This week only get Digieffects Delirium for only $99! It's normally $399, so this is an AWESOME deal. It's a pre-Labor Day special - you work hard so we'll help your money stretch. The sale runs through Friday, August 29.

Delirium contains over 47 special effects plug-ins. It also contains tools for creating particle-based fire, smoke and bubbles. These particle effects enhanced with built-in turbulence processing to create realistic imagery without resorting to complex 3D programs.

Digieffects software plug-ins support Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro and Autodesk Combustion. All Digieffects software is cross-platform and when customers purchase a Digieffects application the serial number can be used on either a Mac or Windows operating system (or both at the same time).

I told you it was awesome.

Labels: Delirium, DigiEffects, Sale

The Digieffects Simulate: Illuma plugin package gets a great review by Erik Vlietinck at IT-Enquirer.com. "Playing with the quality of light in video post-production, that's what you can do with Simulate Illuma from DigiEffects. You can get dramatic effects with this plug-in set, but also subtle enhancements of already perfect footage." Read the full review.

Labels: DigiEffects, Digieffects Simulate, Illuma

A quick overview on how to use the Lighttracer effect in the Digieffects Simulate: Illuma Plug-in package. Use Lightracer to enhance light sources, particularly in dark settings. Watch the Tutorial.

• Learn More/Purchase Digieffects Simulate: Illuma
• Download a Free Demo

Labels: DigiEffects, Digieffects Simulate, Illuma, Tutorial

Tim Kolb walks you through how to use the LightTracer filter in the newest Digieffects Simulate: Illuma plug-in. The tutorial is actually a fabulous walk through of what the plug-in can do.

If you have questions about any Digieffects products, ask at the Digieffects Forum

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Learn more about Simulate: Illuma in our Plug-in Finder

Labels: DigiEffects, Digieffects Simulate, Illuma, Tutorial

Check out this cool new tutorial for Simulate Illuma, the newest plug-in from Digieffects and the first in the Simulate series.

• Simulate: Illuma is only 99 bucks! and works in After Effects, Final Cut Pro and other hosts. One license for all hosts.
• Want to try it out first? Download a free trial version of Simulate: Illuma here.

Labels: DigiEffects, Digieffects Simulate, Illuma

A quick overview on how to use the Luminus effect in the Digieffects Simulate: Illuma Plug-in package. Luminus is a fast, smooth and easy to use highlight bloom. Watch the Tutorial.

• Learn More/Purchase Digieffects Simulate: Illuma
• Download a Free Demo

Labels: DigiEffects, Digieffects Simulate, Illuma, Tutorial

Alicia VanHeulen of Toolfarm interviews Bryan Paperiski on shooting, editing and finishing a short film in 24 hours for a festival.

We'll be following Bryan, Alicia and others as they finish post on the piece using Red Giant and Digieffects plugins, among others, in After Effects. Check it out!

Labels: After Effects, DigiEffects, Inspirations, Magic Bullet Looks, Red Giant

Scott Novasic gives Digieffects Damage a fabulous review.

Damage is a must-have for any animator or editor! These are not redundant effects overlapping things done in other packages I own, they are unique and versatile tools for manipulating and yes, damaging imagery unlike any other tool I have come across. Add to that, that these are, for the most part, FASTER than realtime and Im in love. For $99 its a steal. Digieffects, under new ownership, has set the bar high. Im excited to see what else they deliver us in the future.

Labels: Damage, DigiEffects, DMN, reviews

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

As you may have heard, Digieffects Simulate: Illuma came out today. The first 50 customers to purchase Digieffects Simulate:Illuma will receive Digieffects Berserk for free!

Labels: Berserk, DigiEffects, Digieffects Simulate, Free, Illuma

Lighting plugin package is the first in the new Simulate series of products

Wilmington, NC June 4 2008, Digieffects, a developer of popular visual effects software plugins today announced that it has shipped Digieffects Simulate: Illuma, a plugin package offering a specialized collection of effects plugins for creating light and glow effects.

