All-New Settings for Apple Final Cut Pro 7 and Apple Soundtrack Pro 3
Windham NH - February 23, 2010 - Contour Design, a market leader in audio/video editing devices, has released a new ShuttlePRO and ShuttleXpress Mac driver with optimized settings for Apple Final Cut Studio. The driver includes settings for Apple Final Cut Pro 7, Apple Soundtrack Pro 3, Apple Motion 4, Apple DVD Studio Pro 4, and Apple Color 1.5. All-new settings for Adobe Lightroom and Media 100 Suite are also included.
ShuttlePRO V.2 is designed for ergonomic integrity and maximum productivity, allowing one-handed access to 15 fully-programmable buttons, a jog knob, and a spring loaded shuttle wheel. At the head of the ShuttlePRO are nine programmable buttons complete with crystal clear removable keycaps for labeling and ease of reference. The inner ring or 'jog knob' at the center of the ShuttlePRO rotates a full 360˚ to provide precise frame-by-frame control while the outer black ring or rubberized 'shuttle wheel' facilitates fast forward and rewind. The jog and shuttle can also be configured for many other purposes including scrolling, volume control, and sequencing.
Modeled after the award-winning ShuttlePRO, the ShuttleXpress offers a professional multimedia controller at an attractive price. Packed with five oversized buttons, a jog knob, and a shuttle wheel, the ShuttleXpress is a full multimedia control surface in a compact design. Use it alone or simultaneously with a ShuttlePRO for enhanced cooperative control.
Availability The new Mac driver (v2.1.5) is immediately available for download from the Contour Design web site and at Toolfarm. Contour Design continues to update their driver to ensure compatibility with all of the most current hardware and software. ShuttlePRO V.2 and ShuttleXpress are available from Contour Design's worldwide reseller channel for MSRPs of $109.95 USD and $59.95 USD, respectively.
About Contour Design Contour Design Inc., based in Windham, New Hampshire, is a manufacturer of innovative add-on products for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX workstations, specializing in the iPod/iPhone accessories, audio/video input devices, and ergonomic markets. For more information about Contour Design products and solutions, please visit www.contourdesign.com
PHYX Keyer consists of 5 powerful plugins: instantly remove green or blue spill. The despill algorithm effectively neutralizes spill. Compatible with After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express and Apple Motion.
PHYX Keyer is a new set of keying plug-ins developed by visual effects specialist PHYX, Inc. The trial, unlockable version of PHYX Keyer is included with the FxFactory 2.1.2 installer. Download a Free Trial of FxFactory.
Filters Include: DESPILL Despill effectively neutralizes excess green and blue spill without tell-tale magenta or yellow fringe artifacts found in other keyers. Artifacts force you to chose: spend time and money trying to correct them, or settle for artifacts worse than the original spill.
DIFFKEYER DiffKeyer creates a matte based on difference between two images. For example, film an empty room (cleanplate), then film the same room with actors present. DiffKeyer will create a matte of the actors, as if the actors were shot in front of a green or blue screen. This gives you the ability to effectively key without a green or blue screen.
KEYER Three keying engines in one package: YUV Difference, 3d Keyer, and Channel Keyer. Keyer gives you powerful optimized controls to extract precise keys in seconds. Keyer also includes a powerful deartifactor which reconstructs chroma channels to restore details lost to chroma subsampling (4:1:1, 4:2:0, etc.). No more blocky keys.
LIGHTWRAP Creates a light source from a background image, and wraps the light around the foreground image to seamlessly blend them together in a composite.
SCREENCORRECTOR Screencorrector compares a clean plate, and a solid color (green or blue) and creates a perfect green or blue screen. Excellent for keying with, this processor corrects unevenly lit screens, removes tracking markers, and repairs other ‘garbage’ which makes keying difficult, tedious, and expensive. Tell your clients you can do it.
The sale includes the DVD versions only, no downloads. Class On Demand will give the users free updates to Final Cut Pro 7 and Final Cut Studio 3 Training when they buy Final Cut Studio 2 or Final Cut Pro 6 training. All you need to do is peel off the sticker on the DVD and send it in to Class on Demand and they will send you the new training for free, released in about 6 weeks. You'll have to pay for shipping, but you'll get 2 sets of training for half the price of one!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Get the After Effects compatible or FxPlug version of GenArts Sapphire for only $999! Save $700 only at Toolfarm.com
On November 18, 2009, only from 12:00am to 11:59pm PST, get GenArts Sapphire for just $999, regularly $1699. No orders will be taken after that time. Please see our contact page for the current time at our headquarters in San Francisco, CA.
The sale is for the node-locked version only of the Adobe After Effects compatible and FxPlug versions of Sapphire only. FxPlug works in Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Get Boris Continuum Chroma Key 6.0 for 50% off on Thursday. This suite of keying tools includes the Chroma Key, Matte Choker and Light Wrap tools, which for this suite have been re-engineered to run in real-time - even on HD clips.
Not only that, it comes with BCS Chroma Key Studio, exclusively for users of Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Final Cut Express we offer Chroma Key Studio, which is included in the Chroma Key Unit. Regularly $299, get it for just $149.50 on November 19.
