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Plugin Reccomendations for Adrenaline
Hi,
Our company is about to purchase several Adrenalines and they have asked me to suggest plugin packages that we might want. Do you guys have any suggestions of “must have” plugins? We are mainly doing day-of-air entertainment news packages so we use lots of eye candy types of transitions and effects (network style NOT Hollywood FX style).
Thanks a lot,
David Oulashian
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4 Replies
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Boris Continuum Complete. It’s got tons of effects, and is well worth the price.
good luck,
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Boris Continuum Complete is integrated directly into Adrenaline 1.5 and later. Make sure you get the most current version, though, which would be BCC AVX 4.
Genarts Sapphire is killer, but spendy. Many view it as a “must-have” plugin suite. https://www.genarts.com
There’s a few cool plugins from Profound Effects. They used to offer a plugin called “PE_Transfer AVX,” which offered honest-to-goodness transfer modes in-software, via an AVX plugin. It was sold to a competitor of this site and I can’t tell you the name of it on this forum. I suggest dropping an email to PE and asking them where to acquire it (it’s free). Or, even easier, drop me an email to therealjakester1 AT hotmail DOT com (no spaces, and use & and . instead of the words “AT” and “DOT”) and I’ll tell you where to get it. https://www.profoundeffects.com
Red Giant Software has some neat stuff, including “Magic Bullet Editors AVX” suite (the looks presets from the Magic Bullet Suite for Adobe After Effects). Check them out. https://www.redgiantsoftware.com
Digital Film Tools has some cool plugins, too. Composite Suite, 55mm and Digital Film Lab (DFT’s version of Magic Bullet Editors) are incredible. Download the demo for Composite Suite and you get the DFT Fast Blur plugin for free…it’s an indispensible blur plugin that’s sorely missing from Avid’s Effect Palette (though with integrated BCC, you’ll be okay). https://www.digitalfilmtools.com
3Prong makes some interesting effects plugins, too. With your native Timewarp/Fluidmotion effects, you won’t need “SpeedRamp,” which is kind of a weird plugin, anyway…at least the interface is. https://www.3prong.com
You also might consider the Studio Toolkit HD for Adrenaline. It adds Avid FX (Boris Red 3GL under an Avid name), Avid 3D (basic 3D animation/FX app, based off of softimage 3D technology) and Avid DVD (Sonic DVD Producer under an Avid name…not the best solution, but better than nothing).
That should keep you busy for a while. 🙂
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A nice plug-in for transitions is the Pixelan – Spice Master. You can customize the appearance of your wipes to suit the needs of your setup. You can create any bitmap file (.bmp) and put them in your spice master library and the transition will have the the look of the bmp file that you created. Its cool. https://www.pixelan.com/sm25/intro.htm
Sapphire rocks. Boris Continuum Complete is built-in. -
Sapphire & Boris Continuum are must haves. In our suites, the editor also has to do audio sweetening. Avid’s audio FX are poor. We use Focusrite D2 & D3 for compression & EQ. It’s a little pricy but a whole lot faster than doing this in an outside application.
D2 & D3 will both plug into Adrenaline on XP with no problem. Symphony on Win 2000 will only accept D3, the compressor.
-dMR
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