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3D Invigorator for After Effects
The 3D Invigorator is a system for producing 3D graphics directly inside After Effects. It is especially designed for fast turn-arounds, easy revisions and producing 3D graphics on a deadline. The Invigorator is a giant leap forward in motion graphics production because you have a professional level 2D animation and compositing system (After Effects) combined with a professional level 3D modeling, animation and rendering system (The Invigorator). Together they form a very very powerful production team which lets you combine 2D and 3D at will. Features instant chrome and glass, soft shadows, full anti-aliasing and alpha channels, for perfect compositing.

Aurorix 2
This set of 26 special effects filters includes AgedFilm 2, VideoLook 2, Earthquake 2, and Turbulent Flow 2. With Aurorix 2 you can easily generate lighting effects, wild distortions, mild to insane animated textures, and animated patterns, as well as simulate visual media such as old film and grungy video. It ships on a CD-ROM with printed quick reference, samples, electronic user manual, and more.

AutoMasker AE 2.0
This After Effects plug-in automates and expedites the tedious process of hand-masking. It enables you to isolate, paint, extract, and insert selected objects into video streams in a fraction of the time required by conventional hand-masking. As a result, it dramatically reduces the cost incurred using conventional frame-by-frame painting.

Berserk
This pack of 20 award-winning special effects plug-ins includes StarField, FogBank, VanGoughist, and Laser. With the Berserk filters you can easily generate fully customizable organic distortions and natural effects. You can create animated textures, moving patterns, and painterly effects, plus you can simulate 3D effects such as flying through star fields and drifting banks of fog.

Boris AE
Boris AE 2.0 includes over 40 filters that cover a broad range of effects from 3D shapes to color correction and keying. By involving an extensive list of artists from around the world in the development process, Artel Software Inc. has created a plug-in set that truly addresses the needs of the After Effects user. With unique tools such as The Pixel Chooser Boris AE 2.0 offers an extraordinary amount of precision control over every move, while rendering extremely fast.

Boris FX
enables you to create the same 3D special effects for television, film or multimedia

CineLook Broadcast (1.1)
Make your video look like film! CineLook enables video producers to give their productions that "film look" easily and quickly. With CineLook, you can take any video, computer animation, film-scan, or photo and add film grain, correct and enhance color, or change timing characteristics to make it look like film. With the included FilmDamage plug-in, you can add film artifacts such as dust, scratches, stains, hair, and more. CineLook has over 50 film-stock presets, a unique "telecine" user interface, and printed user manual. A Film-Resolution version is also available.

CineMotion (1)
DigiEffectsThis is a set of 10 digital video special effects plug-in tools that will make your video move like film. It includes the Film Motion plug-in (an enhanced 3:2 pulldown functionality designed to simulate the motion characterstics of 24fps film), grain and noise reduction tools, selective noise and color correction tools, and other tools to manipulate digital video images.

Cyclonist
Hundreds of organic particle effects for After Effects. Create wild or subtle animated particle effects, including fire, rain, painterly effects, confetti, gauze, satin, bubbles, displacement maps, and much more. Create your own presets. It's like having a custom filter construction set inside After Effects! Cyclonist ships on a CD-ROM with interactive multimedia documentation, more than 100 presets, over 150 stroke images, sample projects, movies, free textures, shareware, and exclusive special offers.

Delirium
This collection of 30+ digital video special effects plug-ins includes wild particle systems, specular lighting effects, image fodder, glows, 2D and 3D warps, fire, smoke, lightning, and 3D effects (based on QuickDraw 3D and OpenGL). Includes TILT, the QuickDraw 3D renderer for After Effects.

Evolution
Atomic Power Corporation
Evolution is a next-generation set of professional filters for After Effects. With the powerful Shatter, you can extrude a layer into 3D space, then blow it up in an infinite number of entertaining ways. You have full control over the shape of the pieces, the physics of the explosion, and the texture of all sides of the extruded pieces. With full camera controls, a Shatter effect can be easily composited into any scene. Turbulator is a powerful fractal-based displacement system, useful for generating everything from convincing clouds, fire, and smoke to photo-realistic water. Foam is an all-purpose flocking particle system, complete with collision detection, suitable for effects from beer spills to swarming ants. Card Wipe and Card Dance generate convincing stadium-card transitions and choreography with full 3D camera controls. Vegas generates casino-style running lights - and other path-based effects - around any object. Together with shape-based particle systems, physics-based wave systems, a powerful tinting/color-cycling tool, and a caustic water rendering engine, Evolution is a powerful set of tools for all After Effects users. Ships with a full Evolution training series from Total Training. Compatible with After Effects 3.1 and 4.0

Eye Candy 3.1 for After Effects
Eye Candy 3.1 for After Effects gives you the sophisticated, organic special effects that Alien Skin Software is known for in Web, print, and presentation graphics. This dazzling set of 20 sophisticated special effects like Fire, Smoke and Fur have never been easier! Includes production, distortion and texture effects like Perspective Shadow, Motion Trail, Inner and Outer Bevel, Cutout, Chrome, Carve, Glass, Glow, Star, Swirl and more. Eye Candy 3.1 for After Effects automatically adapts to and modifies layer opacity information, and allows users to draw outside layer boundaries without precomposing.

Foundry plug-ins for After Effects
Foundry plug-ins are an established tool in high-end post production. This initial release of three popular plug-ins, LensBlur, Sparkle and Kaleidoscope will enable digital artists to create effects previously only possible on more expensive systems. LensBlur accurately simulates a camera lens defocus providing those characteristic blurred polygonal highlights. Sparkle adds coloured radial rays to pixels above a luma threshold. Controls are provided for the length, number, rotation and strength of the sparkles. Kaleidoscope is a classic triangular prism effect with controls for size, centre and rotation.

