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Click on name of plugin to download... UnZip the plugin and place it in /Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Plugins
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Please check out our new plugins, Electronic Makeup Artist which does smoothing of skin tones with selective retention of detail, and Graphic Novel Look which can turn your film into a graphic novel. Both can be purchased at the Sheffield Softworks store....
I hope you enjoy the following free plugins:
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The two strip color process was an early color system that used red and green to construct a color image. This plugin drops the blue channel information and reconstructs it from a combination of the red and green channels. The spectrum slider controls the ratio between the two. The warm button simulates something not found historically. It tosses the green channel and re-constructs it from the red and blue channels.
See the Technicolor pages of the Wide Screen museum for more info.
The filter can be found under the Effects/Video Filters/Stylize menu.
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The 3 strip technicolor process shot thru red, green, and blue filters onto separate strips of film. Modern film processes shoot everything on the same strip of film using selectively sensitized silver compounds. This results in a certain degree of "cross talk" between the color channels. This plugin attempts to mathematically correct for that crosstalk. Graeme Nattress called this the "Sound of Music" plugin.
You have sliders to adjust the correction applied to each channel. Because the correction is subtracted from the appropriate channels, the image can get darker. Compensate for this by adjusting the brightness slider.
The filter can be found under the Effects/Video Filters/Stylize menu.
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The 3 strip EXTREME was my original algorithm for producing the technicolor look. The new three strip plugin is much more subtle in its processing. This one is more "industrial strength" and can be a bit over the top. Also it tends to make people look sunburned - so it works better on landscapes. Don't think of eXtreme as better - just heavier handed. I did add sliders to adjust the correction on a per channel basis.
The filter can be found under the Effects/Video Filters/Stylize menu.
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In my early attempts to simulate the Two Strip Technicolor look I ended up with a process that gave a sort of golden "richness" to the image, so I called it "Richer". It doesn't seek to simulate any particular film look, I just liked the effect. It can look nice combined with the Three Strip Technicolor plugin above.
The filter can be found under the Effects/Video Filters/Stylize menu.
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Convolve toy. This is basically a front end to FCP's convolve routine. Convolve matrices are the basis of many image processing techniques. See this link for more information about convolution matrices.
The filter can be found under the Effects/Video Filters/Sharpen menu.
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Captain's blowout fixer. I wrote this plugin based on a Shake script that Captain Mench sent me. What Cap'n noticed was that when an image is blown out, especially on the skin, not all color channels are necessarily over exposed. Often when the red channel is blown out, the green channel may still contain good information. This plugin lets you selectively substitute one channel for another in the over exposed areas and color correct it to match.
Take the Captain's Tutorial on how to use it.
The filter can be found under the Effects/Video Filters/Color Correction menu.
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Luma Toy. This plugin started life as a simplified 'blowout fixer'. The idea was that if the levels were too hot in one channel, I could build the luminance from one of the other channels, but it turned out that the look of the image was altered too much - but not always in a bad way.
So the LumaToy filter was born. You can get 'looks' with this that cannot be achieved any other way. For instance, if you take the luminance from the red channel and pull the Chroma Reduction slider all the way up, you get a very Infra Red film look.
The example above was combined with the Three Strip Technicolor filter to enhance the color differences. Click on the thumbnail for a larger image and click on that to see how the image changes by selecting different channels.
This filter has an installer, so if your browser doesn't automatically unzip and start the installer, you can unzip it and double click on the package.
The filter can be found under the Effects/Video Filters/Sheffield Softworks menu.
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