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Accom

• DDR/AE Plug-in: Integrates Accom digital disk recorders (DDRs) directly into the After Effects production environment

Algolith

• Adaptive De-Interlacing: For mixing video interlaced images with progessive scan CG or film
• Anti-Aliaser: A versatile and powerful technique for De-Interlacing and Post-Processing
• Frame Rate Conversion: For Accurate and Reliable Frame Rate Conversion Between SDTV, HDTV and Film Formats
• Content Adaptive Scaling: For exceptional up/down Scaling of CG, SDTV, HDTV or Film Formats
• Dynamic Noise Reducer: For stuning Gaussian Noise reduction
• MPEG Noise Reducer: For cleaning up any DCT based compressed image

Automatic Duck

• Pro Import: Imports OMF compositions from Avid or Final Cut Pro

Big FX

• FilmFX: Get the expensive look of film on a video budget

Boris FX

• Text Scrambler: Randomize or scramble text or text styles
• Title Crawl: Create automated roll or crawl animation
• Vector Shape: Build shapes for text backdrops and vector graphic elements
• Vector Text: Create text with animatable borders, fill, softness, and shadows
  

Buena Software

• Effect Essentials: Contains 10 video effect plug-ins
  

Conoa

• Conoa 3D: A 3D raytracing plug-in
• Conoa Cube: An inexpensive subset of Conoa 3D. Any media may be applied independently to the six faces of the cube
• Conoa Sphere: An inexpensive subset of Conoa 3D. Any media may be applied to a sphere
  

Cyberzeka

• TVzeka: Preview your compositions on TV using an ordinary graphics card with a TV-out option.
  

Diaquest

• Diaquest DDR: Integrates digital disk recorders (DDRs) directly into the After Effects production environment
  

DigiEffects

• Aurorix: A set of updated 26 cool special effects filters
• Berserk: A pack of 20 award-winning special effects plug-ins
• CineLook: Creates the look of film for any video footage
• CineMotion: A set of 10 plug-ins that allows you to take any video footage
• Delirium: A set of more than 46 plug-ins

Digimation

• Fractal Flow: Advanced image distortion, ripple, and wave effects

Digital Anarchy

• 3D Assistants Pro: Set down keyframes for geometric shapes and arrangements
• Anarchy Toolbox: Creates a variety of sophisticated effects
• Color Theory Pro: A digital color wheel that will find color combinations for any project at hand
• Geomancy: Creates geometric shapes and lines
• Gradient!: Gives you unprecedented control to create 16-bit, 6-color gradients
• Text Anarchy: Speeds up text animation

Digital Element

• Aurora Sky: Creates skies and clouds
• Aurora Water: Creates circular waves, add reflections, refraction, volumetric light rays and submerged objects; simulates all water types, from ponds to oceans
  

Digital Film Tools

• 55mm: Simulates popular glass camera filters, specialized lenses, optical lab processes, film grain, matte generation, exacting color correction as well as natural light and photographic effects
• Composite Suite: Includes 28 visual effects plug-ins
• Digital Film Lab: Simulates a variety of film looks, popular glass camera filters, specialized lenses and optical lab processes
• zMatte: Creats blue and green screen composites

electricFX

• eFX Pyro: A 3D fire and smoke simulation plug-in
  

FAN

• AFX2QTL: Allows you to import and export single frames or sequences directly from a Quantel device via Ethernet
• AFX2VPB: Allows you to import and export Quantel VPB files
  

Forge Technology

• FreeForm 2.0: Provides a true 3D design environment for individual layers

The Foundry

• Tinderbox 1-3: Image processing plug-ins

Framestore CFC

• Keylight: For blue or greenscreen compositing

Frischluft

• flAIR: A set of eight fast high quality filters
• Lenscare: Consists of two separate plugins. One is a fast version to simulate camera blurs with constant radii. The other one is to create sophisticated depth of field effects.

GraphicXtras

• Average: A superb color effect tool to create stunning grayscale effects
• Blurred: Creates Blur/jarred effects
• Inverse: Color effect plugin to create inverted or negative video effects
• Limits: Stunning color threshold/color cut off effects applied to video
• Opburst: Apply amazing gradient color bursts across your image
• Opdots: Dots effects great for shadowy or textured effects in any image
• Opdotty: A variant of the opdots plugin, creates a different range of unusual dotty effects
• Oplined: Color lined/line effects applied to video
• OpLines: Apply lines across your image, changing the color, the density, the warping of the lines, creating some really weird surreal line effects in moments
• OpRings: Color rings/interference patterns applied to current layer
  Posters: Subtle posterization/color reducing effects to unusual posterization effects applied to video
• Solar: Solarization and other color effects
  

Intergraph

• ViZfx: Provides more than 30 special effects

Media 100

• Final Effects Complete: A dynamic and essential set of over 100 software plug-in filters and transitions that generates Hollywood-style special effects

META/DMA

• Scopo Gigio: A full-featured video waveform monitor and vectorscope plug-in
  

Multimedia Lap

• AddEffets: Creats high-end 3D and 2D digital video effects
• MotionKey: Simplifies video compositing by enabling you to extract virtually any object from one video clip and place it into another
  

