Noise Industries releases FxFactory for Adobe After Effects plug-in architecture; bringing hundreds of award-winning visual effects plug-ins to the Adobe Production Premium CS3 Workflow

Boston MA - August 8, 2008 - Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets announced the availability of FxFactory 2.0.4; offering native integration with Adobe® After Effects® CS3 software. FxFactory includes 300 plus award-winning visual effects plug-ins optimized for real-time performance on the Mac platform. With the release of FxFactory 2.0.4, Noise Industries is taking a new path for packaging the multi-host plug-ins. FxFactory 2.0.4 will offer support for Adobe After Effects CS3, Apple® Final Cut Studio® and Apple Final Cut® Express applications in a single package. The new single product - multi-host support allows customers to use the highly popular FxFactory plug-ins with their favorite Mac-based editing and compositing applications. The move to provide multiple host support in a single product also provides a significant cost savings as customers will not be charged for every host separately.

"This is an important step for our company. The Adobe After Effects crowd is well known for the use of visual effects plug-ins in their workflows and the tight relationships they form with developers to evolve the various plug-in tools," comments Niclas Bahn, director of business development, Noise Industries. "This release also makes many of our existing Final Cut customers happy as they have been asking for FxFactory to be made available for Adobe After Effects."

"Adobe has a phenomenal partner network that draws top notch developers like Noise Industries," comments Michael Coleman, product manager for Adobe After Effects. "We're thrilled to have Noise Industries bring their innovative and clever plug-ins to After Effects CS3. Innovation is at the core of our customer's work and I'm sure the FxFactory plug-ins will become an indispensible part of their creative toolkit.

High-Performance Visual Effects Tools
FxFactory leverages a high-precision, hardware-accelerated rendering engine that enables users to push the limits of effects creation; producing that radically unique or realistically organic look with stunning image quality.

FxFactory plug-ins span a wide range of categories that include; blurs, color correction, distortions, glows, half-tones, and stylization filters, as well as generators and transitions. Each plug-in is complimented with a forward-thinking approach to design and development;

Hardware Acceleration: plug-ins are developed to take advantage of the systems graphics card providing unbeatable previewing and rendering performance.

Highly Customizable, Contextual UI: FxFactory presents users with minimal parameters and intutively reacts and displays additional parameters based on the user's actions. Parameters can be fully expanded; allowing any effect element to be manipulated.

Plug-in Development Engine: Unique in the industry, the FxFactory plug-in management interface provides broadcast designers a user-friendly development tool to design additional visual effects for Apple and Adobe video solutions.

Integrated Help Desk: Plug-in documentation, support resources and tutorials are accessible in one click from the parameter inspector

Hundreds of Presets: Built-in presets are a time-saving feature that lets users explore new looks with minimal effort. Users can easily create their own presets to recreate the same look later. New with FxFactory 2.0.4, presets created on one host can be used inside all supported video applications by Apple and Adobe.

Availability and Pricing
FxFactory Pro is available today for 399.00 USD. Additional plug-in packages are available for free or commercially starting at a price point of 29.00 USD. FxFactory products can be purchased via the Noise Industries website (www.noiseindustries.com) or through select resellers.

Adobe® After Effects CS3, Apple Final Cut Studio 2 and Apple Final Cut Express 4 users can test drive hundreds of FxFactory plug-ins by downloading the free 15-day trial version from; http://www.toolfarm.com/demo/demo.php

About Noise Industries, LLC
Established in 2004, Boston, Massachusetts-based Noise Industries is an innovative developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast community. Their products are integrated with popular non-linear editing and compositing products from Apple, Adobe and Avid. For more information about Noise Industries, please visit: http://www.noiseindustries.com.