Simulate: Illuma includes the following effects:

• Halo: An easy to use bloom/blur effect with color channel control.
• Lightracer: Enhances visible light sources, particularly in dark settings as well as providing options for creating unique image looks.
• Radiance: The stuff of dream sequences...gentle glow with a versatile set of tools including intensity and threshold for each individual color channel.
• Photogust: Fast and effective point emanation blurs.
• Luminus: Just the right glow is easy to achieve with lots of control including multiple effect blend modes.

Simulate: Illuma is the first plugin package in the Digieffects Simulate series of plugin packages. Simulate: Camera and Simulate: Pyro are due to be released later this summer.

"We have several new plugin packages in development at Digieffects. Simulate: Illuma is the first of several new releases slated for 2008 to follow Damage which we launched in March and is now one of our best-selling products", says Robert Sharp, President of Digieffects.

Simulate: Illuma, as with all Digieffects software launched after January 2008, has the following two unique features which will appeal to customers.

• Randomizer: The Randomizer is part of the Digieffects custom User Interface. When clicked, multiple parameters within the interface will simultaneously adjust causing completely new results. Once a customer sees a look they like, they can use that as a starting point and manually tweak the parameters to achieve a specific effect. This serves as a massive timesaver for our time-pressed customers.
• Presets: The unique aspect of the Digieffects presets is their portability. Once you've saved your effect parameters, these can be moved between supported host applications.

Simulate: Illuma is immediately available directly from Digieffects and its resellers. It has an MSRP of $99.00.

About Digieffects:

Digieffects is a developer of popular visual effects 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.

Labels: DigiEffects, Digieffects Simulate, Illuma

Congratulations to Digieffects for the great review of Damage at Microfilmmaker Magazine. Sort of a humorous review too.

Also, if you truly derive pleasure from destroying perfect good footage, the cost of this plug-in is much cheaper than hiring a psychiatrist to tell you why you feel that way. Plus, you'll get the same therapeutic value.

• Download a demo of Damage
• Buy Digieffects Damage for $99
• Learn more about Damage in Toolfarm's Plug-in Finder

Labels: Damage, DigiEffects, MicroFilmmaker Magazine, reviews

Due to a last minute switch of the free product, we wanted to clarify that the free product included with the Class on Demand training is indeed Digieffects Simulate: Illuma.

Class on Demand has created a new Training/ Plug-in Bundle with Digieffects. They will include a free download of Digieffects Simulate: Illuma (shipping 6/4) for free with any purchase of the titles below - a $99 value!

Class on Demand will include the Camera plugin package in the following COD titles:

• Basic Training for Adobe After Effects 7
• Basic Training for Adobe CS3 Production Premium
• Basic Training for Final Cut Studio 2
• Complete Training for Final Cut Pro 6
• Complete Training for Boris RED 4
• Boris Basics, Tips & Tricks

This offer will end on August 31st, 2008.

Labels: Class on Demand, DigiEffects, Digieffects Simulate

Class on Demand has created a new Training/ Plug-in Bundle with Digieffects. They will include a free download of Digieffects Simulate: Illuma (shipping 6/4) for free with any purchase of the titles below- a $99 value!

Class on Demand will include the Camera plugin package in the following COD titles:

• Basic Training for Adobe After Effects 7
• Basic Training for Adobe CS3 Production Premium
• Basic Training for Final Cut Studio 2
• Complete Training for Final Cut Pro 6
• Complete Training for Boris RED 4
• Boris Basics, Tips & Tricks

This offer will end on August 31st, 2008.

Labels: Class on Demand, DigiEffects, Digieffects Simulate, Training

Dennis Radeke is organizer of the Adobe event later this month on May 29 near B&H at the New Yorker Hotel's Crystal Ballroom on the 2nd floor. There will be two sessions, 11am-3:30pm and 3:30pm-8pm.

From Dennis' Blog, The Genesis Project:

Additionally, rather than have the event be static where you sit and we talk, it is a twofold event. In one area, you'll have a large room where many of the vendors will present their products and workflows throughout the day in rapid fire 20 minute presentations. I hope that one of the highlights to these 20 minute demos will be a 20 minute technology preview demo of some stuff we're working on that I think you will find VERY helpful.

The event will have onsite representation from Adobe, AJA, Blackmagic Design, B&H, CalDigit, DigiEffects, GenArts, GridIron, Matrox, Maxon, MOTU, Wacom and Zoomin Online (aka Magnet Media).

