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  • Buena Depth Cue V2 Review – Worth the focus!

    Buena Depth Cue V2 Review – Worth the focus!

    I remember years ago when I first started with after effects my first plug-in package was from a company called Digieffects. That package was titled Delirium. I recall adding the magical effects on to any and all footage I could find. It reminded me when as a child I loved to add different colored paint to my white paint to see what would happen. Of course much of that explosive creativity did not add to my pocketbook. I was simply [...]

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  • PluralEyes makes multicam editing as easy as 1, 2, 3!

    PluralEyes makes multicam editing as easy as 1, 2, 3!

    The process of post-production can be hard and time consuming, especially when you have multiple cameras from the same shoot. In order to edited between the different angles you must sync their audio files together and set them up into a multi-cam editing sequence. Many people don’t even attempt to use the feature, and they end up using an even more complicated process to get the job done. Even if you know how to use the multi-cam Final Cut Pro [...]

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  • The Foundry Does It Again! (Part One)

    The Foundry Does It Again! (Part One)

    Last month, I was introduced to the superb Keylight plug-in for Final Cut Pro (see And, The Academy Award® Goes To… An Instruction Manual!?! and Enter The Foundry: Visual Effects Software That Is Unbeatable!). After completing my examination of that excellent add-on, I began to study FurnaceCore, which is another superb plug-in for Final Cut Pro that was created by the Academy Award®-winning software-developer, The Foundry.* This plug-in provides tools for image restoration, correction, and stylization, all of which vastly [...]

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  • The Foundry Does It Again! (Part Two)

    The Foundry Does It Again! (Part Two)

    If you do not have the time to read this entire review, then here are the vital statistics: Product Name: FurnaceCore Product Manufacturer: The Foundry Product Type: motion-picture repair, improvement, and time-adjustment plug-in for Final Cut Pro Price: 500 United States Of America Dollars Is It Worth The Price? Definitely. It would still be worth the price if it cost 7,000 USD (which would be 1,000 USD per function). Available From: www.thefoundry.co.uk Rating: 5 Stars!

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  • Enter The Foundry: Visual Effects Software That Is Unbeatable!

    Enter The Foundry: Visual Effects Software That Is Unbeatable!

    If you do not have the time to read this entire article, then here are the vital statistics: Product Name: Keylight Product Manufacturer: The Foundry Product Type: matte-extraction and visual-effects compositing plug-in for After Effects, Autodesk, Avid DS, Combustion, Final Cut Pro, Fusion, Nuke, and Shake Price: 250 United States Of America Dollars Is It Worth The Price? Definitely. It would still be worth the price if it cost 1,000 USD. Available From: www.thefoundry.co.uk Rating: 5 Stars! My 3 favorite [...]

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  • And, The Academy Award® Goes To… An Instruction Manual !?!

    And, The Academy Award® Goes To… An Instruction Manual !?!

    Last week, I was introduced to a superb plug-in for Final Cut Pro (I use FCP 6.0.6). It is Keylight, which is a set of compositing-tools that was created by the Academy Award®-winning software-developer, The Foundry.* My platform is a 2005 Dual 2.7 GHz Macintosh PowerPC G5, with 8 GB of DDR SDRAM, controlled by OS X 10.4.11.

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  • FMC Review – Nveil for Final Cut Pro

    After hearing some great things about the creativeness of the Nveil plug in for Final Cut Pro I had to test drive it. Inside the plug in are 60 “veils” that you can use to make some really cool, hip effects on the fly with your footage. The Nveil folks are also doing a special introductory price of just $99. They will be offering more “veils” free each month and an After Effects version and a stand alone version are [...]

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  • NAB 09: Trapcode Particular V2 with Peder Norrby

    NAB 09: Trapcode Particular V2 with Peder Norrby

    I was lucky to catch Peder for a quick demo of a few features in the new Particular V2 plugin. I’ve known Peder for several years – - so it’s just a really quick, informal demo. Just something to grab a quick video of him at NAB… most of the time there were tons of animators with full court press on the booth (see pix on ninjacrayon) For rants, ramblings and general announcements – check out a chaotic blog in [...]

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  • NAB 09: particleIllusion coming to After Effects

    NAB 09: particleIllusion coming to After Effects

    Alan has been working on this port from particleIllusion to After Effects plugin for a long time. It’s taken some time for Adobe to come up with API to keep up with all of the animatable parameters that particle Illusion has already. For rants, ramblings and general announcements – check out a chaotic blog in the BlogZone: http://www.ninjacrayon.com/ or via the NINJACRAYON Twitter Posts. To find out more about the plugin, keep checking back to the wondertouch website. Also, take [...]

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