FCP Free Plugins

[Glenn Chan]

The following site is good for information about free+commercial plug-ins for FCP:
https://www.digitalzoo.com.au/lunchtime/

Some filters that will do film scratches:

Nattress’ Film Effects
https://www.nattress.com/filmEffects.htm
This may be your best bet- low price, free upgrades, support from Graeme Nattress himself.

Magic Bullet Misfire

I believe demos for both are available. There are probably other film scratches filters out there.

[Aaron]

Anyone else have suggestions? I just need one free film scratch plugin.

thanks

[Kevin Monahan]

Export to QuickTime Pro and just use the Film Scratch Filter with that. Or don’t you know that trick? It’s all in the book, baby!

Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com

[Burt Hazard]

Excellent tip.

Also, COMPUTER ARTS PROJECTS issue 72 has Cinelook 1.9 plugin for “free” (well $15 for the mag). True they are a little heavy on the “grunge” look, but that’s because it’s considered “hip,” “edgy,” and “now.” That’s of course until it becomes as “passe” as flying Toaster-style 3D logos in irredescent gold and John Gaeta-ripoff MATRIX bullet-time, etc.

[Kevin Monahan]

I point you to my book, because I show how to build a convincing film look right inside of FCP that uses the export to QT as a base. You build up successive layers with comp modes and masks to finish the look. Go ahead and try that if you are speaking my language. 😉

I think this is a cool technique that you can either use as is, or nested and used as a basis for finishing with G Film from nattress.com

So you like plug-ins? Not free, but you a chunk of them free with the book.

These custom plug-ins are called “Telly’s FX”, which were coded by Graeme Nattress. I feel that many of them are useful for things that I could only formerly pull off in After Effects, including random number generators, a better noise generator, vertical and horizontal blurs, diplacement filter with a matte channel that plays back the entire clip-not the first frame and finally, a bump map filter with the same matte channel performance upgrade.

Yep, way cool. Many people underestimate the cool fx you can make with FCP. For Sure!

Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com