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Noise Industries FxFactory Pro
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The Stats
- Developer: Noise Industries
- Version: 2.1.3
- Platform: Mac
- Compatibility with After Effects and Premiere CS4, Compatibility with Final Cut Studio 3, Compatibility with After Effects CS3, Mac Universal Binary, Mac OSX Leopard Compatibility, and FxPlug
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Description
FxFactory Pro is the most advanced visual effects package for Final Cut Pro, Motion, Final Cut Express and Adobe After Effects, offering 150 hardware-accelerated plug-ins with unique professional features.
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Features
- Choice - FxFactory Pro includes 142 filters, generators and transitions for Final Cut Pro, Motion, Final Cut Express and Adobe After Effects.
- Quality - A high-precision rendering engine allows you to apply effects to higher-quality sources (such as 10bit YUV) without loss in quality.
- Hardware acceleration - FxFactory Pro plug-ins are accelerated using the graphics card for unbeatable previewing and rendering performance.
- Masks - Built-in masking tools let you apply effects only to certain regions without the need for a separate compositing step.
- Presets - FxFactory Pro plug-ins come with presets, a time saving feature that lets you try new looks with minimal effort. Save your own parameter configurations to disc and recreate the same look later.
- Help - Plug-in documentation is accessible in one click, right from the parameter inspector.
- AccessHelp - Easy access to documentation
- Unique features - FxFactory Pro is the only visual effects package that lets you customize and create your own plug-ins for Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Express and Adobe After Effects without writing a single line of code.
The same powerful tools that allowed us to build FxFactory Pro plug-ins are available to you: create plug-ins that are specific to your projects, share them easily with other users.
150 plug-ins included; unique Features:
- Modify and create your own plug-ins for Final Cut Pro and Motion without writing a single line of code.
- Solve specific tasks with custom plug-in development.
- Share your plug-ins easily with other FxFactory Pro users.
- Sell your plug-ins by joining the growing number of companies that are using FxFactory to deliver plug-ins for Final Cut Studio.
| Add Noise | Advanced Blur |
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| Advanced Box Blur | Advanced Disc Blur |
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| Agent transition | Artist Sketch |
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| Artist Sketch Color | Bars Swipe transition |
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| Bloom | Bloom With Threshold |
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| Blur Chroma | Blur Edges |
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| Blur Luminance | Blur RGB |
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| Box Glow | Cartoon |
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| Channel Geometry | Channel Swap |
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| Checkerboard generator | Chromatic Aberration |
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| Circle Splash | Circle generator |
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| Circular Screen | Circular Wrap |
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| Clone | CMYK Halftone |
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| collage_image | Comic Book |
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| Copy Machine transition | Crush Color |
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| Crystallize | Despeckle |
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| Disc Glow | Disintegrate With Dots transition |
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| Disintegrate With Tiles transition | Dot Screen |
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| Dots Pattern generator | Dots |
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| Edge Dissolve transition | Edge Work |
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| Fade In transition | Fade Out transition |
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| Flash transition | Frame Overlay generator |
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| Free Distort | Glass Lozenge |
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| Glide Reflection | Glow |
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| Glow Dissolve transition | Glow Edges |
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| Glow Text | Hatched Screen |
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| Heat | Hexagon Wipe transition |
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| Hexagons | Hole |
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| LED Lights | Lenticular Halo |
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| Light Rays | Light Rays Edges |
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| Light Rays Text | Light Streaks |
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| Line Screen | Luminance Dissolve transition |
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| Luminance To Alpha | Mask Dissolve transition |
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| Mask With Geometry | Mod transition |
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| Neon Circles | Neon Edges |
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| Night Vision | Noise Reduction |
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| Op Tile | Paint Wipe transition |
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| Particle System | collage_image |
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| Pencil Sketch | Perspective Reflection |
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| Perspective Reflection (1.0) | Pinch |
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| Pixellate | Pointillize |
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| Polka Dots transition | Pop Art |
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| Random Crop | Random Noise generator |
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| Reflected Tile (Fourfold) | Reflected Tile (Eightfold) |
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| Reflected Tile (Sixfold) | Reflected Tile (Twelvefold) |
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| Rotated Tile (Fourfold) | Rotated Tile (Sixfold) |
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| RSS World News generator | Scanlines |
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| Sharpen Chroma | Sharpen Edges |
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| Sharpen Luminance | Sharpen Range |
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| Sharpen RGB | Slideshow generator |
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| Sobel Edge | Spot Light |
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| Star Shine | Stars |
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| Stars Edges | Stripes generator |
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| Sun generator | Text Dissolve transition |
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| Threshold RGB | Threshold With Colors |
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| Tile Dissolve transition | Torus Lens |
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| Translated Tile | Triangle Tile |
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| Twirl Wipe | Videoconference transition |
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| Videoconference (1.0) transition | Vortex |
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| Watercolor | Waves Wipe transition |
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| Zebra | Zoom Blur Chroma |
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| Zoom Blur Luminance | Zoom Blur RGB |
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FxFactory Freebie FxPacks
FxFactory itself is a free engine that runs and manages plug-in FxPacks inside Final Cut Studio. After you download and install the Free FxFactory engine, you can decide to download any of the following Freebies, which are completely free.
