Add even more capability to your Adobe After Effects software
and make your projects much more interesting. In this feature we bring
you the latest and greatest plug-ins available today. Plug-ins are
software modules that enhance and extend your creativity and
productivity directly from within After Effects. To automate or
customize your workflow, add professional effects or to simply work
faster and easier, plug-in!
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Horizon
Horizon is a
camera-aware color gradient and image mapping tool. It is a fairly
straightforward utility plug-in. It is meant to be used on the bottom
(backmost) layer in a 3D comp. It generates a background that
corresponds to the camera’s viewing direction.
Form
Form is a grid-based 3D particle system with a twist. It can be used
to create fluid, organic patterns, complex geometric structures and
swirling stringy animations. Using other layers as maps for various
properties provides endless possibilities to create unique designs.
Furthermore, Form can be used as an audio-visualizer, automatically
generating stunning visuals for your audio.
Particular
Particular is a
powerful 3D particle system that can produce a wide range of effects
from natural smoke and explosions to geometric or organic abstract
motion graphics design elements.
Shine
Shine is a fast light effect plug-in. The effect looks very much like
volumetric light, but is actually a 2D effect. There are special
controls to make shimmering lights and numerous coloring modes. This is
an effect that you see everyday on TV and in many movie titles. Before
it was only possible to make using 3D apps (real volumetric lights) or
using slower rendering 2D plug-ins.
Starglow
Starglow is a fast-rendering glow effect. It creates a
star-shaped glow around the highlights of the source. The star shape
consists of eight directions, and each direction can be assigned an
individual colormap and streak length.
3d Stroke
3D Stroke
uses paths from one or more masks to
render volumetric strokes that can be rotated and moved freely in 3D
space. It has a built-in camera for AE41 and Combustion 3 users and can
also use AE5’s comp camera. Path reveals in 3D are easily made using the
keyframable sliders for start and end.
Sound Keys
Sound Keys
is a keyframe generator plug-in for Adobe
After Effects 5.0 and higher. It allows visually selecting a range in
the audio spectrum and convert the audio energy in the selected
frequencies to a stream of keyframes. It is very handy for making
extremely audio-driven animations.
Lux
Lux simulates the
phenomena of light reflection in a sparse medium, also known as “visible
light”. This can be observed when lights are present in a slightly
foggy environment, like on stage during a concert or outdoors on a misty
night.
Echospace
Echospace is used to
duplicate, manage and animate layers in a convenient manner. It works
similair to an echo effect, but instead of creating 2D echoes, it
creates new instances of a layer in 3D space.
Zaxwerks
http://www.zaxwerks.com/
Invigorator Pro
· 3D text created directly from fonts
· Render in wireframe, cartoon, and photo-realistic styles
· Advanced modeling tools and Primitives
· Import models from other 3D programs
A great program for creating 3d Text and scenes inside AfterEffects.
3d Flag
A powerful customizable 3D Flag creator.
CycoreFX
http://www.cycorefx.com/
CycoreFX contains 61 professional effects for Adobe After Effects.
The effects range from blurs and color adjustments through distortions
and particle generators to lighting and transitions.
The best thing about CycoreFX is it comes bundled free with After
Effects but you have to manually install it. Make sure you check out the
third party software on the Adobe installation disk to install these as
well as other free plug-ins.
Once installed, these plug-ins will have a CC_ in front of their name, i.e. CC_Particle Playground.
And Now for the Round-Up!
SteadyMove Pro: Automatic
image stabilization plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro, Premier Elements,
After Effects and Discreet Combustion. Supported up to Adobe CS2.
Eye Candy for After Effects
is a set of 20 time-saving special effects that will enhance any film,
video, animation or multimedia project. Sophisticated texture,
production and distortion effects have never been easier. Eye Candy for
after Effects creates fire, smoke, carves, bevels, and more. Create
dazzling effects in a fraction of the time they used to require.
Automatic Duck
Pro Import AE 4.0 With
Pro Import AE for Adobe After Effects, your digital desktop has never been more powerful or compete. Translating a sequence from an Avid®
or Final Cut Pro editing system, or a project from Apple’s Motion 2
takes just seconds, importing all your media and clips in one step.
Effects are translated and recreated for you and your timeline becomes a
composition in After Effects, ready for you to take your vision to the
next level.
The big momma of Plug-in companies:
Continuum Complete for After Effects
is an expansive plug-in filter set that lets you create effects from
the practical to the inspired directly in your native host interface for
unprecedented workflow. Over 180 filters include advanced keying,
matting, compositing, image processing, distortion, temporal effects and
motion tracking. These filters provide the creative freedom to animate
your graphical elements or video at any speed, acceleration, or position
you want.
Final Effects Complete
delivers a collection of effects plug-ins for leading nonlinear editing
and compositing solutions. Ranging from graceful blurs and edges to
radical warps and particle generators, FEC dramatically augments your
creative arsenal without forcing you to learn a new application. The
simplicity of the filters combined with the native host interface,
reduces the learning curve to virtually zero. Most filters feature less
than a dozen parameters; only a few simple adjustments are required to
create totally unique organic effects.
Boris Red
The only integrated 3D compositing, titling, and effects application
to deliver unparalleled performance to over twenty NLE’s. Designed
specifically for editors, RED offers an unprecedented range of features
and adds a standalone engine for rendering. It integrates 2D and 3D
compositing, titling, paint, rotoscoping, a full suite of tools to
create and extrude vector objects, 3D creation and animation, and the
industry-leading software DVE technology. Save time and money using one
interface, in one system.
