Two plugin packages to create titles with realistic 3D volumetric light effects.
CHV-electronics, software developer of plugins for Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express and Motion announced today the release of two new plugin packages.
CHV Svengali volumetric light engine is different from the engines of any other light spill plugin. Svengali Rays produces a realistic looking 3D volumetric light effect that attaches the light spill effect directly to the titles without the usual gap. This feature is the key to create a realistic volumetric light spill effect.
Both plugin packages are based on CHV's QC Integration FX Quartz Composer plugin platform. QC Integration FX needs to be installed to run Svengali Rays Lite and Svengali Rays Pro.
Svengali Rays Lite is a video title generator with a built in 3D volumetric light spill effect engine and works with the demo version of the QC Integration FX plugin platform without a demo watermark.
Svengali Rays Pro consists of two plugins, a video title generator and a video filter, both with a built in enhanced 3D volumetric light spill effect engine. Svengali Rays Pro shows a watermark if unlicensed. The plugin platform QC Integration FX needs to be installed, but must not be licensed to run Svengali Rays Pro.
All FxPlug plugin packages from CHV-electronics are GPU-accelerated, using the full power of the installed graphics adapter for direct feedback and fast rendering.
You can download a free demo of either Svengali Rays Pro or download Free Lite through our demo form.
The best and easiest to use Quartz Composer related plug-in platform that includes 85 plug-ins
CHV-electronics, software developer of plug-ins for Motion, Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express announced today the release of a major update of the plugin package http://toolfarm.stores.yahoo.net/chvqcinfx.html">QC Integration FX, based on Apple's technologies FxPlug and Quartz Composer. Version 1.6 provides the user with 4 new plug-ins, many new features and now a total of 85 included plug-ins.
The new release includes an enhanced render engine with the ability to handle fully configurable Labels, Headers and Footers in the parameter list and improves the stability with OSX 10.5 and Final Cut Pro 6.
QC Integration FX allows the user to do more compared to any other plugin package. Using Apple's Quartz Composer technology this package provides the user with the most advanced plugin platform to quickly create and modify plugins for Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express and Motion.
QC Integration FX is specifically designed to enable the user to build FxPlug plug-ins for Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express and Motion and to build plug-ins for sale with copyright-protection. Third party developers can now create Quartz Composer based visual effects and sell them securely on their own with CHV's unmatched copy-protection system preventing the uncontrolled distribution of serial numbers.
Additional plug-ins will be added to the package as they become available.
The plugin package runs on all PowerPC and Intel Mac computers on OSX 10.4 (Tiger) and OSX 10.5 (Leopard) that are qualified to run Final Cut Studio or Final Cut Express.
All FxPlug plug-in packages from CHV-electronics are GPU-accelerated, using the full power of the installed graphics adapter for direct feedback and fast rendering.
TAs the days are cooling off and the leaves are turning colors, it really is a sign that fall is here. I love Halloween so I look forward to Fall! In case you missed it, Toolfarm has joined forces with a musician named SumKid and we're hosting a video contest with Halloween themed music! This ain't Thriller!
Check out The Nobody Hole for information on how to enter. There are thousands of dollars worth of video and music prizes for the best entry. Prizes include goods from Digieffects, Red Giant, Noise Industries, CHV Plugins and limited edition music from Sum... and more. Download one of three short audio tracks and build your vision of the music. Create. Enter. Profit.
QC Integration FX is the most versatile plugin package ever for Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express and Motion
CHV-electronics, software developer of plug-ins for Motion, Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express announced today that a major update of the plugin package QC Integration FX based on Apple's plug-in technology "FxPlug" has been released. Version 1.5 provides the user with 30 new plug-ins and a long list of new features.
QC Integration FX is designed to enable the user to build FxPlug plug-ins for Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express and Motion and even built plug-ins for sale with copyright-protection. The package already contains 81 high quality visual effect plug-ins that can be used immediately.
QC Integration FX allows the user to do more than any other plugin package. Using Apple's Quartz Composer technology this package provides provides the user with the most advanced plugin platform to quickly create, modify, use and even distribute securely any Quartz Composer file. Additional plug-ins will be added to the package as they become available.
