Deface, Defile, Dismantle, Destroy.

Now includes Aged Film

You've been talking and we've been listening. To all of you who thirst to wreak more havoc, the scores of you who wish to take all that is beautiful and render it visual debris, and for those of you who have been writing us about all the electronic carnage you daydream about if only you had a way to do it faster, with more options. So we've created Damage v2.5. All the ancient evil of analog signal defects in Skew and Interference, the modern, coldly unsympathetic digital malfunction of Artifact and Blockade...and now, we've harnessed the incompetence at the source. Two new effects in the Damage toolbox, Destabilize and Overexpose, allow you to go back in time...and not only corrupt your footage, but also ruin the image of the camera operator.


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October 09, 2009

"This is an awesome looking, easy to use plugin, that you can literally apply, and know exactly how to work it, without a learning curve at all."
Topher Welsh, visualfxtuts.com
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Features

For previous versions of Damage, please visit the legacy products page.

Damage v2.5 Includes:

 

Aged Film:

Now bundled with Damage v2.5. 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. Volume discounts and floating site licenses available for multiple installations (limited or unlimited users).

 
Artifact:

Artifact gives you the ability to individually set properties like displaced pixel blocks, color errors, frame dropping, and video compression artifacts, you can choose what can, and can't be seen due to system malfunction.

 
Blockade:

Blockade mimics the low color fidelity rectangular "quadrants' that come from a really crummy video camera feeding a steamroller of a video codec. The color inaccuracy, block size, speed, and temporal frame stuttering are all completely customizable, giving you precise control over how much defectiveness you desire.

 
Destabilize:

With the ability to create convincing camera shake with individual controls over each color channel, multiple axes of motion blur, and nodal rotation control, you can add a bit of uneasy drama, or jittery chaos to nearly any scene with Destabilize. Using the ability to introduce individual random variation into each parameter set means the motion that results is convincingly organic, and a product of fine control.

 
Interference:

Interference brings you that old fashioned CRT feeling. Take any footage you have and create effects like night vision, or imply the viewing surface of a green monochrome monitor, a security camera transmission, or a consumer video format playing back like VHS or 8mm, with full control over parameters like comb filtering, field line size, noise, tint, and luminance for alternating lines, which simulate two scanned, interlaced fields.

 
Overexpose:

Unlike simple luma or levels adjustments which act on specific pixel values and just end up looking like a poorly adjusted digital process, Overexpose processes the image in way that mimics an optical response. Overdriven whites aren't simply clipped, they bloom when a camera is acquiring an image that is “hot.” Neighboring areas of the image are affected even though those areas might not have overdriven values, luma values are affected proportionate to their relative brightness...all factors that require specialized processing to create a convincing effect. Add in the ability to vary a wide variety of parameters over time, and your ability to portray iris indecision on the part of your videographer is absolute.

 
Skew:

Digieffects preserves our heritage of analog, modulated badness with Skew, with incredible control over analog noise (or 'snow'), image shearing, vertical rolling, loss of horizontal hold, and ghosting normally associated with weak or distant broadcast signals, and early consumer video tape playback issues like noise bars caused by malfunctioning tracking, etc.

 

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Tutorials

September 21, 2010
Damage + VideoCopilot Twitch Yo Cat
Author: Oliver Mellan
This example shows you the power of combining text with Digieffects Damage and Video Copilot's Twitch. The cat is back.
Download project files here.
June 22, 2010
Damage Secret Agent
Author: Mark Eaton
Make a hologram with Digieffects Damage v2
Download project files here.
June 02, 2010
Damage v2 Skew and Interference
Author: Oliver Mellan
The UFO's attack has left some of us... Damaged!
Download project files here.
June 02, 2010
Damage v2 What’s New
Author: Oliver Mellan
Use Digieffects Damage Destabilize and Overexpose to create a hand-held flickering image.
Download project files here.
October 04, 2009
Aged Film Family Portrait
Author: Oliver Mellan
Take your footage back to a recovered but damaged portrait of a family using Aged Film.
October 04, 2009
Aged Film 1971 bicycle
Author: Oliver Mellan
Give your footage a super 8 look with Aged Film.
August 20, 2008
Using Damage: Artifact for a Transition
Author: Tim Kolb
Use Artifact to make a pixilated transition between two clips causing one image to morph into the next.
April 16, 2008
Damage - Imitate a CRT switch using Skew
Author: Tim Kolb
Learn to create a CRT effect (look of an older model television powering on), and manipulate static effects using Damage: Skew
April 08, 2008
Damage - Introduction on User Interface
Author: Tim Kolb
A collection of four plug-ins that can be used to create analog or digital defects within your footage. You can alter your footage with digital interference, add pixilation, create monitor glitches and more.

Presets/Projects

Project: Damage Final Cut Pro 6.0 Presets
Plugin: Damage
Effect: All Effects
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Project: Damage Final Cut Pro 5.1 Presets
Plugin: Damage
Effect: All Effects
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Project: UFO Attack
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Various
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Project: Damaged Reflection
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Various
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Project: Secret Agent
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Various
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Project: Artifact v2 Presets
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Artifact
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Project: Blockade v2 Presets
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Blockade
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Project: Destabilize v2 Presets
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Destabilize
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Project: Interference v2 Presets
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Interference
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Project: Overexpose v2 Presets
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Overexpose
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Project: Skew v2 Presets
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Skew
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Project: Bad Video Head
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Artifact
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Project: Corrupted Video
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Artifact
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Project: Degraded Film Strip
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Artifact
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Project: Over Compressed Video
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Artifact
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Project: Scrambled Video
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Artifact
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Project: Jumpin’ Video
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Blockade
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Project: Render Fail
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Blockade
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Project: Video Glitch
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Blockade
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Project: Cross Bars Overlay
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Interference
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Project: Fuzz
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Interference
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Project: Minor Degradation
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Interference
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Project: Scrambled Corruption
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Interference
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Project: Blue Tint Clutter
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Skew
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Project: Incoming Message
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Skew
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Project: Rolling Jumble
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Skew
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Project: Solar Highlighted Rift
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Skew
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Project: White Noise
Plugin: Damage
Effect: Skew
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Download all presets and project files here

Compatibility

This User Manual is available to download:



HOST COMPATIBILITY
Macintosh FCP 6 FCP 7 FCPX AE CS3 AE CS4 AE CS5 AE CS5.5 PPro CS3 PPro CS4 PPro CS5 PPro CS5.5
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Windows AE CS3 AE CS4 AE CS5 AE CS5.5 PPro CS3 PPro CS4 PPro CS5 PPro CS5.5 EDIUS
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MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Operating System
Processor
System Memory
Macintosh OS X 10.4+ G4/G5/Mac Intel Processors 2 GB
Windows XP Professional SP2/Windows Vista/Windows 7 Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon XP 2 GB
 

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