Color Fixer Plus, part of NewBlue Video Essentials, provides an easy way to correct color balance. Because it also adjusts saturation, brightness, and film gamma, it's a great tool to quickly get the look you want in one pass. Learn More/Purchase NewBlue FX Video Essentials | Free Trial
NewBlueFX Image Mapper, part of the new NewBlue FX Video Essentials III, makes it easy to superimpose images within your scene.
We created this effect to quickly and efficiently superimpose a clip onto nearly any surface in your video while maintaining a realistic feel. In this edition of Tips & Techniques, Jeremy Rasnic shows you how to use Image Mapper to map a clip onto just about any surface in your video.
NewBlueFX Video Essentials I: Just as every painter needs a canvas, brush, and paint, no video editor should be without NewBlue Video Essentials. This valuable collection of tools features a set of 10 video effects designed to make your workflow more efficient. Think of these as a Swiss army knife of tools designed to enhance, optimize, and accelerate your productivity.
NewBlueFX Video Essentials II: Use this collection of ten indispensable effects to solve frustrating problems and add luster to your productions, all with intuitive yet powerful controls. The NewBlue Video Essentials II collection features 131 presets in 10 different plugins that brings video magic to the desktop. Use this collection to solve frustrating problems and add luster to your productions, all with intuitive yet powerful controls.
The Video Editor's Wish List of Tools & Techniques in One Package
La Jolla, CA - November 04, 2009 - NewBlue, Inc. today launched Video Essentials III, the third and latest offering in its best-selling Video Essentials series of video effects and transitions plugins. NewBlue Video Essentials III provides highly-practical video tools designed to solve everyday production issues. The collection includes Rolling Shutter, Image Mapper, Edge Smoother, Split Screen, Gradient Tint, Spotlight and three additional video effects plugins.
Available for all major video editing software platforms, including Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Premiere Elements, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Final Cut Express, Avid Media Composer, Avid NewsCutter, Avid Symphony, Avid Xpress, Avid Liquid, Corel (formerly Ulead) VideoStudio, Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, Sony Vegas Movie Studio and Canopus EDIUS, NewBlue Video Essentials III improves and enhances video footage while reducing overall project time.
Who says the sequel can't be as good as the original?, says Todor Fay, NewBlue's chief technology officer. "We built NewBlue Video Essentials III in response to the incredible feedback we received regarding our original Video Essentials effects plugins products. Video Essentials III represents the best-of-the-best of these wishlists."
Using NewBlue Video Essentials III, video editors and enthusiasts can easily fix motion distortion from CMOS cameras, soften jagged edges on text and graphics, effortlessly map the four corners of a video insert over a scene, selectively strengthen color and manipulate atmosphere and easily perform dozens of other tasks designed to optimize workflow.
NewBlue Video Essentials III joins the company's highly-regarded product line of nearly 20 exclusive video plugins collections and is value-priced at $79.95.
Included in NewBlue Video Essentials III are:
Image Mapper, which makes it easy to superimpose a smaller image within the scene, including curving the edges for flexible shapes.
Auto Contrast, which dynamically adjusts contrast and vibrance, helping achieve well-balanced visuals without tedious keyframing.
Edge Smoother, which selectively softens jaggy edges on text and graphics to blend the scenes together - the next best thing to true anti-aliasing.
Proportion Helper, which assists the scene composition and balance by providing practical guidelines to arrange elements.
Rolling Shutter, which repairs the common wobble and skew damage that affects many video cameras using CMOS sensors.
Split Screen, which elegantly divides the image in a few clicks for compositing - no messy math required.
Diffusion, which makes the clips bloom in seconds, whether it's giving a soft glow to wedding footage or an otherworldly aura to the next sci-fi epic.
Gradient Tint, which gives the power to bring out blue skies, selectively affect color ranges, and more, an invaluable evolution of a key photographer's filter.
Spotlight, which provides a versatile way to bring focus to the subjects and apply finishing touches such background blur.
Dual Booster, which provides an innovative way to independently affect darker and lighter parts of an image, going from subtle enhancements to artistic expression.
NewBlue, Inc. develops innovative audio, video and multimedia technologies for leading companies throughout the world. Founded in early 2002, NewBlue creates and licenses a range of proprietary technologies, including a series of NewBlueFX video technologies, the NewBlue Audio Engine and Audiomatrix technology platform, that meet the varied multimedia needs of mid-and large-sized companies. Experienced developers, musicians, artists, and software professionals with a unique and commanding set of skills, experience and talent comprise the NewBlue team.