The plugin package runs on all PowerPC and Intel Mac computers on OSX 10.4 (Tiger) and OSX 10.5 (Leopard) that are qualified to run Final Cut Studio or Final Cut Express.
All FxPlug plugin packages from CHV-electronics are GPU-accelerated, using the full power of the installed graphics adapter for direct feedback and fast rendering.
Get this incredible deal from CHV Plug-ins and Toolfarm expires today!
The CHV April Special Bundle includes The Entire-Bundle, FxPlug-Bundle and QC Integration. Normally, you'd pay $689 for all three, but for the month of April, get it all for just $344! That's a 50% discount! All FxPlug plug-ins work with Final Cut Pro and Motion (except CHV MorphFX, an FxPlug plug-in for Motion only at this time) and all FxScript plug-ins work with Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express. These are great plug-ins. They're super fast and they do much more than you would expect. You can really push them for unique effects - I'm saying that from experience, not just to sell you the products. Don't believe me? Download some demos and try them first.
Get this incredible deal from CHV Plug-ins and Toolfarm this month only!
The CHV April Special Bundle includes The Entire-Bundle, FxPlug-Bundle and QC Integration. Normally, you'd pay $689 for all three, but for the month of April, get it all for just $344! That's a 50% discount!
A Toolfarm Exclusive! The CHV X-MAX bundle includes The Entire-Bundle for Final Cut Pro, the FxPlug Bundle and QC Integration FX- modify and create any Quartz Composer composition as a video effect plug-in for FCP and Motion. Get all of this at a 50% discount until December 31st! Many of the plug-ins also work in Final Cut Express and Motion.
Don't miss out on this incredible deal. You know you need to spend a little more before the end of the year anyway ;-)
Download a free demo of CHV's newest plug-in for Final Cut Pro, Motion and Final Cut Express, QC Integration FX. CHV makes some of my favorite plug-ins. They're so lightning fast and they do so much more than you expect them to do. Seriously good quality stuff.
CHV-electronics, software developer of plug-ins for Motion, Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express announced today that a new plug-in package based on Apple's plug-in technology FxPlug has been released.
QC Integration FX is the easiest way to create, modify and use any Quartz Composer composition directly as a video effect plugin for Final Cut Pro and Motion. The package already includes 52 Quartz Composer files, which means that this package provides you with 52 new plug-ins for Final Cut Pro and Motion.
QC Integration is not just another effect plug-in for Final Cut Pro and Motion. QC Integration is much more. This package is a new and easy to use platform to integrate any Quartz Composer composition as a plug-in directly into Final Cut Pro and Motion.
Each Quartz Composer composition shows up in Final Cut Pro and Motion as a Video Filter, Video Generator or Video Transition. With CHV's QC Integration package you can easily create new plug-ins (Quartz Composer compositions) for Final Cut Pro and Motion, modify existing ones and use any other Quartz Composer compositions you can find i.e. on the internet as a Final Cut Pro and Motion plug-in.
All FxPlug plug-in packages from CHV-electronics are GPU-accelerated, using the full power of the installed graphics adapter for direct feedback and fast rendering.
About CHV-electronics CHV-electronics was founded in 1997 in Friedrichshafen, Germany. CHV's mission is to develop high quality software for the video industry and hardware and software suited for special customer needs. In addition CHV also provides video editing service as well as the full palette of all services for big screen video technology for exhibitions and control rooms.
We've just added tons of Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express Plug-ins from CHV. CHV plug-ins are da bomb. Seriously, they're quality... but they're really inexpensive. Okay, they're downright cheap!
The newly added plug-ins are FxScript, not FxPlug, meaning that they do not run in Motion, but they do run in FCP, including FCP 6, and FCE. Fx-Script is the most common plugin-interface for Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express. Perfect system integration and high quality results make Fx-Script plugins the perfect choice to enhance the capabilities of your video editing system. CHV was one of the first to offer a great variety of plugins for Final Cut Pro
CHV The Morph Collection - The first native Morph plugin for Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express
CHV The MotionTracker Collection Automatically stabilize your video, create an automatically animated garbage matte, insert clips and images into your project, distort certain parts of your clip and zoom into a specific area of your project.