Boris Blue
Perfect for post facilities with client-supervised sessions or
demanding deadlines, Blue uses the latest generation NVIDIA GPU-based
graphics cards to provide an interactive effects design experience. Blue
delivers real-time processing of 2D and 3D effects as well as real-time
playback of video and audio media. Users can adjust effect parameters
during playback, a “front room” capability that is ideal for working
side by side with clients. The fast export to disk, including hardware
rendered anti-aliasing, motion blur, and 3D shadows, provide significant
time savings.
Boris FX
FX is a great value with realistic lighting, advanced keying and
color correction, compositing, DVE, vector paint and support for
third-party After Effects filters. Need an effect completed quickly? FX
offers a Library Browser with hundreds of high-quality presets for easy
application in over 20 NLEs. Sophisticated vector paint and spline tools
allow you to create animatable masks. More than 115 video filters
include motion tracking and image stabilization, as well as
self-animating natural effects that easily interact with timeline video.
Boris Graffiti
Create titles and graphics directly inside your nonlinear editing
system without importing and exporting. Easily create sophisticated
title animation including type on text, text on a path, jitter and
randomization. Create 3D text with bump maps and reflections. An
expansive Style Palette and the BORIS Library Browser provide easy
access to hundreds of preset effects and styles. Adding Graffiti to your
existing NLE system puts the most innovative and user friendly titling
tools in the industry at your fingertips.
Super Resolution
is a plugin for Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro which uses
super-resolution method to upsize video. It can be used to make HD
videos from SD. The plugin uses information from neighbor frames to
upsize current frame. It accumulates information, so the more sequential
frames are processed, the better quality you get. When it’s first
applied to a layer, it takes just a few frames preceding the current
one.
Digieffects Damage
harnesses the destructive power of lame rabbit ears, bad BNC cables,
tree branch-obstructed satellite dishes, poorly tracking VHS machines,
scratched DVDs, low fidelity security cameras, micro-datarate cel
phones…the list goes on.
Simulate: Illuma
Practical lighting and glow effects that offer new levels of flexibility
and ease of use. Simulate: Illuma was designed to be a workhorse tool
for creating post lighting effects. Post production and effects artists
will find an unprecedented set of tools in this package of 5 visual
effects plugins that creates a new standard for effectiveness and value
in function focused plugin packages.
Simulate: Camera
The latest addition to the Simulate Series expands the foundation of any post artist’s toolbox…
Simulate: Camera puts together 4 essential tools for creating effects
that mimic camera or projection artifacts. Set a foundation for
additional effects with composition instability and exposure oscillation
that will save any motion graphics or visual post effects artist time
and money.
Digieffects: Delirium:
The plugin collection that established the standard for essential
visual effects and motion graphics capabilities…The Digieffects flagship
plugin collection continues to be a staple in the toolboxes of motion
graphics and visual effects artists the world over. This set of 40
effects has helped drive the edge of post production since its
introduction and this visual effects favorite continues to add
flexibility for new users everyday…
Digieffects: Aurorix: A
wide variety of motion graphics effects plugins in one package. With
more than 25 visual effects, Aurorix has a wide range of applications.
Warp and distortion effects and a variety of texture and pattern
generation effects make Aurorix the place to begin for deep, animated
graphics backgrounds.
Digieffects: Berserk: A set of VFX plugins that users seem to be…”crazy” about….
The Berserk plugin collection adds a variety of capabilities to the
effects collections of pros and enthusiasts alike. This set of 20
plugins has everything from weather to traditional art media to lasers
and light effects.
Buena Depth Cue: The
most innovative clip and composition-based plugins for creating visual
depth in Adobe After Effects. Buena Depth Cue may be the most innovative
approach yet for creating visual depth in your After Effects
compositions. Using composition-based effects like Rack Focus, Falloff
Lighting, or Fog, you can mimic Z depth in your compositions in ways
that simply can’t be done using practical depth of field. With a total
of 7 effects including the popular Camera Mapper, Buena Depth Cue has
capabilities that are simply not available in any other plugin package
at any price.
Digital Elements
With
Aurora Sky,
you can create realistic, three-dimensional skies. More powerful and
flexible than simple fractal clouds, Aurora Sky includes a wide array of
special effects.
Aurora Water is
a unique After Effects plug-in which lets you create circular waves,
add reflections, refraction, volumetric light rays and submerged
objects.
Aurora Water simulates all water types, from ponds to oceans.
Digital Film Tools
Composite Suite includes
28 visual effects plug-ins that were, until recently, only available
in-house at Digital FilmWorks, a Los Angeles based film effects
facility. Tested in the rigors of everyday production, the Composite
Suite plug-ins provide all that is needed to combine multiple images
including in house compositing tricks and techniques, color correction,
blur, grain, matte manipulation and edge blending using 16 bit
processing even if your system is limited to 8 bits.
Power Matte
is an easy to use interactive image matting tool capable of extracting
almost any object in an image–even if you are dealing with fine hair
detail, smoke, or reflections. This extraction process creates what is
known as a matte–essentially a black and white cutout. White matte areas
are extracted, black areas not, and gray areas in between represent a
level of transparency. Once a matte is extracted, the foreground object
can be seamlessly composed onto a new background as well as apply filter
and image corrections only within the area defined by the matte.
