Previous version of Damage before 2.0
3D Displacer brings true three dimensional displacement mapping to After Effects. Displacement maps can of course be animated, adding effects like rippling water or blowing flags in full 3D perspective - no faking. Use mesh subdivision to raise and lower the density of your mesh , and anti-aliasing settings to work quickly and then switch to a fully refined result.
3D Mesh Warp adds a third dimension to what you already do with After Effects’ built-in Mesh Warp tool. Select how many rows and columns you divide the image into, then manipulate the control tangents to create cylinders, curves, ribbons, folding cards, an infinite amount of three dimensional shapes.
Now you can add true 3 dimensional atmospheric falloff in After Effects. No more adding semi-transparent solids between your 3D layers to simulate fog or haze. With Atmosphere you get true three dimensional fog that gets denser as your layer stretches into the distance.
Use it with multiple layers separated in Z space or rotate your 3D layers on the X or Y axis and watch them fade off into the distance.
This effect can be added to individual layers for fine control of the effect on each layer or applied to an entire comp so the effect applies the same parameters to all layers. You have control over where the fog starts and ends as well as how dense it is and how quickly it falls off.
The only other way to simulate this effect is with elaborate particle generators which add render time and empty your wallet. At $49.00 this plug-in is a must have for any designer or compositor.
"Striking effects occur when multiple layers of objects set to different depths in a 3D scene are enhanced with Digieffects Atmosphere."
-DMAG user
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This plugin available only for After Effects
Another bright idea from Digieffects! Falloff Lighting brings a much needed improvement to the After Effects lighting system. With Falloff Lighting applied, 3D layers further from the light source are dimmer than layers that are closer, just like real world lights!
Get realistic light falloff, intense hotspots and enhanced shadow interaction. What's all of that mean? Lighting that looks like and behaves like real world lighting! You can apply this effect to individual layers for fine control, or apply it to an entire composition which effects all layers with the same settings.
Once you start using Falloff Lighting, you can't light without it!
Project: Nuclear Bomb
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Project: Quartz Cave
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"When you apply a light to a scene in After Effects, all objects in the scene will be evenly lit. Even if one object is closer to the light source than another, there won‘t be a difference. Digieffects‘ Falloff Lighting fixes this."
Erik Vlietinck, IT Enquirer
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Priced at only $49, Aged Film is the best value for achieving this effect in today's post production applications.
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*Requires the After Effects bridge which can be downloaded here.
Project: Aged Film Final Cut Pro 5.1 presets
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Project: Aged Film Final Cut Pro 6.0 Presets
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Project: Aged Desaturation
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Project: Chaos Black and White
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Project: Moving Photograph
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Project: Rose Colored Glasses
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Project: Scratched Film
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Project: Shaky Projector
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Project: Tipsy Camera Man
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"This is an awesome looking, easy to use plugin, that you can literally apply, and know exactly how to work it, without a learning curve at all."
Topher Welsh, visualfxtuts.com
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This plugin available only for After Effects
Digieffects once again pushes After Effects one step closer to a 3D application. Camera Mapper takes one of the most popular features from top 3D applications and adds it to your After Effects arsenal. Now you can turn any 2D image into a three dimensional wonder by simply aligning 3D solids with features in your image.
Create multi-plane images with 3D parallax from any still image or project your image onto solids rotated in 3D space to create 3 dimensional objects that move realistically when camera moves are used. The possibilities are endless. Now instead of a video camera, all you need is a still image and some imagination.
Why Use Camera Mapper? (learn more)
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Works with dozens of useful scripts to help you make shapes and objects at aescripts.com/
Project: Mona Lisa
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Project: Last Supper
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Project: CS5 Stinger example
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Project: Russian River
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Project: Camera Mapper Ships Project File
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Project: Maui Tree
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Project: Feet Shake
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Project: Powerline
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Project: Fence Crash
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Project: Sun House
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Project: Golden Gate Bridge
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Project: Door Slam
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"It took a while for me to fully grasp Camera Mapper's capabilities --I'd never before created camera projections in After Effects. The main obstacle to me was that I had to forget about a limitation that only existed inside my head: you can actually apply Camera Mapper to the same source image multiple times and still get very different results by applying different masks to the original image. "
Erik Vlietinck - IT Enquirer
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This is not your father's mesh warp. Anyone who has tried to distort an image using AE's 2D Mesh Warp has probably given up or settled for an inferior result. Most mesh warps don't have refined enough controls to get an accurate result. FreeForm has two features that give you refined control over the mesh, allowing you to create complicated distortions easily in true 3D space.
