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Please note: all plugins on this page are DEMO versions. They will place a watermark on the clip. Visit our store to purchase a full version. Click on name of plugin to download a demo... UnZip the plugin installer and double click on it to run.
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Some time ago, I'd started a plugin called Maxfield, based on the look of Maxfield Parrish's paintings, But feeling it to be somewhat obscure, I put it aside for a while. At the beginning of this summer I picked it up again and completely re-wrote it from scratch, making it more powerful and more general purpose. It's now called Movie Color.
Movie Color is a plugin for use within Final Cut Pro or Motion that gives you the ability to apply stylized "looks" to your footage. It comes with over 40 such looks pre-designed in the form of named presets. Many of these looks were developed from popular films such as Transformers, Harry Potter, Pelham 123, etc. All of these looks can be adjusted in minor scene-to-scene tweaking, or used as a starting point for a completely new look of your own. If you develop a look you'd like to share, name it and send it to me and it may be included in upcoming preset releases.
Movie Color allows you, through a variety of powerful methods, to build two tinted images and mix them back into your original image to varying degrees through the use of masks. A mask can be thought of as an adjustable stencil that allows you to control where and to what degree your tinted image is "painted" back over your original image. It also contains a Pre-Processing section that allows you to adjust the saturation, the brightness, and the contrast of your image as well as a "Bleach Bypass" setting.
Movie Color is an FxPlug plugin that utilizes the power of your graphics card to achieve a boost in processing. With a good graphics card, you can reach around 2 seconds render for every second of raw footage. Your mileage may vary. Movie Color requires at least 10.5 (Leopard) of the operating system and at least Final Cut Studio 2 (FCP 6/Motion 3).
If you're intimidated by Color, try my Movie Color plugin - you can get great results without ever leaving the comfort of Final Cut Pro or Motion.
Clicking on the thumbnail above will open a larger example image. Clicking on the example image will step you thru the different preset settings.
You can take a look at the instructions in a separate window.
The filter can be found under the Effects/Video Filters/Sheffield Softworks/ menu.
Many thanks to Dalia Drulia for the test image...
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The Electronic Makeup Artist does smoothing of skin tones with selective retention of detail.
This filter allows the user to select skintones and apply smoothing to reduce wrinkles, blemishes, etc. Using various detection algorithms, enough detail can be retained to avoid a 'blurry', vaseline lens look.
As production enters the HD era, and cameras capture every detail, this filter can keep your client looking their best. Whether you're working on a music video, a wedding video, or a corporate video, you need this plugin.
Recently used extensively on E! Entertainment's Excellence on the Red Carpet series.
Clicking on the thumbnail above will open a larger image. Clicking on the larger image will toggle between before and after.
Take my tutorial on how to use it.
The filter can be found under the Effects/Video Filters/Sheffield Softworks/ menu.
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The Digital Coverup plugin is a sort of "Electronic Clearasil" - it's used for fixing blemishes.
You first select the color of the blemish, then select the skin tone, and it colors the former to match the latter, along with smoothing if specified. The coverup keys on color, so the color of the blemish must be distinct enough from normal skintone for DCU to isolate it.
Dealing with footage of my adolescent daughter inspired me to write this plugin. If you've ever had to deal with a client who refused makeup for that bruise or blemish, try this plugin. For once you may actually be able to fix it in post.
Digital Coverup can be used for changing the color of and/or smoothing anything you can isolate. It's been successfully used to change eye color, tone down the highlight on a bald spot, and change the color of a blanket from pink to blue. Need to make your grass greener?
Clicking on the thumbnail above will open a larger image. Clicking on the larger image will toggle between before and after.
You can take a look at the instructions in a separate window.
The filter can be found under the Effects/Video Filters/Sheffield Softworks/ menu.
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The Look Sweet group of plugins is designed to sweeten the look of your mundane, troubled, or ordinary footage. It consists of three plugins: Mr. Fixit, Vibrance+, and Glamour.
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Mr. Fixit is the ultimate footage rescue system. What Mr. Fixit does, using some HDR photography techniques, is build the brightest possible shadows and the darkest possible highlights and allow you to mix them back into the original image without affecting the color. |
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Vibrance+ gives you fine control over saturation and desaturation of your clips - it increases chroma more in the lower saturation areas, so you get a more vibrant image. You can also drag the slider negative to decrease the chroma in higher saturation areas more than lower ones. The "plus" modes are Pastel, which lightens the high chroma areas and makes them pale. And Enhance, which slightly brightens higher chroma areas so can give people an "inner glow". |
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Glamour gives your footage the final polish. One user described it as sprinkling gold dust on everything. It's a combination of sharpening highlights and softening shadows. It can really bring dull DV footage to life. |
These three plugins, used separately, or synergistically in combination can take your ordinary footage to the next level and beyond.