They're giving away LOADS of prizes from these sponsors too. If you're in NYC at the end of May, this is a free event. Don't miss it. Register now!

Labels: Adobe, DigiEffects, Event, GenArts, GridIron, Wacom Tablets, Zoom in Online

Adobe is having a Digital Video Tools Showcase on Thursday, May 29 in New York City.

From planning to playback, Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium drives video content creation. Combined with a diverse group of Adobe's partners, including AJA, Blackmagic Design, CalDigit, Creative COW, Digieffects, GenArts, GridIron Flow, Matrox, Maxon, MOTU, Panasonic, and Wacom, Adobe offers solutions and workflows for getting today's content out to air, tape, disc, or online faster than ever before.

First Session: 11:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Second Session: 3:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

New Yorker Hotel
Crystal Ballroom, 2nd Floor
481 8th Avenue at 34th Street
New York, NY 10001

Register now!

Labels: Adobe, DigiEffects, GenArts, GridIron Flow, Maxon Cinema 4D, Wacom Tablets

Here I am at Denver International waiting for my connection and there's free wifi! I thought this might be a good opportunity to tell you about my experience at NAB 2008. I have about 10 minutes until I board, and I'll have to put up the photos later. Enjoy.

Sunday, April 13 - Arriving in Las Vegas

Alicia VanHeulen (fellow Toolfarmer) and I got into Vegas around 6pm and caught a taxi in the organized chaos outside the airport. I hate cabs. Hate em. I always get a weird cab driver who wants to come to my house or has some strange hobby he wants to tell me all about. This time, we got to spend 25 minutes hearing about how to prepare Lake Superior Whitefish.

We checked in at the Sahara, which was chosen souly on the fact that you don't have to walk through a casino to get to the monorail. We had plans to go to the FMC party on Sunday evening with John Kerr from Red Giant. It was $85 to get into the rooftop party at Pure at Caesar's Palace, however, RG was a sponsor, so we told them we were guests of John Kerr and they let us in with no problem. We had to walk through about a mile of corridors and stairways to get up to the roof where they had a small buffet of carved beef, shrimp on skewers and spring rolls, which were completely gone. We did have some refreshingly tasty drinks of vodka, cranberry, sprite, and grapefruit juice. There was a woman whose body was being painted on the patio, some people carrying around gobs of hula hoops, as well a big giveaway, that we didn't enter, unfortunately. We met some really cool people from Hawaii (Hi Shanti). We did finally meet up with John Kerr, Sean Safreed and Jeremy Hill from Red Giant, as well as our good friend Seth Hancock from ICVA and his lovely wife Lisa.

After the party, we headed to Mesa, Bobby Flay's restaurant, with the Red Giant guys and had a nice dinner. By the time we left, it was 3:00am our time, so we were tired, to say the least.

Monday, April 14 - Day one of the convention

7:45am - We took the monorail to the convention center. This was our first day on the convention center floor, and Alicia's first NAB ever. I took her to the doorway and pointed her to the Digieffects booth where she was starting her day, but I couldn't get in to the show floor due to the fact that I never received my badge! I had a printout receipt that I had registered in December. It took a while at registration but somehow they lost my registration. After 45 minutes, I was badged.

I headed over to Red Giant, where I had a presentation on Magic Bullet Looks at 10am. Looks is very easy to demo and lots of fun to use, and I have to say, the presentation went pretty well. I've just learned to get through the spiel within 10 minutes because people were standing and I wasn't giving a tutorial, but an overview. The Looks Theatre sold it for a lot of people. It was really great seeing everyone at the RG booth and meeting the new RG employees. Thanks for the nuts and popcorn, Beth! Delicious.

