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plugins
Hi,
I’d welcome some opinions… the clients I’m working for right now have a newish FCP and are about to go online with a biggish offline project we’ve been working on for months. So they’d like to get a set of plugins to make things look a little nicer. They make films for museums and galleries, medium-budget stuff, mostly on video but sometimes on 35mm. This specific job is mainly about 130 years of archive, some of which seems to have been telecined to VHS using a machine that only does shades of brown.
I’m used to using Boris Continuum complete – and most commonly use glow and optical flow. That’s $799. Is Sapphire, at $1699, worth the extra? What about magic bullet, do they make anything comparable? I’m after something that will largely mask imperfections and make video look more filmic. All opinions gratefully recieved.
Robbie
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Your post is a little vague, most of us let need dictate which plugs we buy, but there are lists in the archives on which ones many of us find essential. Do an advanced search.
As for film looks, the best place to start requires no plugins at all, proper lighting and camera technique can make just about any true 24p camera look like film. That’s why they were invented. Short of that, my system is using the Nattress plugins, which are fast, good and cheap. Make that fast, great and cheap.
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Hi Robbie — all the major vendors (including GenArts, who I work for) give you a free trial. Sapphire has a very nice and fast FilmEffect for making video look like film, as well as a beautiful glow. There’s even a little optional glow built right into Sapphire FilmEffect so you can soften it up a little to hide imperfections and video noise without having to nest multiple effects. Hope you don’t mind the plug!
— Gary Oberbrunner (GenArts)
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I’ve noticed recently that you have tutorials for Avid available. What about tutorials for FCP? Anything in the works?
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Here is a pretty complete list of what plugins are available:
https://proapptips.com/tips/links.php?category=Plugins
I have stuff from nattress.com, Magic Bullet and Digital Film Tools. I do tend to use Magic Bullet for my main color correction (Colorista) and Nattress for my film effects. Apple released a few new Motion plugins with FCP 5.1.2 that I like a lot.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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We have an online free AE tutorial, most of which applies to FCP as well; though the downloadable sample projects are for AE only. Check it out at https://www.genarts.com/sapphire-ae-tutorial.html; hope that helps!
— Gary
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I have a tutorial on getting organized in FCP coming out soon. A Cow DVD.
Not sure how soon…but soon.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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Actually since I don’t have After Effects it’s really of no use to me. No plans for an FCP version?
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You mean for the downloadable sample projects? Not right now, as far as I know. Still you can learn a lot just by reading the HTML version. It has some FCP-specific advice as well. Most of the sample projects are dead simple anyway, and you could build them up yourself in FCP with no trouble. But I’ll mention the possibility of doing a set of FCP examples to our demo/training folks here.
— Gary
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You should check out our plug-in package: FxFactory (from Noise Industries), all GPU accelerated and based on FxPlug, Apple’s new plug-in architecture. Fastest plug-ins you will find 🙂
Free trial (15days) is available on our website.
Regards,
Niclas
https://www.noiseindustries.com
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