Power Stroke: Designed
with the creative workflow of colorists, film/video editors, graphic
designers and artists in mind, Power Stroke introduces a simple,
interactive stroke-based workflow to quickly and intuitively perform
targeted adjustments. Instead of meticulously drawing exact masks, using
inaccurate matte extractions or hand painting frame to frame, regions
of interest are isolated by drawing a few simple and loose After Effects
open or closed masks. Power Stroke then uses the concepts of
luminance-weighted chrominance blending and fast intrinsic distance
computations to determine the edges of your target area and adjustments
are made only in those areas. Masks can be assigned multiple corrections
and effects such as color correction, recoloring or desaturation,
colorization of black and white images, blur, fill light for dimly lit
image areas and diffusion/glow.
Based on the concepts of luminance-weighted chrominance blending and
fast intrinsic distance computations, Power Stroke produces high-quality
results at a fraction of the complexity and computational cost of
previous techniques. At long last, gestural selection and image
adjustment have been combined into one natural, fast and easy process.
zMatte is
a full-featured keyer that is the result of our experience in creating
hundreds of successful blue and green screen composites. Using
proprietary matte extraction techniques, zMatte quickly and simply
creates mattes with minimal parameters even if you are dealing with fine
hair detail, smoke, or reflections. It is easy to use, yet provides the
needed tools when faced with good, bad, or ugly shots – tools such as
multiple matte creation, automatic spill suppression, sophisticated
matte and edge manipulation, and color correction.
PRIME
is a suite of over 50 Effect Plug-Ins for Adobe After Effects. It
consists of generators, distortions, image adjustments, stylistic
filters, effects, and utilities.
BikiniDots is a plug-in package containing two plug-ins for Adobe® After Effects®.
1. “b_stroke”, a path stroke plug-in with a Z-depth displacement
feature, which lets you to stroke your paths in all directions: X, Y or
Z.
2. “b_dots”, a dot matrix generator plug-in that creates a matrix of
circles (dots). The color value of each dot is the average sampled pixel
value of that area from the source image.
OpenEXR is visual effects industry-standard floating point file
format and the best format to use when working with 32-bit HDR imagery
in Photoshop and After Effects. However, Adobe’s support for the format
is minimal – only with
ProEXR can digital artists finally access all the power available in OpenEXR.
OpenEXR can support multiple layers of imagery, but Photoshop can’t read or save
layered EXR files…unless you have
ProEXR.
Store all your layers in one file and read them into After Effects,
Nuke, Shake, and Fusion. Or in one step save layers as individual files
for programs that are less EXR savvy. ProEXR will also read all the
image buffers created by modern 3D renderers and place each in its own
Photoshop layer.
Power Picker gives you what you’ve always wanted – a
full-featured, interactive color picker
right inside the After Effects interface. Never again will you have to
bounce back and forth between the Apple Color Picker and your Comp.
Keylight
is an industry-proven blue/green screen keyer. The core algorithm was
written by the Computer Film Company and has been refined on scores of
films. It is simple to use and is particularly good at tackling
reflections, semi-transparent areas and hair. Because spill suppression
is built-in, often selecting the screen colour is all you need to do to
pull the matte and seat the foreground into the background so it looks
photographed rather than composited.
Keylight 1.2v5 is included with AE CS3. Since
then we’ve spotted and fixed a couple of bugs. You can download that bug
fix version (1.2v8) free of charge here. Customers running After Effects 7.0 Standard can buy Keylight from this web site.
Tinderbox
Tinderbox
is an impressive collection of 2D visual effects plug-ins, delivering
unlimited creative possibilities for artists involved in producing
digital images for film and video. Opt for instant gratification with
hundreds of presets or add your unique touch with a multitude of
adjustable parameters.
Tinderbox 1
is a collection of 18 filters for the After Effects professional. The
plug-ins include tools to manipulate mattes with sub-pixel precision,
distortion effects, background generators, lights rays and features the
fastest software blurs available. Take a look at the complete list of
Tinderbox 1 plug-ins.
Tinderbox 2 plug-ins include LensBlur for simulating the true defocusing characteristics of a camera. Newsprint to give images a half tone look. Render the brightest 9000 stars visible from Earth with NightSky or simulate viewing images through a layer of distorting Glass. Get a hand painted acrylic look with Paint. Crash zoom with RadialBlur or distort your image with Ripple and Swirl. Take a look at the complete list of Tinderbox 2 plug-ins.
Tinderbox 3
is a collection of 18 filters for the After Effects professional. The
plug-ins include tools to erode and despot mattes, effects to simulate
poor television reception and old film, and sparks, lightning, plasma
and starfield generators and much more. Take a look at the complete list
of Tinderbox 3 plug-ins.
Tinderbox 4 plug-ins include Security for simulating a security camera feed. Reveal the layers in an image by flowing colour through a matte with Flow and give images a hand drawn look with Cartoon and LineDrawing. Achieve limitless zoom with InfiniteZoom. Generate clean and really effective 2D Rain or go for a winter look with Snow. Wrap background light around foreground objects with LightWrap and apply fast elegant glow effects with SoftGlow. Take a look at the complete list of Tinderbox 4 plug-ins.
Our debut product is made to
lead a line of tools that introduce a new meaning to depth in
compositing. The ZbornToy has the ability to extract a maximum of
information out of simple depth images and allows you to not only light
and texture them, but to refract backgrounds, cast caustic reflection
back onto the background and a whole lot more.
Lensfeed shows a camera’s live preview inside
After Effects. No still frames but a moving live feed! Lensfeed is
implemented as regular After Effects filters so the livefeed is
displayed inside compositions and can can be treated like regular
footage.