At 1:00pm each day I demoed Boris Continuum Complete and Boris Final Effects Complete at the Boris FX booth. This booth was on the middle aisle of the show floor in a highly trafficked area. Boris FX had a theatre set up with about 25 seats. It was the Motion Key plug-in for BCC that really seemed to get a lot of attention. I'll be putting together a tutorial for Motion Key in the next few weeks, because it really is an amazingly cool plug-in. It garnered lots of ooh's and aah's as a silver car driving across a busy street scene is removed from the shot with ease. I showed off the BCC UpRez plug-in, which converts SD to HD and uses a nifty feature called Magic Sharpen. I demoed the BCC Pan & Zoom which makes the Ken Burns style effects. I showed a few other BCC plug-ins and Final Effects Complete (FEC). Did you know all FEC plug-ins contain motion trackers and a feature called Pixel Chooser, which is a built-in masking tool? If you would've known that during the presentation, you could have won a Boris hat or training Class on Demand Boris Continuum Complete Training DVD.

Digieffects and Red Giant's booths were directly behind each other in the Plug-in Pavillion, which made things very nice for us. Digieffects was demoing the new Damage, as well as the Simulate and Natural Forces plug-ins for After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Combusion and Boris Red, which will be out in 4-6 weeks. We hadn't seen the new plug-ins at all yet, so it was a big difficult to answer questions. We ended up setting up little comps with examples, but then found the best way to demo was by using the little blue button. What is this little blue button? It's the randomizer. Shin Kurokawa, the engineer at Digieffects explained that he put the button in for testing purposes so he could see the range of values for each parameter without having to change all of the sliders each time, and soon realized that it's brilliant for getting ideas and seeing what variety of looks that the plug-in can produce. Tim Kolb, David Vieria and Robert Sharp were also at the booth with us all week. Robert... smart move on the couch rental. You can't go wrong with a big comfy couch, especially after you've been on the show floor all day.

Monday night was the IMUG Media Motion Ball 2008 at the Sahara Hotel, which I've attended the last 4 years. The crowd is generally IMUG and AE-List people. Brian Maffitt of Total Training was the speaker and once again and he was hilarious! Brian is a collector of crazy movie memorabilia and marketing gimmicks from William Castle fims. The presentation was about brilliant marketing campaigns for these movies. Macabre with the tagline 'So Terrifying We Insure You For $1000 against Death By Fright! (Not valid for persons with heart or nervous conditions)'. He showed us an original Tingler (filmed in "Percepto"). The best film of all, The House on Haunted Hill, filmed in "Emergo", in which an inflatable skeleton would pop out over the scene. Well, Brian had one of these inflatable skeletons with him at the dinner! We laughed, we cried, it was better than The Tingler.

Dinner at the Media Motion Ball was delicious as always. It was antipasto, salad and several Italian dishes. The highlight was definitely the dessert. Steve Kahn had arranged a surprise for everyone and that was Bananas (and strawberries) Foster over ice cream. Fabulous. I think overall I gained 5 pounds in Las Vegas, but I probably walked it off.

Alicia and I dined with Mark Spencer, author of Apple Pro Training Series: Motion 3, which I highly recommend. Also at the table was Niclas Bahn of Noise Industries on crutches, Niclas' girlfriend, Peter Wiggins and a few others from Noise Industries. Straight across from me was the guy who looks like Andy Samberg from SNL (who incedently ended up winning a Boris Training DVD during my presentation).

It was great to see everyone again at the MMB - it's kind of like a reunion every year. I get to meet up with Keith and Alan, the Plugged-in Podcast guys, Jim Kanter, who is one of our forum experts, a lot of the plug-in developers and those wild and crazy guys from Anchorage. They had gobs of giveaways, including several donated by Toolfarm. I didn't win anything, but I got to go on stage and draw a few names. The first name I drew was Lisa Hancock, who took home Maxon Cinema 4D. Toolfarm did give away lots of prizes, including several bundles of Professional Video Templates, Harry Frank's Expressions Training and his Trapcode Form Training, and two copies of Digieffects Damage.

We cabbed over to the party with Harry Frank and left the MMB early to go to Peder Norrby's party (Peder Norrby is the man behind Trapcode). Sadly, Ko Maruyama told us that not long after we left the MMB, Harry Frank's name was drawn for the big prize of the night, but since he left, he couldn't claim it. Bummer.

Peder threw yet another swanky party! The suite was very modern and silver and on one of the top floors of the hotel. From the main room you could see in the bathroom through a window and there was even a stripper pole in the shower! Crazy stuff. I have a feeling Paris Hilton had stayed in that very room last weekend. There were lots of people from the plug-in industry in attendance and a DJ spinning some great house music. Peder has a new product coming out called Trapcode Horizon, which helps AE users work in 3D space. He presented it at the Red Giant booth, but unfortunately, I missed his presentations. He wasn't showing anything at the party, just socializing. Horizon will be out near the end of summer, so stay tuned.

