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Trapcode Shine
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The Stats
- Developer: Trapcode
- Version: 1.5
- Platforms: Mac OSX, Windows
- Compatibility with After Effects and Premiere CS4, Compatibility with Final Cut Studio 3, Compatibility with After Effects 7, Compatibility with After Effects CS3, Mac Universal Binary, Mac OSX Leopard Compatibility, Microsoft Vista Compatibility and FxPlug
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Purchase
- Shine
- Shine Upgrade
- Trapcode Suite - All Trapcode Plug-ins
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Description
Create compelling light effects without leaving your editing timeline, and without the tedious render times of specialized 3D applications. Sunshine through clouds, headlights through fog, or horror movie titles: Shine does it all. Choose from 22 powerful presets, or make your own light ray effects from scratch. 16- and 32-bit support guarantee high-quality light effects for any project.
Features
- Fast Rendering Renders light rays quickly at 5-10 frames per second
- High-resolution imagery Delivers highest-quality images with 32-bit support (After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion) and 16-bit support (Avid AVX, Premiere Pro)
- Customizable Color Numerous coloring options include 3- and 5-color gradients with tweakable coloring presets
- Shimmer Effects Unique controls create shimmering lights that animate efficiently
- Compatibility Works on any layer as a part of more complex animation effects
- Transfer Modes Built-in transfer modes support makes it easy to create complex light effects
- Mask Controls Threshold and circular mask controls make it easy to get the effect you want
Highlights
Powerful interface
Shine's interface makes it easy to customize your own light effects. Fine-tune source point, ray length, shimmer appearance, colorization, opacity, and a full range of compositing modes.
Multi-color presets
For movie titles, choose from multi-color presets such as simple fire, green X-Ray, and Radioaktiv. Or for more subtle effects, you can extract colors from an existing logo or title, or make beveled effects with the alpha edges feature.
Shimmering controls
Flexible shimmer settings let you create automatic, loopable variations that add visual interest to light effects without the rendering overhead of complex compositing. Shimmer controls can also be used to create seamless loops of any desired length for attractive DVD backgrounds.
Examples
Planet Shine Reveal
Shine creates realistic 3D light rays shining from the hot interior of this molten planet. The logo is part of the bright light source picked up Shine.
Shine Smoke Reveal
This video uses the Fractal Noise effect to create realistic smoke in the rays. A logo and a smokescreen are set up on 3D layers, with the smoke layer between the animated camera and the logo. Shine is applied to an adjustment layer, and the smoke layer is used as a luma matte.
Shine Word Cycle
As you can see from this video, Shine isn't limited to creating one simple look. This plug-in can be used to greatly enhance your text and other elements by evoking different moods and ideas.
System Requirements
Our tests have shown that our products perform best when used with the system configurations listed below. Although many of our products will run on older or less-powerful systems, those listed below are the minimum system requirements which we support.
Apple Macintosh
- Mac OSX 10.4.11 and later
- Power Mac G5, Mac Intel
- 1 GB of RAM
- 30 MB of Hard Drive space
PC / Windows
- Windows XP SP1 or later
- Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit
- Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or faster (or AMD equivalent)
- 1 GB of RAM
- 30 MB of Hard Drive space
Host Applications
Trapcode Shine runs in a variety of host applications. Each purchase and serial number allows the owner to use the product on more than one host application, but only on a single computer at any one time. Except where noted, the features are the same in all systems and host applications.
- Adobe After Effects CS4, CS3, 7, 6.5
- Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, CS3
- Apple Final Cut Pro 7, 6, 5.1.4
- Apple Motion 3.02
- Avid Xpress Pro/Media Composer 5.5, 5.6 / 2.6, 2.7
Please ensure that the host version is compatible with your operating system. Check with application provider for specifics.
