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Definition

Rendering is a broad topic and takes on many different forms. A simple type of rendering is the display of text, such as what you are now reading: an application stores a text message in ASCII, for example, and the operating system decides which pixels to make light and dark to reproduce the shape of the letters. More complicated kinds of rendering include the display of two-dimensional and three-dimensional geometric shapes, such as lines, curves, polygons, and surfaces, and ultimately the production of images that are indistinguishable from photographs of the real world - called photorealistic rendering.

For movie animations, several images (frames) must be rendered, and stitched together in a program capable of making an animation of this sort. This is not the meaning of render that fits into this category. Hope that clears up any confusion.

(Source: Wikipedia.org. Visit this link for an overload of information about rendering)

Plug-ins with render effects

A

• AIST proFX - Fully-adjustable particle generator and special effects tool.
• Alien Skin Eye Candy for After Effects - 20 sophisticated texture, production and distortion effects.

B

• Boris FX, Inc. Continuum Basics - 30 filters from the award-winning Boris Boris FX, Inc. Continuum Complete plug-in suite.

C

• Conoa 3D Layer - Creates a three-dimensional layer with visible 'thickness' in After Effects, plus your 3D mesh can be bent, warped, punched through, texture mapped, and animated.
• Cycore FX - 61 professional effects ranging from blurs and color adjustments through distortions and particle generators to lighting and transitions.
• Cycore FX HD - The 16-bit version of the Cycore FX, optimized for multiprocessing to deliver stunning effects, faster.

D

• Darkling Simulations DIN - A fast and flexible noise effect plug-in for making everything from fire to force fields to spectacular transitions.
• DigiEffects Aurorix - A set of updated 26 cool special effects filters including AgedFilm 2, VideoLook 2, Earthquake 2 and Turbulent Flow 2.
• DigiEffects Berserk - Easily generate fully customizable organic distortions and natural effects.
• Digital Anarchy 3D Assistants Pro and EZ - Powerful keyframing tools that allow you to easily arrange, animate, and manage 3D-enabled layers in After Effects.
• Digital Anarchy Data Animator - A set of eight plug-ins that quickly and easily generate animated charts and graphs.
• Digital Anarchy Geomancy - Creates animated lines and geometric shapes.
• Digital Anarchy Gradient - Create 16-bit, six-color gradients.
• Digital Anarchy Psunami Water - Photo-realistic 3D water simulation tool.
• Digital Element Aurora Sky - Create skies and clouds in your AE or FCP composition, but without a 3D program.
• Digital Element Aurora Water - Lets you create circular waves, add reflections, refraction, volumetric light rays and submerged objects.
• Digital Trove Prime - Powerful Robust Image Manipulation Effects, or PRIME is a Suite of 33 powerful effects.

F

• FAN Bikini Dots - A combined stroke renderer and a dot matrix generator.
• The Foundry Tinderbox 1 - Includes sky generators, light rays, hand-drawn etch effects, heat haze, water caustics, matte dilation tools, and the fastest software Gaussian blur for After Effects.
• The Foundry Tinderbox 2 - 8 and 16-bit plug-ins, including the fastest software camera defocus for After Effects, lens flares, newsprint, glass distortions, a flexible paint effect and more.
• Frischluft flAIR - flAIR is a set of eight fast high quality filters for Adobe After Effects.
• Frischluft Lenscare - Move depth of field and out of focus generation to post processing.

G

• GenArts Sapphire Lighting - State-of-the-art lighting and glow effects.
• GenArts Sapphire Stylize - Plug-ins for Paint, Kaleidescope, Mosaics, Film Effects, Embossing and other stylizing
• GenArts Sapphire Render, Time, Transition - Lighting, Gradient and Grid, Clouds, Time Effects, Flickers and Transitions

N

• Noise Industries FxFactory - FxFactory is a revolutionary visual effects architecture which powers the largest collection of plug-ins for Final Cut Pro and Motion. Free Download

• Noise Industries FxFactory Pro - Noise Industries Flagship Product 150+ plug-ins (bundles the Editing and Motion FxPacks).
• 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.

P

• Panopticum Array AE - Create very sophisticated geometric patterns that may be used in your composition or as transparency masks.
• Panopticum Curtains- Art up you video with eye-catching dynamic pieces of fabric that look perfectly real.
• Panopticum Fire - Capable of creating everything from candle light to a raging inferno.
• Panopticum Ice Pattern - Create a variety of interesting effects, such as frost flowers and frost patterns.
• Panopticum Lens Pro - Design realistic lenses and 3D-crystals as well as crystalline 3D-models.
• Panopticum Rulers - Art up your video with various 2D and 3D scales, clock-type dials, rulers, and adjust and animate their parameters.
• Panopticum Rich Typing - Display, animate and morph your text, and even import Microsoft Word RTF files, keeping all formatting intact.
• Panopticum Grid - Create standard grids made up of lines, squares, circles, bubbles, triangles, and hexagons.
• Panopticum Tools - A set of 8 different filters which help you create some really curious video effects
• Panopticum Plug-in Galaxy - A set of 20 plug-ins which do a little bit of everything.
• Phillipp Spoeth RetroDots - Free dot rendering program
• Phillipp Spoeth Sine Dot Shader - Free filter
• Pixelan Software Video SpiceRack Pro/OrganicFX (Mac) - Soft, organic, custom transitions and animated mattes.
• The Plugin Site Harry's Filters - Filters for changing color or mood, creating artistic effects, producing colorful gradients, patterns, warping and noise.

S

• Stagetools MovingChart - Add high-quality animated 3D charts and graphs to your show.

T

• Trapcode 3D Stroke - Uses path from one or more masks to render volumetric strokes that can be rotated and moved freely in 3D space.
• Trapcode Echospace - Create multiple instances of 3D layers in space.
• Trapcode Particular - A powerful 3D particle system that can produce a wide range of effects from natural smoke and explosions to geometric or organic abstract motion graphics design elements.

V

• Virtix Effects - Varied effects for After Effects and Final Cut Pro.

W

• WalkerFX Plug-ins - 18 compositing plug-ins

Z

• Zaxwerks 3D Flag - turns any picture or movie into a realistic flag animation.
• Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator Pro - The industry standard 3D graphics power house, must-have plug-in!
• Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator Classic - A stripped down version of Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator Pro

See also: Grid | Light Effects | Pattern | Ramp | Stroke | Texture