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From PlugInFinder

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Contents 1 After Effects plug-ins 1.1 A 1.2 B 1.3 C 1.4 D 1.5 F 1.6 G 1.7 I 1.8 M 1.9 N 1.10 O 1.11 P 1.12 R 1.13 S 1.14 V 2 Apple Final Cut Pro Freebies 2.1 # 2.2 A 2.3 C 2.4 D 2.5 E 2.6 H 2.7 L 2.8 M 2.9 N 2.10 P 2.11 R 2.12 S 2.13 T 3 Apple Motion Freebies 3.1 C 3.2 N 4 Protools Freebies

After Effects plug-ins

A

• AlphaPlugins FirTree- Create animated fir tree branches.
• AlphaPlugins New Year Toy - Create different kinds of New Year toys for decorating of New Year tree.
• Amber Visual Widescreen Mask - A simple tool to crop footage in After Effects.
• Amber Visual Chroma Smoother - Recreates the chroma channels of digital video, reducing compression artifacts and color in After Effects.
• Amber Visual Broadcast Legaliser - A free plug-in For After Effects.

B

• Buena AEFlame - Comic Recursive Fractal Flames.
• Buena Swatch Buckler - Adds a floating color palette to After Effects' user interface. Free.
• Boris Continuum Complete BCC Comet Filter This is a limited time offer.

C

• Conoa FreeStreak - A free plug-in from Conoa.
• CoreMelt VeeYou - A free set of plug-ins from CoreMelt which generate Volume Unit level and EQ animations based on the audio in your project
• CHV Svengali Rays- Lite - A free plug-in from Conoa that creates realistic 3D volumetric light effects.
• CrumplePop Freemeo - lets you create HD text elements and lower thirds in the style of Vimeo.
• CrumplePop Photo - a set of high quality HD effects that let you create Polaroid-style photos directly in the FCP timeline.

D

• DAZ Studio - Standalone 3D posing and animation tool
• Digital Film Tools Fast Blur - Fast Blur is included for free with Digital Film Tools 55mm, Digital Film Tools Composite Suite and Digital Film Tools Digital Film Lab.

F

• FAN XMULT - Creates an alpha channel based on the highest luminance value of each pixel.
• Fnord exrdisplay - Adjusts for switching between standard linear gamma displays and OpenEXR formats/ working with 32-bit HDR (high-dyamic-range) imagery.
• Fnord j2k - A free plug-in for reading and writing the JPEG 2000 file format, the successor to JPEG.
• Fnord SuperPNG A free plug-in that fully supports the PNG format.
• Fnord SuperTIFF - A free plug-in for Adobe After Effects that provides more complete support for TIFF than AE does natively.
• Frischluft Field Fixer - A free plug-in which allows the user to correct field problems manually by selecting upper and lower field for the current frame.
• Frischluft HSL Selection - Free plug-in that selects HSL.

G

• GridIron Software X-Factor - Free version for just two additional CPUs, which can as much as double the speed of preview processing and rendering.

I

• Idustrial Revolution CoverFlux - The iTunes style scrolling still image generator plugin for Final Cut Pro, Motion and Final Cut Express4.
• Idustrial Revolution Freebie Pack - Five free FxPlug filters and Generators for Final Cut Studio and After Effects.

M

• Matrox WYSIWYG filters - View the compositing window on a video monitor or TV in both DV and D1 resolution
• Maxon Cinema 4D Composition Import - Maxon CINEMA 4D exchange plugin for Adobe After Effects Plug-in for Maxon Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects FREE DOWNLOAD
• Mocon Script - A collection of scripts used to transfer 3D motion to and from After Effects, Maya, Nuke, SynthEyes and Electric Image.

N

• Noise Industries Star Titler - Lets you reproduce the look of the opening titles first used by the Star Wars movie.
• Noise Industries CoreMelt - VeeYou - Generate volume unit level and EQ animations based on the audio in your project.
• Noise Industries Pan and Zoom - 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.
• Noise Industries Idustrial Revolution - Freebies Pak 1 - MultiSpace, iSight Live!, Rack Focus and Opposites.
• Noise Industries SUGARfx - Foto Maestro - The first Spanish-language plug-in by SUGARfx lets you animate a still picture or media using a Pan & Scan effect with drop shadow and customizable interpolation curve.
• Noise Industries SUGARfx - Mondrianesque - Lets you loop through a folder of pictures to create a photo montage Mondrian-style.
• Normality 3 Minning - Stefan Minning - Normality 3 is a powerful plug-in that allows CG Artists to light 3D objects and scenes directly within the familiar.

