Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Tom Stern of Microfilmmaker Magazine recently reviewed Final Effects Complete 5 and gave it Microfilmmaker Magazine's Award of Superiority.
Here is an excerpt from the review:
"The Final Effects Complete 5 package of plug-ins is deceptively powerful. It definitely has some uses for filmmaking, especially very artistic scenes in certain genres like Sci-Fi, fantasy, and for some distortedly scary and alienating scenes. It is more directly applicable to event videography, music videos, and advertising freelance work, where the use of motion graphics is more common.
HD is rapidly becoming a requirement for wedding videos and, with digital TV becoming the US standard, high quality effects that can play on HD screens is becoming a practical necessity. If you need to move to 16-bit color for these applications, FEC5 is an obvious package to consider. What puts it over the top are those time-saving presets that make these plug-ins practical for a production environment."
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Labels: Boris-Review, FEC-5
Monday, June 30, 2008
I have thought of myself as an artist (photographer, electronic musician, videographer, VJ, etc.) since I left graduate school (Ph. D, in Physics) in 1970. I have (like most artists) supported myself with day jobs. Since 1984, these jobs have involved making tools for artists to use - first as the founder and chief engineer of Doctor T's Music Software, a pioneering MIDI software company, and, more recently, with Boris FX. I've been a software engineer and visual effects designer with Boris since 1997.
I purchased Final Effects (directly from Sweden) when it first came out in 1995. I've been using Boris Continuum Complete (and its predecessors) since we started developing them during my first year with Boris. It has been a pleasure to work with both products as both artist and developer, and a special pleasure to add some new twists to old favorites such as FEC Kaledia and FEC Radial Scale Wipe...
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Labels: BCC-5, Boris-User-Story, FEC-5
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
100+ Legendary Filters for Avid editing and finishing systems
Final Effects Complete 5 AVX brings Ball Action, Mr. Mercury, and 100+ other legendary visual effects to Avid editing and finishing systems as an AVX 2.0 plug-in set. Supporting both Windows and Macintosh (Universal Binary), FEC 5 AVX takes full advantage of AVX 2.0's power and performance. New features include support for 16 bit-color processing, AVX 2.0 real-time filters, native on-screen controls, multi-processor acceleration, a number of new wipe transition filters, and hundreds of factory-installed presets.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Are you tired of solid stroke and soft shadows on your text styles? Do you need something catchy for your project? The new Final Effects Complete 5 release may offer a fresh treatment for your old title or lower third. FEC 5 packs a wealth of unique visual effects. Most FEC filters are designed to work on full color images but some can be used on alpha channel bitmaps such as text slates. Here are a few examples...
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Labels: Boris-Tutorial, FEC-5
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Final Effects Complete 5 FxPlug is a set of 100+ visual effects filters re-designed for Apple's FxPlug plug-in architecture, providing seamless integration with Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion. FEC 5 FxPlug adds new support for 16 bit-color processing and takes full advantage of FxPlug for a big performance boost including unlimited RT filters and native Final Cut Pro transitions. The same FEC filters are recognized by Motion and run within Motion's accelerated GPU environment for improved compatibility and flexible workflow.
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Labels: FEC-5, FEC-5-FxPlug