Sale Pricing (Note: Prices have been revised to reflect 30% discount)
Tiffen Dfx Digital Filter Suite for AE, FCP, or Avid - $419.97 (reg. $599.95) Hosts to choose from: After Effects v2, Final Cut Pro v2, Avid Editing Systems
Tiffen Dfx Plug-in for Photoshop or Aperture - $209.97 (reg. $299.95) Hosts to choose from: Photoshop v2, Apple Aperture v2
Flicker and Shake is included with BCC 6.0.5 FxPlug, a free update for BCC 6.x FxPlug users
Boris Continuum Complete 6 FxPlug Flicker And Shake is an auto-animating filter which uses bursts of synchronized Exposure, Glow, Blur, X or Y displacement, and RGB channel offset to create a flicker effect for video or graphics elements. The flicker effect has been made popular by recent television commercials and film trailers.
Flicker and Shake works in Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion. The filter is part of the Boris Continuum Shaders category of real-time FxPlug filters that take advantage of the latest Mac OS X OpenGL technology.
Video Tutorial: Using the Flicker and Shake Filter
There was an update to Pro Applications Update 2009-01, a revision to Final Cut Studio (2009), if you missed it. This includes updates to the following versions:
Animating Text in Apple's Motion, a primer for After Effects artists.
Trish Meyers spoke today at the Motion09 Conference in Albuquerque and brought up some interesting comparisons on the text engines behind After Effects versus Apple Motion. Not quite new information, but worth a look if you haven't seen it already and are wondering whether to use After Effects or delve into Motion's capabilities when creating text effects.
"If you're familiar with animating text in After Effects, you might glance at Apple's Motion and think that it offers many of the same features for flying text around. While that is true, if you look a little closer you'll find that Motion can create some really great looks that you just can't get with After Effects. In this article, I'll review the text capabilties of both programs, and lead you through in detail how to typeset and animate text in Motion."
We've just added Curious Turtle Film Wash Color Effect Presets for both After Effects and Apple Motion to our store. I'll put some samples up shortly. These are immediate downloads so you don't have to wait to get them - they're downloadable from a button in the checkout!
BCC Corner Pin allows editors to map media to a specific area on a moving object in a media file. For example, if a media file includes a moving bus with an advertisement on its side, an editor could use Corner Pin to track and replace the advertisement with a logo.
BCC Match Move locks the movement of one image clip to another image clip. One of the great advantages of using the Match Move filter is that it includes full DVE functions such as tumble, spin, and rotate along with interesting lighting and light wrap compositing features.
BCC Wire Remover removes wires and unwanted objects from still or moving images by either cloning or blending pixels together from surrounding areas.
BCC Witness Protection allows editors to track the motion of an object in a media file. Editors can then use the motion path data to control another aspect of the effect. For example, an editor can track a logo on a t-shirt and use a blur to obscure the logo. Mosaic, tint, or brightness/contrast effects could also be applied to the specified area.
Boris Continuum Motion Tracker supports Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Final Cut Express, Apple Motion, and Adobe After Effects. Apple's new Final Cut Studio 3 release is supported.
The Motion Tracker Unit is the latest addition to previously-released Boris Continuum Units: Chroma Key, Pan and Zoom, UpRez, Motion Key, Lens Flare, Film Look, Glitters, Optical Stabilizer, Light Rays, 3D Objects, and Cartoon Look.
Pricing and Availability Boris Continuum Motion Tracker is immediately available through the Boris FX worldwide reseller channel and direct from the Boris FX web site at www.borisfx.com for an MSRP of $199 USD. Customers who purchase the Boris Continuum Motion Tracker Unit or any other Boris Continuum Unit may credit the price of the Unit towards the full Boris Continuum Complete plug-in suite. For more information, please visit the Boris FX web site at www.borisfx.com.
About Boris FX Founded in 1995, Boris FX is the leading developer of integrated graphics and effects technology, delivering 3D compositing and vector graphic products for the broadcast, post production, film and multimedia markets. Boris products have grown to serve over 200,000 artists worldwide. The company's success lies in its ability to tightly integrate and leverage technologies through strong partnerships with industry-leading manufacturers such as Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Avid, Grass Valley, Media 100, and Sony. For more information, visit www.borisfx.com
In this animation I explored the possibility of using image to create butterfly flying. Also I have used Generator from Noise Industries to create clouds effect.
This is by no means a boundaries breaking animation. However you will be pleasantly surprised to learn how quickly you can build very believable animations of birds or butterfly’s flying.
The CoreMelt Complete V2.2.1 upgrade is required for correct usage of all CoreMelt V2 plugins in FCP7 / Motion 4. It also contains other fixes, improved documentation, and more presets for all V2 users. This update is FREE to current V2 users. Click here to download the update.
Sale Ends Tonight! 40% Off V2 Upgrades ending tonight at midnight, EST.
I remember when Motion first came out. The pros didn't seem to take it seriously. Version 3 changed that with the well-integrated camera and 3D and the nice built-in particle generator. Version 4 takes things even further.
For motion graphics, Motion is now a serious rival to Adobe After Effects in terms of speed and the ease with which complex animations can be set up. With shadows and reflections and depth of field, the results are also now more photo-realistic than before, closing the gap between Motion and After Effects for certain kinds of work. Under the hood, Link Parameters, Camera Framing Behaviors, and other tweaks allow for easier control of more sophisticated animations. As someone who started doing motion graphics about 15 years ago, I'm very happy with this upgrade.
As the next major release of the leading video post-production suite, the new Final Cut Studio offers powerful new features, dramatically improved performance, and tighter integration. Its six applications give video editors all the tools they need to edit, animate, mix, grade, and deliver- at a price that's more affordable than ever.