O

• ObviousFX Copy Image - A simple utility that copies the current composition image to the Windows Clipboard, allowing easy pasting into other image applications.
• ObviousFX Erodilation - Erodes or dilates an image, to produce blocky, glowing or hollow effects.
• The Omino After Effects Suite
  • Omino Halftone
  • Omino Sphere Map
  • Omino Squares
  • Omino Feedback
  • Omino Diffusion
  • Omino Mino Colorizer
• OpenSpace/KaZuhiro FuRuhata M-HeboHebo - Several free plug-ins for color, lines and gradients.

P

• PatchMaker Arkan B-Spline Transfer - Convert border of a raster mask or any closed polyline into B-spline representation.
• Pete Warden After Effects Plugins-Win/Mac - Free plug-ins with source code.
• Pete WardenFreeFrame FX - FreeFrame is the open-source cross-platform real-time video effects plug-in
• Pete Warden FreeFrame Host for After Effects PC - Free plug-ins with source code.
• Phillipp Spoeth RetroDots - Free dot rendering program
• Phillipp Spoeth Shear - Free distortion filter
• Phillipp Spoeth Sine Dot Shader - Free filter
• The Plugin Site Harry's Filters - Filters for changing color or mood, creating artistic effects, producing colorful gradients, patterns, warping and noise.
• Profound Effects Crop - Crop the edges of a video layer to remove unwanted video blanking pixels at the edges of the layer, or use the border color setting to apply a border effect to the layer.
• Profound Effects Reveal - Search for compositions, video and audio footage, layers, solids (including nulls and adjustment layers), effects, masks, cameras, and lights in the nested depths of your current After Effects project.
• Profound Effects Bullnose Mask - Create a rounded rectangular mask (sometimes known as a bull-nosed matte) on video or solid layers.

R

• Red Giant Software eLin - eLin addresseschallenges such as motion blur, depth of field, glows, and basic transformations that appear when you combine 2D and 3D imagery.
• Red Giant Software Knoll Unmult - Recreates the opacity or alpha channel of a layer based on luminance also called brightness of the lens flare. Unmult assumes that the lens flare is rendered against black. The image is also adjusted to compensate for the new alpha channel.
• Red Giant Software Magic Bullet LooksBuilder - A free Standalone that will help Stylize looks to still pictures.

S

• Scott Frizzle Quaker - Earthquake effects
• Sebastian Mecklenburg Looper
• Sebastian Mecklenburg Raybeam
• Sebastian Mecklenburg Switcher
• Sebastian Mecklenburg Talker
• Synthetic Aperture Test Pattern Maker - A free utility for generating video and audio test patterns.

V

• Video Copilot Reflection - Customize the look of the reflection in 3D space

Apple Final Cut Pro Freebies

#

• 1z1 Screenworks 1z1 tools for FCP - Download their demo and keep the free ones.

A

• Anders Holck Petersen FCP Rescue
• Anders Holck Petersen Final Cut Pro 3 Realtime Effects Performance Tweaks
• Artmetic - Video plugins for FCP, with a free Posterize tool if you try their demo.

C

• CGM Aged Film LE - A free Plug-in to create an aged film look in Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express.
• CHV Silk and Fog (Free) - The free Silk-filter for Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express by CHV-electronics Silk and Fog V4.0 provides you with 5 effects
• CHV Silhouette (Free) - Create pretty silhouettes around objects iSilhouette is a video filter that colorizes the silhouette of an object.
• CHV Towers of Film 3D A free FxPlug plugin by CHV-electronics.
• Noise Industries CoreMelt - VeeYou - Generates volume and EQ animations based on the audio in your project.