Labels: After Effects, Demo, Final Cut Pro, FxFactory, Motion, Noise Industries

New Media 100 Version 12.7 features include:

• Sony XDCAM Import. Media 100 Version 12.7 offers menu-level integration with Sony's XDCAM Transfer utility. Imported XDCAM media is automatically transcoded to any supported video format including Media 100 HD or Apple ProRes 422 and appears in Media 100 bins, ready for editing in Media 100.
• Deferred HDV Acquire. Media 100 Version 12.7 provides support for acquiring from HDV devices with Mac systems previously unable to keep up with HDV acquire, such as MacBook Pros and G5 desktops.
• Macintosh OS 10.5.3 Leopard Support. Media 100 Version 12.7 is optimized to work with Mac OS 10.5.3 and the latest version of QuickTime.

Media 100 Suite is available for an MSRP of $1,495 USD. In addition, Media 100 Suite is now included with the Boris Box Set. The Boris Box Set gives customers the complete collection of Boris and Media 100 technology for just $1,995 USD!

The Boris Box Set for Mac includes:

• Media 100 Suite: Broadcast Quality Mac OS X Video Editing
• RED 4.3: Integrated 3D/2D Compositing, Titling, and Effects
• Continuum Complete 5 AE: 180 Native Filters and Transitions for Adobe CS3
• Continuum Complete 5 FxPlug: 180 Native Filters and Transitions for Apple
• Final Effects Complete 5 AE: 100+ Native Filters for Adobe CS3
• Final Effects Complete 5 FxPlug: 100+ Native Filters and Transitions for Apple
• Final Effects Complete 5 AVX: 100+ Native Filters for Avid
• Title Toolkit: Dynamic Titling Plug-ins for Adobe After Effects

Labels: Demo, Media 100

The trial version of Red Giant Software Magic Bullet Instant HD Advanced... okay, that is a REALLY long name! This new plug-in for Adobe After Effects CS3 delivers the highest possible quality conversion for SD to HD and is well-suited to prepare analog source footage and DV video clips for inclusion in HD projects. Instant HD Advanced combines de-interlacing and de-noising; advanced pan and scan; and a super-resolution algorithm for providing actual resolution enhancement. The easy-to-use preset menu helps users choose the right HD and 2K output formats.

Labels: Demo, Instant HD Advanced, Magic Bullet, Red Giant

Try out the brand new Red Giant Software Radium Glow! This is an unlockable demo, so if you try it and like it, and would like to purchase a serial number, you can use the trial version.

Radium Glow runs in a variety of host applications. Each purchase and serial number allows the owner to use the product on more than one host application, but only on a single computer at any one time. Except where noted, the features are the same in all systems and host applications.

Adobe After Effects CS3, 7
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3
Apple Final Cut Pro 6, 5.1.4
Apple Motion 3.02
Avid Xpress Pro/Media Composer 5.6, 5.7 / 2.6, 2.7

Digieffects Simulate: Illuma is also an unlockable trial version and works with:
Adobe After Effects 7, CS3
Final Cut Pro FCP 5.1 and higher
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0+
Autodesk Combustion 4

Labels: After Effects, Avid, Demo, DigiEffects, Digieffects Simulate, Final Cut Pro, Illuma, Motion, Premiere Pro, Radium Glow, Red Giant

Download the newest trial versions for Boris Continuum Complete 5.07 FxPlug and Boris Red 4.3.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Demo, FxPlug, RED

Give your compositions what they've been missing with this unique mapping tool. The Trapcode Horizon plug-in is a camera-aware image mapping tool that ties your After Effects camera to a 3D world. By applying images or gradients to the inside of a giant sphere, Horizon creates an infinite background. No matter where your camera is directed, the simple controls make photo-ealistic backgrounds or sky gradients a snap.

Download the demo for Trapcode Horizon 1.0 for Mac and Windows.

Learn more about Trapcode Horizon in our Plug-in Finder.

Labels: Demo, Trapcode Horizon

The latest demo for Boris Continuum Complete 5 Sparks for Autodesk Advanced Systems is now available.

