Includes 18 After Effects plug-ins that deliver a complete production pipeline for processing digital video footage for output to DVD, TV, or film. Magic Bullet was developed at The Orphanage, by former Industrial Light & Magic visual effects artist Stu Maschwitz, to provide digital video professionals the tools to transform the harsh look of video to the softer, more organic look of film.

Features:

• Video to video workflow Add film-like 24p motion effects, with true 24p conversion tools, to 60i or 50i (interlaced) video [Read Creative Cow article]
  
• Video to film workflow True high quality 24p conversion, deinterlacing and frame rate converting 60i or 50i material, for film transfer
  
• DV compression correction Remove DV compression artifacts for cleaner and smoother results
  
• Library of 65 film treatments including looks inspired by The Matrix, Traffic, Three Kings, Amelie, and Saving Private Ryan
  
• Customise and save your own unique Looks
  
• Film damage effects - 13 filters to accurately mimic film grain, splotches, scratches, and projection artifacts
  
• Create film-like dissolves, fades to black or burns to white
  
• Letterboxer - crop footage to any standard format, from TV safe to Ben Hur wide
  
• Test and fix your video colours to ensure they meet the broadcast specification parameters

Primatte Plug-In Pack, bundles the popular plug-ins Primatte Keyer, Composite Wizard, and Image Lounge. Take compositing to the next level with tools to extract mattes quickly from any colour background; fix tattered edges, improper focal depth cues, or unbalanced colour schemes; and add realistic touches using shadows.

Features:

• Simple user interface for generating mattes.
  
• Over 20 filters for automating colour correction, blurring and feathering edges, and removing unwanted artifacts.
  
• Miracle AlphaCleaner and Denoiser—eliminate unwanted elements such as dirt, film grain, and other chatter.
  
• Over 20 filters for making dynamic images or motion text.
  
• Dozens of parameters for controlling particle size, colour, velocity, and direction.

• Optimised to extract keys from low quality video sources, even DV footage.
  
• Adjust a clip’s colour automatically to match the composite environment.
  
• Generate graphics that make animations and text look more organic and photo-realistic.
  
• Simulate the most realistic fire and cloud formations.
  
• Add grunge to text, simulate a mirage effect, or outline a moving image.

Created by Photoshop co-creater and Star Wars effects guru John Knoll, Knoll Light Factory is one of the worlds most used motion graphics tools, used by 1,000’s to digitally simulate light effects called flares. Flares simulate reflections from a very bright light source as seen in a camera’s lens. You see them most often used in nature to simulate the sun, on text or logos to enhance their appearance or in special effects explosions.

Features:

• Choose from a list of 70 preset flares effects
  
• Use the custom lens editor to create and save your own unique effects.
  
• 19 lens elements to create custom light effects.
  
• Auto Track—track multiple points and add multiple, identical lighting points to a scene.
  
• Auto Obscuration — automatically hide and reveal a light effect as the light source moves behind another object.

Key Correct Pro is a set of 15 plug-ins designed to help After Effects users create better composites with built-in keying tools. The plug-ins can be in used in combination with any keyer to better enhance the final result, like Primatte Keyer, Keylight, Ultimatte & Ultra.

Features:

• Easily softens and feathers alpha channels for accurate blending from any keyer
  
• Automatically colour match foreground objects with any background image
  
• Lighten and outline edges of objects to create realistic edge lighting and edge outlines
  
• Quickly clean up noisy images and mattes
  
• All plug-ins work with 8-bit or 16-bit projects for DV, HD and Film output

• Even the best keying technology sometimes needs help creating a natural professional quality matte
  
• With Matte Feather and Edge Blur, you can quickly and accurately soften the edges of matte hiding uneven and chattering edges caused by noise, grain or
• DV artifacts. Improved alpha channels can be output for integration in web elements using Flash 8
  
• Improve the colour match between colour key elements and any background using the automatic capabilities of Colour Matcher and Zone HLS colour correction tools
  
• Generate coloured highlights and edges for motion graphic effects to outline an individual or objects in your images
  
• Wire and rig removal is quick and easy using Wire and Rig Removals blending tools and tracking in After Effects Professional
  
• Use the simple Denoiser and Alpha Cleaner tools to fix low-light noise problems in poorly lit footage

Image Lounge contains a set of over 20 stylistic filters to make dynamic images or motion text. Replicate natural elements like fire, smoke, and water. Add realistic touches using shadows, displacement, colour mapping, and accurate camera blurs based on lens artifacts to replicate out-of-focus images shot with a 35mm-film camera.