Lenscare moves depth of field and out of focus
generation to post production. If you need high quality camera blurs
with the flexibility of 2d post processing, Lenscare is a great choice.
It can get you rid of long extra 3d rendering times. The key aspect
during the development of these filters was to match the real thing as
good as possible. Lenscare is available as plugins for Adobe After
Effects and Photoshop compatible programs.
Flair brings 8 high quality effects to Adobe
After Effects and Photoshop compatible programs. Among them shine, glow
and sparkle effects. Of course with 16bit and multi CPU support.
- Over 30 new effects and many enhancements in version 2.
- Includes support for Adobe CS3 and Smart FX.
- Support for Mac OS 10.5 Leopard and Mac Intel hardware.
- Support for Windows Vista.
- More than 200 total plug-ins for image processing and synthesis.
- All plug-ins have multiple options and parameters that can be adjusted and animated for creating an unlimited range of effects.
- Resolution independent, antialiased, high quality images.
- Online hyper-linked documentation for all plug-ins.
- Dual, Quad, and 8-core support for faster rendering.
- On-screen user interface for visual control of parameters in After Effects and Premiere Pro.
- Only one license is needed to use the plug-ins with all AE compatible applications on the same computer.
- Free network rendering on After Effects, Combustion, and Digital Fusion.
Nucleo Pro 2
is the professional After Effects tool that allows you to get a better
handle on your After Effects workflow. Instead of just standard AE
renders and previews, Nucleo Pro 2 gives you the opportunity to choose
how you work best.Nucleo Pro 2 offers After Effects professionals a
wealth of new rendering and preview tools that help to optimize your
time and customize the way you work.
Mocha AE
is custom designed and priced for the After Effects community, this
stand alone 2D tracking tool packed with features that make the effects
compositors life easier. Now compositors can avoid the guess work and
inaccuracies that result from hand tracking challenging shots, speeding
up the process of generating solid 4-point tracks, giving position,
scale, rotation, shear and perspective matched tracks and exporting the
data to Adobe After Effects. Version 5, 6, 7 and CS3.
LME: Collections:
Presets for AfterEffects and Trapcode plugins Gallery.
Purchase LME Collections
Scopio Gigio
Scopo Gigio is a full-featured video waveform monitor and vectorscope
plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects. It emulates most of
the features you’d find in a hardware-based waveform monitor /
vectorscope combo, at a small fraction of the cost.
Neat Video
is a filter plug-in designed to reduce visible noise and grain in
digital video sequences produced by digital video cameras, camcorders,
TV-tuners, digitizers of film or analog video.
Neat Video highlights:
- Neat Video is a video noise reduction plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro / Elements, After Effects, VirtualDub, Sony Vegas Pro / Movie Studio, Pinnacle Studio, Eyeon Fusion
- Neat Video provides the most accurate video noise reduction currently available (examples)
- Neat Video uses device noise profiles to make noise reduction most accurate
- Neat Video efficiently reduces noise of the following types:
- sensor noise produced by digital video capturing devices
- grain visible in digitized film or analog video
- compression artifacts and more…
FREE Cartoon plugin from NewBlueFX
The
NewBlue 3D Explosions collection injects explosive energy into your scenes with
180 presets in 13 different transitions. Each
easy-to-use plugin introduces creative new ways to blast a scene into
pieces. Morph between scenes with explosive energy, swirl pieces that
reassemble into the new scene or dramatically blast the image into
smithereens.
Includes: Blow Apart, Bouncing Cubes,
Bouncing Frames, Box Explode, Confetti, Grid Fall Away, Grid Explosion,
Intensity Grid, Plane Explode, Spiral, Spiral Rotation, Vortex, and
Wiggle.
The
NewBlue 3D Transformations
collection features eye-popping transitions that twist, fly, fold, and
bounce and more from one scene to the next. This exciting assortment of
165 presets in 13 high energy transitions breaks
creative ground with new ways to slice, fly and reassemble a scene with
every technique. From a magic carpet ride to hovering pizza boxes,
you’ll find it all with NewBlue 3D Transformations.
Includes: Box Fold, Checker
Board, Comb, Flip, Fly Away, Louver Grid, Louvers, Magic Carpet, Page
Turn, Pizza Boxes, Rotating Frames, Spiral Bounce, and Twist.
The
NewBlue Art Blends collection features a rich set of
101 transitions in 10 specialized video effects that
shift your images through unique, stunning graphics filters. These
visual techniques will captivate your viewers and communicate your
vision easily. Using NewBlue Art Blends, you can hammer a shape-shifting
transition out of metal, mutate scenes through shifting colors and
light, create a painted transition, and much more.
Includes: Color Melt, Color Wash, Contrast, Duochrome, Glow, Halo, Metallic, Shiny Fog, Sketch, and Vivid.
The
NewBlue Art Effects collection features
99 effects in 10 specialized video filters
that shift your video into a visually stunning alternate reality. All
effects have elegant, easy to use controls. Using NewBlue Art Effects,
you can make a scene look as if it were hammered out of metal or convert
your video image into hand drawn art. NewBlue Art Effects is the
perfect way to add visual pizzaz.
Includes: Air Brush, Colorize, Color Melt, Dream Glow, Duochrome, Ghost, Hand Drawn, Line Drawing, Metallic, and Pastel Sketch.