Panopticum

• Anima Text: Different effects with text.
• Anima Text 3D: Different effects with volume 3D text.
• Array- Creats backgrounds. Includes 4 filters: Array, Digital Matrix, Digital Chaos and Digital Galaxy.
• Curtains: Art up you video with eye-catching dynamic pieces of fabric
• Engraver: Cuts through images with thin lines that will form a geometric pattern
• Figure: Creats common flat and 3D figures
• Fire: Realistic burning effects
• Grid: Creats common regular grids
• Lens Pro: Realistic lenses and 3D-crystals as well as crystalline 3D-models
• Rich Typing: Effects for titles. Includes 3 filters: Rich Typing, Digitalizer and Morphing
• Rulers: Art up your video with various types of scales, clock-type dials, rulers and more
• Tools: Includes 10 different filters for some interesting video effects
  

Photron

• Primatte S-100: For ultra-precise matte-control bluescreen/greenscreen compositing
  

Pixelan Software

• SpiceMaster 2: Powerfully animates and customizes 500+ award-winning soft/organic transitions
• Video SpiceRack: More than 300 broadcast-quality transitions and dynamic mattes
  

Profound Effects

• Swim: A distortion/refraction style effect
• Useful Assistants: A powerful automation tool
• Useful Things: More than 140 effects that create motion graphics

Red Giant Software

• Composite Wizard: Allows you to automate color-correction effects, blur or feather edge borders, and clean up unwanted artifacts.
• Image Lounge: Use these filters to add fresh style, distotion effects or animated text to your designs
• Knoll Light Factory 2: 22-filter set that makes everything from twinkling stars to photon torpedoes
• Magic Bullet Suite 1.2: A set of five plug-ins that lets you master 24p video:
  • Magic Bullet: Produces unmatched results for film and video output by de-interlacing, de-artifacting, and frame-rate converting DV to create a 24p (or 25/30p) master
  • Look Suite: Select from more than 30 preset "looks"
  • Broadcast Spec: Precisely fix out-of-range colors so all of your material conforms to broadcast specifications.
  • Opticals: Allows you to create film-like dissolves
  • Letterboxer: Crop your video to the right aspect ratio from 16 by 9 to Panavision widescreen
• Primatte Keyer 1.5: Allows you to select foreground or background areas of your images and reduce edge spill and transparency problems
  

RE:Visions FX

• FinalFocus: Breathes real life into video compositions that tend to look artificial
• IrisFilter 4: A virtual camera plug-in software that realizes the true representation of depth of field and Bokeh (out-of-focus) in digital images
  

SiteJazz

• smartGIF: Takes the labor out of saving Web-ready images
  

Sonic Engineeing

• Anbience Extractor: Enhances the stereo imaging of mono or stereo sound, making it feel open, alive, and spacious

StageTools

• MovingPicture: Makes smooth pans and zooms on hi-res stills.

Trapcode

• 3D Stroke: Create a world of organic shapes and make the camera fly trough them
  
• Lux: Renders visible light for all point and spot lights in a scene
• Shine: Ultra-fast light ray effect with many options
• Sound Keys: Make your animations move with audio
• Starglow: Ultra-fast star shaped glow on highlights

Ultimatte

• AdvantEdge: Combines multiple frame images

Visual Infinity

• Grain Surgery: A set of intelligent noise manipulation tools for film and digital images

ViviClip

• ViviClip Video Filters: Add quick selective color correction and other enhancement tools to reduce noise and legalize for broadcast
  

Vivid Visual Effects

• VVfx Bump Mapper: Turn your image or video layer into bas relief lit by a point of light

Walker Effects

• Basic Edition
  • Alpha Tool: Control or create alpha channels with advanced options
  • Channel Viewer: Display and work with a multitude of color channels
  • Color Fill: Apply color directly to layers with built-in color picking
  • Color Composite: Create specific color corrections with mattes and masks
    
    
• Designer Edition
  • Channel Offset: Individually transform channels to create cool effects
  • Color Space: Convert to and from a wide variety of color models
    
  • Colorize: Quickly apply custom and preset color schemes to layers
  • Crazy Stripes: Instantly generate cool, flowing stripes from any image
    
  • Gradient Designer: Design custom gradients with superb control and flexibility
  • Stargate: Produce awesome moving landscapes from any image
    
    
• Professional Edition
  • Channel Composite: Manipulate image channels with advanced features
  • Channel Lighting: Control 3D lighting in 2D to get incredible lighting flexibility
    
  • Channel Noise: Apply random noise to images with individual channel controls
  • Channel Range: Isolate specific channel regions for keying and transitions
  • Composite: Combine layers together with advanced compositing options
  • Fast Tracker: Generate motion data from 3D renders
    
  • Glow: Create beautiful glowing effects with built-in colorizing
  • Light Wrap: Bloom background light around foreground objects

Zaxwerks

• Invigorator: Brings big-time 3D titles and logos to your work+