If you don't find Holomatrix easy to use, they have several well-produced tutorials on their website. Everything from a general overview to highly specific looks. In this day of web dominance, I think a company should be obligated to put up a tutorial video about their product. It's a much more useful tool than a product manual, and it can give the user a great trial before they buy…letting them in on whether or not they will be able to use this product before they buy it. There's nothing worse than buying what seems like a cool plug-in and finding out later that you have no idea how to make it work.
Creating holographic effects is as simple as clicking on the effect.
Depth of Options
Using the simple presets is only one part of Holomatrix. Once you apply the effect, you will notice a list of keyframeable effects that show up in your effects window. These effects can all be added or subtracted using the simple checkbox. You can also adjust the color, brightness, glow, and basically every layer that makes up the final Holomatrix effect.
Another simple yet important option is the ability to scale the effects depending on your comp resolution. You can easily scale the effect for Standard or High Definition footage.
Futuristic moving billboards are just one of the possible uses.
Performance
The end results that you get from Holomatrix are definitely solid. The look of each of the shots that I treated with it look like I spent a ton of time on them, and I didn't even get into all the available details. One issue that I've noticed is that you can't really scrub through the footage loosely once Holomatrix is applied. My mac crashed a couple times when I tried to do that, and my mac never crashes. It is obviously making a multitude of keyframes and compounded effects, so it doesn't surprise me. If you had a large number of effects on a shot in After Effects and you tried to scrub through at your convenience, you would probably get a crash from that as well. While I'm not surprised about the somewhat fragile preview, it's worth noting.
