superb
Disadvantages: way way too pricey for most of us

...I like to play about on my PC and see what it can achieve with a little help from some good software and of course my innovative genius. One such way of doing this is by experimenting with video and editing. There are numerous programs on the market to enable even a novice to produce some excellent results, but if you are totally serious about doing this then there is no other package on the market that can produce the dramatic results achieved by using Adobe After Effects. The problem here of course is that the initial outlay is in the region of £1000 yep that's right about a grand to edit videos. Not having a spare £1000 at hand I was fortunate enough to know someone who did have that kind of cash to splash out on a piece of software, and he was kind enough to let me try it out. After a fairly lengthy installation I was...

donf18 21.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Adobe After Effects Standard 6.5 Media

Fear Effective

Advantages: Cool graphics and settings, great twists to story, challenging
Disadvantages: Can't save options, loading up from last save on death

...Fear Effect featured Motion FX for the first time ever; although you can see when the FMV loops, the backgrounds feel very much alive. A third-person adventure; the anime-style characters are well animated, but, in combat sometimes you are fighting several virtually identical enemies. Plus, picking up items can be tricky because of the camera angles; it's no surprise to see the game opt for tank-like controls - the characters do come complete with an 180-Degree Quick Turn, a highly effective evasive roll, and a Crouch Walk which allows the player to sneak up on an enemy for a Silent Kill. Also, as our playable characters are weapons experts, they are thus capable of firing double guns at different targets. The game has its fair share of puzzles - these go beyond the find-keys-for-doors type, and though their solutions are close-by, one...

scream4bruce 16.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Fear Effect (PlayStation)

Is it Effect-tive after all that

Advantages: Good program if you know what your doing
Disadvantages: Difficult to get to grips with

...My Review will enlighten you in the world of Adobe After Effects. I will cover the good , the bad and the down right ugly of this program so come take a look. Many films ahve relied heavily on using special effects for there films. Mainly this has be done on After Effects. This is a very profesional piece of software which allows the advanced user to create effects such as light sabre fight sequences to shooting stars. I have never used an After Effects programme before and as i am doing Media Studies at A level, i believed it would help me with making my artifacts. However i rarley use it now as i find it to difficult to use. Im am however sure that if you ahve enougth time on your hands to learn how to use it it would be very helpful and well worth the money. There are many tutorials avaliable to help you improve...

JamesBrock 15.04.2003 · Read review
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Review of Adobe After Effects 4.0 4.0 Complete package

A game with massive effects

Advantages: RPG with FPS elements, whats not to like?
Disadvantages: Dodgy interface can cause problems for any gamer

...-----The Story----- Mass effect is set about 100-200 years in the future, the planet earth has advanced dramatically after finding ancient technology on mars which led to the discovery of a Mass Relay which can "catapult" starships across the galaxy in the fraction of the time it would usually take. You play Commander Shepard aboard the Normandy Alliance spaceship sent out to Eden to retrieve an alien beacon. From here on you are thrown into an intense story across the galaxy to discover and destroy an ancient threat along with your recruited heroes, but you will have to make some extremely difficult decisions along the way, one part even made me put down the controller as I just couldn't decide what to do. -----The Game----- The game itself follows the standard RPG format of leveling and talking to strange creatures, but this...

sim721 12.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Mass Effect (Xbox 360)

Mass Effect. It had a massive effect on me.

Advantages: The best storyline I have found in a game. Its not just Oblivion with guns.
Disadvantages: Texture loading issues.

...Mass Effect by Bioware is one of the best action - rpg's I have ever played. It follows Commander Shepard on a epic space adventure in order to save the galaxy, accompanied by an assortment of characters, human and alien. There are games that claim to allow the player to choose where they want to go and that their actions have true consequences on their game. Most do not deliver on this promise. Mass Effect on the other hand delivers this in spades, explaining these in detail would ruin the truly amazing storyline as most of the choices come at pivitol points in the game, sometimes however you can make a choice which changes the game without even realising it. * Graphics The graphics are stunning, the game will take you to many planets, some snowcovered, others barren deserts, some tropical rainforests to name a few and they all...

tribalsj 12.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Mass Effect (Xbox 360)

Massive, if not Effective

Advantages: Cinematic presentation, the start of an undoubtedly successful series
Disadvantages: A lot of lesser flaws that stack up

...lore, even featuring audio for the most important parts. It's a good effort, but what I'd really love would be an over-the-top narration, styled after "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". To make matters worst, we have the preposterously bland planets you are able to explore with the Mako, your personal futuristic tank. They are ugly, difficult to navigate and quite boring to explore as a result. I understand that, realistically, most planets aren't exactly roller coaster rides, but games are supposed to be fun and having every damn planet that is not central to the story be so frustratingly flavourless, is not. Especially considering that you can't land on *every* planet in Mass Effect, only a small selection of them. In truth, "realistic" did go out the window, but only in favour of designing every single one, even those that...

Magrippinho 07.12.2007 · Read review
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Review of Mass Effect (Xbox 360)

Bedhead After Party

Advantages: Smells gorgeous, lasts ages
Disadvantages: Price, not recommended for oily hair types

...First impressions with Bedhead After Party is the funky, stylish hot pink bottle that it comes in, it looks modern and has a lot of appeal! The bottle has a pump in which the product comes out of and you can see how much you have left, which is useful. The product smells gorgeous, like all other Bedhead products, its a yummy fruity smells which is smells delicious! After Party is great for putting on dry or wet hair, styled or unstyled and for before a night out or after. It helps smoothe and straighten wet hair before drying and also quickens up the drying process, and it smoothes out and de-frizzes styled or unstyled dry hair. Because of its gorgeous smell it disguises any trace of a night out before! Your hair always looks shiney, smooth, healthy, soft and frizz free when this product is on. It gives you control over your...

lilyellowfish 17.10.2007 · Read review
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Review of TIGI Bed Head After Party

The morning after pill

Advantages: Stops unwanted pregnancies without the stigma of abortion.
Disadvantages: People see it as another form of contraception, but it can only be used 3 times in a month.

...can expect to pay around £20 for it from these places...so I suggest going to your local family planning clinic, where a nurse will not only talk you through the pill properly, but will also examine you (just a basic medical examination to ensure your healthy enough for the pill to take effect!) and also discuss future family planning! The pill is available to everybody, regardless of height, weight, size, or age. But after 72 hours after intercourse, the pill will be useless, as soon as you have had unprotected sex, you need to get the pill asap, with every passing hour, the pill becomes less and less likely to work. The morning after pill is a combination of two pills, unlike a few years ago, the pills are now taken one after the other (they used to be taken with 12 or 24 hours in between) with food and water, if you throw up...

stephbond89 03.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Levonelle Morning After Pill

Not Just for After Party!

Advantages: Smoothes and adds shine
Disadvantages: Using too much makes hair look greasy

...you have a light film of product covering both hands, then comb through the under-sections of the hair with your fingers, before finally using the last remaining bits to smooth over the top layers. The effect this has on your hair is just what it says - it smoothes away any flyaways to leave the hair feeling soft, silky and smooth, and looking shiny and healthy. The scent isn't really noticeable once it's in the hair, which I found disappointing after all the reviews I'd read saying it makes your hair smell fantastic and disguises unwanted smells - it doesn't do either for me. The results last all day without the need to reapply, which is just as well as reapplying would just make your hair look greasy. All in all this is a great product which does what it says it will, and whilst it does seem expensive at first it will last ages so...

CherryVegas 06.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of TIGI Bed Head After Party