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Contents

1 The Stats
2 Purchase Digital Film Tools Composite Suite
3 Download Demo
4 Download Features PDF
5 Description
6 Plug-ins
7 Composite Suite Support Forum

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The Stats

Developer: Digital Film Tools
Version 3.0
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows, Irix
Host Applications: Adobe After Effects 5.0 or above, Apple Final Cut Pro 1.0 or above, Avid Media Composer 2.5.1 and higher and Avid Xpress Pro 5.5.1 and higher, Adobe After Effects Compatible Programs, Discreet Combustion, Eyeon Digital Fusion, Discreet Flint, Flame, Inferno, Smoke and Fire
Compatibility with After Effects 7 and Mac Universal Binary and Compatibility with After Effects CS3

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Purchase Digital Film Tools Composite Suite

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Download Demo

Composite Suite demo for After Effects - Mac and Windows demos available

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Download Features PDF

Composite Features

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Description

Composite Suite includes 28 visual effects plug-ins that were, until recently, only available in-house at Digital !FilmWorks, a Los Angeles based film effects facility. Tested in the rigors of everyday production, the Composite Suite plug-ins provide all that is needed to combine multiple images including in house compositing tricks and techniques, color correction, blur, grain, matte manipulation and edge blending using 16 bit processing even if your system is limited to 8 bits.

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Plug-ins

Camera Flash - Camera Flash simulates the overexposure that occurs when a film camera is stopped

Color Correct - Color Correct manipulates red, green and blue values of the overall image and separately in user definable shadow, midtone and highlight areas. Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Contrast and Gamma controls allow for further control.

Color Paste - Color Paste takes the luminance values of the foreground image and pastes it as a color over the background.

Composite - Composite layers a foreground over a background using a matte with the ability to add drop shadows. In addition, you can manipulate the matte using grow, shrink and blur tools. Another crucial feature in creating seamless effects, Composite's edge blending allows for color correction, blurring and mixing the edge to the background.

Deartifact - Deartifact is handy for cleaning up artifacts caused by DV and HD video footage. In fact, it is useful for cleaning up images that have aliased or jaggy edges.

Defocus - Defocus replicates a true camera defocus by blooming highlights as the image is blurred.

Drop Shadow - Drop shadows can be added to an image that has an alpha channel. The opacity, color, blur and transformation of the drop shadow can all be adjusted.

DVE - DVE allows you to transform your image using Position, Scale, Rotation, Corner Pin, Shear and Crop controls.

Edge Composite - Edge Composite automatically generates an edge matte from an existing alpha channel and allows you to color correct or blur only the edge of the foreground. You can also mix the edge of the foreground with the background. This is very helpful for seamlessly integrating images as well as dealing with aliased mattes.

Fast Blur - Can you guess what this one does? That's right, it blurs the image with individual horizontal and vertical controls. It's fast, high quality and blurs outside the frame.

Film Masks - Film Masks aid you in determining what will be projected on film by adding reticles and or a variable opacity mask to the image. The following aspect ratio's are supported: 2:40 Common Center, 2:40 Common Top, 1:85, 1:78, 1:75, 1:66, 1:37, 1:33 and the TV Transmitted Area, Safe Action and Safe Title for NTSC video.

Frame Averager - The Frame Averager mixes frames together to create interesting motion effects

Grain - Grain simulates film grain and there is individual control of red, green, and blue grain size and intensity in addition to a Film Response parameter which allows the adjustment of where you will see grain in the image.

HDTV Masks - If your HD images are destined to end up on film, the HDTV Masks plug-in aids you in determining the portion of the HDTV frame that will be projected on film by adding reticles and or a variable opacity mask to the image. The following aspect ratio's are supported: 1:85, 1:66 and the TV Transmitted Area, Safe Action and Safe Title for NTSC video.

Holdout Composite - To add practical fire, explosions, smoke or other footage not containing an alpha channel, is normally a challenge. A normal Math Composite ADD function would cause areas of the background to get brighter. This is bad. Using a key of some type would most likely generate unwanted, dark edges. This is also bad. The Holdout Composite is a two-layer effect that effectively composites images such as fire, explosions and smoke

Light! - Light can be added into scene where none existed before. Unlike anything you've seen before, the Light Composite adds light to the scene just as if you were adding a light at the time of shooting. Relying on special matte extraction techniques, isolation of specific parts of the image is quick and easy. Once isolated, light or shadow is introduced. In addition, a pre-built light library that includes windows, doors, leaves and abstract patterns allow you to add realistic lighting and shadow to scenes.

Light Wrap - Light Wrap helps blend the foreground into the background by making the color of the background "wrap" into the foreground edges without softening the edge.

Math Composite - Math Composite combines two clips using one of the Blend modes. You can choose from Add, Subtract, Multiply, Screen, Difference, Darken and Lighten.

Matte Generator - The Matte Generator extracts and creates mattes using advanced matte extraction techniques. Methods of matte extraction are luma, hue, saturation, average, red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, and yellow.

Matte Repair - Matte Repair grows, shrinks or blurs a matte. It also is handy for cleaning up impurities in the black or white areas of the matte.

Noise - Noise adds random monochrome grain to the image.

Non-Additive Mix - Known as a NAM, the non-additive mix combines two pictures by controlling their luminance level relative to each other as well as a set mix percentage. This popular video switcher effect has been included to satisfy those die-hard online video editors.

Optical Dissolve - Optical Dissolve uses a power function to simulate an optical film dissolve. You see the bright areas of the B side of the dissolve sooner than the darker areas.

Ozone - Ozone is a unique plug-in that allows photographers, designers, and artists to manipulate the color of an image with incredible flexibility and accuracy. Inspired by Ansel Adams's Zone System for still photography, Digital Film Tools has created "The Digital Zone System." To reproduce the infinite palette of colors, tones, and brightness of the world around us, the Digital Zone System takes the spectrum of image values and divides them into 11 discrete zones. With Ozone, the color and brightness of each zone can be independently adjusted until you've painted a new picture. All zones can be adjusted and viewed in context, and you don't have to commit to the adjustments until all zones are corrected.

Selective Color Correct - Relying on special matte extraction techniques, isolation of specific parts of the image is quick and easy. Once isolated, the image can be color corrected within these isolated areas with Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Gamma, Contrast, Red, Green, and Blue controls.

Selective Soft Focus - Selective areas of Soft Focus can be added into a scene based on a selection created with the Digital Film Tools Matte Generator.