Save $100 on the brand new Particles Heaven FX plug-in for Final Cut Pro and Motion. It's FxPlug and Universal too. This plug-in rocks! If you don't believe me, try out the demo. Download a demo of Particles Heaven FX. Beware.... you will be blown away. Get it now for an introductory price of $195 (regularly $295).
The CHV FxPlug Bundle has also been updated to 08-2007 (CHV uses dates instead of point numbers for the bundles, which actually makes a lot of sense. The Bundle now includes Particles Heaven FX. Get it now for $295 (regularly $395).
CHV-electronics, software developer of plug-ins for Motion, Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express announced today that a new plug-in package based on Apple's plug-in technology "FxPlug" has been released.
Particles Heaven FX is a revolutionary and completely new particle emitter system for Motion and Final Cut Pro (Motion projects can be used directly in the timeline of Final Cut Pro). Particles Heaven is not a set of templates for Motion's own particle system. Particles Heaven is in fact the first real FxPlug particle emitter plugin ever for Motion and Final Cut Pro. It is loaded with a huge set of controls, making it possible to create a vast amount of ever different looking effects. The package also includes a number of project files that demonstrate on how to create a variety of effects.
Additionally Particles Heaven is the first ever cascadable FxPlug plug-in. This feature makes it possible to produce trails and smoke, trigger explosions at any point in time of the life of a particle, create sparkles along the way and much more.
With Particles Heaven you can create any kind of particle effects you've ever dreamt of.
All FxPlug plug-in packages from CHV-electronics are GPU-accelerated, using the full power of the installed graphics adapter for direct feedback and fast rendering.
Pricing & Availability Particles Heaven FX is priced at $295.00 and can also be purchased in a bundle together with the plugin packages Magic 3D FX, Shining FX and Morphing FX for $395.00. All plugin packages are available immediately and can be downloaded from CHV's website and from Toolfarm. Download a demo of Particles Heaven FX.
About CHV-electronics CHV-electronics was founded in 1997 in Friedrichshafen, Germany. CHV's mission is to develop high quality software for the video industry and hard- and software suited for special customer needs. In addition CHV also provides video editing service as well as the full palette of all services for big screen video technology for exhibitions and control rooms.
CHV Particles Heaven FX is an incredible new FxPlug plug-in for Final Cut Pro and Motion. It's the first real FxPlug particle emitter and if the previous CHV plug-ins are any indication, this plug-in totally rocks. We've added lots of Quicktime examples to the store page.
The CHV FxPlug Bundle has also been updated to 08-2007 (CHV uses dates instead of point numbers for the bundles, which actually makes a lot of sense. The Bundle now includes Particles Heaven FX.
CHV has a really cool free plug-in that is for Final Cut Pro and Motion? It's called Towers of Film 3D. Download it today! It's really cool and more than worth the price of admission.
CHV Shining FX and Magic 3D FX are incredible FxPlug Plug-ins for Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion. I demo'd both of these plug-ins at the Apple Booth at NAB in April and my personal opinion is that these plug-ins are awesome, must-haves. They are seriously fast and very versatile. You'll be able to use them in a multitude of projects and heck, you can't beat this offer!
Together they would normally retail for $140 but get them through July for just $71! This offer is only at Toolfarm!
The free demo versions of CHV-Electronics plug-ins are now available at Toolfarm.com. Just visit our demo page to try them out. I demo'd them at NAB and these are some of my favorites. They are seriously fast and amazingly cool.
The Entire-Bundle 06-2006 for Final Cut Pro & Final Cut Express
Somehow this press release slipped by me, with the massive amount of stuff I had surrounding NAB releases. I demo'd Shining FX at NAB and they are AWESOME! Seriously fast and cool. I'm going to build some samples and put them up on the site in our Plug-in Finder. I'm so impressed with CHV's Plug-ins. They're very affordable and create mindblowing effects.... and did I mention how fast they are? They played REAL-TIME with keyed video and multiple effects in Motion 3.
Press Release
April 10, 2007 - CHV-electronics, software developer of plugins for Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express and Motion announced today the release of Shining FX, which is based on Apple's plugin FxPlug technology.
A new set of 11 real-time video filters to create Volumetric Light effects, Ray Bursts, Glow and Shine effects and more.
