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Shine
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. Before it was only possible to make using 3D apps (real volumetric lights) or using slower rendering 2D plug-ins.
Hosts
- Adobe After Effects 6.5 and higher (Mac OSX/Windows)
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- FCP, Motion
- Avid
Features
- Available for Mac OS, Mac OSX and Windows
- Works in 16bit (AE5 PB) and 8bit per channel color depths
- Fast rendering
- Special controls to make shimmering lights (loopable)
- Numerous coloring options including 3- and 5-color gradients
- Tweakable coloring presets
- Extensive documentation: Manual and Tutorials
- Built-in transfer modes, threshold and circular mask to maximize your workflow
- Available for instant purchase on-line
Starglow
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. The effect looks similair to shooting with a star filter on the camera. It can be used to add realism to CG clips or to create a magical, dreamy or romantic feeling in a clip shot with camera. It can also be set up for effects that are completely new or to simulate lens artifacts. And it works nice with particle effects and text.
Hosts
- Adobe After Effects 6.5 and higher (Mac OSX/Windows)
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- FCP, Motion
- Avid
Features
- Available for Mac OS, Mac OSX and Windows
- Works in 16bit (AE5 PB) and 8bit per channel color depths
- Fast rendering
- Numerous coloring options including 3- and 5-color gradients
- Tweakable coloring presets
- Extensive documentation
- Built-in transfer modes, threshold and circular mask to maximize your workflow
- Available for instant purchase on-line
3D Stroke
3D Stroke uses paths from one or more masks to render volumetric strokes that can be rotated and moved freely in 3D space. It has a built-in camera for AE41 and Combustion 3 users and can also use AE5's comp camera. Path reveals in 3D are easily made using the keyframable sliders for start and end. Since After Effects allows pasting Adobe Illustrator paths as masks (provided both programs are running on the same machine), you can use your own vector art and fly around it any way you like, the paths will not disappear when viewed from the side.
The repeater section allows for repeating the strokes applying a 3D transform for each instance. 3D Stroke also features motion blur so that fast moving strokes animate smoothly. Built-in transfer modes are provided for easy stacking of the effect in one layer. There is also a feature to bend the strokes in space and taper controls to make strokes that are thinner at the ends.
Hosts
- Adobe After Effects 6.5 and higher (Mac OSX/Windows)
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- FCP, Motion
- Avid
Features
- Available for Mac OS, Mac OSX and Windows
- Works in 16bit (AE5 PB) and 8bit per channel color depths
- Option to use AE5 comp camera
- Built-in camera for AE41 and Combustion 3 users
- Motion Blur
- Extensive documentation: Manual and Tutorials
- The repeater allows easy object repetition with a 3D transform applied for each instance
- View-space z-clipping
- Built-in transfer modes
- Available for instant purchase on-line
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