I recently bought After Effects. What would be the best way to create the effect of white dust floating in the air? For this scene a guy has swept what looks like drywall dust into a ventilation grill and it's filled the air. Is there a GO TO plugin for this (and fog and smoke)? Adobe? Another company? :huh:

I guess it would depend on what exactly your ultimate goal is.. you could do it with particles I suppose, though that seems like it would be a major pain, AND it would be very processor intensive.

detonationfilms.com has a bunch of dust and fog that can be comped in...nice folks too.

if you download the Max8 demo from discreet and find a cumbustion or partical cumbustion for it, you can create dust, smoke, clouds. its a free plugin and a free demo that (at least v6 and v7) has no watermark. So you can use it fully for 30 days.

I have a partical cumbustion that is free distribution if you want, but I dont know if it will work with max8

I just discovered Delerium. Works great. Best to get the Final Cut Pro version -- not the After Effects version which takes an eternity to render.