Compressor 3.5 and DVD Studio Pro 4 for digital delivery virtually anywhere- Apple devices, the web, and disc
Final Cut Studio 3: What's New: An expanded ProRes family. Powerful new ways to collaborate. Even tighter integration between applications. The leading post-production suite just got better.
With more than 100 new features, the new Final Cut Studio advances the art and technology of filmmaking with innovations that help you work faster, collaborate more efficiently, and finish brilliantly.
Final Cut Pro 7 Final Cut Pro 7 lets you do more - and do it faster - with new ProRes codec options, time-saving interface improvements, and easy collaboration tools. Expanded ProRes Family New versions of the Apple ProRes codec let you edit faster and at higher quality across a wide variety of workflows. The family now includes ProRes 422 (Proxy), ProRes 422 (LT) and ProRes 4444, in addition to the original ProRes 422 and ProRes 422 (HQ).
Easy Export Delivery to your Apple devices, the web, and disc is just a click away. Choose your output format in the Share window, then keep working while your projects are rendered, compressed, and even published to the web in the background.
iChat Theater Support Now you can work with clients or collaborators as if they were in the room with you — in real time, from anywhere in the world.
New Speed Change Tools Change clip speeds with ease in the redesigned Change Speed window, which includes presets that ease in and ease out retimed clips.
Alpha Transitions It's now easier than ever to create dramatic transitions with moving mattes. Apply a matte instantly by choosing one of the beautiful Apple-designed transitions, available through a free download. You can also bring in a third-party transition (sold separately), or create a custom transition using a motion graphics or animation program, such as Motion 4. Improved Markers Color-code clip and sequence markers and use them to search or jump directly to important locations. You can add marker notes and metadata while the clip is playing, create a custom name for each marker color, and control whether markers of a specific color are visible in the Timeline.
Automatic Transfer When you're working under deadline, every second counts. Final Cut Pro now saves you setup time when you transfer clips from a wide range of file-based cameras including Panasonic P2 and Sony XDCAM. The files are automatically copied to your media storage volumes the moment your media is mounted. A new Log and Transfer option allows you to set up custom metadata and add it to all your assets in a single step.
New Timecode Window Now you can see the timecode up close or from across the room. The floating, resizable window is easily visible when you’re working with clients and can be quickly adjusted for your own logging and note-taking. Native AVC-Intra Support Final Cut Pro 7 makes it easy to work with the latest high-quality cameras from Panasonic. Native support for the AVC-Intra format means you can ingest footage directly into Final Cut Pro at high speeds — without transcoding. Work with real-time effects and edit with multiple streams, thanks to ultrafast decoding of both 50-Mbps and 100-Mbps formats.
Closed Captioning Support Final Cut Pro 7 offers expanded support for closed captioning - including both Line 21 for SD and VANC for HD video. You can preserve captioning data when you capture tape sources, and use popular third-party captioning software to create new captions as needed. New options let you output video with captioning to tape as well as to formats for web playback.
Improved Tabs Final Cut Pro editors use tabs to quickly and easily organize material as they work. In Final Cut Pro 7, tabs are even more flexible and convenient to use - which is particularly helpful for editors working on larger projects.
Background Exporting Now you can keep editing in Final Cut Pro while using Compressor to render, export, and publish in the background - whether you choose a template in the new Share window or use the Send to Compressor option in the File menu. To render in the background at maximum speed, use the Apple Qmaster QuickCluster feature. Global Transitions Save time by applying a single transition to multiple cut points in one step. Just select a range — either a set of clips or the entire sequence — then add a transition. Final Cut Pro automatically inserts the effect at every cut point and resizes the transitions to use available media. Easily substitute different transitions until you get just the look you want.
Cinema Tools 4.5 Streamline your digital cinema workflows with the improved film management features in Cinema Tools 4.5, an application included in Final Cut Studio. Now you can create new databases simply by dragging files into Cinema Tools, and produce change lists with ease using XML files that describe the original version and the new version. Use Cinema Tools as part of a digital cinema workflow to track DPX files created during high-resolution film transfers or files from 4K cameras such as the RED ONE.
Faster Media Reconnecting for Workgroups Final Cut Pro now uses the Spotlight engine to speed up media searches. The increased speed produces significantly faster media reconnecting as well as better media management for an entire workgroup using a high-speed network such as Xsan. Improved Render Management Render management enhancements reduce the need to re-render as you trim clips, move media, and perform a wide range of other functions. This means you can work more efficiently as you experiment with creative options.
Markers in Multicam You can now prepare multicam projects faster thanks to new support for markers. Retain markers on multiclips when you switch angles and add marker notes to make multicam projects more efficient when you’re working with multiple editors.
Comprehensive Matchframe and Reveal Options New matchframe options make it easy to find original frames or source files that are used in a sequence. If you're working with subclips, you can choose to matchframe to the subclip or to the original clip. Matchframing now works with freeze frames as well as nested sequences, which are treated like a true master clip.
Use the new Reveal Affiliate Clips feature to automatically select every instance of a clip in a sequence, so you can apply a color correction or efficiently move or delete all instances in a single step. You can also find the project file without digging through your drives. Just right-click an empty space in the Final Cut Browser and choose Reveal Project in Finder.
