AmpedeNEWISH
http://www.ampede.com/

PDF Plugin for Final Cut Pro HD

14 day Trial verions available. Ampede PDF renders vector content from Adobe Illustrator and PDF files frame by frame, keeping your artwork sharp regardless of scale, movement, or rotation. Ampede PDF includes ColorSync support, sub-pixel rendering, non-square pixel support and field rendering. Ampede also make a similar plug for Motion.

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ArtMetic
http://www.artmetic.com/

30 Plug-ins effects

Sold as a pack. Working Demos available. Artmetic's 30 plug-ins effects include "Pointed filters" - filters that enable editors to modify specific part of the frame and "Functional dissolves" - clips that are modified during the dissolve.

Stylize Filters

Working Demo available. Filters: - Posterize (Free), Emboss, Find Edges, Two Colors, Threshold & Photocopy

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BorisFX
http://www.borisfx.com

The Boris RED Family

Available individually & bundled. Demo CD available.This family of applications consists of Boris FX, Calligraphy, Graffiti, and Red - all plug-in applications with their own interface that work inside FCP.

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Boris FX

Features 3D compositing, advanced color manipulation, layer distortions, DVE, and particles. Works with unlimited layers of video.

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Boris Calligraphy 2.0

Two title generators currently included free with Apple Final Cut Pro 3 & 4: Title 3D and Title Crawl. (If you have FCP 3.0 then you also got Calligraphy 1.0 for FREE....)

Features include vector text, auto-animated rolls and crawls, animation in Z space (including tumble and spin) and a style palette. At the Boris FX website, FCP users can also download free styles to add to the pallette.

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Boris Graffiti

2D and 3D title animation. Format text, add effects, animate tracking, map text to 3D shapes, extrude, and composite in three dimensions. Use unlimited layers of text and graphics over a single layer of background video. Graffiti is Calligraphy on steroids...

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Boris Continuum Complete 3.0

Nearly 100 filters provide such advanced capabilities as robust keying, animatable apply modes, advanced 3D compositing (including intersecting spheres and planes), particle systems, natural effects (including fire, rain, snow and stars), time manipulation filters, and high-impact effects such as Light Zoom and Film Grain, amongst many others.

“...an expansive plug-in filter set that lets you create effects from the practical to the inspired directly in your native host interface. Version 3 includes over 50 new dynamic filters, OpenGL acceleration, powerful integration features and now, new plug-in support for Adobe Premiere Pro...”

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Boris Red

Integrated 3D Compositing, titling and effects. (Boris FX and Continuum combined with additional features)

Boris RED includes: vector paint, rotoscoping, EPS import and extrusion, motion tracking (including corner pinning and image stabilization), time manipulation filters, 3D particle system, intersecting intersecting 3D shapes, advanced 3D compositing, importing Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files with layers.

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Want After Effects?

If you use Boris FX, Graffiti or Red within Final Cut Pro, you can also access a range of Adobe After Effects Plug-ins:

• Cult Effects Vol. 1
• Final Effects Complete with Soft FX
• Neosapien
• AEFlame
• Tinderbox 1
• Tinderbox 2
• Tinderbox 3
• Trapcode Shine
• Kaleidafex Matte Pack
• Knoll Lens Flare Pro
• Ultimatte 2.2

Check http://www.borisfx.com for an up to date list of compatible AE plug-ins.

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Buena Software
http://www.buena.com/

Effect Essentials for Final Cut Pro

Working Demos available.Set of 10 plug-ins for Final Cut Pro 3 & 4:

Super RGB Curves, HSV Curves, Digital Interference, Camera Flash (FREE), Radial Glow, HSV Manipulator, Feedback, Edge Manipulator, Frame Manipulator, Pixel Manipulator.

Frame Manipulator has got to be one of the most intriguing FCP filters - here's how they describe it: "Turn one type of data into another. For example, when the music gets louder, the image gets bigger. When the scene gets brighter, it gets more blurry. The only limit is your imagination." Mmmm, sounds perfect for music videos...

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The Transition Factory

Working Demo available. More Bueno work! This elegant transition plug-in beautifully & artfully simulates (amongst other things) film-like dissolves. And now it works in Final Cut Express, as well as a native transition in Final Cut Pro - so you can use it like other transitions.

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Au Naturel

Try Out Available Au Naturel is a motion video plug-in with tools for producing realistic lens blurs, adjusting exposure in f-stops, performing high quality transformations, and compositing with multiple alpha channels.

Available for Final Cut Pro, After Effects, and Discreet Combustion, the plug-in uses a 32-bit per channel floating point linear RGB color space and also provides extended levels control.

