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The Stats
- Developer: DigiEffects
- Version: 1.6.1
- Platforms: Mac, Windows
- Host Applications: Adobe After Effects CS3, Adobe Premeire Pro CS3, Apple Final Cut Pro 6, Autodesk Combustion 4
- 32-bit float point color space
- Part of Buena Effects Pack
- Compatibility with After Effects CS3, Compatibility with After Effects 7, Mac Universal Binary
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Features
Effect Essentials is a set of 10 professional plugins for Adobe After Effects=AE, Final Cut Pro, and compatible applications for MacOS and Windows. It includes the following plug-ins:
Camera Flash
Every set of effects needs to include some classic tools that you'll use again and again. Whether you're shooting wedding videos or feature films, you've probably had a need for a camera flash effect.
While an effect like this should be timeless, it shouldn't be time consuming to put together. So we've made it simple to use. You can adjust the entire effect with 2 sliders and 1 color picker. No more messing around with applying blurs and other adjustments while trying to mix different layers together. Just set it and go.
You can also use the Camera Flash effect to create artistic effects that are unlike any real phenomenon. By turning up the saturation instead of turning it down, you can create interesting and beautiful new transitions.
Digital Interference
Sometimes you need to make your video look worse instead of better. You might have to simulate a bad net connection, satellite drop outs, or a video phone. Digital Interference is here to help.
You can use it to simulate scrambled MPEG blocks, dropped key frames, stutters, and entirely dropped connections. You can choose exactly how much of each type of interference you need and adjust it exactly how you want it. You can randomize the settings, or set them for exact reproducibility.
Your track's audio will also be affected by the interference. When the video skips, the audio stays in synch and skips, too. When the video stutters, so does the audio.
While others would be afraid to say so, when you need your video to look its worst, Digital Interference is here to help.
Edge Manipulator
How many times have you wanted to touch up the edges of objects in your videos without affecting the rest of the scene? Don't you wish you could just sharpen the edges of objects a little bit, without adding noise to everything else? Now you can, with Edge Manipulator.
The Edge Manipulator plug-in allows you to apply several different effects to just the edges of your scene. You can sharpen, blur, brighten, or adjust the contrast of the edges in your scenes without touching any of the other pixels. This means that sharpening doesn't add noise to the entire scene. It means that adjusting the contrast won't posterize your image. It means adjusting only what you want.
Or, if you prefer, you can apply the effects only to the non-edge areas of your video. Blur your entire scene, without losing the detail of the edges of objects, for example.
You can also use the Edge Manipulator to show or even trace the edges of objects in your video. This allows you to create roto-scope like markings over your video without the hours of pain-staking hand drawing. You can vary the size of the brush as well as setting the brush hardness and spacing to achieve a wide variety of artistic styles
Feedback
The Feedback effect simulates a video feedback loop. This is what occurs when you point your video camera at the monitor which is displaying its output. Each frame is fed back into the video camera creating interesting repeating patterns.
You can choose how much to blend each frame that is fed back into the output with the current frame. But the really powerful part is that you can choose a spatial transformation to apply to the image before it's fed back into the output. This allows you to create rotating and distorting patterns. Best of all, we've given it an easy to use interface (see image at bottom right). Simply drag the corners of the framed rectangle into any shape you like and it will produce the same effect in your video.
If you're a power user, the rotation anchor and translation point can be producer points for scripts or the motion tracker, as well.
Frame Manipulator
Have you ever had an idea that you couldn't put into words? Have you ever struggled with the tools you have to try to get that idea into the computer? Help has arrived.
With the Frame Manipulator you can perform transformations on your image that were impossible before, or that required learning a complex scripting language. Now you can take one aspect of your video clip and have it affect a completely different one.
For example, you can have the volume of the soundtrack control the size of the image. Or you can have the brightness control the rotation of the image. You can make wild (and useful) connections between different aspects of your video or audio. You can finally unleash your full creative potential.
The Frame Manipulator effect also gives you various repeating and random waveforms you can use as inputs. You can use them to affect things like the amount of blur applied to the image, the location of the clip within the layer, the hue, saturation, or brightness of the frame, and much more.
View Frame Manipulator Video Sample
HSV Curves
Color Correction You Can Understand With the HSV Curves tool, you can make corrections to colors using an interface you're already familiar with - the Curves tool. The HSV Curves tool offers the same interface improvements as our Super RGB Curves plug-in, such as live dragging, and colored backgrounds, but allows you to work in Hue-Saturation-Value color space instead of Red-Green-Blue color space. This offers you complete artistic freedom in dealing with the colors in your video. You can isolate single colors or groups of colors and transform them without affecting the others.
Change One Color To Another You can perform color transformations, such as changing one color to another with ease. Simply set both the input and output popup menus to Hue, and you can transform any hue into another one without affecting the rest of the colors in your scene. Now you can pull those greens up into the blue range, with a simple click or two.
Desaturate or Oversaturate Individual Colors But the real power comes when you set the input and output menus to different channels. Want to pull out all the reds in your scene? Set the input to Hue and the output to Saturation, and pull the red values down. Everything that was red is now black and white. Want to make your blues more vibrant to highlight a blue object? Just pull the blue range up. It's that easy:
HSV Curves UI The HSV Curves User Interface with the blues desaturated and the yellows over-saturated Colored chalk with saturation changes
The chalk image with the blues desaturated and the yellows over-saturated
Brighten or Darken Individual Colors You can even adjust the brightness of individual hues in your image by setting the input channel to Hue and the output channel to Value. When you increase the value of a particular hue, it gets brighter without affecting anything else.
