Newb Here...

I've been impressed with FilterForge since version 2. I have a lifetime license, and possibly 2 (I think I may have gotten confused and purchased another one by mistake, but I have another computer to use it on anyway).

I design logos, graphics, fonts and websites. I used to do lots of animations on the Amiga. I'm an affiliate. It only makes sense that I figure out how to make my own filters.

But as I think of what I want to do, or how to change the snippets I open, I want to do animated things. Right now I want to do something extremely simple, but I want to animate it. Now, I know I can do that if I provide myself with the right controls, frame by frame, it oughta be simple enough.

But, does FF4 tie into Premier or Flash or Fireworks or the old ImageReady to setup the animated sequences automatically at all?

That said, I am just trying to figure out how to do some stuff. I am trying to do a hypno-swirl that doesn't repeat more than a couple times because it then transforms and morphs into other things (so I am looking at how to do all kinds of different swirling effects and transitioning them, meaning I want to make a whole bunch of filters to animate a background that I can slap my face on as I talk about stuff like Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver or maybe even FilterForge someday).

So that's what After Effects is for? LOL. Cool, I have that.

I have to tell you that the textures I have generated with FilterForge are absolutely killer for my web design projects. I can't wait to figure it all out and do some of my own.