October 11, 2004

CGM
http://www.cgm-online.com

There's no doubt about it, Klaus Eiperle is a dab hand at coding FCP Plug-ins.

So much so, that Volume 1 (Vers 1.0) of his highly regarded filters came bundled with FCP3 for free. (Inside the FX Script DVE folder on the CD).

Well, you can now also purchase or update to the FCP 4 versions, CGM DVE Vol.1+ (v1.3.1):

“... The plugins are nearly all completely rewritten and have lots of powerful new functions:
- Extended cropping enables very powerful compositing capability.
- The CGM 3D shadow system gives videos a really cool look.
- Automatic gap recognition makes effects work with logos and titles much easier.
- All plugins now support Alpha channels - also important when you add effects to keyed logos or titles.
- All plugins support the new G5 and RTExtreme technologies.
- Effects which change the size of the video now include a high quality scaling algorithm.
- Two bonus plugins: CGM Film Dissolve and CGM Match Color... ”

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Volume 1

Working Demos available.

• Transitions:
  2D: Band Slide, Slide, Softwipe, Split Slide, Stretch, Swap Slide, Cross Dissolve
  3D: Cube Spin, Double Page Peel, Flip, Page Peel, Page Peel 1/2, Page Peel 1/4, Swing, Zoom/Rotate
• Video filters:
  4-Point-Garbage Matte visual, Brightness/Contrast visual, Color Balance visual, Distort visual, Double Border, Gamma/Gain/Pedestal visual, Replicate, Roll- /Scroll, Widescreen, White Balance, Displace.

(You'll find them in the FX Script DVE folder in the Transition and Filter folders, in case your were wondering.) Oh, don't forget to visit the CGM site and download the update to 1.1.)

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Volume 2

Working Demos available.A set of 35 filters and transitions for use in Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express. In addition to the plug-ins, the package includes a series of Final Cut Pro workshops and 67 softwipe patterns. (You can also download the workshops from the web site…)

• Transitions:
  Dip to Color Dissolve, Double Flip, Explode, Laser, Liquid, Movie FX, MultiSlide, MultiSpin, PixelStorm, Pond Ripple Dissolve, Ripple Dissolve, Stretch Blur, Zoom/Rotate 3D
• Filters:
  Area Blur 8P, Basic 3D, Binoculars, Color Glow 8P, Crop/Shadow/Border, Film, Light/Glow, Mask, Selective Color Correction 4P, Selective Color Correction 8P, Speed, Spotlight, Timewarp, Wind Blur, Zoom Blur
• Transitions as Filters:
  Explode, Laser, Liquid, MultiSlide, MultiSpin, PixelStorm, Stretch Blur

CGM DVE Vol.2+ v2.2.3 Updates include:
Some of the improvements include: new high quality modes for Cross Dissolve and Film Dissolve; some new functions (points/percent) for the Chart Plug-in; Clone Area's source area can be moved and rotated; Clone Grainwill loop the grain source video and more.
Plugins added to the set include include Random Bar Wipe, Clone Point & Timecode/Reel which displays the original timecode and reel name of each clip.

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Volume 3

Working Demos available.The "CGM DVE Vol.3+" is a set of 58 filters, transitions and generators.

• Transitions:
  Blur Slide, Border Wipe, Checkerboard Wipe, Dissolve Spin, Jump Slide, Letter Zoom, Luma Color Dissolve, Luma Dissolve, Morph 16P, 25P, 121P, Oscillate, Random Bar Wipe, Rectangle Wipe, Spin, Squish, Tumble, Twirl, Wind Blur
• Filters:
  Bezier Matte 20P, Binoculars Pro, Channel Switcher, Charts, Clone Area, Clone Grain, Cube 3D, De-interlace, Film Pro, Handy Cam, Highlights, Low Pass Filter, Lows, Magnifying Glass, Noise Killer, Photo Camera, Reverse Fields, Silk, Star, Sunshine, Wind Blur Pro
• Transitions as Filters:
  Blur Slide, Border Wipe, Checkerboard Wipe, Letter Zoom, Morph 16P, 25P, 121P, Random Bar Wipe, Spin, Twirl
• Generators:
  Arrow, Countdown, GPS Data, Karaoke, Marker, Scrambler, T Minus, Text

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CHV Electronics
http://www.chv-plug-ins.com/

CHV FCP plug-ins

Sold in sets or as a pack. Working Demos available.

