Free Pan & Zoom Plug-in from Noise Industries
The Pan and Zoom plug-ins let you create the photo animation style made popular by Ken Burns with intuitive controls and automatic motion control that achieves stunning results without a single keyframe. It works in After Effects, Final Cut Pro/Express & Motion.
Pan and Zoom is absolutely free! Simply download and enjoy: Download it here
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CoreMelt Sky Replace Tutorial
Nice video tutorial by Mikey Bouchereau. Try the CoreMelt plug-ins with a free demo. It runs in Final Cut Pro/Express, Apple Motion and Adobe After Effects.
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Free Plug-in: CrumplePop ShrinkRay for FCP
CrumplePop ShrinkRay gives your footage that tilt-shift miniaturization effect. Download it for free for 7 days, then its going in our store!
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Free Primer on Color Correction
Eric Escobar created a nice tutorial that gives you some insight about Color Correction in Final Cut Pro. He uses Red Giant Magic Bullet Colorista. Eric says:
the one I did for FCP also includes a basic explanation of controlling color using Colorista, although the ideas apply to FCP’s 3 Way Color Corrector and pretty much all primary color correction tools out there on the desktop.
- Watch the tutorial (pops)
- Download a free trial of Magic Bullet Colorista
- Buy Colorista and save with Toolfarm’s everyday 5% discount
- Learn more about Colorista in our Plug-in Finder
28 Days of QuickTips at Editblog
I’ve been following Editblog (aka Scott Simmons) on Twitter and he’s been posting links to Quicktips each day on his blog. The tips are mainly for Avid and Final Cut Pro (though I’m a Premiere Pro user, primarily, when it comes to editing.) Check out his great tips here.
Plug-ins for $99 and under for After Effects/Premiere Pro & Final Cut Pro/Motion
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.
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
Generate a Volumetric Light Effect on Animated Text
In the latest Boris FX podcast, learn how to use Boris Continuum Complete’s Rays Cartoon filter in Apple Final Cut Pro to generate a volumetric lighting effect on an animated text element. The BCC Rays Cartoon filter will also give the text the appearance of being made of neon lights. We’ll complete the effect by using the BCC Light Sweep to add a light sweep across the face of the text element and then we’ll use the BCC Colorize Glow filter to provide a soft glowing look.
Watch podcast here (pops)
If you don’t have Boris Continuum Complete, you can download a free demo here. BCC works in a whole slew of hosts, so check it out, even if you’re not a FCP user.
And if you’re loving it, buy BCC here.
Free YouSendIt Final Cut Pro Plugin
This looks like an interesting plug-in for all of you Final Cut Pro users. From The Final Cut Pro.com, get all of the details on the YouSendIt Final Cut Pro Export Plug-in.
I’m wondering why Apple hasn’t built this in, perhaps utilizing their .mac/MobileMe?
The FxFactory Awards. Show off your work. Win cool prizes.
FxFactory Awards 2008 contest entries will be judged according to their creative use of FxFactory plug-ins and overall impact of the video material. Submissions will be accepted starting December 15, 2008. The deadline for submission is January 15, 2009. Winners will be announced January 21, 2009.
What’s that? You don’t have FxFactory? Try a free demo today!. It runs in After Effects CS3/CS4, Final Cut Pro and Motion. It requires Mac OS 10.5 and an Intel processor.
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Free Final Cut Pro Plug-in – Move
Move was created by Alex Gollner and he has all of the info on his site
Download the Move plug-in here
Final Cut plugin sample: Alex4D Move from Alex Gollner on Vimeo.
Via The Final Cut Professional.
