I’m sure most of you are starting to feel the economic crunch, so we’ve put together a section for plug-ins that are $99 and under. These are useful plug-ins by well known plug-in developers like Red Giant, Trapcode, Digieffects, Noise Industries, Nattress and others.

Plug-ins for $99 and under

If you’d like to take the plug-in for a test drive before you buy it, most of the plug-ins are available for download on our demos/trial page: http://www.toolfarm.com/demo/demo.php

I would like to recommend anyone interested in being able to author ‘replicatable’ Blu-Ray titles to sign this petition that hopes to simplify the licensing and especially reduce the cost of AACS copy protection implementation. It’s the only way we’ll ever see Blu-Ray support ‘officially’ in Apple’s Pro Apps, or in Adobe Encore DVD.

http://www.dvda.org/petition/

I’m behind disk authoring because I’m a movie lover who eats up the hours of extras on special edition releases – the same documentaries that are glaringly missing from digital downloads.

Apple will post the list of required elements for entries in the 2008 Insomnia Film Festival. Then you and your team will have the next 24 hours to make and upload your 3-minute movie. That’s the easy part.

Register by November 13 to participate. The Festival begins November 15.

Learn more and register here!

Hosted by industry pioneer Joe Torelli, this two-part seminar series will show you the steps to quickly mastering Final Cut Pro in the fast-paced news and sports editing environment.

Register here for the seminar.

Download BCC Rays Cartoon (trial download form)*

Tutorial: BCC Rays Cartoon for Adobe After Effects CS3 and FxPlug (Final Cut Pro/Motion) – Use the BCC Rays Cartoon in Adobe After Effects CS3 or Final Cut Pro or Motion to generate a volumetric lighting effect on an animated text element.

*If you download the BCC Rays Cartoon plug-in, your information will be shared with Boris FX. Normally we do not share any of this information with any of our vendors or anyone else, but in this case, we’ve made an exception, so we can bring this free plug-in to you. With any other download, your email will not be shared with anyone.

They also have a Final Cut Studio remover app for older versions of FCS. Cool stuff.

Harry and I are both teaching at the festival, so come out and see us!

The festival is loads of fun and if you’re from the south, chances are you’ll get to experience a real Chicago winter. Yeah, enticing. It’s a really well organized festival and so worth the trip. If you’re already in Chicago, I hope to see you there.