• Download demo
• See BCC Sparks in action!
• Buy Boris Continuum Complete 5 Sparks for Autodesk Advanced Systems
• Learn more about Boris Continuum Complete in Toolfarm's Plug-in Finder

Labels: Autodesk, Boris, Continuum Complete, Demo

Oak Street Software vKey2 is a new keyer that is FxPlug, so it works in Final Cut Pro and Motion, and also a Quicktime Component. It is a tool for keying out, or removing a single color background from frames of a movie, or any digital images; especially suited to keying 4:1:1 (low color resolution) video formats. Recently enhanced for spectacular keys! It's very fast and easy to use.

• Download a demo here
• Buy Oak Street Software vKey2
• Learn more in our Plug-in Finder

Labels: Demo, Final Cut Pro, FxPlug, Motion, Oak Street Software VKey, QuickTime

Download Silhouette 3.0 Software & Manuals

Macintosh Software
Silhouette Standalone (Intel Mac Only)
Silhouette Shape Import/Export Plug-in for After Effects
(Mac versions require OSX 10.4 and above)

Windows Software
Silhouette Standalone 32 Bit
Silhouette Standalone 64 Bit
Silhouette Shape Import/Export Plug-in for After Effects

Linux Software
Silhouette Standalone 32 Bit
Silhouette Standalone 64 Bit

Software Manuals
Silhouette User Guide
Silhouette Shape Import/Export Plug-in User Guide
Silhouette v3 What's New

Labels: Demo, Silhouette FX

We've been putting LOADS of new demos up lately. Here's the newest goodies:

• Red Giant Primatte Keyer 4.0
• Conoa SuperPak 3.1
• Digieffects Damage 1.0
• Media 100 Producer 12.1 (Universal Binary)
• Boris Blue 2.5

These demos and MANY, MANY more can be Downloaded here. All demos are free to try.

Labels: Boris, Conoa SuperPak, Damage, Demo, DigiEffects, Media 100, Primatte Keyer, Red Giant, Universal

Digieffects Damage was released last week and there has been quite a lot of buzz about it! It is the first new product from Digieffects in years, and since Robert Sharp took over the company last year.

Damage is a collection of four effects plug-ins designed for post production professionals who want to create an extensive variety of digital and/or analog defects/errors in your footage.

Damage runs in Adobe After Effects 7 - CS3, Final Cut Pro FCP 5.1 and higher, Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0+, and Autodesk Combustion 4.

• Download a Digieffects Damage Demo (wow, say that 5x fast!)
  
• Learn more about Damage in our Plug-in Finder
• Buy Damage

Labels: Damage, Demo, DigiEffects

Get the latest 5.0.2 point upgrade for Boris Continuum Complete AVX.

Labels: After Effects, Avid, Boris, Continuum Complete, Demo, FxPlug

This update will bring CD or Try and Buy installs of BCC FxPlug 5 up to date with version 5.0.3. The FxPlug version works in Final Cut Pro and Motion.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Demo, Final Cut Pro, FxPlug, Motion

Try the Mac or Windows demo of Magic Bullet Frames, which was just released on January 31. Magic Bullet Frames will take interlaced video and get the 24p look of film, right from within your editor -- at high speed and high quality. It works in Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro and Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion.

Buy Frames | Buy Magic Bullet Suite

Labels: After Effects, Demo, Magic Bullet Frames, Red Giant

Digieffects is currently creating a Demo Reel for NAB 2008 and would like YOU to participate! Submit your best work using Digieffects plugins and get a FREE Digieffects product! Don't own any Digieffects plugins? Get a free demo here.

Labels: Demo, DigiEffects, Free, NAB

Boris Title Toolkit gives Adobe After Effects users superior titling capabilities in a familiar environment for maximum quality, speed, and creativity. Using Title Toolkit, video editors, graphic artists, and compositors can import ASCII or RTF files for fast, easy credit rolls, take advantage of rich text style options such as bevel borders, gradient fills, simulated extrusion, and embossing, and save or apply custom or preset text styles, gradients, and colors, all of which can be applied on a per character basis. Title Toolkit supports Truetype, Postscript, Unicode, and Multibyte fonts on Mac and Windows, including Leopard and Vista.

