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Noise Industries and PHYX Inc. have announced the release of a new plugin suite for FxFactory that works directly inside AfterEffects, Final Cut, and Apple Motion to help you clean up and doctor video with ease.  The suite, called PHYX cleaner, contains 5 plugins:

• Chroma Reconstructor: Rebuilds pixelated chroma (color) channels. Chroma issues are most obvious when keying green or blue screens, or viewing a colorful object (red coat, etc.). The Reconstructor repairs blocky colors, and removes unwanted sub-sampling artifacts.
• Deband: Restores lost information in gradients, and increases effective color depth up to 32-bits per color. Deband also works wonders for making 3D-generated images look less artificial, and for converting harsh low-bit depth images to high-bit depth smoothness.
• Deinterlace: Converts fields into progressive frames free of comb-like artifacts using field reconstruction and Optical Flow.
• Digital Make Up Kit: Allows users to smooth skin blemishes in post-production. This unique tool detects properly lit skin tones, and smoothes wrinkles, acne, and more.
• Fast Noise Reduction: Spatial noise reduction engine that quickly removes high and low frequency noise (fine and large noise) from images. Fast Noise Reduction also includes a powerful sharpening method similar to that used by NASA, to preserve fine details.

Available for $199.

“As one of our most newest development partners PHYX Inc. has rolled out an impressive number of creative plug-ins for the visual effects community in such a short amount of time ” says Niclas Bahn director of business development Noise Industries. “PHYX Cleaner is an extraordinary tool for patching up gritty footage and gives users a quick way to efficiently transform disappointing tape into flawless film. We look forward to the on-going success of FxFactory and PHYX Inc. visual effects plug-ins and providing creative community with a touch of originality in each new release.”

via FxFactory and PHYX Inc. Release a Cure for Blemished Footage.

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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.

“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.

via PHYX Inc. Joins FxFactory Development Partner Program.

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Noise Industries has released FxFactory 2.0.7, a visual effects suits for AfterEffects, Final Cut, and Motion.   The upgrade is free for existing FxFactory Pro 2.x customers, and adds over 300 visual effects with real-time performance on Mac systems.  This version offers big performance improvements, as well as three new plugins: PDF Animator, Perlin Noise generator, and Alpha Merger.

See the full announcement after the break, and get the 15-day trial on the FxFactory website.

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