Multi-Touch Gesture Support Work quickly when you're on the set or on the road by using the Multi-Touch trackpad on your MacBook Pro. Navigate faster with gestures: Pinch to zoom horizontally within the Timeline; rotate to scrub the Timeline, Viewer, or Canvas; and use a three-finger swipe to advance the playhead across edit points. Display SD Safe Title Area Inside HD If you're working in HD but need to deliver in SD, it can be challenging to position titles and graphics. Now you can display tick marks that show where graphics will be cut off on standard-definition displays based on the broadcast safe title area. Improved XML Interchange Final Cut Pro XML Version 5 supports greater interoperability with third-party software by preserving additional settings and metadata during round-trip file interchange.
Improved Media Management Use the Media Manager to archive media and projects with confidence. It's been optimized to improve media trimming, especially for clips with speed changes, multicam clips, and anamorphic media. Log and Transfer Improvements Improvements to the Log and Transfer interface make handling of file-based media even more robust in Final Cut Pro 7. Timeline Improvements Numerous improvements to the Timeline make it more intuitive to edit and navigate (see website for more info). Optimized Codec Performance Final Cut Pro 7 renders four popular formats faster than ever: XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX, interlaced HDV, and interlaced XDCAM HD 422. This lets you work faster and experiment with greater freedom when you’re creating complex, multilayered sequences.
New Chroma Key Studio Filter for Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Final Cut Express
Marlborough MA - June 16, 2009 - Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that the Boris Continuum Chroma Key Unit now includes a Chroma Key Studio filter for real-time previews and rendering in Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Final Cut Express.
Chroma Key Studio builds on the strength of Boris Continuum Complete's keying and compositing tools with features such as a best-of-breed chroma key process, spill suppression, matte choker, and a light wrap compositing step. All four tools are combined in one, easy-to-use filter; users do not need to stack multiple filters to pre and post process video.
In addition to Chroma Key Studio, the Boris Continuum Chroma Key Unit includes the following filters for Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro in addition to Apple Pro Video Applications:
BCC Chroma Key for compositing camera footage shot using a blue, green, or orange screen as a backdrop over a new background video or a still image from a separate file. The Chroma Key filter includes a variety of Spill Suppression parameters.
BCC Matte Choker for tweaking the blur, choke, and softening along the edges of a key.
BCC Light Wrap to reflect the background image around the edges of a foreground image to form a border. This creates a more convincing composite by making it appear as if the images were shot in the same environment.
BCC Match Grain for sampling the grain from the background and applying it to the foreground, generating the appearance that the clips were shot on the same camera.
BCC Color Match for sampling the highlight, midtone, and shadow regions in the foreground and background images and blending some of the background color and luma values into the foreground, contributing to a seamless composite.
Pricing and Availability
Boris Continuum Chroma Key is immediately available through the Boris FX worldwide reseller channel and direct from the Boris FX web site at www.borisfx.com for an MSRP of $299 USD. Customers who purchase the Boris Continuum Chroma Key Unit or any other Boris Continuum Unit may credit the price of the Unit towards the full Boris Continuum Complete plug-in suite.
Existing Boris Continuum Chroma Key Unit customers may download the Chroma Key Studio filter as a free update from the Boris FX web site at www.borisfx.com.
For more information, please visit the Boris FX web site at www.borisfx.com.
About Boris FX
Founded in 1995, Boris FX is the leading developer of integrated graphics and effects technology, delivering 3D compositing and vector graphic products for the broadcast, post production, film and multimedia markets. Boris products have grown to serve over 200,000 artists worldwide. The company's success lies in its ability to tightly integrate and leverage technologies through strong partnerships with industry-leading manufacturers such as Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Avid, Grass Valley, Media 100, and Sony.
Ultimatte RT is a new real-time plug-in for FCP and Motion and is a GPU-accelerated version of the AdvantEdge plug-in, with a much simpler interface. The Ultimatte RT plugin uses the FxPlug capabilities of Apple Final Cut Pro and Apple Motion and uses the same Ultimatte-patented algorithms as the AdvantEdge software.
I thought the FAQ posed an interesting question. Since I've written the book on greenscreen and keying, this is a question I get ALL the time.
Q. Why not use the chroma-key software including with my editing application?
A. You can! Unfortunately, the composited output will simply not offer the fine details that your blue or green screen footage can offer. Ultimatte AdvantEdge almost always surprises users when compared side-to-side with chroma-key software. Fine hair detail, translucent glass, smoke, water, semi-transparent fabric, and shadows (seen in the image below) are only a few of the ways that Ultimatte AdvantEdge will shine when compared to chroma-key software.
Take a look at the following example, which is a single frame from a standard definition production from Virtualsets.com. It shows the amazing level of detail that can be achieved with subtle shadows on a good, but certainly not great blue screen.
As you can see, there is a fairly wide range of blue colors in the frame. At the back of the blue screen, it is unevenly lit and gets dark. Downstage (toward the bottom of the frame), the lights for the talent are making the blue floor much brighter. The places to focus on the subtle shadows are near the floor and under the chairs.
As you mouse-over the image, notice how the subtle shadows seen on the blue screen remain in the final composite. Even those super-dark areas under the chairs composite well. Even the most minimal shadows that are cast by the screen-right chair at the bottom of the frame come through on the final composite. These are the details that the Ultimatte AdvantEdge plug-in will allow you to achieve in your blue and green screen work.
I got to demo these plug-ins at NAB this year for Boris FX and they are seriously impressive and easy to use. They are very fast with real-time updates, they use AE's built in camera and lights, not to mention that they work right in the After Effects native interface... no jumping to an unfamiliar interface. These plug-ins are seriously quality. The filters also work in Final Cut Pro or Motion. Below are a few samples.
