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directory FACTORY FRESH a light spill effect. This was quickly followed up with a set of four free effects: MultiSpace, iSight Live, Rack Focus and Opposites. MultiSpace acts much like an old two-channel Ampex ADO 3-D digital video effects device. Two video planes can be moved and intersected in 3-D space. In the linear editing days, ADO hardware to achieve effects like these cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now you can do it on a laptop! New from CoreMelt is Bolton’s PolyChrome package. This includes 40 transition effects including particle dissolves, film blowout wipes, page curl strips, exposure flashes and much more. The newest member of this collective is SUGARfx, which offers several effects generators targeted at TV promo-style production. These use a moving graphic theme into which you can drop your own images TAKING THE SPIN I’ve been using the various Noise Industry effects since the Avid introduction and find them to be some of the best on the market. They are clean, highquality and easy to use, and ran quickly even on my older PowerBook G4. FxFactory effects have become a staple when I run FCP on my current MacBook Pro. If you can only get one package for your NLE, this is a pretty good one to have. It’s not just the quality, but new effects keep coming out that extend the value of your investment in the software. Since I had yet to try my hand at creating new ones, I felt it was time to “walk the walk” and build my own custom filters. It couldn’t have been simpler. All you have to do is launch FxFactory Pro or Factory Floor and choose the option to Create FxPack or Create plug-in Library. From the application’s top menu, select Actions/Open Quartz Composer to enter Apple’s nodal development application. In Quartz Composer, you are offered a series of building blocks to create effects. All you have to do is drag-and-drop these blocks onto the canvas, link them together and decide which parameters to publish. Publishing makes it available to the operator so that the filter setting can be adjusted during actual use. The rest is just a matter of giving it a name and saving it inside FxFactory Pro or Factory Tools. The simple effect I created combined Zoom Blur, Gamma Correction and Posterization into a single filter. The release of FxFactory Pro 2.0 added more effects packs, as well as new functionality enabled by Apple’s Leopard OS 10.5, including 16-bit and 32-bit YUV rendering inside FCP. The 2.0.3 release includes installers for the CoreMelt Motion and CoreMelt Editing effects packs. This currently brings a total of over 200 GPU-accelerated effects to FCP, Motion and even Final Cut Express users. For Avid editors, Factory Tools Pro 2 brings the total to 146 real-time effects. Noise Industries offers a strong filter package for Mac-based editors seeking a creative, organic look to their effects. And, better yet, they give you the tools to expand that universe with little effort. With a bit of ingenuity, you can create your own custom filters for FxFactory or Factory Tools and offer them for free or sale. Now that’s a unique element that no other plug-in maker can claim. MEDIA RECORDERS (CON’T) Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems Co. www.panasonic.com/broadcast s.two www.stwo-corp.com Shining Technology www.shining.com Thomson Grass Valley www.thomsongrassvalley.com Wafian www.wafian.com BATTERIES AND CHARGERS Anton/Bauer www.antonbauer.com Bebob www.bebob.de Bescor www.bescor.com Cavision Enterprises Ltd. www.cavision.com Cool-Lux www.cool-lux.com Dolgin Engineering www.dolgin.net Frezzi Energy Systems www.frezzi.com SCORE FX FACTORY PRO 2 PROS: Growing family of plug-in developers contributing new and unusual filters. IDX System Technology www.idxtek.com ikan Corp. www.ikancorp.com JVC Professional Products www.jvc.com/pro CONS: Restricted to Mac OS X's FxPlug and Avid AVX architecture at this time. B O T T O M L I N E : One of the best values of all the advanced effects packages for FCP and Avid on the Mac. MSRP: FxFactory Pro 2.0 (134 plugins for Apple FxPlug) $399 Marshall Electronics Inc. www.mars-cam.com NRG Research Inc. www.nrgresearch.com PAG www.paguk.com CONTACT: www.noiseindustries.com Oliver Peters is a regular contributor to Videography. Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems Co. www.panasonic.com/broadcast http://www.panasonic.com/broadcast http://www.stwo-corp.com http://www.shining.com http://www.thomsongrassvalley.com http://www.wafian.com http://www.antonbauer.com http://www.bebob.de http://www.bescor.com http://www.cavision.com http://www.cool-lux.com http://www.dolgin.net http://www.frezzi.com http://www.idxtek.com http://www.ikancorp.com http://www.jvc.com/pro http://www.mars-cam.com http://www.nrgresearch.com http://www.paguk.com http://www.noiseindustries.com http://www.panasonic.com/broadcast

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