The
NewBlue Film Effects
collection give your projects a filmic appearance, complete with the
blemishes, jitters, spots, scratches, and graininess. This collection of
81 presets in 5 dynamic filters recreates the inexact
mechanics of hand cranked cameras, dirty projectors, and decades sitting
in film vaults. Best of all, NewBlue Film Effects includes powerful
technology to emulate the color and lighting characteristics of film, so
you can simulate a particular film stock or create a your own unique
look.
Includes: Film Camera, Film Damage, Film Express, Film Look, and Film Pro.
The
NewBlue Motion Blends collection features a powerful set of
112 transitions in 10 specialized video effects
that twist, turn and transmogrify your video from one scene to the
next. These dynamic transitions introduce refreshing new ways to move
your imagery and keep your viewer engaged. Using NewBlue Motion Blends,
you can shear, spin, zoom, and smear to stretch and blur transitions,
rattle the camera, or conjure up a dream/ripple transition.
Includes: Liquify, Roll, Shake, Shear, Shredder, Smear, Spin, Twirl, Wave, and Zoom.
Want to give your video production a dynamic edge? Then you need NewBlue Motion Effects. This collection of 100 effects in 10 specialized video filters adds
movement to your images in a number of ways. Use these visual
techniques to ratchet up the energy level or create action effects.
Using NewBlue Motion Effects, you can simulate an earthquake, add
blurred motion effects. All this and more are yours with NewBlue Motion
Effects.
Just as every painter needs a canvas, brush, and paint, no video
editor should be without NewBlue Video Essentials. This valuable
collection of tools features a set of 10 video effects designed to make
your workflow more efficient. Think of these as a Swiss army knife of
tools designed to enhance, optimize, and accelerate your productivity.
Includes
Color Fixer Plus, Crop Borders, Detail Enhancer, Flash Remover,
Pixelator, Sharpen, Soft Focus, Tint, Touch Up, and Video Tuneup.
FxFactory is
a revolutionary visual effects package for Final Cut Studio, Final Cut
Express and Adobe After Effects, powering over 300 hardware-accelerated
plug-ins.
Motype is a revolutionary text animation plug-in that works in After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion and Final Cut Express.
Motion Mixer – Mix geometric transformations and properties that
define the motion of the characters. The Motion mixer allows you to
animate without keyframes.
Collection of specialized effects:
SUGARfx World Cup Studio 2.0.1
A stunning new version of the popular
3D World Cup theme, endlessly configurable and adaptable
to your projects. The unlockable, trial version of World
Cup Studio comes with the FxFactory installer.
SUGARfx Video Wall 1.1
Video Wall effect, comes with a filter
and a generator so you can use it in any which way you
want, in two flavors: Light and Pro so you can use
the features that you need and nothing more.
SUGARfx Urban Studio
Composite your own media inside urban
environments. The “Studio” version is highly
customizable. This generator requires Mac OS X 10.5
Leopard.
SUGARfx Slate Tools
Slate Tools plug-ins will assist you in creating slates
and copyright notices commonly used in the broadcast
industry. Requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
SUGARfx Portfolio
The latest theme from SUGARfx lets you elegantly
showcase your work, up to seven media tracks at once.
SUGARfx Perf Motif
7 elegantly animated generators with a full set of
parameters to quickly adapt the theme to your project.
SUGARfx Light Pack
Fun and useful filters including Marquee, Paparazzi
and Lens Flare. The unlockable, trial version of SUGARfx
Light Pack comes with the FxFactory
installer.
SUGARfx Folding Cards 1.6
An elegant, uncluttered 3D theme with 8
elements customizable color palette by SUGARfx. Folding
Cards LCrequires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
SUGARfx Drop In Studio
A highly configurable 3D theme with multiple animating
title and media elements . Requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
SUGARfx Design Tools
Design Tools plug-ins help you constrain your projects to
specific layouts or color palettes (e.g. for your client’s
brand). Requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
SUGARfx Cine Fest 2.0
Add a film festival look to your projects with these
12 theme elements with customizable colors, background
media and titles. Version 2.0 is a free update for current
CineFest 1.0 customers.
The coolest volumetric light spill plug-in for Final Cut Pro & Motion,
Volumetrix produces
stunning light effects & transitions by unleashing the power of the
graphics card and FxPlug technology. Effects that would take many hours
of keyframing and then rendering are now available to use within
seconds in Final Cut Pro, Motion and After Effects.
This power is not just limited to making boring text look like a
Hollywood trailer, any image that has an alpha can be transformed using a
couple of mouse clicks. Go beyond the scope of the internal filters and
old style lighting plug-ins, get amazing creativity, power and speed.
High on design, low in price. Version 1.03 adds two volumetric light
spill transitions; zoom and glow.
SpiceMASTER has
long been digital video’s leading visual effects plug-in for custom
SOFT/ORGANIC transitions and effects, greatly enhancing your creative
flexibility while editing.
Panopticum FX 2.0
— big effects collection for Adobe After Effects. Collection is
composed of: AnimaText, Array, Engraver, Figure, Fire, Grid, Lens Pro,
Rich Typing, Tools.
Now you save $275 over the cost of buying the programs separately.
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Panopticum Anima Text 3D — is a powerful tool for creating different effects with volume 3D text in Adobe After Effects.
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Panopticum Anima Text 2.0 is a very convenient and powerful tool for creating different effects with text in Adobe After Effects.
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Panopticum AreaFX 1.0 – consists of three filters: Area Transformer, Area Wipe and Area Filler.