CHV has just released a new plugins packages called Shining FX. It contains 11 highly versatile video filters, all dedicated to create different types of light and glow effects. Shining FX does not only create some standard volumetric lights or rays, it's highly sophisticated animation features bring life into your video. All plugins are hardware accellerated and are capable to run in real-time (depending on your graphics card).
Shining FX costs $75 as a single package and is also available in the bundle FxPlug Bundle 04-2007, which also includes the plug-in sets Magic 3D FX and Morphing FX for $135.
Keith and Alan recorded the podcast live at NAB.... and it's a HUGE Triliogy of HOT shows!
Podcast 2 recorded at the Toolfarm Party on Sunday night at the MGM Grand
Exclusive interviews with the tops in the industry including Paul Babb, President of Maxon (Cinema 4D), Zax Dow of Zaxwerks, Christoph Vonhreim of CHV-Electronics, Debbie Rich of Digital Anarchy, John Dickinson of Motionworks, Niclas Bahn of Noise Industries, and Jason Sharp, President of Toolfarm.
Podcast 3: Live Interviews at the IMUG Media Motion Ball
Interviews Chris & Trish Meyer, Rob Birnholtz from Absolute Motion Graphics, Wes Plate of Automatic Duck, Frank Capria of Xprove, Brian Maffitt of Total Training.
Podcast 4: Interviews from The Promax Digital Cafe at the Empire Ball Room
Exclusive interviews with Carey Dissmore of IMUG, Phil Hodgetts of the Digital Production Buzz Podcast, Barbara Dehart of Telestream, Jason Levine Sr. Worldwide Evangelist of Adobe Systems or something like that... a really long title, and Dan Hatch of ProMax.
There are two ways to listen to the podcasts in iTunes:
Well, it was a long and wonderful week at NAB. I worked on the show floor at the Apple booth. I had a primo spot on the corner of the massive booth, right in the center of all the traffic. Look, I made Apple.com!. (Photo courtesy of Apple.com).
At the Apple booth, I demo'd FxPlug Plug-ins for Motion and Final Cut Pro. I was using a lot of beta plug-ins on Motion 3, which is in beta. Oh, boy.... Motion 3! Now this product is something to get excited about! I've always been an After Effects evangelist, but Motion 3 is going to give AE a run for it's money. I don't think it will replace AE by any means, but let's just say that there is a new kid in town who can play previews real-time, intuitive 3D, mind-blowing tracking and matching (using Shake technology) and has an incredible number of plug-ins that are out or coming out soon for it. I have to admit that I've never really given Motion the chance it deserves, but it ROCKS. I admit, I love it. I'm a convert.
I plan to review some of the plug-ins that I demo'd in the next week or so. I am completely impressed with CHV-Electronics plug-ins. They play real-time and are extremely versatile. A lot of the developers stopped by my station throughout the week. I saw a lot of Christoph Vonhrein, of CHV. He demo'd his plug-ins and really was able to show me the cool things that they can do. They do some mind-boggling effects... with real-time previews. These are probably my favorite FxPlug plug-ins. I had so much fun with them.
The Noise Industries FxFactory also impresses me. Noise Industries took the 2007 Videography Vidy Awards at NAB. Yes, they're that good. If you're using Motion or Final Cut Pro, YOU NEED BOTH CHV plug-ins and FxFactory. It takes a lot to impress me... really it does. I'll get some samples up soon. I highly recommend both plug-in developers products. They're inexpensive and fast!
I showed Trapcode FxPlug betas of Shine, Starglow and 3D Stroke and on a beta of Motion 3. They are basically the same plug-in as their AE counterpart. They are CPU accelerated, as opposed to GPU accelerated like most FxPlug plug-ins, so they were running about 8 frames per second for previews on the dual Intel processor I was running (it had 8gb ram and an ATI Radeon 1900 card). Not real-time but pretty fast. They brought lots of oohs and aahs.Trapcode 3D Stroke in FxPlug is a little different than the AE version. There are no paths in FCP, so they have a work around. There are a ton of preset shapes, plus, Sean Safreed from Red Giant told me that the trick is to save an SVG file (vector file) and drop it into the FxPlug folder. It will then show up in the drop down menu. I didn't try this, of course, because I didn't have Illustrator installed, but it sounded pretty straight forward. The Trapcode plug-ins will ship in a month, when Final Cut Studio Ships.