FreeForm
The FreeForm plug-in provides a true 3D design environment for individual layers directly within the After Effects Composition Layout window. FreeForm converts 2D images into a N.U.R.B.S. 3D user-variable mesh and adds vectorial control point handles for reshaping images. Multiple control points let you bend, warp, stretch, and rotate any layer along X, Y, and Z axes, all in organic 3D. FreeForm has been performance-optimized for speed and the highest quality 3D in After Effects on both Mac or PC. Features include powerful lighting and camera controls (including spotlight and camera focal length), a variable wireframe preview, cone adjustment parameters, the ability to assign independent front and back faces to layers, and true 3D displacement based on luminance values.

Holo3D
QuickDraw 3D Plug-in Filters for After Effects...

HoloDozo AE
HoloDozo AE is an easy-to-use After Effects plug-in that lets you create 3D effects without using complicated 3D modeling software. Easily map video onto 3D objects. Rotate, zoom, lighten, distort, and apply special effects in 3D. Animate every parameter directly in After Effects. HoloDozo AE includes basic 3D objects (such as a box, sphere, etc.) and wireframe 3D objects that are great for crazy distortions or backgrounds.

ICEfx
ICE has an innovative and affordable approarch to creating a super accelerated After Effects workstation. Their product ICEfx, includes an 8 processor PCI card (BlueICE) and ICE'd plug-ins that integrate seamlessly within After Effects, giving AE users high end finishing capabilities. ICEfx runs on standard MAC and NT machines and can accelerate individual effects up to 50 times, making desktop effects editing more powerful, productive and interactive than ever before. ICE also provides ICE'd versions of stock After Effects plug-ins such Blurs and Glow, as well as Final Effects Complete, Ultimatte, DE Cinelook and other DigiEffects plug-ins. All this ICE power streamlines and enhances special effects capabilities in every production phase, from creation to final render. For more information, call 888-423-8447.

ISFX Image Tools
Blurs, cleans, colors, and smooths your clips just the way you like them. Featuring the amazing ISFX Faster Blur, this set is an all-around toolbox of basic image manipulators.

ISFX Matte Wizard
ISFX Matte Wizard is a powerful set of compositing tools used by some of the largest movie effects houses. You get complete control over edges, color integration, and layer interaction, so you can make your composites as real and organic-looking as a big Hollywood movie.

ISFX Style Tools
ISFX Style is a set of eye-grabbing, stylish effects perfect for music videos and broadcast design. It gives you the power to create amazing new looks with text, lines, shapes, edges, and images.

Knoll Lens Flare Pro
Created by John Knoll, the visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic, Knoll Lens Flare Pro lets you create lighting effects and lens flares with an unprecedented level of precision and control. You can build custom lighting effects and flares using a series of Lens Primitives(TM) modeled after professional camera lenses. By combining multiple Lens Primitives, you can match nearly any lens flare from source footage or create completely original light effects. Lasers, suns, flares, explosions, bursts, and "photon torpedoes" are just a few of the included preset flares created by John Knoll to meet his production challenges. Knoll Lens Flare Pro contains a built-in motion tracker, plus automatic obscuration and tinting features.

MotionKey
Simplifies one of the most demanding editing tasks, video compositing, by enabling you to extract virtually any object from one video clip and place it into another. Sophisticated object detection allows for keying of a moving object, and you can resize and properly position an object for the perfect key. You can even cast shadows for more realistic results.

Panopticum Fire
fake fire, particle system

Panopticum Lens
Optical distortion, like water droplet effect

PRIMATTE S-100 for After Effects
PRIMATTE, a highly regarded chromakey and image-compositing application, is now available as an After Effects plug-in. PRIMATTE S-100 for After Effects offers a revolutionary solution for ultra-precise matte-control bluescreen/greenscreen compositing. Advanced techniques for extremely fine manipulation of color regions are easily accessible via a patented process, the PRIMATTE Polyhedral Slicing Algorithm. PRIMATTE's unique algorithm delivers surprisingly sophisticated results with a minimum of interaction from the user. Load your foreground and background images, and the Auto Setup Mode will do the majority of the work for you. Should your shooting conditions be less than ideal and additional fine tuning be needed, PRIMATTE's simple but refined interface takes you step by step through the procedures necessary to get the results you are looking for.

SISnikk AE
Animated high-quality, single-image stereogram development. Use video as a pattern and for the hidden-depth illusion in the Magic Eye effect. Create animated random-dot stereograms that look like noise but hide something. SISnikk AE supports all types of stereograms.

SISNIKK Pro
Single Image Stereogram development.

Ultimatte
Ultimatte Corporation
Now you can combine multiple-frame images in just minutes! Fine hair detail, water, shadows, smoke, glass and reflections, even blurred edges - all composited flawlessly and automatically with Ultimatte's plug-ins. With Ultimatte, you can achieve realistic-looking composited scenes that would otherwise be too dangerous, impossible, or impractical.

Video SpiceRack
Adds more than 300 broadcast-quality transitions and dynamic mattes to Premiere and After Effects. Expand your creative repertoire of effects with hundreds of elegant wipes, irises, and variable-edge organic transitions. All can be softened, allowing you to create unique "directional dissolves" and other subtle visuals. And all can dynamically matte other effects, which increases the value of your other effects plug-ins. Try out free samples and discover the tasty details at our Web site. You'll see why Video SpiceRack has received top-rated reviews.