D

• Deep Magic Studios Final Cut Pro Universal Leaders - a "modification" to an original Universal Leader that DIDNT come within FCP.
• Deep Magic Studios Lower 3rd - a "modification" to the original lower 3rd that came in Final Cut Pro 4 HD
• Digital Heaven DH_Grid and Digital Heaven DH_Guides - Free FCP Plugins
• DigMo Aperture to Final Cut Pro

E

• Eureka! Free Plugin Package - click link to download. No description available. May only work in FCS1.

H

• Haiku Final Cut Pro Plug-ins - Free plugins - Easy Vignette and Facelight.

L

• Lyric Shadow-Highlight - A levels adjustment tool

M

• Marcus's Final Cut Pro Plug-in's

N

• Nattress G Reverse - smoothly play your video backward.
• Noise Industries Star Titler - Lets you reproduce the look of the opening titles first used by the Star Wars movie.
• Noise Industries Pan and Zoom - 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.
• Noise Industries CoreMelt - VeeYou - Generate volume unit level and EQ animations based on the audio in your project.
• Noise Industries Idustrial Revolution - CoverFlux - The iTunes style scrolling still image generator plugin for Final Cut Pro, Motion and Final Cut Express4.
• Noise Industries Idustrial Revolution - Freebies Pak 1 - MultiSpace, iSight Live!, Rack Focus and Opposites.
• Noise Industries SUGARfx - Foto Maestro - The first Spanish-language plug-in by SUGARfx lets you animate a still picture or media using a Pan & Scan effect with drop shadow and customizable interpolation curve.
• Noise Industries SUGARfx - Mondrianesque - Lets you loop through a folder of pictures to create a photo montage Mondrian-style.

P

• Paul Crisp Film Grain Process - Free Grain Plug-in for FCP
• Paul Crisp FCP Garbage Mattes - Free Garbage matte tool for FCP

R

• Rainer's Wiggle - wiggles the picture up and down, and/or sideways. Free.
• Ranier's 3perf Footage - Plug-in to mimic keycode burn-in Free.

S

• Sheffield Softworks Plugins Two Strip Technicolor - This plugin drops the blue channel information and reconstructs it from a combination of the red and green channels.
• Sheffield Softworks Plugins Three Strip Technicolor - This plugin attempts to mathematically correct for that crosstalk between the color channels in modern film techniques.
• Sheffield Softworks Plugins Three Strip Extreme - The original algorithm for producing the technicolor look.
• Sheffield Softworks Plugins Richer - Gives a sort of golden "richness" to the image.
• Sheffield Softworks Plugins Convolve Toy - Basically a front end to FCP's convolve routine.
• Sheffield Softworks Plugins Captain's Blowout Fixer - Lets you selectively substitute one channel for another in the over exposed areas and color correct it to match.
• Sheffield Softworks Plugins Luma Toy - Alters image luminance in interesting ways.

T

• Too Much Too Soon Free FXScrips - Free FXScript and plug ins for Final Cut Pro. Try the Flashframe!
• Tom Henderson's 50 Point Bezier Matte - a filter for Final Cut Pro (and Final Cut Express) that lets you create a garbage matte with up to 50 points.

Apple Motion Freebies

C

• CHV Towers of Film 3D A free FxPlug plugin by CHV-electronics.

N

• Noise Industries Star Titler - Lets you reproduce the look of the opening titles first used by the Star Wars movie.
• Noise Industries CoreMelt - VeeYou - Generate volume unit level and EQ animations based on the audio in your project.
• Noise Industries Pan and Zoom - 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.
• Noise Industries Idustrial Revolution - CoverFlux - The iTunes style scrolling still image generator plugin for Final Cut Pro, Motion and Final Cut Express4.
• Noise Industries Idustrial Revolution - Freebies Pak 1 - MultiSpace, iSight Live!, Rack Focus and Opposites.
• Noise Industries SUGARfx - Foto Maestro - The first Spanish-language plug-in by SUGARfx lets you animate a still picture or media using a Pan & Scan effect with drop shadow and customizable interpolation curve.
• Noise Industries SUGARfx - Mondrianesque - Lets you loop through a folder of pictures to create a photo montage Mondrian-style.

Protools Freebies

• iZotope Vinyl - Free, uses 64-bit processing and advanced filtering, modeling and resampling to create authentic "vinyl" simulation, as if the audio was a record being played on a record player.