Save 40$ on CHV's FxPlug-Bundle, which includes all of the CHV FxPlug plugin collections, and CHV's The Entire Bundle, which, you guessed it, contains every CHV plug-in... and there are a lot!
The sale runs for the next 2 weeks and the plug-ins work in Final Cut Studio or Final Cut Express. Download demos here if you would like to take them for a test run first.
I really love the CHV plugins. They're extremely fast and versatile. You can push those plug-ins like you can't push a lot of other plug-ins!
Peter Wiggins had the idustrial revolution ParticleMetrix on his NAB Promo Reel. The plug-in is in the last stage of beta at the moment and will be available soon. idustrial revolution plug-ins use the Noise Industries effects engine and work in After Effects, Final Cut Pro and Motion (FxPlug). Looks VERY cool.
San Francisco, CA, April 7, 2009 - Red Giant Software (http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/), publisher of the popular Magic Bullet and Trapcode plug-ins, will show four new and updated products at the upcoming NAB Show in Las Vegas, NV (April 20-23, 2009).
All purchases of Toonit and Particular from today will receive a free upgrade to v2 when it ships.
Red Giant Software offers a vast range of visual effects plug-ins, with over 30 packages designed for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Avid
The product line features industry leading effects for designing realistic fire, rain, and water; adding popular looks; and creating perfect keys
Red Giant effects have enhanced feature films such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Mummy 3, and Grindhouse, and add sparkle to cable and broadcast content from NBC Universal, Food Network, ESPN, Disney, CNN, Comedy Central, MTV, and TNT.
New Products at NAB 2009
Visit the Red Giant Software booth SL2529H at NAB in Las Vegas, Nevada (April 20-23, 2008) to see demonstrations of four new products
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
Generate perfects keys to ensure seamless compositing within Final Cut Pro, eliminating the need for extra compositing tools.
For just $99, Quick Looks is a light version of our full Looks tool (Magic Bullet Looks) with the same speed and quality, but without the editing tools
In just two clicks, users can choose from more than 100 presets from classic films, television shows, or music videos.
Red Giant TV Tuesdays
Be sure to tune in on Tuesdays to catch the next free tutorial on Red Giant's range of motion graphics, compositing and effects plug-ins
The shows feature one or more Red Giant products used in combination with the tools built into After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, and more
Host Aharon Rabinowitz shares his tried-and-true techniques for producing higher quality work in less time
Each episode also offers a corresponding product discount available for a short time after the episode airs
Red Giant Software LLC is a San Francisco-based company that develops professional tools for digital video production
Products are available as plug-ins for popular video editing and effects applications, including After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro, and Avid. All tools are based on production-proven technology developed by visual effects veterans
All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners
Oak Street Software EdgeTool FxPlug is a powerful filter for detecting, isolating, and manipulating edges, or non-edges for purposes of controlling other effects, or enhancing smooth, noisy areas of your video without affecting the edges. It actually has many uses, but it was originally designed to allow the use of smoothing, and soft focus filters without sacrificing the sharpness of edges. To do that, we needed a filter that could locate edges (preferably one that allowed us to control the edge selection) and put the edge map into the alpha channel so that we could layer an effect layer over a lower layer and limit our affect to non-edge parts of the video.
April 28th will be at Adobe 601 Townsend in San Francisco. Mark Spencer a San Francisco Bay Area producer, freelance editor, and Apple-certified Trainer for Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, and Motion.
Mark is teaching a number of classes at NAB - look in the Certification Training Schedule and will be presenting at the SuperBooth. Be watching for schedules, I will try to get an NAB .ning page going for everyone to connect and post info, parties and things to see.
Also joining us is John Skidgel, a top Flash Video expert
Both John and Mark are SF Cutters and top people in the field.
Adobe will present a NAB wrap up - of new technology and things they cannot talk about yet, but will be big news by April. Thanks to Adobe for their Sponsorship of SF Cutters, the FCPUG Supermeets and many, many user groups, Final Cut Pro, Flash, Photoshop, InDesign, SF Mograph - all too numerous to list. It's an awesome job and lots of individualized attention and support.
We will have Mark Spencer's Motion books compliments of Peachpit Pressand John Skidgel's Flash Video CS3 compliments of Focal Press in the Raffle.
All presentations subject to final confirmation, and cooperation of the universe.
April 28th will have an increase to $15 per meeting for non Pro Team members to cover the cost of chair rental from May - Oct. and other increased meeting location expenses. This took a lot of deliberation, but basically I do not want to turn people away from meetings because of seating, if at all possible. and frankly it's a long time overdue for me not to stress out over it either. Things cost what they cost. If we come into more sponsorship at some time we will adjust the monthly rates.
Word on the street is that Final Cut Studio 3 will be available next Wednesday, March 24. I've been following this for the past few weeks and the blog-o-sphere is abuzz. Will Phenomenon, the alleged Shake/Motion hybrid, be included?. How about that storyboarding app that we blogged about in February? How about the Final Cut Pro, Color, Soundtrack Pro, etc. being combined into a single app? How big would that be?!
It has been 2 years since FCS2 was out. I demoed the beta of Motion at NAB07 with beta plug-ins... oh, fun times! Seriously, it was a lot of fun.