TWO WAYS TO DISTORT YOUR MESH
FreeForm offers 2 great 3D tools in one plugin. Mesh Warp gives you broad control over the shape of your mesh. Create cylinders, curves, ribbons, folds and an infinite amount of basic shapes. Mesh warp includes two settings that make the 3D manipulation of your mesh simple.
Tangent Alignment- Select On or Off. A very intuitive, easy to use method for aligning or breaking your tangent handles.
Create smooth curves or sharp angles easily with FreeForm's Tangent Alignment. You choose to turn alignment on or off with no confusion.
Manipulation X,Y,Z - A much needed feature missing from most mesh warp tools. You select on which axis your vertex points move by choosing X,Y or Z.
If you want to "freeform" it, you can select the fourth option and move in all 3 axes freely.
Displacement Mapping gives you the ability create detailed organic shapes quickly and easily. Use greyscale "maps" to define the height of displacement on your mesh. A black & white cloud pattern can quickly become a mountain range. A simple gradient makes a curved ramp. Displacement maps can also be animated, giving you rippling water, flowing curtains and blowing flags. (B&W Maps beside the final rendered result).
Use each tool separately or combine the two for truly amazing results!
3D Mesh Controls - Move and rotate your 3D layer in 3D space with FreeForm's Mesh Controls. Position X,Y,Z ; Rotation X,Y, Z ; and Anchor Point X,Y,Z controls.
3D Mesh Quality - Get perfectly smooth final renders. The 3D Mesh Quality property gives you full control over the final quality of your warped layer. Mesh subdivision raises and lowers the density or smoothness of your mesh. As if that's not enough, refine the detail further with 3 levels of anti-aliasing and Image Filtering.
Manage CPU usage - The 3D Mesh Controls are also great way to work fast. Choose your rendering level: Full, shade or wireframe, adjust Mesh Subdivision and anti aliasing to lower settings and work fast. Then pump them up for the final preview and render.
Surface Controls - FreeForm also brings more dynamic lighting properties to AE. Adjust the Diffuse, Specular and Roughness properties to create a wide variety of "textures". From a a highly reflective surface like water to a totally diffused surface like cloth. FreeForm even has controls that can map a different image to the Backside of your 3D layer. Perfect for "signs" or "maps" that fold, roll, or crumple and reveal the back side.
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A complete 3D workshop inside of AE. Use FreeForm to roll layers into tubes, fold them like paper, create flags, banners, rippling and choppy water surfaces, terrain and 3D textured surfaces.
"FreeForm offers After Effects a huge feature that used to push artists to other systems; no longer must a job go to Flame for what Autodesk calls "extended bicubics," and the result is fully integrated with AE's own 3D camera and lighting system. How cool is that, integrating curved 3D planes into After Effects?"
-Mark Christiansen, author of After Effects CS4 Visual Effects & Compositing Studio Techniques
"Thanks a million...I've just downloaded FreeForm and it's amazing ...the amount of control of 3D shapes is what will keep me from migrating to Fusion or Nuke...and after the great disappointment with new 3D features of CS4, I'm in love again with After Effects, all thanks to your amazing plugin. Right now I am in class showing this new wonder to my students...imagine their faces (no more "now we go from 3ds Max to After Effects and... :-)"
-Juan Urquhart, Computer Arts Teacher, Los Pinos Centro Educativo, Uruguay
"I've long been envious of 3D applications and their ability to take a flat object and manipulate that object into almost any shape using a mesh in 3D space. Well now there is finally a product that allows all the same power and control right inside Adobe After Effects. It's powerful and easy to use. It has much better control and provides much better quality than anything else available for After Effects. Quite simply put, I could not achieve many of the things I have without this plug . It is a must have in your arsenal of plugins."
-Jack Tunnicliffe, Owner/Operator, Java Post Production
Project: How To Create Stereoscopic 3D
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Project: Liquid Pour Project File
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Project: Terrain Scan Project File
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Project: Paper Crumple Project File
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Project: Planer Pyramid Project File
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Project: FFAE Terrain Fly Over
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Project: Abstract 1
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Project: Abstract 2
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Project: Cylinder to Plane
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Project: Egg Crate to Plane
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Project: Simple Fold
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Project: Wave Plane
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Project: Strange Buttons
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Project: Strange Buttons 3
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Project: Bent Text 2
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Project: Bent Text 3
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Project: Strange Buttons 2
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Project: 3 Cylinders to Plane
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"What [FreeForm AE] does looks extremely complex, and produces results that you would normally see only come from a 3D program, but on the flip side, it’s VERY simple to use, and you will be wowing your clients with your new 3D capabilities in no time!"