• The Starters-collection - Binoculars, Spot
• The Text-collection - Credits, Sub-Title
• The Film-filter - Film
• The 3D-collection - 3D-Explode, 3D-Clips, 3D-Matrix, 3D-Cube
• The Distortion collection - Pixelstorm Pro, Stripes, Gridslide, Fluid Pro, StormCircle, StormFront
• The Color-collection - Replace Colors, Process Edges, Stylize
• The Time-collection - Timewarp, Speed
• The Clone and Paint-collection - Clone, Posterize, Trail, Gradient Pro, Levels Pro, Marching Ants, Mosaic, Rip, Curvewipe, Shear, Channel Mixer, Better BandSlide, BrightContGamma.
• The Keyframe-collection - Giving Final Cut Express users the power of keyframes - Keyframe-system, Plugins 1-10, Plugins 11-21, Plugins 22-31, Plugins 32-42
• The MotionTracker-collection - Garbage Matte, Insert Image, Image Stabilizer, Point Distortion, Zoom

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The Bezier Garbage Matte Pro / Lite

Working Demo available.Christoph Vonrhein has been busy lately - this time he's made the first - and currently only - Garbage Matte with Bezier-Handles!

The Lite version generates a garbage matte with a transparent background with up to 12 points with Bezier-Handles.

The Pro version has some 40 matte points with handles as well as letting you generate an outline of the matte, feather the borders, tint the matte, fill it with a solid color, blend with the source without a second video-layer in the Timeline, blur & rotate the matte.

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The Morph-collection

Working Demo available.3 different versions available: as a transition - create a Morph with still-images; as a Generator - for animated video; as a filter - for special distortion-effects.

Review by Steve Douglas on Ken Stone's Site

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Conoa
http://store.yahoo.com/conoa-store/index.html

3D plug-ins

Sold individually & as a "SuperPak". Working Demos available.

• Conoa 3D v1.7- 3-D primitives (spheres and cubes) with reflections, refractions, texture mapping, object intersections and more. Separate shapes now combined into one.
• Conoa EasyShapes 1.3.1 - Wraps a video layer onto a sphere, cube or cylinder. Contains a full 3D camera, lighting and material model.

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Digieffects
http://www.digieffects.com

Digieffects is home to a series of popular broadcast quality filters. Apps available individually. Free Demo CD also available.

Most are After Effects Filters with some FCP compatibility - but, of course, usable within Boris.

“A Note about Final Cut Pro: although we are not currently supporting FCP 3.0, many of our plug-ins are compatible, such as CineMotion, CineLook (without the custom UI), and 50% of Delirium. Aurorix, Berserk, and most Delirium particle-based effects, however, are NOT compatible as of this date...”

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Aurorix 2

Working Demo available.

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

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Berserk

Working Demo available.Berserk contains 20 plug-in effects including:

• Natural - Blizzard, Crystallizer, FogBank, NightBloom, StarField, Laser, Newsprint
• Organic - BumpMaker, Contourist, GravityWell, OilPaint, VanGoughist, StillNoise, Edgex, Pearls
• Distortion - Perspectron, Ripploid, Spintron, Squisher, Cyclowar

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Delirium

Working Demo available.

47 plug-ins:

Fairy Dust, Film Flash, Fire, Electrical Arcs, Bubbles, Camera Shake, Channel Delay, COP Blur, Day for Night, Fireworks, Flicker and Strobe, Flow Motion, Fog Factory, Framing Gradients, Glower, Grayscaler, HLS Displace, Hyper Harmonizer, Lens Flares, Loose Sprockets, MultiGradient, Muzzle Flash, Nexus, Puffy Clouds, RainFall, Retinal Bloom, Schematic Grids, Show Channels, Sketchist, Smoke, Snow Storm, Solarize, Sparks, Specular Lighting, Thermograph, Turbulent Noise, Video Malfunction, Visual Harmonizer, Wave Displace, Tilt 3D Tools

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CineLook

Working Demo available.CineLook Broadcast & CineLook FilmRes - The original "make your video look like film" plug-ins - designed to give you the "film look," by adding grain, correcting color and adding film artifacts like dust, scratches, stains, hair and more to any video, computer animation, film-scan or photo.

The Film Res version adds a de-grain filter, a hardware key and works up to 4K by 4K resolution. Cinelook can emulate popular film-stocks - including 30 of the most common plus 20 more special effects settings including 8mm color & BW, 16mm color & BW and several 35mm film stocks.

Other features include:

• ChromaMatch - Simulation of film color curve response
• TimeMatch - Simulates the shutter blur of film
• FilmDamage - Organic film destructor

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CineMotion

Working Demo available.CineMotion is a set of 10 plug-ins for After Effects that allows you to take any video footage (SVHS, Hi-8, Beta, DV-Cam) and make it move like film - with control over 3:2 pulldown, reduce or enhance grain, diminish interlace flicker, create film-aspect ratios, posterization effects and lessen color banding artifacts.