Boris Final Effects Complete 5 FxPlug is a set of 100+ visual effects filters re-designed for Apple's FxPlug plug-in architecture, providing seamless integration with Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, and Motion. FEC 5 FxPlug adds support for 16 bit-color processing and takes full advantage of FxPlug for a big performance boost including unlimited RT filters and native Final Cut Pro transitions. The same FEC filters are recognized by Motion and run within Motion's accelerated GPU environment for improved compatibility and flexible workflow.
One of the first plug-in packages released for Adobe After Effects, the heart of Final Effects Complete is its ability to generate full-featured 2D and 3D particle animations including ball action, explosions, distortions, jet trails, hair, liquid mercury distortions, spotlights, and color transitions.
There has been some confusion about Windows 64-bit and 32-bit color. They do not refer to the same things.
What is Windows 64-bit? According to the Microsoft website:
The terms 32-bit and 64-bit refer to the way a computer's processor (also called a CPU), handles information.
The 64-bit versions of Windows can utilize more memory than 32-bit versions of Windows. This helps minimize the time spent swapping processes in and out of memory by storing more of those processes in Random access memory (RAM) rather than on the hard disk. This, in turn, can increase overall program performance.
I posted about this on Friday night and apparently, there was an error. Christoph Vonrhein of CHV Plug-ins, one of the most intelligent people I know, helped me out. Here's what he says:
The confusion about the bit depth for image buffers is quite complex, as there are no real 'standards' to describe the nature of an image buffer and the real color depth for each pixel. This is actually up to the vendors of the graphics cards and the developers for video editing software. Your article states that a 32-bit color space consists of 8 bits per color (RGB) plus an eventual alpha channel. In fact this would just be the normal color space with 8 bits per color with values ranging from 0 to 255.
Apple's Motion and Adobe's After Effects can handle projects with "8 bit", "16-bit (float)" and "32-bit (float)". All of these settings refer to the bits per color and not to the overall bits available for all colors for a pixel. This means that the 8-bit setting uses 24 bits per pixel (8 for R, 8 for G and 8 for B), the 16-bit settings uses 48 pits per pixel (16 for R, 16 for G and 16 for B) and the 32-bit settings uses in fact 96 pits per pixel (32 for R, 32 for G and 32 for B). An 8-bit image buffer has values ranging from 0 to 255 for each color of each pixel. The 16- and 32-bit image buffers usually range from 0 to 1 where the values are stored in a 16-bit or 32-bit floating point variable.
Values above 1 or below 0 don't really exist. Such values will be clipped if the full resolution of the variable is used without wasting resolution for a higher value range. The 'trick' is not to be able to go higher than 1 and/or lower than 0. The real trick is that the value between 0 and 1 has way more than just 256 steps. An 8-bit color space has 256 steps per color, a 16-bit color space has (mathematically) 65536 steps and the 32-bit color space has 4,294,967,296 (2^32) steps. In real life it is some steps less for the 16- and 32-bit color spaces because of the way how a floating point variable is stored (significand and exponent).
The range of the value for a 16-bit per color and 32-bit per color image buffer of course is up to the application defining the color space. A 'real' floating point variable can have values of a way higher range than just from 0-1. If the range is not restricted from 0 to 1, then more bits are needed to describe the exponent to make higher numbers possible, leaving less bits for the actual number, which in the end lowers the color resolution. Meaning: Even a 16-bit per color image buffer can wind up with only 10 or 12 bits per color. This fact makes it even more interesting for high quality work to use a 32-bit per color image buffer, where you can use way more (about 26) bits per color.
When you look at Wikipedia you will find a web-page telling you something about 8-bit images that can only handle a palette of 256 colors. This '8-bit' color space is by no means comparable to the '8-bit' color space of Motion and After Effects, as these applications use 8 bits per color (R, G and B) and not 8 bits per pixel. A 256 color space with 8 bits per pixel is not even available for modern video editing software. 8 bits per color (24/32 bits per pixel) is the least what we (can) use. Everything above (16 and 32 bits per color) is desirable, because of the higher color depth (color-resolution) and lower quantization effects.
I agree that the number of bits on a 'Windows 64-bit' system has nothing to do with the color space of a video editing application. One refers to the data bus bandwidth of the CPU, the other thing describes how many bit per pixel or per color are used in a video editing application. These are two completely different things, not related to each other.
Thanks for the concise information, Christoph! Learn more about 32-bit floating point color, and learn which third-party plug-ins support 32-bit color. We've included After Effects (of course!), Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Shake, Combustion, Digital Fusion, Softimage XSI and even codecs.
RE:Vision Effects today expanded support of its DE:Noise FxPlug plugin set for Final Cut Pro and Motion to include Final Cut Express. DE:Noise is a plugin set that removes excessive noise and artifacts in one easy-to-use tool. It handles spurious frame-to-frame defects ranging from fine digital and electronic noise to blotchy spots (e.g. dirt on the film). DE:Noise combines proprietary motion estimation (optical flow) 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, prefiltering noisy greenscreens before keying, CG renders affected by ray-tracing sampling artifacts, dust captured during film scan/transfer and printing, snow, drop-outs and many other defects.
Features of DE:Noise:
Pre-processing contrast controls to help enhance the noise for easier elimination.
Smart spatial filtering controls that allow for the spatial smoothing of noise without smoothing over important features in the image sequence.
8 different temporal filtering methods that uses motion estimation (via optical flow) to correlate images over time in order to reduce noise and other artifacts.
Post-processing to help punch up the result or to undo the preprocessing contrast enhancement.
Post sharpening option for when the denoising process makes the result softer than desired.