The company unveiled its NewBlueFX product line in 2006 to meet the needs of digital video editing enthusiasts. The NewBlueFX collection of software plug-ins includes special audio and video effects, such as audio filters, noise reduction, equalization, compression and dozens of sophisticated graphic filters and transitions. To date, the NewBlueFX line includes 5 audio-oriented plug-in collections and 15 video-oriented effects and transitions collections for the Adobe Premiere, Avid Liquid, Avid Media Composer, Avid Xpress Pro, Pinnacle Studio and Sony Vegas desktop video product lines, as well as AVCHD UpShift, an AVCHD conversion utility.
The 'Swiss Army Knife' of Video Effects Collections
Video, Multimedia and Technology Editors
LA JOLLA, CA (September 22, 2008)— NewBlue, Inc. announces NewBlue Video Essentials, a comprehensive collection of NewBlueFX video plugins designed to enhance, optimize, and accelerate productivity and workflow. Featuring an indispensable toolbox of 10 distinct video effects plugins, NewBlue Video Essentials aids video professionals and enthusiasts in repairing, refining and improving their video.
NewBlue Video Essentials joins the company's highly-regarded product line of 14 exclusive video effects plugins, video transitions and audio filters. The product is available for all major video editing software platforms, including Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Premiere Elements, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Final Cut Express, Avid Media Composer, Avid NewsCutter, Avid Symphony, Avid Xpress, Avid Liquid, Corel (formerly Ulead) VideoStudio, Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, Sony Vegas Movie Studio and Thomson Grass Valley EDIUS. The collection is value-priced at $79.95.
"NewBlue Video Essentials is an incredible value, but don’t be fooled by its aggressive pricing," explains Paul Devermann, VP of Business Development. "This suite of video effects plugins offers critical tools to get the job done. Nowhere else will you find such a powerful set of truly useful tools for less than $100, much less $79.95."
Included in NewBlue Video Essentials are:
Color Fixer Plus, which provides a quick and easy way to fix color balance. It can also adjust the saturation, brightness, and film gamma.
Crop Borders, which quickly and easily eliminates unnecessary video borders.
Detail Enhancer, which strengthens the lines and edges in the video image, bringing out detail in a dull or foggy scene and resulting in a clearer picture.
Flash Remover, which automatically senses camera flashes and removes them from the video.
Pixelator, which replaces an oval area on the screen with large colored blocks, obscuring the underlying image. This can be used to obscure a face to maintain anonymity.
Sharpen, which refines the video image, enhancing the definition.
Soft Focus, which gently blurs the video image.
Tint, which changes the coloring and light behavior of the video image. It provides control over the tinting, color saturation, brightness, and has the option of adding the lighting depth of film.
Touch Up, which smoothes the image, removing subtle blemishes from the video, while maintaining strong details. Touch Up is a great way to clean up an image to make it more appealing.
Video Tuneup, which combines four very useful image adjustment filters for quick and easy fine (or not so fine) tuning of the image.
NewBlue, Inc. develops innovative audio, video and multimedia technologies for leading companies throughout the world. Founded in early 2002, NewBlue creates and licenses a range of proprietary technologies- including a series of NewBlueFX video technologies, the NewBlue Audio Engine and Audiomatrix technology platform- that meet the varied multimedia needs of mid-and large-sized companies. Experienced developers, musicians, artists, and software professionals with a unique and commanding set of skills, experience and talent comprise the NewBlue team.
The company unveiled its NewBlueFX product line in 2006 to meet the needs of digital video editing enthusiasts. The NewBlueFX collection of software plug-ins includes special audio and video effects, such as audio filters, noise reduction, equalization, compression and dozens of sophisticated graphic filters and transitions. To date, the NewBlueFX line includes 5 audio-oriented plug-in collections and 8 video-oriented effects and transitions collections for the Adobe Premiere, Avid Liquid, Avid Media Composer, Avid Xpress Pro, Pinnacle Studio and Sony Vegas desktop video product lines, as well as AVCHD UpShift, an AVCHD conversion utility created in conjunction with VASST.
The Video Editor's Wish List of Tools & Techniques in One Package
Just as every painter needs a canvas, brush, and paint, no video editor should be without NewBlue Video Essentials. 
The 'Swiss Army Knife' of Video Effects Collections