In essence, it simulates the effect of telecine transfer from film to video.

The 10 plug-ins are:
Film Motion, Adaptive Noise, Banding Reducer, Grain Reducer, Interlace Aliasing Reducer, Selective RGB Noise, Selective HSB Noise, Selective RGB Posterize, Selective HSB Posterize, Letterbox.

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Digital Anarchy
http://www.digitalanarchy.com/section_fcp.html

Written for After Effects but will work in FCP. Apps available individually & in bundles.

“ ...The plug-ins listed ...are AE plugs that have been fully tested in FCP and are guaranteed to work. You do not need After Effects for the products listed here. Keep in mind, though, that the functionality of AE plugs is limited by what FCP can do. For some of the plugs listed here, you buy the AE product and simply tell FCP to recognize it. ...Aurora Sky, is an exception as there are two versions that you can buy: the AE version that will also work in FCP, or the cheaper FCP-only version... ”

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Aurora Sky

Working Demo available.Generates photorealistic skies, clouds, stars, etc.

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Psunami

Working Demo available.Generates water, such as the villainous ocean that starred in the Titanic.

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Text Anarchy

Working Demo available.Choose from eight filters to creates random text effects and background elements - including Matrix and Computer-display-style graphics. (This plug-in was formerly known as Elements of Anarchy: Text.)

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Gradient!

Working Demo available.Makes, manipulate & animate gradients.

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Color Theory Pro

Working Demo available.A digital color wheel that will find color combinations for any project at hand. It utilizes an artists' RYB (red, yellow, blue) color model in place of the computer's inherent RGB (red, blue, green) system.

The Pro version contains the application plus a plug-in set for After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and Illustrator.

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Retimer SD/HD

Working Demo available.ReTimer allows you to speed up, slow down, or dynamically time-warp NTSC or PAL footage. It's a cost-effective solution based on the engine of REALVIZ’s award-winning application.

Use ReTimer SD for Standard Definition footage. ReTimer HD is for High Definition, with all PAL/NTSC, Film and 2K images supported. ReTimer works in After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and Combustion.

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Microcosm

Working Demo available.Microcosm is the world's first lossless 64-bit RGBA QuickTime file format. It is designed for use as an intermediate codec, moving your work smoothly between applications. It's also great for archiving projects as compact, virtually lossless files.

Microcosm works with most applications, including After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Commotion, and Combustion.

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Digital Film Tools
http://www.digitalfilmtools.com

Apps available individually.

55mm Filters

Working Demo available.A collection filters designed to mimic popular camera lenses amongst other things:

Black Mist, Black & White, Bleach Bypass, Center Spot, Color Conversion, Color Correct, Color Grad, Color Temperature, Cross Processing, Defocus, Diffusion, Dual Tint, Enhancing, Fast Blur, Faux Film, Fluorescent, Fog, F-Stop, Glow, Grain, Infra-Red, Lens Distortion, Light!, Low Contrast, Matte Generator, Mist, ND Grad, Night Vision, Overexpose, Ozone, Polarizer, Printer Points, Rosco Gels, Selective Color Correct, Selective Saturation, Selective Soft Focus, Soft EFX, Star, Streaks, Tint, Sunset/Twilight, Temperature, Ultra Contrast and Warm Mist.

Normal Image

With Warm Mist filter

 

October 11, 2004

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zMatte

Working Demo available.An "intelligent" keyer for blue or green screens with multiple matte creation, matte shrink, blur and wrap functions,   sophisticated color correction and suppression, light wrap, edge tools to color correct or blur only the edge. Key your blues away...

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Digital Film Lab

Working Demo available.A plug-in to simulate a variety of film looks, popular glass camera filters, specialized lenses and optical lab processes--all in a controlled digital environment with either 8 or 16 bits per channel processing. The plug in is made up of Color Correct, Bleach Bypass, Low Contrast, Flashing, Overexpose, Diffusion, Blur, Grad Grain and Post Color Correct modules and comes with 150 presets.

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Composite Suite

Working Demo available.These plug-ins include within each compositing plug-in all that is needed to combine multiple images: color correction, blur, grain, matte manipulation and edge blending using 16 bit processing - even if your system is limited to 8 bits.

The plug-ins are:
Camera Flash, Color Correct, Composite, Deartifact, Defocus, Drop Shadow, DVE, Edge Composite, Fast Blur, Film Masks, HDTV Masks, Grain Holdout, Composite Light, Light Wrap, Math Composite, Matte Generator, Matte Repair, Noise, Non-Additive Mix, Optical Dissolve, Ozone, Selective Color Correct, Selective Soft Focus, TBC, Temperature, Title Blur.