Zaxwerks 3D Flag was running real-time previews in Motion 3 and people were really impressed with it. I've made curtains and clothes hanging on a clothesline with it. It's also inexpensive and has a good track record, so it's a great tool for the old Final Cut Studio arsenal.
On Wednesday morning of the show, Boris Yaminsky of Boris FX comes up to me and was asking me about their Boris Continuum Complete 5.0 FxPlug plug-ins, which I didn't have on my machine. He comes back 10 minutes later with a drive and gives me a personal 20 minute demo of some of their plug-ins. They're really pretty fast and ran well in Motion 3. They were not quite realtime, but ran about 10-12 frames per second in previews. Not too shabby. They have a really nice keyer. I didn't have the full set, only about 20 of the 180 or so plug-ins that will be shipping, but what I saw was very cool stuff indeed.
I showed DV Matte Blast from DvGarage, which Toolfarm doesn't sell, unfortuately. It's very fast... real-time! However, it doesn't have a lot of the bells and whistles of a more robust keyer. It does what it does well, but if you're looking for something with a light wrap, matte choker and so on, the Boris Continuum Complete Keyer was a really nice keyer. It got in nice and tight around hair and fingers on moving footage.
Another plug-in I didn't have was ToonIt! from Digital Anarchy. Marco from DA came over to my booth and installed it and gave me a quick tour and It totally gives the look of those Charles Schwab commercials. It does run really slowly, but it analyzes pixel by pixel so it's doing a lot of work. Also, it's still in beta, as is Motion 3. The look is perfect. They've got that nailed. I was using the ToonIt! Roto plug-in on some Ducati footage from Apple and it was impressive to say the least. Slow, but impressive. If you've tried to create this look on your own, it's not an easy task. I think ToonIt! is going to do very well in the plug-in marketplace.
Also, Marco from DA gave me a behind the scenes look at the Quartz Compositor and programming that goes into Plasma FX. That was really interesting. I had no idea what goes into the programming of plug-ins. I also had DA Plasma FX on my box, but unfortunately there was an old build installed, not to mention a beta of Motion 3 and things were not working as well as I would've liked.
The CHV, Noise Industries plug-ins and Zaxwerks 3D Flag are available now. The Boris, Red Giant, Trapcode, and Digital Anarchy plug-ins are shipping in a month or so.
Final Cut Server also took a few awards - Television Broadcast Top Innovation Award, Television Broadcast Top Innovation Award and the DV Black Diamond Award. I was so surprised to find out how many people are migrating from their Avids and are going to get Final Cut Server in their post houses.
They didn't show Shake there and several people asked me if Shake was EOL. Word on the street is that in 2008 a new version of Shake is going to blow all of our minds. Hold tight on that one.
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended also won a Television Broadcast Top Innovation Award and a 2007 Videography Vidy Award and Adobe Soundbooth CS3 took a DV Black Diamond Award. Unfortunately, I didn't get to check out much of the Adobe stuff. I was at the Apple booth for the entire show. I did manage to see an hour long demo of the new features in AE CS3 and saw some great new features. The vanishing point feature looks really swell. The Beta of AE CS3 is now available here.
No, I didn't see the RED Camera, but there was so much buzz surrounding it. Everybody wants some.
I'll get some photos of the show, the parties and the people I met up this week. Our Podcast guys, Keith and Alan, did a knockout job and got interviews with Chris and Trish Meyer, Brian Maffitt, and so many other well known people in our little industry. They did the interviews at parties in the evening so everyone is relaxed and having fun. Keith played the Chris and Trish Meyer interview at the airport and it's a hoot. That Trish really dished it to Alan. I expect them to be up by Monday, after we've all had a chance to recover. Keith and Alan and I all flew out at 1am on the red eye last night. Alan and I were actually on the same flight. Anyway, I am totally looking forward to these podcasts from NAB.
Svengali Rays comes as a completely free "Lite" version and a highly sophisticated "Pro" version with many additional features.
