Yes, think of this like a permanent and growing set of shelf tools, you dont need a new licence everytime you want to use Trapcode Elements. As the author I am more than happy and give you full permission to continue using Trapcode Elements for as many projects, clients and videos as you like.

Trapcode Particular V6 is a third-party plugin by (Maxon.net) and is required as the projects take advantage of new features & performance improvements introduced in that version.

The projects benefit from the new multi-frame rendering introduced in Adobe After Effects (CC 2022) an up-to-date version is required.

Trapcode Elements V2 works on Windows or Mac.

Broadly speaking you can expect to see render times between anywhere from 40 mins up to 2 hours depending on the duration of the shot. The longest shot to render in the promo video was right at the end where multiple projects are employed. Doing an ambitious shot like that was just a case of breaking it down into individual passes. We started with the Earthbending effects and pre-rendered the effects from the (Particles Comp) so that we could make multiple iterations while compositing without having to re-render simulations. That way when it came to adding fire we could roto the actors & import those mattes into the (Roto Comp) that comes as standard in all the fire projects, allowing light wrap & glows to interact properly within the scene. All of this is annotated and explained throughout the projects themselves with overviews & color-coded guide layers, but we don’t overwhelm you with paragraphs of text either. It’s on-the-fly project documentation as and when it’s needed, even so, there is a 30-minute tutorial that serves as a getting started introduction.

Trapcode Elements V2 uses Fluid Dynamics to achieve most of the Fire and Air simulations, all of the projects have been optimized and include optional proxy simulations that can be toggled in place of the main effect. You can also click the (Shy) switch in After Effects to reveal hidden layers. Layers that have an instance of Particular are highlighted in red so that you can isolate individual layers and get a behind-the-scenes look at how everything works.

Having at least 16GB of Ram and allocating a large After Effects cache file really helps to speed things up when it comes to preformance and stability in general.