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Digital Heaven
http://www.digital-heaven.co.uk

Buy them individiually. Some working demos available. Digital Heaven has released ten plug-ins for Final Cut Pro v4/Express v2.

DH_Dropout demo a dropout correction plugin, DH_FieldTrans for applying effects to clips which have vision cuts on field two, DH_Grid a generator which displays a grid with up to ten divisions, DH_Guides - 3 different styles of guides, DH_LegalText for measuring the height of those tiny disclaimers, DH_Reincarnation to correct dead pixels, DH_Subtitle demo for pro-looking subtitles and DH_WideSafe for action and title safe areas when working in the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio with both SD and HD720/1080 supported. DH_Box demo makes picture in picture and split-screen effects and DH_WhipPan demo is a transition that simulates a whip pan between two shots.

See also Multicam Lite

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DVFilm
http://www.dvfilm.com

DvFilmmaker

No working demo available.Converts interlaced NTSC or PAL video from Quicktime or AVI files, giving them a "shot on film" progressive scan appearance. Can convert 16:9 anamorphic to letterbox as well as crop 4:3 video to 16:9 as well as simulate film grain and red layer emulsion shift.

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Eureka
http://www.kafwang.com/eureka/eurekamain.html

Working Demos available. The famous Eureka plug-ins have moved again - and finally have their own home. The old filters have been fixed up for FCP 4.0.1 and YUV and new plug-ins have been added to the set:

• Filters:
  Bright & Contrast, Chroma Glow, Film Grain, Jiggle (a personal favourite), Selective Color, Silk Stocking, Strobe Dissolve, Film Negative, Film Look Suite, Film Motion Footage Counter, Funky Look Studio, People Tweaker, RGB Channels, RGB Color Correct, Simple Grad, Streaker, Video Look
• Transitions:
  SquishBlur Across, Film Dissolve, Flash Cross (another personal fave), Smash Zoom, Black Hole, Cool Push, Dither Off, Scrubs Flash, Spin Out
• Generators:
  Outlined Text, Real 7.5 Black, RomanticText, Production Bars

 

Normal	Selective Color Correction
Film Look - Safari	Silk

I'm informed a new set of plug-ins is also in development.

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FreedomFX
http://www.freedomfx.com/index2.html

Apps available in bundles and individually.

Freedom FX

No working demo available.A collection of organic gradient effects - over 420 Mattes, GraFX, and Wipe Transitions. Lite version has 125.

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AniMattes

"FREE Sample Clip Download 30mb *free sample is not the full clip*" Libraries of 30 animated mattes for compositing video within a matte shape with animated edges. 2 Volumes and a sampler available for purchase.

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GalleryNEWISH
http://www.metaflow.info/XMLPro/xmlpro.html

XML-PRo

No working demo available. Seamlessly translates FinalCut Pro XML into Pro Tools Sessions, and AES-31-3 ADLs, referencing source media, and including clip volume level automation.

XML-Pro is designed for Final Cut Pro workflows for large scale projects such as motion pictures. In such workflows, there is a strong requirement for turnover from picture to sound departments to utilise compositions which reference original source files. Final Cut's own OMF export functionality uses an embeded media technique which does not refer back to original sources, and as such is not suitable for use in these types of workflow. Additionally, there is a strong demand to preserve level automation defined by the picture editor across to audio post production, but this is also omitted from FCP's OMF export.

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Graeme Nattress
http://www.nattress.com/

Graeme is a very busy and accessible fellow - he has completed 2 set of filters and has another on the way.

“...Please contact me if you have any custom filter requirements, filter ideas, or you just want to talk about FCP programming...”

Set 1 Working Demo available.

• Transitions:
  G Dissolve
• Filters:
  G Alpha Expander, G Aperture Uncorrect, G Beauty. G Cool Blur, G Deflash, G DVNR, G Field, G Levels, G Monochrome, G Nice, G Octagon, G Saturator, G Super Levels, G Tint
• Generators:
  G Lines

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Set 2 Working Demo available.

• Transitions:
  

  G Earthquake2, G Spring

• Filters:

  G Bug Eye, G Copy Channel, G Diffuse, G Earthquaker, G False Colour, G Film, G Nicer, G Posterise, G Reinterlcer, G Threshold

• Generators:
  G Bars

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Film Effects

Working Demo available.This is an awesome filter pack that produces stunning results and is probably the most cost-effective and time-effective way to get the film look for your DV. Top notch stuff with detailed documentation. And finally someone does presets.

• Filters:
  G Film, G Film Plus, G Film Presets Explorer, G Nicer, G Film Damage

Normal	False Colour
Film Look - Hell	Film look - Bleach Bypass

 

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Standards Conversion

Working Demo available.