Tuesday, April 15

The second day on the show floor was busier than the first. I did another presentation for both Red Giant and Boris FX and each went smoother the second time around. Alicia and I also worked at the Digieffects booth showing the new plug-ins. I caught a couple of great presentations at the Adobe Booth - one about After Effects, presented by Steve Holmes, and one about working with video in Photoshop, presented by Richard Harrington. I use these programs day in and day out and they both managed to show me new things about the software. I took notes during both presentations and both really got the wheels in my head spinning.

I walked around and got a nice demo of GridIron Flow from Jim Geduldick. The GridIron booth was freakin' huge. Andrew Kramer, Aharon Rabinowitz and Mark Coleran were also hanging around the booth, demoing the GridIron goods. They were also giving away cool GridIron yo-yo's. You know the first yo-yo's were used as weapons? I learned that one from a tv commercial.

Pete from RE:Vision Effects gave us a nice demo on DE:Noise and Shade/Shape, and we also spent a some time with Jim Tierney of Digital Anarchy, as he walked us through ToonIt and some of their other offerings.

I also sat in on an awesome presentation by Harry Frank at the Red Giant booth. He showed off some cool projects that he did using Trapcode Form and Trapcode Particular. He broke down his technique into little bit-sized pieces. It was really amazing work. Harry is just so darn talented.

Colin and Jason Sharp from Toolfarm flew in Tuesday and the Toolfarm crew went to a fabulous dinner at B&B, Mario Batali's place. I tried the most amazing octopus appetizer, and had sweet potato ravioli with sage butter, as well as squab with beet risotto. Did I mentioned I think I gained weight? :-) Afterward we met up with some friends from Boris FX/Channel Wolves and walked a bit around the Venetian.

Wednesday, April 16

Another day on the show floor and boy, are my dogs tired! More presentations for Red Giant, Digieffects and Boris FX. By this time, I'm pretty good with the presentations. Also, this is Alicia's birthday. Happy Birthday! What did Alicia do on her birthday? Presented Magic Bullet Frames at Red Giant's booth. Now how many people get to do that on their birthday!? Haha. I also met Bert Kish at the RG booth. Bert was the winner of the MyToolfarm Red Giant NAB contest. He presented his winning video and also showed what went into the project.

On Wednesday night I ended up going out with Boris and his crew. We ate at an Italian place in the Venetian. I ate some really interesting pear ravioli with a bechemel sauce and some asparagus. Yummo. I just love the guys from Boris. They are all such nice guys. The food was fantastic as well.

Thursday, April 17

It's the last day of the show, so we got up nice and early and met Kevin Bourke who handles PR for the likes of Automatic Duck and Imagineer Systems for breakfast at the EGO Cafe, right outside the convention center. He told me about Imagineer mogul so as soon as I got into the show I went in to check it out. It was a private screening room and the presentation was given by CE and Alan Jaenicke of Imagineer. I am not entirely sure what information they'd like to be shared about this product, but I can tell you it's a subscription based product that includes software and hardware and is something that is in dire need. This product is going to be massive. Huge.

I also stopped by to see the GenArts booth and talked with Anish and Laurie. Lastly, we sat in on a private demo of Nuke at The Foundry's booth. It's awesome. I want it. We did get some free training DVDs on Nuke and we can download the demo. Too bad I am not doing any work that requires such a splendid piece of software. I didn't have much time to see anything else because we had to get to the airport.

What I learned at NAB 2008

I've learned a few tricks over the past few years at NAB that I think are worth sharing.