Kevin McAuliffe - Audio Video Producer
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" Digieffects latest plug-in, Freeform AE, aims to bolster After Effect’s 3D toolset, allowing you to warp layers in 3D in a way that’s just not possible using the core application. It combines a 3D version of After Effect’s own Mesh Warp tool with the ability to distort layers in 3D using an image as a displacement map, creating a cohesive whole that many motion graphics artists will love."
Neil Bennett - Digital Arts Magazine
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Using composition-based effects like Rack Focus, Falloff Lighting, or Fog, you can mimic Z depth in your compositions in ways that simply can't be done using practical depth of field.
3D Composite: Allows 2D footage with a depth channel, such as you might generate in 3D applications, to interact with After Effects' 3D layers.
Depth: Displays the depth of each layer in grayscale for use as a gradient map with other plugins, or with other applications.
Falloff Lighting: Lights your layers realistically.
Fog: Shrouds your layers in a light haze or a deep, murky mist.
Rack Focus: Produces realistic depth of field effects and focus pulls, including simulating boke and anamorphic lens effects.
Camera Mapper: Turn 2D stills and footage into 3D scenes right in After Effects.
Flipside: Maps one layer onto the back side of another layer. This allows you to flip the front layer over to reveal the back layer.
To use Depth Cue with a 3D program, you must render a file with depth information such as OpenEXR, developed by Industrial Light & Magic. To read channels from an EXR into After Effects and Depth Cue, download the replacement reader from here: www.fnordware.com/OpenEXR.
A pack of 20 award-winning special effects plug-ins including StarField, FogBank, VanGoughist and Laser. Berserk is an awesome set of incredibly useful and creative After Effects tools
Included with Berserk are these 20 filters:
Blizzard, Crystallizer, FogBank, NightBloom, StarField, Laser, Newsprint, BumpMaker, Contourist, GravityWell*, OilPaint, VanGoughist, StillNoise, Edgex, Pearls, Perspectron, Ripploid, Spintron, Squisher, and Cyclowarp
"One of my favorites is the Blizzard effects. Which uses a particle system to create a realistic snow effect"
Kennedy Gray
Adobe Magazine
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While After Effects users have demonstrated that the program is capable of creating almost anything, they are often limited by the source footage they have.
Aurorix provides some interesting texture and pattern generation filters such as Soap Film and Strange Nebulae*. Unique distortion filters such as Infinity Warp and Turbulent Flow can use existing footage to make original patterns as well.

Aurorix also comes with some tools for simulating lighting, including the 3D Lighting filter that can also add bump maps for an embossed look. Finally, Aurorix includes Aged Film, the filter for adding grain, hair, dust, and discoloration to footage, which eventually went on to spawn DigiEffects popular Cinelook.
Included with Aurorix are 26 plug-in effects including:
AgedFilm, VideoLook, Lighting, 3D Lighting, Color SpotLights, LightZoom, SpotLights. Distortion. Bulgix, Earthquake, Flitter, Infinity Warp, Turbulent Flow, Warpoid, Pattern Generation, Infinity Zone, Electrofield, FractalNoise, Interferix, Interpheroid, Tilt, Texture Generation, Chaotic Noise, Chaotic Rainbow, Interpheron, NoiseBlender, SoapFilm, Strange Nebulae*, WoodMaker
Delirium contains 40 visual effects. It also contains tools for creating particle-based fire, smoke and bubbles. These particle effects enhanced with built-in turbulence processing to create realistic imagery without resorting to complex 3D programs.
Many of the plug-ins AutoAnimate™, meaning that many of the plug-ins will begin to animate as soon as they are applied to an image, meaning you no longer have to tweak parameters to get quick results.
All plug-ins can save, load and modify presets. No need to navigate to find a preset - just click the pop-up! Each plug-in has several presets to get you started quickly.FireWorks creates amazing pyrotechnic displays automatically – it’s an AutoAnimate plug-in. It can create spectacular spherical explosions complete with sparkly trails quickly and easily.