• Filters:
  G Converter converts between PAL and NTSC - in either direction
  G Film Converter converts PAL and NTSC from and to 24p film rate.

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Lyric
http://www.lyric.com/fcp-plugins/index.htm

Motion Tracking plugin kit

Working demo available.Lyric's Motion Tracking plugin kit for Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express comprises 4 filters:

• Stabilizer - sub-pixel image stabilization
• Pin - pin a clip to a feature moving within another clip
• Pin Blur - automatically tracked "cop-show" feature blurring
• 4-Point Pin - pin a clip to a moving quadrilateral within another clip, distorted to fit

Lyric also have a Drawing Tools kit on the way...

Media 100
http://www.media100.com/fec.asp

Final Effects Complete

Working demo available.Final Effects Complete generates two-dimensional and three-dimensional particle animations as well as 3D, lighting, and transition effects.

The Effects:
3D Relief, B & C, Ball Action, Bend It, Bender, Blobbyize, Box Blur, Bubbles, Bulge, Burn Film, Channel Blur HLS, Channel Blur RGB, Channel Blur, Chroma Blur, Color Offset, Drizzle, Emboss, EZ Ripples, Fast Blur, Flo Motion, Fractal, Glass, Glass Wipe, Glow, GPG, Gradient Blur, Grid Wipe, Griddler, Hair, Invert, Jaws, Kaleida, Lazy Waves, Lens, Lens Star, Levels, Lightblast, Lightburst, Light Tornado, Light Whirl, Light Wipe, Luma Blur, Particle System II, Mr. Mercury, Mr. Smoothie, Particle World, Pixel Polly, Power Ramp, Radial Scale Wipe, Replace Color, Ripple Pulse, Scale Wipe, Scatterize, Sharpen, Simple Shadow, Slant, Smear, Smear Blur, Snow, Soften, Sparkle Edges, Sphere, Spherize, Spin Blur, Spiral Smear Blur, Split, Spot Blur, Spot Feather, Spot Frame, Spot Tatter, Spot Turbulence, Spotlight, Threshold, Threshold RGB, Tint, Toner, Twirl, Twister, Unsharp Mask, Vector Blur, Video Fragment, Water Waves, Wiggle Edges, Zoom Blur, Alpha Map, Channel Noise, Snow, Advanced 3D, Cylinder, Glue Gun, Light Sweep, Page Turn, Power Pin, Star Burst, Time Blend, Time Blend FX.

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Pinnacle Systems
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/

Knoll Light Factory

Designed by John Knoll, co-creator of Photoshop and Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic, Knoll Light Factory includes 25 individual lens components to create your own custom lighting effects and lens flares.

See also Commotion Pro

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Pixelan
http://www.pixelan.com

Video SpiceRack PRO

OrganicFX Working demo available.

Apps available in bundles and individually. Working demo available.A huge set of graphics designed to be combined with FCP's Gradient Wipe for 500 & 250 respective different transition effects.

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Plug-in Galaxy for AE
http://www.theplug-insite.com

Obviously made for AE but works for FCP, they say. Working Demo available.

Plug-in Galaxy for AE is set of 21 plug-ins which includes over 150 animatable effects. The plug-ins:

• Alpha Tool - manipulates the alpha channel.
• Bluuur - creates different blur effects
• Breakfast - creates different textures
• Coolorize - manipulates the colors of an image
• Cryptology - lets you encrypt and decrypt your images at 64bit
• Edge Tool - creates many edge variations
• Feedback - creates radial feedback and vortex effects
• Fusion - creates metal, chrome or neon effects
• Glass - creates glass-like effects
• Grid - creates different grid effects
• Instant Mirror - creates different mirror effects
• Noiseee - creates different noise effects
• Pop Art - creates the colorful pop-art style effects
• Rainbow - creates different rainbow gradients
• Sunshine - creates sunshine or sunset effects
• Star - creates a star effects
• Synthesizer - creates synthetic patterns like some old video synthesizers do
• Warp 1 - creates different warp effects
• Warp 2 - creates more warp effects
• Zoom - creates a zoom circle

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Profound Effects
http://www.profoundeffects.com

SWIM

Swirly water like distortions.

Camera Point of View

Profound Effects have a new FCP compatible plug-in that can simulate a variety of camera point of views: Digital Camera, Generic Camcorder, High-end Camcorder, High-end SLR, Night Vision Camera, Old SLR, Security Camera, SLR (hey I could used it for this). The POVS simulate related details - such as working light-meters, shutters, LCD screen motion, scan lines and simulated tape transport.