Area Transformer available effects are geometric transformations…
Area Wipe is a tool especially designed for appearance/disappearance effect…
Area Filler is a tool especially designed for continuous filling…
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Panopticum Array 1.6 — tools for creating of backgrounds. This set includes 4 filters: Array, Digital Matrix, Digital Chaos and Digital Galaxy.
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Panopticum Curtains 1.0
is a set of plug-in modules designed to help you art up you video with
eye-catching dynamic pieces of fabric that look perfectly real.
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Panopticum Engraver 1.0
— the main destination of our module is cutting through images with
thin lines that will form a geometric pattern as if to engraving.
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Panopticum Figure 1.0
is a very convenient tool for creating common flat and 3D figures, such
as boxes, ellipses, rhombs, stars, hearts, clouds, tags, and call-outs.
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Panopticum Fire 3.0
is designed for creating realistic burning effects. Structurally Fire
plug-in is one module that contains a great number of different
adjustable fire effects.
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Panopticum Ice Pattern 1.0 is a tool for creating a variety of interesting effects, such as frost flowers and frost patterns.
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Panopticum Grid 1.0 is a very convenient tool for creating common regular grids including lines, boxes,circles, disks, triangles, and hexagons.
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Panopticum Lens Pro 3.0 — is a universal tool for designing realistic lenses and 3D-crystals as well as crystalline 3D-models.
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Panopticum Rich Typing 1.3 — effects for titles. This set includes 3 filters: Rich Typing, Digitalizer and Morphing.
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Panopticum Rulers 1.0
— with this set you can art up your video with various types of scales,
clock-type dials, rulers and more. You can create direct and circular
scales, adjust and animate their parameters. Their layout and value
ranges can be adjusted as well. You can define the digits type on your
dials and much more.
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Panopticum Water 1.0 this plug-in you can art up your image with breath-taking water effects such as streaming water.
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Vitascene
Effects and transitions with the aid of deliberate blurring, expertly
selected colour matches and understated lighting create sophisticated
visual moods on film, enabling glamour, flair, charm and drama to be
perfectly accentuated – which is why it is barely possible to imagine a
professional production without these kinds of effects:
Vitascene makes a perfect quality stylistic device available to
everyone – it’s amazingly easy to use and, thanks to the latest GPU
technology, lightning fast!
Mercalli
You’re probably familiar with the following situations:
You’ve got some fantastic footage “in the can”, but realise later that it’s shaky.
Or: you thought while filming a scene: “This’ll be difficult without a tripod”.
But there was no tripod to hand, or it wouldn’t have been practical to use one.
Here’s a solution, that’ll ensure you’ll no longer need to worry about situations like that: it’s called Mercalli.
Red Giant Software LLC is a San Francisco-based company that develops
and distributes high-end tools for digital filmmakers. Products are
available as plug-ins for popular video editing and effects
applications, including Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, and other
compatible applications such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid, Vegas and
Apple Final Cut Pro. The products are based on production-proven
technology developed by visual effects industry veterans such as John
Knoll, Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light + Magic; and Stu
Maschwitz, CTO and Co-Founder at The Orphanage.
Datamator is
a set of eight plug-ins for After Effects that quickly generates
animated charts and graphs. Work directly within After Effects instead
of using PowerPoint or re-creating graphics from scratch. Your results
are perfect for news programs, simulated displays, corporate
communication projects, and any other presentations that require
animated data visualization.
Image Lounge
contains a set of over 20 After Effects filters to give greater impact
to your images. Replicate natural elements like fire, smoke, and water.
Add realistic touches using shadows, displacement, color mapping, or use
accurate camera blur and focus effects to replicate out-of-focus images
shot with a film camera.
Created by John Knoll, Photoshop co-creator and Star Wars effects guru,
Knoll Light Factory is
one of the industry’s most popular motion graphics tools. It is most
famous for its high-fidelity simulations of light effects called flares,
which simulate reflections from a very bright light source as seen
through a camera’s lens. Knoll Light Factory is Hollywood’s go-to tool
for adding interest to text or logos or extra pop to FX explosions.
PlaneSpace eliminates
the tedious task of managing the individual layers in multi-layer
effects. The Creator tools automatically create layers that form cubic,
cylindrical, and spheroid shapes or complex matrices, while the six
Distribute tools arrange 3D layers throughout 3D space into the shape of
your choice without requiring keyframes or complicated math.
Used in Miramax’s movie, “The Aviator,”
Psunami generates
precise 3D geometry of an ocean surface, then produces ultra-realistic
ray-traced output that looks like real water, from flat pools to raging
high seas. Choose from hundreds of editable controls, and even place
your camera underwater for the ultimate immersive effect. Psunami has
been used in many feature films, television
productions and commercials.
Unlike most glow filters that just blur your source video,
Radium Glow
gives you pinpoint control over the glow, with editable shapes that can
generate precise outlines or create glimmering points. Includes
advanced edge controls, built-in masking, and output controls that mimic
real light behavior. Choose one of three separate glow plug-ins to add
nice neon-shaped glows to text, or combine Radium Glow with Trapcode
Particular or other plug-ins to create dazzling highlight effects.
Whether you’re adding visual background noise, using text as a
texture, or flashing words to reinforce a theme, text is an important
element of your composition. Choose from Bezier paths, particle arrays,
and Matrix-style patterns:
Text Anarchy will generate the coolest effects while giving you fine typographic control. Also includes the Geomancy Shapes plug-ins.
