Where’s Brandon & The Others W/ Cool Presets?

[Simon Ubsdell]

Don’t know what happened to the amazing Brendan – it’s a shame not to have heard from him in a long while.

As for me, I got taken to task (by Oliver Peters, I seem to remember) for single-handedly destroying the plug-in market by posting free stuff … so I have been keeping it all for myself ever since.

I’m not being entirely serious here but I do sort of agree with the point that too much free stuff doesn’t ultimately do the third party market much good and right now it probably needs all the help it can get.

However, here’s a recent plug-in that I made to simulate a security camera look …

3243_tkysecuritycameffect.zip

… with controls for:

Brightness, contrast, blur and noise;
Waviness, roll, static, color sync, saturation;
Scan line brightness, percentage and number of lines;
Tint color and intensity;
Fisheye radius and amount;
Vignette opacity.

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Ben Scott]

its a shame though when the free market isnt really an effect and isnt as good as your effects

a motion project built for others is great but to be useful it needs to be carefully thought out

have you found a way of creating boxes at specific pixel heights for doing text at specific pixel heights for certain broadcasters

also would like to have effects which can choose different start durations for things like different leaders, but maybe compound clips are the way to go for these elements

[Matthew Celia]

I don’t know if I agree, Simon. I thought your effects were very well made and if you wanted to give them away, I think you have that choice! You also have the choice to sell for whatever price you deem worthy. It’s a free market (at least in the US). I personally feel that plug-in manufactures need to innovate and push the boundaries in order to stay relevant. Those who do so will have no problem securing my business. Those who continue to put out “meh” effects that I could build myself in Motion will not. Maybe that’s a little harsh, but I’ve always felt that failure to innovate makes for a pretty blah world.

Just my 2 cents.

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[Simon Ubsdell]

Here’s a new effect for measuring pixel height – there are four versions (1080, 720, PAL and NTSC) – for measuring legal text height (and anything else you need to measure in vertical pixels).

3254_tkycaptionheightmeasurement.zip

It’s essentially two horizontal lines that can be place wherever you need them (vertically) and you can adjust the gap between them in precise 1 pixel increments (from 0 to 300 pixels).

Make sure you use the version appropriate to the project format you are working in as using the wrong one will give an incorrect result.

The default setting is 17 pixels which should give you a “safe” size for UK advertising if you make a lower case “w” sit exactly in the gap with no space top or bottom.

Please make sure this corresponds with any specific local instructions before relying on it.

I don’t know what the requirements will be in other territories but the template is easily adjustable so you can save off whatever you need.

You can also adjust the colour of the lines for optimum readability.

Note that this is a Title Effect – so add it as a layer above any text you are entering and make sure you disable/delete it before output!

Unzip and move all four entire folders into your User/Movies/Motion Templates/Titles folder – preferably in a new folder of their own so you can find them easily from inside FCPX.

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Simon Ubsdell]

Ben Scott on Nov 11, 2011 at 2:10:15 pm

also would like to have effects which can choose different start durations for things like different leaders, but maybe compound clips are the way to go for these elements

Not sure quite what you had in mind here – sounds like an interesting idea but could you elaborate?

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com