Title Toolkit is available for a suggested retail price of 299 USD. In addition, Title Toolkit is now included FREE with Boris Continuum Complete 5 AE purchases. Offer expires March 1, 2007.

Boris Title Toolkit supports Intel and PowerPC-based Macintosh systems.

Try a free 15-day demo of Boris Title Toolkit today!

Labels: Boris FX, Continuum Complete, Demo, Sale, Title Toolkit

Check out our Demo Download page for the latest demos of WalkerFX and Buena plug-ins. Please note: the Universal Binary demo versions of the Buena plug-ins are not yet ready. We'll get those demos up on the site as soon as they're available.

Have questions about Digieffects plug-ins? Ask Robert and Dave on the Digieffects Forum.

Labels: Buena, Demo, DigiEffects, WalkerFX

Well, the votes are tallied and Trapcode Form is the big winner of the Best New After Effect Plug-in of 2007. Only brand new plug-ins that were released in 2007 qualified, not new versions of older plug-ins. Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks and Zaxwerks Reflector ran a close race.

Congratulations to Trapcode Form!

.... What's that? You haven't tried Form yet? Please download a free demo.

Labels: After Effects, Demo, Magic Bullet Looks, Red Giant, Reflector, Trapcode Form, Zaxwerks

Harry has created a promo for his Trapcode Form training so you can watch it to see if it is something you want to buy. If you haven't played with Trapcode Form, let me tell you, it's so incredibly cool. It has dozens of settings and hundreds, if not millions, of variations you can create. All of these settings can be a bit daunting, so Harry has created a four part training series that will get you comfy with Trapcode Form.

Interested in Form but not sure where to start? Try this!

1. Watch Harry's Promo for Form Training. Now you're intrigued, right?
2. Buy Trapcode Form Training with Harry J Frank - Only $24!
3. Don't own Form yet? Download a free demo of Form.
4. Buy Trapcode Form
5. Need to get started quickly and impress your client? Try Mylenium's Trapcode Form Presets.

Labels: Demo, Harry Frank, Mylenium, Preset, Training, Trapcode Form

Would you like to try the latest version of Boris Graffit? Download the trial version here.

Labels: Boris, Demo, Graffiti

The demo link for the Trapcode plug-ins has changed. They are no longer hosted at Trapcode.com. If you'd like to try the new Trapcode Suite 2008 which now includes Trapcode Form, you can download it for free here.

Trapcode Suite 2008 includes 3D Stroke, Lux, Particular, Form, Starglow, Shine, Sound Keys and Echospace. Form was added to the bundle but the price did not increase. Gotta love that!

The Red Giant Suite has also been updated to include all of the Trapcode plug-ins and all of the Red Giant plug-ins including the recently released Magic Bullet Looks and the upcoming Magic Bullet Frames.

Labels: Demo, Trapcode, Trapcode Form

Sapphire Plug-ins version 2.01 for After Effects and compatible products is now available from GenArts.com.

This is a free maintenance release for workstations with a version 2 license. If you have not yet tried Sapphire 2, you can install 2.01 now to start your 3-week free trial.

For a summary of the 30+ new effects and many new features in 2.0, please visit Toolfarm's Plug-in Finder. Also, Sapphire 2.01 is available for purchase today!

Here is a summary of what's new in Sapphire 2.01:

• Performance and memory efficiency is improved for AE 7 and CS3 SmartFX.
• A problem with Premiere Pro on quad-core Macs is fixed.
• Messages saying "Can't checkout input" are avoided, which could occur in large projects with AE 7 and CS3.
• Various issues are fixed with Vignette, Distort, Glow, DropShadow, Convolve, Cartoon and Posterize.
• The Windows installer offers to install the plug-ins for Fusion 5.2.