Included with Delirium are 40 visual effects:
BlurZone, Bubbles, Camera Shake, Channel Delay, COP Blur, Day for Night, Electrical Arcs, Fairy Dust, Film Flash, Fire, FireWorks, Flicker and Strobe, Flow Motion, Fog Factory, Framing Gradients, Glower, Grayscaler, HLS Displace, HyperHarmonizer, Lens Flares, LooseSprockets, MultiGradient, Muzzle Flash, Nexus, Puffy Clouds, RainFall, Retinal Bloom, Schematic Grids, ShowChannel, Sketchist, Smoke, SnowStorm, Solarize, Sparks, Specular Lighting, Thermograph, Turbulent Noise, VideoMalfunction, Visual Harmonizer, Wave Displace
Project: Side Swipe Blur Left
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Project: Side Swipe Blur Right
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Project: High Rise Long Lasting Bubbles
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Project: Lifting Bubbles
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Project: Tons of Rising Bubbles
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Project: Blue Light
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Project: Blowing Ball Dust
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Project: Dust from Below
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Project: Spiraling Fireworks
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Project: Flicker Glow
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Project: Overexposed Film with Color Reversal
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Project: Inverted Distortion
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Project: Spooky Negative
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Project: Dark Black and White
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Project: Flowing Stream
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Project: Small Lens Flare
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Project: Film on the Fritz
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Project: Jumpin Film
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Project: Super 8 Look
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Project: Rapid Fire Machine Gun
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Project: Fast Moving Day Clouds
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Project: Fast Moving Night Clouds
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Project: High Wind Rain
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Project: Blue Glare Trace
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Project: Bright Outline
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Project: Looking Through A Screen
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Effect: Schematic Grids
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Project: 80s Animation Pixellation
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Project: Black Smoke Blowing
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Project: Starting to Snow
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Project: Artistic Waves
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Project: Atomic Blindness
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Project: Blow Out
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Project: Inserted Sun Glare
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Project: Plastic Wrap
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Project: Flowing Heat
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Project: Intensity Glow
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Project: Soft Dull World
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Project: Transcolored World
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Project: Randomizer
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Project: Antenna Distortion
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Project: Bad Cable Connection
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Project: Haywire
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Project: Minimal Wave
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"For those looking to drop a variety of easy to use effects quickly in their video timeline, and particularly for those producing music videos, or effects-driven science-fiction oriented video productions, [Delirium, Aurorix, and Berserk] will be well-received modules indeed."
Ed Driscoll - Blog Critics
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"The plug-in set covers a broad range of effects from camera-angle simulations to psychedelic lighting effects, but the highlight of the package almost certainly is the particle effects. Even if you are an AE novice, this set of plug-ins can really add that extra sugar to your eye candy....Depending on your rates, you might be able to get Delirium to pay for itself with just one 10-second corporate logo or it may be just what you need to make a client gasp and clinch a contract."
Videomaker's Eric Frank reviews Delirium.
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"Delirium is so easy to use, you can get realistic finished results without even opening the manual." "Unlike some sets of plug-ins, Delirium includes many effects that are actually useful and can add genuine sizzle to everyday projects."
Christine Saucier - AV Video Multimedia Producer
"As with all Digieffects packages, one of the amazing things is the amount of control you have over every element of the plugin. Camera saves me tons of tedious keyframing and adjusting, getting a natural look in seconds. When you want a look, you want it fast. Camera delivers at a price that just can‘t be beat."
Adam Oas, Director of Video Production
Texas Motor Speedway
Archive: A straightforward "film degradation/contamination" type effect.
Overexpose: Add a sense of dynamic to otherwise stable and predictable footage,which results in a feeling of a sort of “focus-hunt” and ‘iris-hunt’ that happens with consumer camcorders when they are constantly trying to adjust to changing composition.
Destabilize: Destabilize is an effect that is useful for emulating a practical camera shake or a more conceptual effect for motion graphics work involving separate color channel alpha compositing and color channel separation.
Randomizer: When clicked, multiple parameters within the interface will simultaneously adjust causing completely new results.
Presets: Once you've saved your effect parameters, these can be moved between supported host applications.
"As with all Digieffects packages, one of the amazing things is the amount of control you have over every element of the plugin. Camera saves me tons of tedious keyframing and adjusting, getting a natural look in seconds. When you want a look, you want it fast. Camera delivers at a price that just can’t be beat."
