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The Foundry Tinderbox 3

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Contents

1 The Stats
2 Purchase Tinderbox 3
3 Download Demo and Manual
4 Description
- 4.1 Plug-ins list
5 Support
- 5.1 Forum
- 5.2 Render Farm Information
6 See also

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The Stats

Developer: The Foundry
Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows
Host Applications: Adobe After Effects 4.1+ (Mac OSX/Windows), Autodesk Combustion (Windows, Node-locked version)
Supports 32-bit float point color space
Compatibility with After Effects 7and Compatibility with After Effects CS3

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Purchase Tinderbox 3

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Download Demo and Manual

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Description

Create the illusion of degraded film stock with !OldFilm; build your look with a variety of options including scratches, dust, hair, stains, grain and flicker or opt from a number of presets including forties, sepia and technicolour. Simulate poor television reception such as ghosting, snow, edge distortions and power loss with BadTV. Drip water on glass with Condensation. Add interesting grades with DiffusionFilter or simulate motion blur on rotating objects with CircularBlur. Emboss your image with BumpShade or transform it with Mosaic. Render an infinite 3D field of stars with Starfield. Reduce wrinkles, freckles and minor blemishes with our digital wrinkle cream Silk. Create incredibly organic Lightning effects, including forked lightning and plasma bolts.

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Plug-ins list

BadTV - processes a clip to make it look as though it was being broadcast on a television suffering from poor reception. A master control alters the overall signal quality to produce ghosting, snow, edge distortions, colour loss, vertical roll, misaligned guns, shash effects, power loss and other effects for televisions, security camera and videos.

BumpShade - gives images the appearance of depth by falsely extruding from the luminance or matte. Lighting is provided to accentuate the relief and parameters to soften the effect are supplied. Can be a useful tool for giving cartoons a shaded look.

CircularBlur - smears an image around a point giving the appearance of motion blur on a rotating object. It's fast and includes filtering options and controls for the hold out at the centre.

Condensation - renders thousands of water particles that clump together into water droplets. The droplets are used to distort the source image giving the appearance of water condensation on glass. There are lighting controls and the effect auto-animates drips.

Deband - intelligently smooths out the appearance of colour banding on 8 bit images.

Defield - generates a frame from a field. A number of sophisticated algorithms are supplied to create the missing field. Slope adaptive interpolation gives a greatly superior result on angled edges to standard line interpolation methods. A motion mask has been developed to identify areas of the image that are moving and interpolate only these. By preserving static parts of the image less information is thrown away giving a higher quality result.

DiffusionFilter - simulates the effect of diffusion lens filters by softening and colouring the diffused highlights and lowlights.

EdgeDetect - finds and highlights edges in images. The result can then be blended back into the original using the built-in blending methods. Quick glows and back-lit effects are possible using this technique.

GradientBlur - finds the gradients in an image and uses these to produce directional vectors that selectively blur the image either along or perpendicular to the vectors. Interesting painterly effects can be achieved.

Lightning - generates highly realistic forked lightning and plasma bolts. There are numerous parameters to control all aspects of the bolt from fork depth to glow intensity. An optional matte can be used to restrict the path of the plasma around objects.

MatteTool provides a suite of tools to process mattes. You can grow or erode matte edges with sub-pixel precision from a single parameter, or extract outlines from mattes and soften just one side of it. There are tools for cleaning up mattes from keyers and removing colour spill before compositing.

Mosaic - creates a block pattern (posterisation) effect using a variety of shapes including the standard square mosaic.

OldFilm - converts contemporary video footage into images that look as though they have been shot on film and left to degrade over time. Scratches, dust, hair, stains, vignette, defocus, defielding, highlight diffusion, grain, camera flicker and other effects are included. There are controls to double up frames for that staccato old film look. Preset colour effects like sepia, black and white, techicolour and forties take the hassle out of setting up this effect. Brightness, contrast and saturation controls for each individual colour channel for fine tuning. A burn through effect allows the film to stick in the gate and burn under the light. Everything you need really.

Particles - is a particle generator suitable for generating fireworks or a shower of sparks. There are controls for the glow, colour, initial velocity and lifespan of the particles. Wind, gravity and drag parameters alter the particle behaviour over time.

Plasma - creates animating organic fractal patterns that can be used as backgrounds or to break mattes up.

Silk - is digital wrinkle cream. It is used to reduce wrinkles, freckles and minor blemishes in actors=92 faces. It is a tolerance blur with a variable blur size that can be used to maintain edges and smooth off regions of a similar hue.

Starfield - renders an infinite three dimensional field of stars. There are controls to look in a particular direction or at a fixed position in 3D space regardless of the motion of the observer. An auto mode is supplied to randomly tumble you through space.