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

Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite 2008
Regular price: $799.00
One Day Sale Price: $399.50

Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite 2008

• Magic Bullet Looks
• Magic Bullet Frames
• Magic Bullet Colorista
• Magic Bullet Instant HD
• Magic Bullet Steady 1.0

When you order Magic Bullet Suite, you will receive a serial number that will work with multiple hosts, including Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and Avid*.

*Due to technical barriers, Steady and Frames do not support Avid.

In addition to the Red Giant and Trapcode Bundles, we’re offering Complete training for Trapcode Particular from Class on Demand.
(DVD | Download) Learn more about the sale here.

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.

Download Rays Cartoon now! This free filter offer expires July 1, 2008.

Tutorial: Generate a Volumetric Light Effect

In this tutorial, we will use BCC Rays Cartoon to generate a volumetric lighting effect on an animated text element; BCC Rays Carton will also give the text the appearance of being made of neon lights. Then, we will use BCC Light Sweep to add a light sweep across the face of the text. Finally, to complete the effect, we will use BCC Colorize Glow to provide a soft glowing look.

Read the Tutorial

• Download Page
• Tutorial Video
• Demo Video

I digress… Digital Anarchy ToonIt is such a cool plug-in. It looks fabulous. The one big drawback is that the screen redraw and render times are painful. When I tried to demo it at the booth at NAB, it was very difficult. Apple liked to have something on screen moving at all times so when you’re rendering an 8 second clip for a half hour, it kills the mood. I ended up rendering a clip and playing the render. The Ducati footage from Apple paired with ToonIt was nothing short of knock-your-socks-off impressive.

Well, the long wait (and long render times) is over. Digital Anarchy finally have a multi-processor aware version of ToonIt available only to those of you who own it. To get it, please send your name, platform, host application(s), and serial number to beta@digitalanarchy.com. You MUST have already purchased it (the AE/FCP compatible version) to receive the beta. This will be a free update to owners of ToonIt.

View a sample movie of Star Titler

Noise Industries FxFactory 1.0.6 just came out. Let me tell you, these are some tight plug-ins. They’re so fast and great quality, and they’re not too expensive either. They’re Universal and FxPlug, so they run in Motion and Final Cut Pro, and run incredibly in Final Cut Studio 2. I’m not just saying this to sell them… I speaka ze truth.

I thought the name Peter Wiggins sounded familiar and he’s the guy behind iDustrial Revolution’s Volumetrix, a wicked cool light spill FxPlug Plug-in for Final Cut Pro and Motion and designed with FxFactory from Noise Industries.

Brought to you by Peter Wiggins, author of the Volumetrix plug-ins for Final Cut Pro and Motion, idustrial revolution Freebie Pack 1 includes four fun, useful (and absolutely free!) plug-ins:

• MultiSpace: Puts two inputs into true 3D space with global and independent XYZ translation & rotation. Planes can intersect too.
• iSight Live!: Get a live input on your timeline in Motion and FCP. Very handy for picking a color off a client’s brochure.
• Rack Focus: Racks the blur from one input to the other with one parameter. Both blur values for each input can be set independently.
• Opposites: Two-input parameter linking: move one left, the other goes right. Rotate one clockwise, the other one goes anticlock.