Clicking on the thumbnail above will open a larger image. Clicking on the larger image will step thru each plugin's effect.
You can take a look at the instructions in a separate window.
These filters can be found under the Effects/Video Filters/Sheffield Softworks/ menu.
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The Toon-A-Matic plugin gives your clip a "Toon Shaded" look that has been compared to A Scanner Darkly or those Charles Schwab ads. This filter uses a proprietary Toon Shader algorithm to produce a look similar to conventional 'Cel Shaders'. It also has a "Caricature" setting to produce organic distortions to exaggerate or minimize features. The effect works best on HD material.
It is my first FxPlug plugin, and as such, it is available in both Motion and Final Cut Pro. It requires Final Cut Studio 2, and the Leopard operating system.
Although Toon-A-Matic uses only a few simple controls (Brightness, Line Level, Line Brightness, Line Contrast, Line Saturation, and Caricature Level), a wide range of "toonish" looks are possible.
Clicking on the thumbnail above will open a larger image. Clicking on the larger image will step you thru various examples of the Toon-A-Matic plugin in action.
You can take a look at the instructions in a separate window.
This filter can be found under the Effects/Video Filters/Sheffield Softworks/ menu.
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The Video Painter plugin gives your clip an artistic/painterly look.
I've been working on this filter for some time now. It started out as a project to re-create the look of those old Pin Up photos from the '40s/'50s - Like Vargas/Petty girl pictures, but then it kept growing... and became Video Painter.
There are four sections to the plugin: Style, Color, Effect, and Inking. Style affects the texture/brush strokes of the painting look. Color is for color correction. Effect lets you mix back the unaffected material, and Inking adds lines that can be used to add detail edging (like cartoons), but at the lower default settings, they add a subtle crispness and shading to the image.
With the number of sliders and buttons, Painter can seem pretty complicated to use, however, various presets are available to make it easier to get a look that you're interested in. These include Clean Sharp, Dark Moody, Bold Thick, Bizarro I and Bizarro II, as well as a Standard DEF setting.
Clicking on the thumbnail above will open a larger image. Clicking on the larger image will step you thru the different preset settings.
You can take a look at the instructions in a separate window.
For more examples, including full HD movies, check here.
The filter can be found under the Effects/Video Filters/Sheffield Softworks/ menu.
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The Graphic Novel Toolkit plugin is designed to allow the user to create a rich and varied spectrum of “looks” consistent with the Graphic Novel universe.
The image styles in graphic novels are as varied as the stories they contain. You may find several different looks in panels on the same page. When I wrote Graphic Novel Toolkit the goal was threefold:
- Make it flexible.
- Make it easy to use.
- Make it fast...
Toward those goals:
- With these controls: Amount, Grit, Ink Color, Density, Intensity and Blend Mode, the looks you can build are limitless.
- I have included 15 presets: Warm, Cool, Matrix, Gritty Matrix, Matrix II, Warm Contrast, Newsprint, Blueprint, Redprint, Colored Pencils, Rich Warm, Rich Cool, Red Alert, Blue Deep, and Deep Grit, you can get a spectrum of looks with a single click.
- The image processing in this plugins was designed to be as streamlined as I know how to make it - this means no outlines or distortions - but you're not sacrificing much - with the power provided, you can get a reasonable RT frame rate on a basic Mac Pro Quad with HD material. This should let you play to your hearts content before having to render...
When I first came up with this plugin, I showed it to a friend and he asked what practical use it had and after thinking about it, I honestly don't know. I just thought it was cool (although some of the presets like Rich Warm look great on regular movies). So - try out the demo - see if you think it's cool too....
Clicking on the thumbnail above will open a larger image. Clicking on the larger image will step you thru the different preset settings.
You can take a look at the instructions in a separate window.
The filter can be found under the Effects/Video Filters/Sheffield Softworks/ menu.
Many thanks to my friends at TikiBar TV for the test image...
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The Graphic Novel Look plugin gives clips an 'arty' Graphic Novel treatment. Not quite the movie 300, but interesting... This filter uses a proprietary algorithm to produce a look unlike conventional 'Cel Shaders'. The effect works best on HD material.
You have sliders to adjust the color and luma contrasts and inking parameters.
Clicking on the thumbnail above will open a larger image. Clicking on the larger image will show additional samples.
The filter can be found under the Effects/Video Filters/Sheffield Softworks menu.
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The Anaglyph Plugin separates a clip into Red/Blue (Cyan) images for use with Red/Blue 3D glasses. It can be used with sterescopic camera clips, or with a user setable artificial separation.
This is a beta version of the software, currently available for free.
Clicking on the thumbnail above will open a larger image. Click on the name at the left to download the software.
The filter can be found under the Effects/Video Filters/Sheffield Softworks/ menu.
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