1. Avoid cabs if at all possible, unless you're looking for Lake Superior whitefish recipes and restaurant recommendations for Beverly Hills. Trust me. So, you ask, if you're avoiding cabs, how do you get around? There is a shuttle that goes between the convention center and the aiport that is free. That will save you $25 right there.
2. There is also a monorail. We bought monorail passes before the show and had them mailed to us. It was cheaper to buy 3 single day passes than it was to buy a three day pass. Weird. Now here's a great from Alicia. If you have single day passes, they are good for 24 hours. To maximize your usage, get to the station a few minutes earlier each day. If you use your card for the first time at 8:26am on Monday, you can use it at 8:23am the next day. You can start your next single day pass on the way back.
3. When registering for your NAB pass, it doesn't hurt to register twice! NAB will hate me for saying so, but I would have saved myself 45 minutes at registration on Monday morning if I would have registered again when I didn't receive my badge by mail.
4. Wear comfortable shoes and bring bandaids. Sunglasses are also mandatory, as well as a little bottle of vitamin E to rub on chapped hands and lips. The desert is incredibly dry and flying doesn't help matters.
5. Keep a pen with you to make notes on the back of people's business cards. This will help you keep them straight when you get back.
6. Free wifi is a bit hard to come by in Las Vegas. If they can make money off of something in Vegas, they will. One place you can get free wifi, or even check your email at one of their computers, is the Sprint Center at the monorail station at the convention center. Las Vegas' McCarran Airport (and Denver Airport which we flew through) also has free wifi. I love free wifi, but I'm Dutch, so I like anything free. :-)

Time to recover. A massage sounds really good right now.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Damage, DE:Noise, DigiEffects, Imagineer mogul, Imagineer Systems, NAB, Particular, Red Giant, Total Training, Trapcode, Trapcode Form, Trapcode Horizon

New plug-in packages are affordable and revolve around specific themes

Wilmington, NC - April 7, 2008 - Digieffects^TM, a developer of popular visual effects software plugins today announced that it will introduce the Natural Forces and Simulate series of products at NAB 2008.

The Natural Forces series debuts with Natural Forces: Vapor and Natural Forces: Aqua, both with a retail price of $99. Natural Forces: Vapor is a collection of effects designed around the creation of clouds, fog, haze and smoke. Natural Forces: Aqua is a collection of effects focused on various forms of weather and water effects.

The first two packages in the Simulate series are Simulate: Illuma and Simulate: Camera, providing practical lighting and camera filter effects for a variety of visual applications.

Both the Natural Forces and Simulate series form product foundations that will continue to grow in scope and application.

"The entire Digieffects team has been working hard to launch new products," said Robert Sharp, President of Digieffects. "We've focused on what customers are asking for, and in response we're excited to offer new theme based products at affordable price points."

Natural Forces: Vapor, Natural Forces: Aqua, Simulate: Illuma and Simulate: Camera all have a retail price of $99 and will be available for purchase in April 2008.

Digieffects will be exhibiting at the NAB trade show in booth SL02128D in the Plug-in Pavilion from April 14 to April 17, 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.

Labels: After Effects, DigiEffects, Digieffects Natural Forces, Digieffects Simulate, NAB

Guests include Robert Sharp, President of Digieffects; Michael Horton, founder of the LA FCP User Group; and Carey Dissmore & Steve Griffiths of IMUG and the Media Motion Ball 2008 in Las Vegas at NAB.

Philip Hodgetts, President, Open Television Network discusses Avid's new customer outreach strategy and what he's cooking up himself for NAB.

Michele Yamazki, VP Marketing/Web Develpment Czarina at Toolfarm.com talks about the latest Toolfarm news and other happenings.

Robert Sharp, President of Digieffects discusses his acquisiton of DigiEffects and why it's "not your father's Digieffects"

Michael Horton, Founder, Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group talks to Plugged-in. You might know him as Grady Fletcher, Lt. Daniels, or even Rick Jones, but we know him as the 'Godfather' of User Groups and Michael is here to tell us about the FCPUGNetwork NAB Supermeet 7.

Carey Dissmore & Steve Griffiths, Founders,iMug Online & Co-Chair, Media Motion Ball 2008, stop by and talk about the classiest dinner event at NAB now in its 11th year.

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Labels: Apple, DigiEffects, Final Cut Pro, NAB, Podcast, User Group

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

Class on Demand 50% off Thru Sunday

For this week only, save half off all Class on Demand Training titles. Get up to speed or brush up on your knowledge of Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Apple Motion, Dreamweaver and more! Sale ends Sunday, March 23rd.