8 bits per channel (bpc) support within Final Cut Express, and support of higher bit depths (e.g., 10 bit YUV and floating point) where applicable within Final Cut Pro and Motion.
Bug Fixes and Enhancements newly available in DE:Noise FxPlug v1.1:
Added a feature that presents an extra option when applying the plugin to interlaced footage (allowing the plugin to compare fields from the next frame instead of the adjacent field in the current frame). See the manual for details.
Fixed some issues with non-full alpha layers with some spatial blurs; and, as a result, layers with non full alpha may take longer in some modes.
The temporal threshhold has been changed so that desired results are easier to control. However, this also means that older projects will need some attention to the temporal threshhold value to get the exact same results. To get the same results, the solution is to take the square root of the value you had before (so that 10% should be reset to 31.62%, because .3162 is the square root of .1).
Availability and compatibility
DE:Noise is available as an FxPlug plugin for Final Cut Express 4.0.1 and up, Final Cut Pro 6.0.1 and up, Motion 3.0.1 and up.
I'm sure most of you are starting to feel the economic crunch, so we've put together a section for plug-ins that are $99 and under. These are useful plug-ins by well known plug-in developers like Red Giant, Trapcode, Digieffects, Noise Industries, Nattress and others.
If you'd like to take the plug-in for a test drive before you buy it, most of the plug-ins are available for download on our demos/trial page: http://www.toolfarm.com/demo/demo.php
Introducing a new and easier Serial Number system and several other enhancements
February 02, 2009 - CHV-electronics, software developer of plugins for Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express and Motion announced today an update of all of their FxPlug plugin packages. The new version includes a new and easier to handle Serial Number system, several enhancements and speed improvements.
The new version numbers for the plugin packages are:
The plugin package runs on all PowerPC and Intel Mac computers on OSX 10.4 (Tiger) and OSX 10.5 (Leopard) 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.
New Light Version of Looks Offers 100+ Presets with One Click
San Francisco, CA, January 12, 2009 - Red Giant Software, with popular products including Magic Bullet Suite, Knoll Light Factory and Trapcode Suite, today introduced a new color correction tool suited for budget conscious film makers that want professional quality tools. Magic Bullet Quick Looks, a light version of Magic Bullet Looks) offers the fastest way to give clips a classic film look. Users can choose from 100+ presets to get the look of popular films including: The Matrix, Bad Boys, Saving Private Ryan, or TV shows like CSI.
Highlights
100-Look Library More than one hundred unique Looks, conveniently organized by category in the Look Library, are a great starting point for defining the mood of any scene. The presets range from simple exposure and film process emulation to radical color changes. Best of all users can use the Look Theater to browse through the library using their own images - finding a look couldn't be easier.
Professional Looks quickly - and on a budget Quick Looks offers the same professional presets as the more expensive Magic Bullet Looks tool, but offers a streamlined interface without the tools to create custom Looks. Instead, choose a Look from the library, adjust a single Strength control. It's that simple.
Blazing speed with DeepColor RT Maximize performance with the power of the DeepColor RT engine. Play back SD and HD (720p) projects in real-time by efficiently using the system's graphics processing power. The next-generation DeepColor RT engine preserves quality in every application host so that 10-bit projects remain 10-bit.
Add warmth to wedding videos, even when shot on cloudy days
Pricing and Availability Magic Bullet Quick Looks is a light version of the full Magic Bullet Looks tool with the same speed and quality but without editing tools for $99 USD. Quick Looks is a plug-in for both Mac OS X and Windows users running Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, or Avid Xpress Pro/Media Composer. The product is available now for purchase at http://toolfarm.stores.yahoo.net/redgimabuqul.html
About Red Giant Software Red Giant Software LLC is a San Francisco-based company that develops professional tools for digital video production. Products are available as plug-ins for popular video editing and effects applications, including After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro, and Avid. All tools are based on production-proven technology developed by visual effects veterans.
Yep, you heard that correctly. The sale ends today and the groovy graphic will be left in the archive. This really is an incredible deal and I can tell you from personal experience that the CHV plugins are awesome. They are very fast and you can do a lot more with them than you would expect. I love plugins that you can totally push the settings to crazy levels to create new and interesting effects.
CHV-electronics, software developer of plugins for Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express and Motion announced today the sale of the Birthday-Bundle 2008 and an update of their FxPlug plugin package QC Integration FX based on Apple's technologies FxPlug and Quartz Composer.
The Birthday-Bundle 2008
From Monday through Wednesday (Dec. 15-17, 2008) the Birthday-Bundle 2008 is being offered for just $349.00 (original retail price $744.00). It includes all available CHV plugin packages:
The Entire-Bundle 06-2006 (The Repair-collection, The Morph-collection, The Text-collection, The Time-collection, The Film-Filter, The AlphaWipe-collection, The Clone and Paint-collection, The MotionTracker-collection, The Bezier Garbage Matte Pro, The 3D-collection, The Distortion-collection, The Color-collection, The Starters-collection)
QC Integration FX V1.6.3 The update provides the user with the ability to select a folder path directly with a OSX file selector dialog. This option is used by all Quartz Composer plugins that need to collect images directly from a folder.
QC Integration FX allows the user more versatility than 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 state-of-the-art FxPlug plugins for Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express and Motion You can now build plugins for sale with copyright-protection, which allows third party developers to create Quartz Composer based visual effects and sell them securely. CHV's unmatched copy-protection system prevents the uncontrolled distribution of serial numbers.