Give video footage that sought-after cartoon look easily and quickly. Red Giant
ToonIt uses
unique algorithms to transform your image into beautiful cartoon
shading and lines. Its four plug-ins free you from time-consuming
techniques like rotoscoping and hand painting, and give precise control
over styles, shading and outlines. Quickly convert video into a stylized
animation with great default settings.
Now that you’ve locked your edit, it’s time to load
Magic Bullet Colorista
to make your project shine. Under the hood is the next-generation Magic
Bullet engine with real-time processing for fast review and rendering.
Colorista is ready for action with industry-standard color wheels for
precise color control. Plus, use the Power Mask tool to isolate areas –
the easiest way to light up your talent. Magic Bullet Colorista and
Magic Bullet Looks are the perfect tools for color finishing.
Magic Bullet Looks: Desert
sunrise, Arctic tundra, nighttime urban streets: the look of your
footage defines the mood. Now you can define the style of your video or
film, regardless of on-set conditions, with powerful imaging tools.
Choose from 100+ Look presets, to help set the mood for everything from a
wedding to the next Sundance original. You also get the standalone
Magic Bullet LooksBuilder, for pre-visualizing looks on set or anywhere.
Portable presets load into any editing hosts, so the same Looks you
create on set are the ones you finish with in the editorial suite: no
need for an expensive finishing system.
A classic After Effects compositing tool that hundreds of pros have come to know and love,
Composite Wizard
includes more than 20 filters for fixing tattered edges, poor matte
extractions, improper focal depth cues, or unbalanced color schemes. For
higher quality and faster output, we recommend Key Correct Pro.
Key Correct Pro: This
set of 15 plug-ins can be in used in combination with any keyer to
soften alpha channels, match foreground and background colors, fix
outlines, and clean up noise. Ensures top-quality results from popular
keyers such as Primatte Keyer, Keylight, and Ultimatte.
Primatte Keyer
is a professional greenscreen tool that extracts keys from any color
background quickly and easily. Version 4 brings new levels of power and
speed to After Effects and Avid, and for the first time, Final Cut Pro.
New features include easy-to-use Auto setup, which creates an
almost-perfect key with one click. Powerful features allow Primatte
Keyer to overcome keying challenges such as uneven lighting, compression
artifacts, subtle shadows, and edge light contamination. Best of all,
Primatte Keyer 4 works right on the timeline.
Film Fix
makes the latest research in film and video restoration accessible to
documentary filmmakers and post-production studios. With Film Fix, After
Effects users can restore tears, remove dust and dirt particles, and
stabilize footage originated on film and video-resolution material
transferred from film. The processing is practically automatic and
provides high-quality output.
Start with ordinary interlaced video, apply
Magic Bullet Frames‘
sophisticated algorithms, and you’ll get the smoother, professional
de-interlaced look of 24p film. Choose between motion-adaptive and
field-blended approaches, and you’ll get high quality footage at high
speeds, right in your editor’s timeline.
Instant HD up-converts
DV video into a variety of HD video formats. Choose from a list of
preset resolutions to easily integrate DV video into your next High
Definition production. When scaling from standard definition (SD) to
high definition (HD), Instant HD’s algorithms generate the missing
pixels with integrated sharpening and anti-aliasing for sharp, clear
results inside your favorite video application.
Unwanted camera movement can be distracting and disturbing to viewers. Enlist the powerful algorithms of
Magic Bullet Steady,
which will analyze your video, detect motion, and apply one of three
filtering modes. The result will be smooth, stabilized motion that
preserves camera pans and other desired movements. Other customizable
controls remove noise and other low-light artifacts.
DE:Noise handles
spurious frame-to-frame defects ranging from fine digital/electronic
noise to blotchy spots (e.g. dirt on the film). DE:Noise combines motion
estimation techniques with feature-sensitive, edge-preserving spatial
filtering methods to reduce the visual impact of various problems such
as: noisy video (that can happen with low-light capture), excessive film
grain, CG renders affected by ray-tracing sampling artifacts,
fingerprints and dust captured during film scan/transfer and printing,
snow, drop-outs and many other defects.
FieldsKit provides smarter deinterlacing and better workflow options for interlacing and pulldown.
At the heart of FieldsKit is FieldsKit
Deinterlacer that deinterlaces video imagery with superior results.
results. Using proprietary field reconstruction and adaptive motion
techniques, FieldsKit Deinterlacer can build full frames from fields
that are of much higher quality than the standard approaches available
in most effects and video editing applications.
The FieldsKit Reinterlacer plugin allows you create interlaced
material from progressive material using various techniques, including
producing new fields using motion estimation techniques. The FieldsKit
Pulldown plugin allows you to animate the pulldown phase for material
that has multiple cadences in the same clip.
PV Feather provides per-vertex feather control for After Effects!
PV Feather expands After Effects with
per-vertex feathering control! Users have been requesting better
feathering control within After Effects for quite some time. PV Feather
(the “PV” stands for “per vertex”) performs feathering by using an inner
mask for filling, and an outer mask for feather control. The distance
between the inside and outside mask controls the amount of feather. PV
Feather uses AE’s built-in mask splines, so there there is no new spline
interface to learn!
RE:Fill mends holes in images by intelligently filling
user-specified regions.
RE:Fill can replace missing pixels in numerous ways: for example,
selecting the nearest “good” pixel, mirroring pixels about a hole’s
edge, or cloning from another “good” region… and the good region can
even come from another point in time or from another sequence
altogether.