- Noise Industries Star Titler - Lets you reproduce the look of the opening titles first used by the Star Wars movie.
- Noise Industries Idustrial Revolution - Freebies Pak 1 - MultiSpace, iSight Live!, Rack Focus and Opposites.
- Noise Industries CoreMelt - VeeYou - Generate volume unit level and EQ animations based on the audio in your project.
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FxFactory Commercial FxPacks
To further improve the capabilities of FxFactory users can purchase any and all of the following commercial FxPacks that run on the free FxFactory engine:
FxFactory is a revolutionary visual effects architecture which powers the largest collection of plug-ins for Final Cut Pro and Motion.
- Noise Industries FxFactory Motion Pack - A collection of plug-ins designed for compositing task.
- Noise Industries FxFactory Editing Pack - A collection of plug-ins designed for editing tasks.
- Noise Industries CoreMelt - ImageFlow Fx - 10 plugins for generating slideshows or animated backgrounds from folders of images directly inside Final Cut Pro or Motion.
- Noise Industries CoreMelt - PolyChrome - A complete range of grunge, filmic and stylized transitions for all types of edits.
- Noise Industries Futurismo - Backgrounds - A group of Plug-ins designed to improve backgrounds.
- Noise Industries Futurismo - Titles - A group of Plug-ins designed to improve titles.
- Noise Industries SUGARfx - Cine Fest - Create that film festival look in an instant with these 7 Plug-ins.
- Noise Industries SUGARfx - Drop In - Create great-looking theme to animate multiple images and movies in space, with customizable titles with these 4 Plug-ins.
- Noise Industries SUGARfx - Folding Cards LC - Make your next project unfold to an awesome animated environment, featuring 8 different elements to choose from.
- Noise Industries SUGARfx - Light Pack - Bring the best out of your images by making them shimmer with any of the 6 lighting filters and one cool bonus transition.
- Noise Industries SUGARfx - Mondrianesque Complete - Based on the same design as the Photo Montage freebie, Mondrianesque Complete includes 8 plug-ins with powerful customization options.
- Noise Industries SUGARfx - Perf Motif - 7 elegantly animated generators with a full set of parameters to quickly adapt the theme to your project.
- Noise Industries SUGARfx - Portfolio - The latest theme from SUGARfx lets you elegantly showcase your work, up to seven media tracks at once.
- Noise Industries SUGARfx - Urban - Bring the industrial and contemporary looks of today's cities to your creative toolbox with this theme template.
- Noise Industries SUGARfx - Video Wall - Gives users the ability to easily and quickly construct a video wall effect in 3D space.
- Noise Industries SUGARfx - World Cup - Create stunning 3D animated theme to instantly lend a full sports newscast feel to your work with these 5 plug-ins.
- Noise Industries SUGARfx - Mondrianesque - Lets you loop through a folder of pictures to create a photo montage Mondrian-style.
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New Feature Highlights
- Support for Apple Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 3 and Adobe After Effects CS3 and CS4
- Optimized GPU acceleration for faster rendering
- Custom Presets for fast, professional effects creation
- Innovative Filters for applying eye-catching image treatments
FxFactory effects in Final Cut Pro
FxFactory effects in Motion
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What's New in Version 2.1.3
New PulpFx Abstract
Create amazing slideshows with PulpFx Abstract, a new set of generators that lets you easily animate stills. The unlockable, trial version of PulpFx Abstract is available by installing FxFactory.
Other Changes
- Storek Studio nVeil 1.0.2 is a free upgrade for existing customers which adds 30 new veils to the built-in library.
- PHYX Keyer 1.0.1 is a free upgrade for existing customers which allows the plug-ins to get better results when mixing media of different types.
- FxFactory Pro 2.1.3 includes new and improved versions of the Perspective Reflection filter and Videoconference transition. A new parameter called “Distance From Surface” allows for positioning of the original media above the reflective surface.
- FxFactory filters are now previewed inside Motion’s “Add Filter” menu (in previous versions of FxFactory, effect previews were only available in Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express and Adobe After Effects).
Please note that this new version requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and it will only work with Final Cut Pro 6 and Motion 3. If you are still running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Final Cut Pro 5.1 and/or Motion 2.1.2 please continue using the previous version instead.
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Support
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Tutorials
- Whoosh Filter in FxFactory - Learn more about the Whoosh transition plug-in for Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express.
- Simulate a Videoconference Open in Final Cut Studio 2 with FxFactory Pro - Learn how to simulate the opening of a videoconference by customizing a preset found in FXFactory Pro. Tutorial from Studio Daily, October 1, 2007
- Fast Flowing Photo Montages for FCP and Motion Tutorial from Creative Cow September 2007
- Introduction: FxFactory Plug-ins inside FCP and Motion
- Expandability: Installing and using additional FxPacks
- FxFactory Pro: Explore the advanced features of FxFactory pro
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Reviews
- Noise Industries FxFactory Review by Jim Geduldick, July 11, 2007
- FxFactory Pro Review by Digital Producer Magazine
- FxFactory Pro Review by LA FCPUG
- more FxFactory reviews