Adam Oas, Director of Video Production, Texas Motor Speedway
" With Simulate: Camera, Digieffects has yet again made it easier for editors and effects designers to do what it takes to survive in our increasingly competitive industry - accomplish in minutes what would otherwise take hours and have the results look even better! A valuable bonus is that the folks at Digieffects are genuinely customer focused and not only actively seek customer feedback, but actually act upon it something I’ve found to be rare these days." Dave Johnson, Raymond James Financial
"Playing with the quality of light in video post-production, that's what you can do with Simulate Illuma from Digieffects. You can get dramatic effects with this plug-in set, but also subtle enhancements of already perfect footage."
Erik Vlietinck - IT Enquirer
Halo: Generates an effect simulating lens diffraction artifacts generated when shooting light-emitting sources at night or against dark backgrounds.
Lightracer: An effect that simulates phosphorescence with the ranging tools and bloom shaping that can simulate viewing a light source through a lens.
Luminus: An effect that simulates the visual impression of a glow.
Photogust: Creates point-origin radial and traditional blurs used with the brightness controls for each channel (red, green and blue).
Radiance: A glow effect that has the ability to operate with independent control of tonal range and intensity for each color channel. Radiance also employs series of blurring tools to change the pattern character of the effect.
Randomizer: When clicked, multiple parameters within the interface will simultaneously adjust causing completely new results.
Presets: Once you've saved your effect parameters, these can be moved between supported host applications.
"Once again, as in the Damage plug, the Digieffects team proves that they know what the picky professionals want and need, even if they don’t know it until they try the plug-in. Illuma provides finessing controls that accommodate a significantly broader range of what-if’s and allows for the creation of nuanced looks that is difficult to achieve with other tool sets."
Mark Bremmer - Microfilmmaker Magazine
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"Low-cost; great lighting tools for motion-graphics artists; innovative preset and randomize system." "Simulate: Illuma is a great low-cost selection of plug-ins for motion-graphics artists and other stylized work."
Neil Bennett - DigitalArts Magazine
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"Playing with the quality of light in video post-production, that's what you can do with Simulate Illuma from Digieffects. You can get dramatic effects with this plug-in set, but also subtle enhancements of already perfect footage."
Erik Vlietinck - IT Enquirer
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You've been talking and we've been listening. To all of you who thirst to wreak more havoc, the scores of you who wish to take all that is beautiful and render it visual debris, and for those of you who have been writing us about all the electronic carnage you daydream about if only you had a way to do it faster, with more options...
...we have the number of an excellent therapist. (...and we've reconsidered our company policy on 'personal sharing')
...AND we've created Damage v2. All the ancient evil of analog signal defects in Skew and Interference, the modern, coldly unsympathetic digital malfunction of Artifact and Blockade...and now, we've harnessed the incompetence at the source. Two new effects in the Damage toolbox, Destabilize and Overexpose, allow you to go back in time...and not only corrupt your footage, but also ruin the image of the camera operator...
Damage v2 is simply the hugely successful collection of Digieffects plugins that the industry has come to know with more effects, greatly improved speed, a streamlined interface, and now is CS5 compatible with 64 bit native operation and 16 bit-per-channel processing (8 bpc for Artifact)...but it's still only $99.00 USD, and only a $49.00 upgrade for current Damage customers.
Blockade: Who hasn't had one of those days when you wish you had a cheap cel phone that records video and all you have is a professional HD camera with crystal clear broadcast glass? We've all been there. Digieffects comes to the rescue once again with Blockade, which mimics the low color fidelity rectangular "quadrants' that come from a really crummy video camera feeding a steamroller of a video codec. The color inaccuracy, block size, speed, and temporal frame stuttering are all completely customizable, so unlike your television remote, you have precise control over how much defectiveness you desire.
Artifact: The digital VTR has clogged heads...the network feed of your favorite TV show is being beamed through some nasty weather...or perhaps the mother ship is trying to transmit through a radiation storm in the gamma quadrant (and don't even pretend you don't know what we're talking about)...those are just some of the possible scenarios where Artifact will be your favorite solution. With the ability to individually set properties like displaced pixel blocks, color errors, frame dropping, and video compression artifacts, you can choose what can, and can't be seen due to system malfunction.
