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I've found that Bridge is a really useful tool for viewing effects and image sequences before importing them within your composition. 'ffx' files in AE allow Bridge to preview all sorts of presets for synthetics, text, transitions, audio, etc, and i believe it is the only software that can.


Previewing effects rapes my hard-drive to bits, so this method is much more efficient for my computer, and also saves time.