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Turn on the light.

Is there a light on in the room where you are reading this? Notice how it behaves in just this way. Object appear dimmer the further away they are from the lights illuminating them.

Falloff Lighting provides an enhanced lighting system to After Effects built-in light. Falloff Lighting is much more like that of the real world where light naturally decays or “falls off” as surfaces increase distance from the After Effects light.

Key Features
Falloff Lighting offers the control and flexibility you need to properly light your scene. You can display the distance from the camera to the corners of the layers. Also, you can adjust the distance scale to account for the scale of objects in your scene. You can also control the intensity of light reflecting off an object and the gradual falloff as the distance from the light increases.

Why not just use AE? Falloff Lighting offers a key feature missing in After Effects. With After Effects’ built-in lights, it doesn’t matter how far away a layer is from a light, it is still illuminated the same amount by that light.

Turn back the clock with Aged Film and show which era you set your shot.

Priced at only $29, Aged Film is the best value for achieving this effect in today's post production applications.

Features and Benefits:

• New host support: EDIUS*
• Supports a wide range of other host applications including Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Combustion, and Boris RED.
• Includes the ability to customize characteristics such as grain, dust, scratches, frame jitter and color and all those little details that tell the viewer that they're looking at historical footage.
• The ability to deinterlace and control source blend and random seed.
• All effects are rendered in 16bpc.
• All Aged Film effects can be animated over time in After Effects.
• Includes dozens of presets such as 8mm, armageddon, grandpa's attic, old home video, scratched film, shaky projector, speakeasy, the 70s and much more.
• Fast rendering.
• Volume discounts and floating site licenses available for multiple installations (limited or unlimited users).
• At $29 it's much cheaper than a time machine. Much safer also.

 

*Requires the After Effects bridge which can be downloaded here.

Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks

Red Giant Magic Bullet Quick Looks

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Simulate a 3D scene from 2D still images or video footage.

The Camera Mapper plugin allows you to isolate one or several objects in your footage, project these objects on a separate layer and pull that layer out of the background, creating the visual illusion of the object floating in front of the original footage.

Why Use Camera Mapper? (learn more)

Key Features:

• Realistically create the illusion that a still image is fully dimensional moving footage.
• Subtly change the perspective of a shot, or animate it over time.
• Can be combined with 3D tracking to add or alter elements in a scene.
• Now you can step back in time and get another chance to move the camera.
• Allows you to stay in After Effects when working with fully dimensional models

Works with dozens of useful scripts to help you make shapes and objects at www.nabscripts.com

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3D Mesh Warping Plugin for After Effects

Finally, an affordable plugin for After Effects that lets you manipulate a flat object into almost any shape using a mesh in 3D space.

FreeForm AE is an intuitive and robust plugin that takes After Effects 3D compositing to the next level.

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Features and Benefits include:

3D Functionality: The same power and control of 3D applications right inside After Effects.

Control: All controls for manipulation are right inside the After Effects comp window.

Speed: Powered by a proprietary, full 3D rendering engine to provide beautiful, high-quality renders fast.

Never leave After Effects: Makes it easy to create 3D effects which previously required a dedicated 3D program or high-end workstation.

Depth, Dimensions, and Displacement: True 3D displacement mapping.

Picks up where After Effects ends: Bend, twist, distort, shape your layer any way you please right in the After Effects comp window.

Create realistic looking nature effects with Natural Forces:

• Weather Effects: Snow, rain, bubbles and blizzard.
• Pyrotechnical Effects: Sparks, flashes, fire, fireworks, electricity, explosions and lightning.
• Atmospheric Effects: Smoke, clouds, fog, stars, comets and fairy dust.

Natural Forces Includes:

Ease of Use: One interface for all effects. All effects use the same controls.

Professional Quality: 32-bit float support ensures high quality results.

Speed: Fast preview and render times.

Control: More control than any other plugin to simulate nature effects.

Preview Window: Quickly evaluate different looks.

Custom Images: Import and control your own custom layers.

Presets: Ships with dozens of presets to save you time.

The Randomizer: Click it and see multiple parameters adjust randomly!

Buena Depth Cue may be the most innovative approach yet for creating visual depth in your After Effects compositions.

Using composition-based effects like Rack Focus, Falloff Lighting, or Fog, you can mimic Z depth in your compositions in ways that simply can't be done using practical depth of field.

Buena Depth Cue Includes:

3D Composite: Allows 2D footage with a depth channel, such as you might generate in 3D applications, to interact with After Effects' 3D layers.

Depth: Displays the depth of each layer in grayscale for use as a gradient map with other plugins, or with other applications.

Falloff Lighting: Lights your layers realistically.

Fog: Shrouds your layers in a light haze or a deep, murky mist.

Rack Focus: Produces realistic depth of field effects and focus pulls, including simulating boke and anamorphic lens effects.

Camera Mapper: Turn 2D stills and footage into 3D scenes right in After Effects.

Flipside: Maps one layer onto the back side of another layer. This allows you to flip the front layer over to reveal the back layer.

To use Depth Cue with a 3D program, you must render a file with depth information such as OpenEXR, developed by Industrial Light & Magic. To read channels from an EXR into After Effects and Depth Cue, download the replacement reader from here: www.fnordware.com/OpenEXR.

A pack of 20 award-winning special effects plug-ins including StarField, FogBank, VanGoughist and Laser. Berserk is an awesome set of incredibly useful and creative After Effects tools

 

 

Included with Berserk are these 20 filters:

Blizzard Crystallizer FogBank NightBloom StarField Laser Newsprint BumpMaker Contourist GravityWell

OilPaint VanGoughist StillNoise Edgex Pearls Perspectron Ripploid Spintron Squisher Cyclowarp

While After Effects users have demonstrated that the program is capable of creating almost anything, they are often limited by the source footage they have.

