844/X Compatible Plug-ins
Boris FX – Continuum – www.borisfx.com
Boris Continuum unlocks the power of your NLE or compositor with an expansive plug-in filter set. Over 150 filters include advanced keying, matting, compositing, image processing, distortion, temporal effects and motion tracking. These filters provide the creative freedom to animate your graphical elements or video at any speed, acceleration, or position you want. A note of caution, some users have reported issues with some of these plug-in, best to use the trial version to determine if all will work in your system.
Digital Film Tools – 55mm – www.digitalfilmtools.com
55mm is the definitive set of digital optical filters meant to simulate popular glass camera filters, specialized lenses, optical lab processes, film grain, matte generation, exacting color correction as well as natural light and photographic effects--all in a controlled digital environment with either 8 or 16 bits per channel processing.
GenArts – Sapphire – www.genarts.com
Sapphire Plug-ins from GenArts, provide digital artists with a collection of over 175 state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects. They fully and seamlessly integrate into a number of editing and compositing systems including 844/x.
Pixelan – SpiceMASTER – www.pixelan.com
SpiceMASTER, video visual effects plug-in for custom SOFT/ORGANIC transitions and effects, greatly enhancing your creative flexibility while editing. Great for 844/X systems for expanded transition effects.
StageTools – MovingPicture – www.stagetools.com
MovingPicture is a tool for producers and editors to pan and zoom on high-resolution still images. It takes scanned images up to 8,000 pixels and allows for perfectly repeatable pans and zooms directly from a Windows or Macintosh computer or as a plug-in to most nonlinear editors such as 844/x. Great for oversized (larger than video resolution) image support in 844/x.
Trapcode – Shine – www.trapcode.com
Shine is a fast light effect plug-in. The effect looks very much like volumetric light, but is actually a 2D effect. There are special controls to make shimmering lights and numerous coloring modes. This is an effect that you see everyday on TV and in many movie titles.
Trapcode – Starglow – www.trapcode.com
Starglow is a fast-rendering glow effect. It creates a star-shaped glow around the highlights of the source. The star shape consists of eight directions, and each direction can be assigned an individual colormap and streak length.
Ultimatte – AdvantEdge – www.ultimatte.com
AdvantEdge allows you can combine (key) multiple frame images in just minutes on a Windows-based PC. Fine hair detail, water, shadows, smoke, glass and reflections, even blurred edges -- all composited flawlessly and automatically. 844/X users please note: This has been reported to run a little slower in 844/X compaired to After Effects or Combustion.
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