The plugin package runs on all PowerPC and Intel Mac computers on OSX 10.4 (Tiger) and OSX 10.5 (Leopard) 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.
FxFactory Awards 2008 contest entries will be judged according to their creative use of FxFactory plug-ins and overall impact of the video material. Submissions will be accepted starting December 15, 2008. The deadline for submission is January 15, 2009. Winners will be announced January 21, 2009.
What's that? You don't have FxFactory? Try a free demo today!. It runs in After Effects CS3/CS4, Final Cut Pro and Motion. It requires Mac OS 10.5 and an Intel processor.
That's right! Our One Day Sales may be over, but you can still save 50% on some great products from Boris! Get any of the Boris Continuum Units, including, Film Look, Lens Flare Advanced, Motion Key, Glitters, Pan and Zoom, UpRez or Chroma Key for half price through next Monday. The plug-ins work in After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and Motion.
As an added bonus, customers who purchase a Boris Continuum Unit may credit the price of the Unit towards the full Boris Continuum Complete plug-in suite at $895. (See After Effect/Premiere Pro and FxPlug for Final Cut Pro and Motion versions.)
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.
San Francisco, CA, November 10, 2008 - Red Giant Software, publisher of the popular Magic Bullet, Knoll Light Factory and Trapcode products, today introduced Red Giant Warp. Adding a perfect shadow, a realistic reflection or working with distorted video can be tough. Red Giant Warp makes it easy to generate these effects quickly.
The three powerful plug-ins in the Warp toolset give users ultimate control over shadows, reflections and corner point warps. The Shadow tool renders realistic shadows for text or subjects shot on greenscreen, while the Reflection tool creates perfect mirror-like reflections. The advanced Corner Pin tool includes features for working with warped images, importing tracking data from Mocha for After Effects, and adding secondary transforms and motion blur-everything you need to heighten realism in any scene. Priced at $199, Warp is available for purchase from http://toolfarm.stores.yahoo.net/redgiantwarp10.html.
The capabilities of Red Giant Warp go far beyond those of its application hosts. Designed with input from real-world testers, Warp includes features such as dual-warp corner pinning with full motion blur support, 3D shadows with user-definable bending effects, and powerful reflection compositing that would be complex and time-consuming to generate by hand. With Warp, users can generate these realistic effects quickly and without complex compositing tricks.
Highlights
Pin with Precision
It's tough to take video from a warped source, such as a billboard shot in perspective, and add it to another video. But the dual warping tools in Warp's Corner Pin plug-in make it easy to take any video source, warped or not, and put it into a new place with proper perspective. With advanced offset controls and direct Mocha for After Effects integration, manipulating corner pins with tracking data couldn't be easier.
Play on the Dark Side
Adding depth is easy with the Shadow tool. Three point controls let users set the shadow perspective, and fade controls to create realistic falloff. A unique bend control can warp the shadow to create the illusion of shadows falling on two planes in 3D space.
Reflect your World
Adding a simple reflection is easy in most tools, but making it look real can be a challenge. Reflection provides an easy-to-use setup control for defining a mirror reflection for any source video or image. Extensive controls let you add fade-out or blur to make your reflection look sharp or diffuse.
The Pan and Zoom plug-ins let you create the photo animation style made popular by Ken Burns with intuitive controls and automatic motion control that achieves stunning results without a single keyframe.
The Pan and Zoom generator works in all hosts currently supported by FxFactory: Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 3, Final Cut Express 4, Adobe After Effects CS3 and CS4.
The Pan and Zoom transition works inside Final Cut Pro 6 and Final Cut Express 4.
The new OpenGL-accelerated Boris Continuum Lens Flare Unit simulates a lens flare - streaks and spots of light on film caused by light bouncing inside a camera lens. Composite the lens flare over a source image or generate a completely synthetic image. A wide range of preset lens flares is included for quick application or as a starting point for a custom effect. What makes the Boris Lens Flare unique is its ability to track a camera pan in the source footage, producing a more natural flare animation to match the original in-camera effect.
Boris Continuum Lens Flare includes Lens Flare and Lens Flare Advanced. Lens Flare is streamlined for when you want to create a simple effect. Lens Flare Advanced provides more options for controlling the effect.
Boris Continuum Lens Flare supports Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Apple Motion. For Avid systems, the Lens Flare filters are included as part of Boris Continuum Complete AVX.
Motype is a powerful animated text generator for Final Cut Pro, Motion, Final Cut Express and Adobe After Effects by Yanobox, the latest company to deliver innovative visual effects with FxFactory.
Motype lets you create complex animations in minutes, thanks to a powerful motion mixer that does away with keyframing. An intuitive set of parameters lets you configure motion blur, per-character particle emitters, randomized characters, 3D camera and environment.
Note: Motype requires the Noise Industries FxFactory engine. FxFactory (a free download) must be installed on your system in order to use Motype.
SUGARfx CineFest 2.0 has been updated...
CineFest 2.0 is a major update to the movie festival theme by SUGARfx with improved customizability and 5 new theme elements. The unlockable, demo version of CineFest 2.0 is available immediately.
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.
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.
All-New Settings for Apple Final Cut Pro 7 and Apple Soundtrack Pro 3
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The CoreMelt Complete V2.2.1 upgrade is required for correct usage of all CoreMelt V2 plugins in FCP7 / Motion 4. It also contains other fixes, improved documentation, and more presets for all V2 users.
Svengali Rays comes as a completely 