Aurorix provides some interesting texture and pattern generation filters such as Soap Film and Strange Nebulae. Unique distortion filters such as Infinity Warp and Turbulent Flow can use existing footage to make original patterns as well.

Aurorix also comes with some tools for simulating lighting, including the 3D Lighting filter that can also add bump maps for an embossed look. Finally, Aurorix includes Aged Film, the filter for adding grain, hair, dust, and discoloration to footage, which eventually went on to spawn DigiEffects popular Cinelook.

Included with Aurorix are 26 plug-in effects including:

AgedFilm, VideoLook, Lighting, 3D Lighting, Color SpotLights, LightZoom, SpotLights. Distortion. Bulgix, Earthquake, Flitter, Infinity Warp, Turbulent Flow, Warpoid, Pattern Generation, Infinity Zone, Electrofield, FractalNoise, Interferix, Interpheroid, Tilt, Texture Generation, Chaotic Noise, Chaotic Rainbow, Interpheron, NoiseBlender, SoapFilm, Strange Nebulae, WoodMaker

Delirium contains 40 visual effects. It also contains tools for creating particle-based fire, smoke and bubbles. These particle effects enhanced with built-in turbulence processing to create realistic imagery without resorting to complex 3D programs.

Many of the plug-ins AutoAnimate™, meaning that many of the plug-ins will begin to animate as soon as they are applied to an image, meaning you no longer have to tweak parameters to get quick results.

All plug-ins can save, load and modify presets. No need to navigate to find a preset - just click the pop-up! Each plug-in has several presets to get you started quickly.FireWorks creates amazing pyrotechnic displays automatically – it’s an AutoAnimate plug-in. It can create spectacular spherical explosions complete with sparkly trails quickly and easily.

 

Included with Delirium are 40 visual effects:

BlurZone, Bubbles, Camera Shake, Channel Delay, COP Blur, Day for Night, Electrical Arcs, Fairy Dust, Film Flash, Fire, FireWorks, Flicker and Strobe, Flow Motion, Fog Factory, Framing Gradients, Glower, Grayscaler, HLS Displace, HyperHarmonizer, Lens Flares, LooseSprockets, MultiGradient, Muzzle Flash, Nexus, Puffy Clouds, RainFall, Retinal Bloom, Schematic Grids, ShowChannel, Sketchist, Smoke, SnowStorm, Solarize, Sparks, Specular Lighting, Thermograph, Turbulent Noise, VideoMalfunction, Visual Harmonizer, Wave Displace

The latest from the Simulate Series expands the foundation of any post artist's tool box.

"As with all Digieffects packages, one of the amazing things is the amount of control you have over every element of the plugin. Camera saves me tons of tedious keyframing and adjusting, getting a natural look in seconds. When you want a look, you want it fast. Camera delivers at a price that just can’t be beat."
Adam Oas, Director of Video Production
Texas Motor Speedway

Simulate: Camera Includes:

Archive: A straightforward "film degradation/contamination" type effect.

Overexpose: Add a sense of dynamic to otherwise stable and predictable footage,which results in a feeling of a sort of “focus-hunt” and “iris-hunt” that happens with consumer camcorders when they are constantly trying to adjust to changing composition.

Destabilize: Destabilize is an effect that is useful for emulating a practical camera shake or a more conceptual effect for motion graphics work involving separate color channel alpha compositing and color channel separation.

Randomizer: When clicked, multiple parameters within the interface will simultaneously adjust causing completely new results.

Presets: Once you've saved your effect parameters, these can be moved between supported host applications.

Simulate: Illuma has five effects that deliver light and filter options you didn't have in the field...

"Playing with the quality of light in video post-production, that's what you can do with Simulate Illuma from Digieffects. You can get dramatic effects with this plug-in set, but also subtle enhancements of already perfect footage."

Erik Vlietinck - IT Enquirer

Simulate: Illuma Includes:

Halo: Generates an effect simulating lens diffraction artifacts generated when shooting light-emitting sources at night or against dark backgrounds.

Lightracer: An effect that simulates phosphorescence with the ranging tools and bloom shaping that can simulate viewing a light source through a lens.

Luminus: An effect that simulates the visual impression of a glow.

Photogust: Creates point-origin radial and traditional blurs used with the brightness controls for each channel (red, green and blue).

Radiance: A glow effect that has the ability to operate with independent control of tonal range and intensity for each color channel. Radiance also employs series of blurring tools to change the pattern character of the effect.

Randomizer: When clicked, multiple parameters within the interface will simultaneously adjust causing completely new results.

Presets: Once you've saved your effect parameters, these can be moved between supported host applications.

The only visual effects plugin dedicated to making your project look worse.

"Hands down, these guys have done their homework, which directly translates into making your life easier. Not only have they made real-world types of interference with an easy-to-use interface, but they’ve also made it easy to reuse - and sometimes that’s even more valuable."

-Mark Bremmer - Microfilmmaker Magazine

Damage Includes:

Blockade: Simulate video acquired by low fidelity devices such as cell phones or PDAs.

Artifact: Recreates errors caused by bad weather, poor encoding or file corruption that in the age of digital transmissions are familiar to most viewers.

Interference: Gives the impression your video clip is interlaced and being displayed on a CRT monitor (think scan-lines).

Skew: Recreate analog noise ("static"), image shearing, ghosting and everything coming from weak analog antenna signals to consumer VCR tracking glitches.

Fast preview and render times.

Intuitive interface.

The Randomizer gives you instant creativity and helps you save valuable time.