Digieffects Half Off Thru Friday

Save half off ANY Digieffects Product this week, including the popular Aurorix/Delirium/Berserk Bundle and Buena and Walker FX Plugins. Excludes the upcoming release of Damage. Don't miss out! Sale ends Friday, March 21st.

Labels: Class on Demand, DigiEffects, Red Giant, Sale, Training

Collection of four effects for "sabotaging your creativity"

Wilmington, NC - March 19, 2008 - Digieffects, a developer of popular software plug-ins for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Autodesk Combustion today announced that it shipped Damage, a new set of plugins for video and film post production.

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

"We designed the Damage package to be the most comprehensive set of tools for creating images that look affected by digital or analog artifacts available." said Digieffects President, Robert Sharp. According to Sharp, Damage is a unique product in the marketplace. No other plugin collection is dedicated to 'damaging' a video project". Damage includes the following effects:

Blockade: Video acquired by low fidelity devices like cellular phones and PDAs is becoming more commonplace. Blockade makes your clip look like it is highly compressed and being transmitted through a very bandwidth-limited pipe. Essential for simulating internet based micro cam display or personal video communication.

Artifact: Developed to create digital defects, Artifact simulates lost DCT blocks and frame dropping, most often seen when a digital video file suffers from corruption or a satellite feed is hampered by weather. Make sure you warn clients and your house engineer that it's only an effect...

Interference: If it's television you want, traditionally you'll need some sort of interlaced field scanning. Interference creates the look of interlaced video fields, even on progressive footage or still images, adding noise, colorization and offset separately for each field.

Skew: The never-ending quest to aim the rabbit ears so that the television show looks as good once you're in your chair as it did when your hands were attached to the antenna is fast fading into the lore of old... That valuable (if under-appreciated) look is preserved in Skew. Uniquely analog/broadcast image badness like noise, image shearing, ghosts... it's all there.

Damage has a retail price of $99 and is available immediately from Digieffects and its resellers.

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.

Labels: After Effects, Combustion, Damage, DigiEffects, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro

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Labels: Aurorix, Berserk, Delirium, DigiEffects

Emmy award winning director/editor will steer product vision

Wilmington, NC - March 3, 2008 - Tim Kolb, an Emmy, Chicago Film Festival Hugo, and Telly Award-winning director and a 20 year veteran of video and television post production has joined Digieffects as the Chief Product Officer. In this capacity, Tim, will lead the company's product marketing and management efforts.

Tim has experience with a wide range of creative initiatives ranging from interactive projects as early as 1986 to broadcast news production and working with HD and 2K RAW acquisition/post production and compositing. He has been a tour presenter for Canopus, Adobe, CineForm, Sony, and Silicon Imaging, a forum moderator at Creative Cow and author of multiple articles on the web and for TV Technology and Post Magazine. Tim has been featured in articles in Millimeter, Video Systems, EventDV, Studio Monthly, Film and Video, and Studentfilmmaker magazines and is the author of "The Easy Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro" and more recently, the technical editor of "Hands on HDV" (Gloman/Pescatore) from Focal Press. Tim was named one of the "Top 100 Producers" of 2002 by AV Video/ Multimedia Producer Magazine.

"I've enjoyed building my career in production, and I still plan on continuing with certain projects and clients, but for a number of years I've also enjoyed working with industry manufacturers, furnishing input from the user's perspective." said Kolb. "Now I have a chance to be involved with an excellent group of people during some very exciting times at Digieffects, and instead of simply offering input, I'll be helping put it in action."

"We are thrilled and honored to have Tim join the company" said Robert Sharp, president of Digieffects. "I've known Tim for many years and have always been impressed with his strong technical and product knowledge as well as his ability to relate to the needs of users".

Digieffects will be exhibiting at the NAB Show in Las Vegas in April (Booth SL2128D in the Plugin Pavilion).

About Digieffects Digieffects is a developer of popular software plugins for film and video post-production. 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 began a new chapter of growth in 2007 when acquired by industry veteran Robert Sharp. Digieffects plugins support Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Autodesk Combustion and Boris RED.

Labels: After Effects, Combustion, Delirium, DigiEffects, Final Cut Pro, NAB, Premiere Pro, RED

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