HSV Manipulator
A Digital Fountain of Youth The HSV Manipulator filter allows you to apply effects only to particular colors without needing to duplicate layers, create masks and mix with the original. You can use it to apply a blur or median filter only to skin tones or a chroma key color. This allows you to smooth out specific areas in your video without affecting the rest of it, as in the images to the right. Notice how detail is not lost in the non-skin tone areas.
You can use the filter to easily apply a mosaic to skin tones, obscuring people's faces without having to track their motion throughout a clip.
You can also choose to apply the filter to everything except the chosen color range. Maybe you're concerned about excessive film grain in objects you're compositing with another scene. Apply the blur to everything that doesn't match your chroma key to reduce the graininess!
With HSV Manipulator, you're in control of what gets affected and what doesn't. And it couldn't be easier because it comes with an easy to use color wheel control that allows you to visual select a range of colors in a natural way.
Pixel Manipulator
Just as the Frame Manipulator plug-in allows you to turn one property of each video frame into another one, the Pixel Manipulator allows you to turn one aspect of each pixel into another one, all without scripting.
You can use the Pixel Manipulator plug-in to add gradients and patterns to video clips. You can affect the hue, saturation, or brightness of each pixel with the red, green, or blue of the pixel. Or you can do the reverse. Or you can use various 1D and 2D waveforms to affect the properties of the pixels.
You can use it to emphasize certain aspects of your video, such as highlighting the pixels near an object, and desaturating those far away as in the movie at the right. This works great with the Motion Tracker feature of After Effects, allowing you to create a "spotlight" around a moving object, for example.
With the Pixel Manipulator, you can easily set up complex relationships between each pixel's different properties, giving you an enormous amount of power with very little effort.
Radial Glow
The Radial Glow filter creates the illusion of a light radiating from a point behind the scene. You can also simulate halo-like effects using the radial spin setting. And you don't have to get out your 3D rendering application or spend time drawing paths around objects just to create these simple effects. As a matter of fact, you don't even need to have an alpha channel for your footage!
You can move the light source to anywhere in the frame so you can simulate an object emitting light. You can even tie the source of the light to any point being tracked with After Effects tracker. And of course you can choose the color and intensity of the light, too. You also have the ability to mix the glow and the original frame using any of the familiar mixing modes you already use with After Effects.
Whether you want to create heavenly halos or eerie glows, you can do it with the Radial Glow filter.
Super RGB Curves
This 173x173 pixel box was enough to adjust the colors in your video in 1990 when computers had 14 inch screens, 32 Megs of RAM, and 100 Meg hard drives:
The old RGB Curves interface
But here in the 21st century with our 30 inch wide-screen displays, gigabytes of RAM and terabytes of hard drive space, we can afford to use a slightly larger area:
The Super RGB Curves interface
And we can also afford to make the interface usable! Isn't it about time you get live feedback while dragging the curve? Isn't it about time you had the ability to enter an exact value for a knot on your curve? Isn't it about time you could zoom in to look at the curve more closely? Isn't it about time you could have more than 16 points on your curve, too? Here's what you've been waiting for.
Super RGB Curves offers:
- Live updating while you drag knots on the curve
- A full 256x256 pixel area to work in (that's more than twice the area of the old version!)
- The ability to zoom in to see your curve in more detail
- The ability to enter exact values by double clicking on a knot
- The ability to enter values in the full 16-bit range (0-32,768)
- The ability to have more than 16 knots (up to 1,000!)
- A line tool for entering stair-steps and other straight line "curves"
- Colored backgrounds which show you what changes will happen before you try them
Entering an exact value in the 16-bit range
The RGB Curves tool is an essential part of every video editor's toolbox, and it's time it was updated to modern standards of usability! With Super RGB Curves, you get a larger area to work in. In fact, you get the entire 256 value range, so you can set your points exactly where you want them.
If you're working with 16-bit per channel video you can place your knots at a whopping 32,768 positions! How is that possible in a 256x256 pixel area? Because with Super RGB Curves you can zoom in to see exactly where your knots are placed. But don't worry - you don't have to zoom in to place a point exactly. You can simply double click on any knot and enter the exact input and output values you want by hand. When you need to get your adjustment just right, you can.
Now you can have 1,000 knots on your curve. No more 16 point limitation. And if you don't want your curve to be curvy, you can use the straight line tool, instead. This allows you to create stair-step "curves" for producing color bars, or posterization.
It's a new millennium, and it's time for better tools!
What's New in v.1.6.1
Version 1.6.1 is a minor bug fix update which corrects the following problems:
- Camera Flash - Fixed a potential crashing bug. The blur size could sometimes go above the maximum value causing a crash.
- Frame Manipulator - (Mac only) Fixed a potential crash or potentially incorrect output when using audio as the input. This problem did not affect the Windows version of the plug-in.
Training, Tutorials and Manual
- Effect Essentials Manual
- HSV Curves- After Effects - Changing One Color To Another
- HSV Curves - Final Cut Pro - Changing One Color To Another
- HSV Curves - After Effects - Removing Some Colors While Leaving Others
- HSV Curves - Final Cut Pro - Removing Some Colors While Leaving Others