Interference: Any of us who have been in video production for a period of time like viewing images on our Cathode Ray Tube monitors (CRTs). There's nothing like a great big professional CRT when you want to see a great image...or throw your back out while carrying something heavy and awkward. The good news for your eyes AND your back is that Interference brings you that CRT feeling without requiring assistance to put on your socks the next morning... Take any footage you have and create effects like night vision, or imply the viewing surface of a green monochrome monitor, a security camera transmission, or a consumer video format playing back like VHS or 8mm. You have control over parameters like comb filtering, field line size, noise, tint, and luminance for alternating lines, which simulate two scanned, interlaced fields. It will bring a smile to anyone who has forgotten what it's like for the talent to wear a herring bone jacket that appears to be crawling over their shoulders...
Skew: Take a low resolution analog signal, modulate it and send it out over the airwaves, grab it with a metal stick mounted on your roof, pass it through a cheap piece of coaxial cable with a teeny wire in the middle, wrapped in foil, demodulate it and...what the hell were we thinking? Somehow we endured the image quality that standard definition, over the air broadcasts could sink to... Even when it seemed we were looking through a screen door dipped in cooking oil, we were drawn in by the content (or at least, the lack of alternatives). Digieffects preserves our heritage of analog, modulated badness with Skew. You've got incredible control over analog noise (or 'snow'), image shearing, vertical rolling, loss of horizontal hold, and ghosting normally associated with weak or distant broadcast signals, and early consumer video tape playback issues like noise bars caused by malfunctioning tracking, etc. Nostalgia for viewers, horrible flashbacks for broadcast engineers...there is something here for everyone to enjoy.
The two newest effects in the Damage v2 collection expand the possibilities for image corruption beyond transmission and playback to acquisition. Sometimes you want a great image that was transferred or processed defectively, sometimes it should have been just screwed up from the start.
Overexpose: Exposure is one of the keys to creating a solid image. Messed up exposure is one of the keys to cutting down on pesky repeat business for a videographer. If all your footage is annoyingly perfect, it can make your stuff seem the same as all the other skilled professionals out there. We have the answer. Unlike simple luma or levels adjustments which act on specific pixel values and just end up looking like a poorly adjusted digital process, Overexpose processes the image in way that mimics an optical response. Overdriven whites aren't simply clipped, they bloom when a camera is acquiring an image that is “hot.” Neighboring areas of the image are affected even though those areas might not have overdriven values, luma values are affected proportionate to their relative brightness...all factors that require specialized processing to create a convincing effect. Add in the ability to vary a wide variety of parameters over time, and your ability to portray iris indecision on the part of your videographer is absolute.
Destabilize: As more and more footage for our projects is acquired in close proximity to ghosts, collapsing overpasses, rapidly opening landscape-sucking crevasses and always-just-out-of-view prehistoric monsters, tripod-steady footage can suck the drama right out of the scene. In these cases, it can be necessary to take matters into your own post production-skilled hands. With the ability to create convincing camera shake with individual controls over each color channel, multiple axes of motion blur, and nodal rotation control, you can add a bit of uneasy drama, or jittery chaos to nearly any scene. Using the ability to introduce individual random variation into each parameter set means the motion that results is convincingly organic, and a product of fine control. (Monsters, molten lava, defective architectural structures, large carnivorous animals, malicious paranormal entities, and any other implied natural disasters not included.)
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"Digieffects’ motto for their Damage plugin is ‘You have great footage. We can fix that.’ And indeed, they certainly can."
Ed Driscoll - Blog Critics
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"Hands down, these guys have done their homework, which directly translates into making your life easier. Not only have they made real-world types of interference with an easy-to-use interface, but they’ve also made it easy to reuse - and sometimes that’s even more valuable."
Mark Bremmer - Microfilmmaker Magazine
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"Need the security cam look? Check out Damage! FMC rates the plug in 5/5 stars."
David Basulto - Filmmaking Central
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"Damage is a must-have for any animator or editor! These are not redundant effects overlapping things done in other packages I own, they are unique and versatile tools for manipulating and yes, damaging imagery unlike any other tool I have come across. Add to that, that these are, for the most part, FASTER than realtime and I'm in love. For $99 its a steal. Digieffects, under new ownership, has set the bar high. I'm excited to see what else they deliver us in the future."
Scott Novasic - Creative Mac
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"I am still perfecting my first video, which I've created in Premiere with help from Damage. I've found that these effects leave you inspired to create even MORE cool new videos,"
B Thompson - Digital Media Artists Group
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