Features:

• Over 20 filters for making dynamic images or motion text.
  
• Dozens of parameters for controlling particle size, colour, velocity, and direction.
  
• Numerous text effects for simulating an animated typewriter text and credit rolls.

Instant HD up-converts DV video into a variety of HD video formats. You can choose from a list of preset resolutions to make it easy to integrate DV video into your next High Definition production. When scaling from standard definition (SD) to high definition (HD), the missing pixels must be generated in an intelligent way. Instant HD provides a high-quality method for converting SD sources to HD within your favourite video application.

Features:

• Professional level results with easy to use options
  
• Includes five simple controls: Output Size, Filter Type, Sharpness, Quality settings, and Antialiasing
  
• Output resolution presets lets you quickly choose the right HD output resolution
  
• Improve the final appearance with integrated sharpening
  
• Antialiasing smoothes the rough edges of DV video

Film Fix is designed for documentary film makers and post production studios that need film and video restoration tools. Using Film Fix, After Effects users can restore tears, remove dust and dirt particles, and stabilise footage originated on film and video resolution material transferred from film. The processing is nearly automatic and provides high-quality output.

Features:

• FAME (Fast Accurate Motion Estimation)—processes pixel-accurate image data at different scales similar to the way the human eye views the world.
  
• Powerful, intelligent algorithms allow it to identify problems such as dust, dirt, and tearing despite complex motion in the footage.

A green-screen tool enabling artists to extract keys from any colour background by simply sampling the background colour and clicking. Primatte Keyer overcomes matte extraction challenges including DV & HDV material, uneven lighting, subtle shadows, and edge light contamination (spill) even prior to compositing.

Features:

• Simple user interface for generating mattes.
  
• Pulls keys after a few clicks of the mouse – no sliders are necessary.
  
• Easily extracts transparent objects such as water, smoke, and hair.
  
• Deartifacting input correction for all formats including DV and HDV
  
• Split screen View modes for more efficient keying
  
• Alpha channel adjustment integrated into the keyer
  
• Integrated secondary spill removal, simple and accurate Colour Matching, and Light wrap built in to the keying interface
  
• 16 Bit Support (16-bit mode is only available to Production Bundle customers)

Developed at The Orphanage, by former Industrial Light + Magic visual effects artist Stu Maschwitz, Magic Bullet Editors provides digital video professionals with simple tools to transform the crisp, soap-opera look of video to the softer, more organic look of film. Select from over 65 custom-designed Looks or create and save your own.

Features:

• Make any video source look like film including DV, HDV, HD, Beta Cam & DigiBeta
  
• Includes 65 presets that mimic popular TV and film "looks"
  
• Includes looks inspired by The Matrix, Traffic, & Three Kings
  
• Compression Correction™ engine removes DV & HDV artifacts for a smoother results
  
• Create and save your own unique looks
  
• Soften the harsh edges and over saturated colours of video
  
• Provides 14 filters that accurately mimic damage of old film
  
• Film damage includes grain, splotches, scratches and projection artifacts
  
• Uses proprietary DeepColour™ RT technology delivering the highest quality output in up to real-time
  
• Optimised for Power Mac G5 and Intel Pentium 4

Composite Wizard helps integrate After Effects composites. Tattered edges, poor matte extractions, improper focal depth cues, and unbalanced colour schemes are common compositing challenges. Composite Wizard’s tools automate colour correction effects, blur or feather edge borders, and clean up unwanted artifacts.

Features:

• Over 20 filters for automating colour correction, blurring and feathering edges, and removing unwanted artifacts.
  
• Miracle AlphaCleaner and Denoiser—eliminate unwanted elements such as dirt, film grain, and other chatter.
  
• Wire/Rig Zapper—erases wires, boom mics, and other on-set elements.
  
• Spill Killer—removes bounced light or colour spill.

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