RE:Flex
brings intuitive morphing and warping to combustion, After Effects,
Shake, Autodesk Systems (IFFFS) and Fusion! Superior results are
achieved using RE:Vision Effects’ proprietary and sophisticated
technology. RE:Flex is especially easy to learn because it uses the host
program’s own drawing and masking tools (when available) to direct the
warping and morphing; as such, there is no need to learn a whole new
user interface.
RE:Map is a set of 5 plugins:
RE:Map UV takes a UV Map, probably rendered from a
3D system, and renders an image using this mapping. Easily clean up
texture maps and remap in post without having to go back to your 3D
system for re-rendering. In addition, this plugin allows you you to come
up with cool 2D and 3D animated texture map templates and reuse them
over again with different image sequences.
RE:Map Inverse UV takes a UV Map and a color image that
matches that UV Map, and inversely projects the color image to a
rectangular image that may then be used to texture the UV Map with
RE:Map UV, or for use as a texture map for your 3D system.
RE:Map Distort takes a color image and automatically distorts the image based on the features for a caricature-like effect.
RE:Map Displace warps an image with a user-supplied
displacement map. This plugin includes many more options and advanced
filtering controls than most other displacement map filters.
RE:Map Planar maps or inverse maps a perspective plane defined by 4 points (also known as corner pinning).
By automatically tracking every pixel,
ReelSmart Motion Blur applies more natural-looking motion blur with no effort!
Automatically add more natural-looking motion blur to a sequence
using ReelSmart Motion Blur. Our tracking technology is at the heart of
ReelSmart Motion Blur, so there is no handwork involved. Of course you
can add as little or as much blurring as you need and even remove motion
blur! Finally, you can create very interesting effects by blurring one
sequence by using the motion from another.
Give your imagery volume and depth without the hassle of 3D modeling! Shade/Shape
generates 3D models from your 2D graphical and picture elements using
RE:Vision’s powerful and proprietary shading-from-shape technology. The
models are then lit and rendered in true 3D! Add further detailing to
your 3D models by applying reflection and bump maps.
SmoothKit
is a set of filters that complements and extends the features of basic
blurs and sharpens provided by host applications. Each plugin in
SmoothKit is carefully crafted with fine control to provide the ultimate
in filtering. SmoothKit’s emphasis is precise control of the filtering
process with no compromise on image quality.
SmoothKit allows you to blur without blurring over edges, sharpen
with much less ringing, intelligently reduce small image defects, reduce
jaggies, blur with per-pixel direction control, and z-blur using
greyscale depth images. Many plugins have per-pixel controls, allowing
you to vary the amount of blur or the direction of the blur, and many
other controls, at each pixel.
As an example, with SmoothKit you can smooth out the skin in
someone’s face but not eliminate the details of the hair that hangs in
front of the face. In addition to “effects”, the SmoothKit toolset can
be used to reduce image defects in a much more intelligent manner.
Twixtor enables you to speed up, slow down or frame rate convert1
your image sequences with visually stunning results. In order to
achieve its unparalleled image quality, Twixtor synthesizes unique new
frames by warping and interpolating frames of the original sequence…
employing RE:Vision’s proprietary tracking technology that calculates
motion for each individual pixel.
Providing an easy and intuitive interface,
Video Gogh
employs the powerful technology used in “What Dreams May Come,” 1998
Academy Award Winner for Best Visual Effects. How it works: Simply open a
movie with Video Gogh, make a few choices and Gogh! Out comes a painted
painted animation. Couldn’t be simpler.
TEST GEAR 2
Test Gear 2 provides motion graphics artists and video editors with a
variety of test instruments to make objective measurements of their
visual and audio work, all from within Adobe After Effects CS3 or CS4.
All test instruments appear in standard After Effects panels and do not
require that an effect be applied to your layers. Test Gear 2.0 is now
shipping for Macintosh OS X and Windows XP/Vista and Adobe After Effects
CS3 and CS4.
COLOR FINESSE 2
Now you can have telecine-style color correction that fits your
workflow rather than imposing a new one. Color Finesse 2 gives you the
high-end color correction and enhancement tools you need both as a
plug-in for your favorite application—including After Effects, Final Cut
Pro, and Premiere Pro—and as a standalone application. Because the
standalone Color Finesse is not limited by restrictions imposed by a
host application, it offers improved workflow, video handling, and
project management.
Tiffen DfX:
Based on the success of its original award-winning Dfx Digital Filter
software, Tiffen now introduces Dfx v2 that now features multiple
masking and layering capabilities with its Photoshop and Aperture
plug-ins and a host of other features including more than 2000 standard,
exclusive and special effect filters. Creative control no one else can
even come close to, and there’s more!
The Tiffen Dfx digital filter suite is the definitive set of digital
optical filters. Simulations of many popular award-winning Tiffen glass
filters, specialized lenses, optical lab processes, film grain, exacting
color correction plus natural light and photographic effects–are now in
a controlled digital environment with either 8 or 16 bits per channel
processing.
Topaz Enhance
is a set of video effect filters for After Effects, Premiere Pro, Eyeon
Fusion and now Final Cut Pro! Able to substantially improve anything
ranging from low quality analog videos to high quality DVs, even
enhancing SD videos to HD, Topaz Enhance represents a breakthrough in
video enhancement technology.
Ultimatte is
a set of plug-ins for pulling keys from blue or green screen footage.
Ultimatte offers the ability to combine multi-frame images to produce a
composited sequence of images.
It allows you to achieve realistic looking composited scenes that
would otherwise be too dangerous, impossible or impractical. Ultimatte
lets you place your talent in any situation without the expense of
transporting them and their entourage to a location shoot.
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