Labels: After Effects, Demo, GenArts, Sapphire

Ryan Graham at Microfilmmaker Magazine reviews Avidion Real 3D, a fantastic plug-in for Adobe After Effects. It may be a plug-in you're not entirely familiar with because it doesn't (yet) have the brand recognition of Trapcode or Boris, so I encourage you to download a demo of Real 3D and try it out. After reading the review, you'll be dying to get your fingers on it!

Labels: Avidion Real3D, Demo, reviews

Harry beta tested Form and he's just LOVING it. He posted some free presets at AE Freemart.com. The link sends you to the category page. I think I need to tweak the layout a bit but click the title for the full post with pictures

Would you like to try Trapcode Form? Would you like to buy Trapcode Form?

Labels: AE Freemart, Demo, Trapcode Form

The long awaited Trapcode Form (codenamed Flux) is now available. Trapcode 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 etc and it can be used to visualize audio. Form works in AE 7 and later.

We'll have our Plug-in Finder page dressed to the nines with awesome examples and images later on today, in the meantime, Harry Frank has put together some great stuff for you at AE Freemart. Download a demo and take Trapcode Form for a spin.

Labels: After Effects, Demo, Red Giant, Trapcode, Trapcode Form, Universal

Native Support Added for Both Intel and PowerPC-based Macs

Wilmington, NC - November 12, 2007 - Digieffects, a developer of popular software plug-ins for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Autodesk Combustion today announced that Universal Binary versions of Delirium, Berserk, and Aurorix are now available for Intel-based Macintosh computers.

Digieffects Delirium, Berserk, and Aurorix are now compatible with Universal Binary applications such as Adobe After Effects CS3, Adobe Premiere CS3, and Final Cut Pro 6. Since Delirium, Berserk, and Aurorix are backwards compatible, these programs will still run natively on Power PC-based Mac computers.

Existing Delirium, Berserk, and Aurorix customers moving to the Intel-based Macintosh platform can download free updates from the Digieffects web site.

Note: Universal Binary versions of Digieffects Fantazm, Buena Effects Pack, and Buena Depth Cue will be available in early 2008.

About Digieffects Digieffects is a developer of popular software plug-ins for Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro and Autodesk Combustion. The company has been in the business since the beginning of the "plug-in revolution" which dates back to 1996. Over the years, Digieffects has had great success with software products like Cinelook and Delirium and is proud to call thousands of film and video producers all around the world its customers and friends.

Note: The plug-ins are no longer in beta and are now available.

Labels: Aurorix, Berserk, Buena Depth Cue, Buena Effects Pack, Combustion, Delirium, Demo, DigiEffects, Fantasm, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, Universal

Try the hottest new software, Red Giant Software Magic Bullet Looks for AE, Premiere Pro, Motion, Final Cut Pro and Avid. Imagineer Systems Mocha AE is a standalone app that exports tracking data to After Effects.

Try some demos today!

Labels: Demo, Imagineer Systems, Magic Bullet Looks, Mocha AE, Red Giant

Check out some new demos of plug-ins from Digital Film Tools, including Digital Film Tools Power Stroke and Digital Film Tools Power Matte, and a cool new application that allows you to build plug-ins for After Effects... the first of its kind... called Pixlock Effect Builder AE.

Labels: After Effects, Demo, Digital Film Tools, Effect Builder AE, Pixlock, Power Mask, Power Stroke

Download Conoa SuperPak 3 which includes Conoa EasyFX, Conoa EasyShapes, Conoa 3D, Conoa 3D Layer and Conoa FreeStreak. FreeStreak is totally free so try out SuperPak 3 and FreeStreak is yours to keep. Yeah, I sound a bit like Ron Popiel, I know.

Want to buy or upgrade Conoa SuperPak?

Labels: Conoa, Conoa SuperPak, Demo, Free