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Red Giant Software
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/mbforeditors.html

An industrial strength Final Cut Pro plug-in, enabling filmmakers to add film treatments right on the timeline. The plug-in delivers film stock emulation, diffusion filter, and easy-to-use film-look presets. It also includes the film damage creation tool, Misfire, which recreates characteristics of old film, including grain, splotches, and scratches -- as well as projection artifacts like flicker and gate weave. In addition to a master plug-in with 13 categories of control, plug ins for another 13 effects are included in the package.

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Revision Effects
http://www.revisionfx.com/

Apps available individually.Revision make plug-ins for After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, combustion, Digital Fusion, Commotion, Avid, Digital Fusion, Discreet Plugin, and Shake. The following are compatible with Apple's Final Cut Pro 1.2.5 or later...

ReelSmart FieldsKit

Working Demo available.High powered de-interlacing and more workflow options for interlacing and pulldown.

“...Using proprietary field reconstruction and adaptive motion techniques, FieldsKit Deinterlacer can build full frames from fields that are of much higher quality than the standard approaches available in most effects and video editing applications...” 

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ReelSmart Motion Blur

Working Demo available.Highly rated plug-in that calculates blurs based on the tracked motion of every pixel. Gulp! Can also sharpen (removing motion blur) as well as reduce flickering on speed changed clips.

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ReelSmart Shade/Shape

Working Demo available.Turns 2D elements into 3D rendered artwork. Add depth, shading and metallic luster to your titles and logos, develop, add soft shading to 2D hand-drawn animation, add natural 3D shading to existing image sequences.

Features include automatic 3D model creation, 3D lighting and rendering, bump mapping, environment mapping.

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ReelSmart Twixtor

Working Demo available.Slows down, speeds up and changes the frame rates of image sequences. Twixtor synthesizes unique new frames by warping and interpolating frames of the original sequence... employing RE:Vision's proprietary tracking technology that calculates motion for each individual pixel. See previous Gulp!

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SmoothKit

Working Demo available.A toolset to smooth imagery - let's face it, we're talking skin cleansing! (Did anyone say MTV?)

“...SmoothKit is a set of filters that complements the basic blurs provided by host applications. SmoothKit's emphasis is precise control of the filtering process with no compromise on image quality. For example, wouldn't it be useful to smooth out the skin in someone's face but not eliminate the details of the hair that hangs in front of the face? In addition to "effects", the SmoothKit toolset can be used to reduce image defects in a much more intelligent manner...”

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Video Gogh

Working Demo available.Painterly effects. Personally, I've never seen a painterly effect that looked within a bull's roar of a real brushstroke.

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ReelSmart Motion Blur

ReelSmart Motion Blur 3.0 tracks every pixel in a sequence and blurs based on calculated motion.. The new version now supports 8- and 16-bit per channel processing, multiprocessor machines, foreground and background separation using a specified mask, application of motion blur using motion vectors from an external source, and other changes.

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River Rock Rock
http://www.riverrockstudios.com/riverrock/

Filters individual or bundled.

Red River is the first foundry to offer its reasonably price filters a la carte:

• Anonymizer - protect the innocent
• Artiste - brush up your footage
• Chromatic Blur - be particular about what you blur
• Isolate Color - instant Pleasantville!
• Sky Ramp - gradients, gradients, gradients
• Smoothie - Softly, softly.
• CinemagicX - for that magic film look
• Cheap Lens - chromatic and spherical aberration like a cheap lens. Can also correct for chromatic aberration in images shot with a bad lens.

River Rock also have 3 free filters.

October 11, 2004

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Sapphire
http://web.genarts.com/sapphire-ae.html

This is one of the most awesome professional level pack of FCP filters I have seen. Easy to use and a very clever help button that delivers pop-up help for that specific filter. Great stuff and all working as native filters INSIDE Final Cut.

Box 1: Lighting

Working Demo available.

• Glow Effects - Glow, GlowAura, GlowDarks, GlowDist, GlowEdges, GlowNoise, GlowOrthicon, GlowRainbow, GlowRings
• Light Beams - Rays, EdgeRays, Streaks
• LensFlares - LensFlare, LensFlareAutoTrack
• Glints & Glares - Glint, GlintRainbow, Glare
• Other Lighting - DropShadow, SpotLight

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Box 2: Stylize

Working Demo available.

