Russian company YUVsoft has a new After Effects plugin that can analyze video footage to create dynamic depth maps, making 2D to 3D conversion faster and more accurate.
YUVsoft’s Depth from Motion uses multiparameter projective transformations to analyse camera motion ensuring that zoom, scene rotation and camera pans are correctly processed.Slow motion scenes are automatically detected the process continue to work flawlessly.
The first picture above is from a 2D input sequence. The second one shows the final depth map created from camera motion during the shot. To reach that result, several steps are needed. The first step is to estimate motion from the first four frames and to use the obtained motion vectors to compute the camera motion parameters.
The plugin will be demonstrated at IBC later this week (Booth 11.F74).
aeScripts has a new plugin available that will let you take a UV or ST map (texture coordinate map) from your 3D Package of choice, and use it to retexture models in AfterEffects.
The process is simply enough, stretching and warping the texture to match the desired UV or ST coordinates, but opens up a lot of capabilities in the final stages of compositing. Things like rendering a blank car model with the UV map, then using AfterEffects to map multiple color schemes or paint jobs onto it.
Alias3D Media has collected a short list of 10 video tutorials for AfterEffects. They cover light effects, Trapcode Particular, text effects, and more.
If you’re an avid After Effects fan but always found Eyeon Fusion interesting, then aeTuts has just the tutorial for you. It begins with just the basics of workflow and the node-based design, and creates some simple animations.
The Foundry has just released two new plugins for Adobe After Effects fans, adding impressive camera tracking and matchmoving directly into the popular compositing tool.
First up is ‘CameraTracker’ which can analyze a source sequence to extract the original camera information and motion, then enabling 3D compositing within the shot. Previously only available in NukeX, now it’s available directly within Adobe After Effects CS5.
The other plugins is Khronos5, the first plugin to be accelerated with the Foundry’s new GPU-accelerated ‘Blink’ technology that runs on either the CPU or a CUDA-compliant GPU for maximum performance. The new Khronos 5 offers realtime retiming and motion blur based on their popular Furnace algorithms.
Both plugins are available today, along with a special offer to get RollingShutter and CameraTracker together for After Effects for only $150. Hit up the Foundry Website for all the details.
PHYX Inc, creator of several plugins for the popular Apple Shake compositing system, have partnered with Noise Industries to bring their plugins to several new platforms including Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Final Cut Express.
“Our Apple Shake customers were interested in utilizing our tools in After Effects and Final Cut, which lead us to Noise Industries and FxFactory,” says Justin Bendo, President and CEO, PHYX Inc. “PHYX Keyer is designed to empower users with a toolset to achieve fast, outstanding keying results and FxFactory lets us effectively deliver our powerful visual effects tools to existing and new customers. We thank Noise Industries for their support and look forward to being a part of the innovative FxFactory family.”
Given the recent demise of Shake, this isn’t much of a surprise. It’s great to see new tools, new common tools, coming to such a diverse collection of systems tho. Check out the plugin, including a 15-day free trial, at the FxFactory website.
The result of last month’s merger of GenArts and WonderTouch have just resulted in the first ever release of Particleillusion for AfterEffects, as an integrated plugin that brings the full functionality of Particleillusion into the popular compositing package.
Like its stand-alone sibling particleIllusion 3.0, pIAE is built on the industry’s most robust 2D particle generation engine. As a result, it features the same highly acclaimed speed and ease of use that have made wondertouch products so popular with more than 10,000 compositing artists around the world. In addition, pIAE provides access to the thousands of existing wondertouch emitters — downloadable presets designed to allow users to effortlessly create natural, high-quality effects such as smoke, fire, explosions, sparkles, fireworks and countless abstract effects — without ever leaving the After Effects environment.
Buy it from Wondertouch for $299, only $179 if you’re already a ParticleIllusion customer.
Russian company YUVsoft has a new After Effects plugin that can analyze video footage to create dynamic depth maps, making 2D to 3D conversion faster and more accurate.
aeScripts has a new plugin available that will let you take a UV or ST map (texture coordinate map) from your 3D Package of choice, and use it to retexture models in AfterEffects.
Alias3D Media has collected a short list of 10 video tutorials for AfterEffects. They cover light effects, Trapcode Particular, text effects, and more.
If you’re an avid After Effects fan but always found Eyeon Fusion interesting, then aeTuts has just the tutorial for you. It begins with just the basics of workflow and the node-based design, and creates some simple animations.
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PHYX Inc, creator of several plugins for the popular Apple Shake compositing system, have partnered with Noise Industries to bring their plugins to several new platforms including Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Final Cut Express.
The result of last month’s merger of GenArts and WonderTouch have just resulted in the first ever release of Particleillusion for AfterEffects, as an integrated plugin that brings the full functionality of Particleillusion into the popular compositing package.
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