• AutoPaint & HalfTone - AutoPaint, Sketch, Etching, HalfTone, HalfToneColor, HalfToneRings
• Kaleidoscopes - Kaleido:Triangles, Kaleido:Squares, Kaleido:Diamonds, Kaleido:Oct, KaleidoPolar, FlysEyeCircles, FlysEyeHex, FlysEyeRect
• FilmEffect & Grain - FilmEffect This is the fastest Film Effect filter I have seen, Grain, GrainStatic, Diffuse
• Edge Effects - EdgeDetect, EdgeDetect:Chroma, EdgeDetectDouble, EdgesInDirection, EdgeColorize
• Embossing - Emboss, EmbossShiny, EmbossDistort, EmbossGlass
• Other Stylize - BandPass, JpegDamage, Mosaic, PseudoColor, PsykoBlobs, PsykoStripes, ScanLines, ScanLinesMono, Solarize, Zebrafy, ZebrafyColor, ZFogExponential, ZFogLinear

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Box 3: Adjust, Blur+Sharpen, Composite & Distort

Working Demo available.

• Adjust - ClampChroma, DuoTone, Gamma, Hotspots, HueSatBright, Monochrome, Threshold, Tint
• Composite - EdgeFlash, Layer, MathOps, MatteOps, MatteOpsComp, ZComp
• Blur+Sharpen - Blur, BlurChannels, BlurChroma, BlurMoCurves, BlurMotion, DefocusPrism, EdgeBlur, GrainRemove, RackDefocus, RackDfComp, Sharpen, SoftFocus, ZDepthCueBlur
• Distort Effects - Distort, DistortBlur, DistortChroma, DistortRGB
• Warps & Shake - WarpBubble, WarpBubble2, WarpChroma, WarpDrops, WarpFishEye, WarpPerspective , WarpPolar, WarpPuddle, WarpPuff, WarpRepeat, WarpTransform, WarpVortex, WarpWaves, WarpWaves2, Shake

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Box 4: Render, Time & Transitions

Working Demo available.

• Lightning Zaps - Zap, ZapTo, ZapFrom
• Gradients & Grid - Gradient, GradientRadial, Grid
• Procedural Textures - Sparkles, SparklesColor, TextureCells, TextureChromaSpiral, TextureFolded, TextureMoire, TextureNoiseEmboss, TextureNoisePaint, TexturePlasma, TextureSpots, TextureWeave
• Fractal Clouds - Clouds, CloudsColorSmooth, CloudsMultColor, CloudsPerspective, CloudsPsyko, CloudsVortex
• Time Effects - Feedback, FeedbackBubble, FieldRemove, FreezeFrame, GetFrame, JitterFrames, MotionDetect, NearestColor, RandomEdits, ReverseClip, ReverseEdits, TimeAverage, TimeDisplace, TimeSlice, TimeWarpRGB, Trails, TrailsDiffuse
• Flicker Tools - Flicker, FlickerMatch, FlickerMatchColor, FlickerMatchMatte, FlickerMchMatteColor , FlickerRemove, FlickerRemoveColor, FlickerRemoveMatte, FlickerRmMatteColor
• Dissolve Transitions - DissolveBlur, DissolveBubble, DissolveDiffuse, DissolveLuma, DissolvePuddle, DissolveSpeckle, DissolveStatic, DissolveVortex, DissolveWaves
• Wipe Transitions - WipeBlobs, WipeBubble, WipeCells, WipeChecker, WipeCircle, WipeClock, WipeClouds, WipeDiffuse, WipeDots, WipeDoubleWedge, WipeFourWedges, WipeLine, WipePixelate, WipeRectangle, WipeRings, WipeStar, WipeStripes, WipeTiles, WipeWedge

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Synthetic Aperture
http://www.synthetic-ap.com/

Color Finesse

Working Demo available.Boasts telecine-style color correction within After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and other applications, For correcting poorly shot footage, grading scenes for color match, or modifying colors for your own creative "look".

Makers of Echofire & Test Pattern Generator

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Visual Infinity
http://www.visinf.com/

Grain Surgery for Film and DV Version 2

Working Demo available. Also Bundled with Photoshop version.Remove grain, add grain, match grain, cut and paste image noise. Choose the presets or tweak till the cows go home - or until at least they are properly composited.

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Virtix
http://www.virtix.com/fcp/

Virtix Effects for FCP

Working Demo available.From iMovie to FCP - Virtix has a good value collection of filters - including lightning zaps & rain...

The Effects:
Blur Edges, Bubbles, Crosseyed, Dream Border, Edge Detector, Extreme B&W, Extreme Color, Funhouse, Glint, Heat, Laser, Laser P2P, Lightning, Median, Moonlight, One Color, Pixel Fixer, Rain, Scope, Smoke, Snow, Sparkle By Color, Spins, Spotlight, Stained Glass, Sunset, Topograph, Tunnel, Witness Protection and Zap.

Review by Ned Soltz, Master of Plug-ins on Ken Stone's Site

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