NewBlue, Inc., the fastest growing integrated video and audio effects provider, today introduced the fifth edition of its best-selling Video Essentials series, NewBlue Video Essentials V. NewBlue Video Essentials V, offers over 100 presets in 10 distinct effects designed for producing professional quality results with minimum effort, saving time, energy, and accelerating productivity. NewBlue Video Essentials V provides advanced editing techniques including Progressive Stretch, Background Generator, Outline, Selective Focus, Selective Tint, Color Fixer Pro, ViewFinder, Old TV, Selective Color and Alpha Processor. Each video plugin benefits from NewBlue’s innovative approach to making technology powerful, yet accessible.
Akin to NewBlue’s entire line of NewBlueFX video effects plugins, NewBlue Video Essentials V integrates seamlessly into Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Premiere Elements, , Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Final Cut Express, Avid Media Composer, Avid NewsCutter, Avid Studio, Avid Symphony, Avid Xpress, Corel VideoStudio, MAGIX Movie Edit Pro, MAGIX Video Deluxe, MAGIX Video Pro, Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas Pro, Sony Vegas Movie Studio and Grass Valley EDIUS.
Says Todor J. Fay, president and CTO,
“Video Essentials V offers less work yet remarkable results. Whether you’re magnifying and altering an image into a backdrop or creating a refined old TV look, Video Essentials V empowers editors to create inventive looks minus the tedious tasking.”
Video Essentials V includes the following powerful filters, all with a number of preset configurations:
- Progressive Stretch, which takes a 4:3 (standard definition) video clip and stretches it nicely in a widescreen format with optional cropping. Now it’s easy to cut to standard definition shots without ugly black side bars or sacrificing part of the image.
- Background Generator, which magnifies and alters your video image to turn it into a beautiful backdrop, complete with perpetual panning motion.
- Outline which adds a colored outline to text, chromakey, or other visuals with transparent borders. Create cut-out paper looks, give your titles an edge glow, and more.
- Selective Focus which blurs the image outside an arbitrarily shaped area. Use Selective Focus to mimic a shallow depth of field or call attention to a region in the image.
- Selective Tint which applies sophisticated tint algorithms to an area inside and outside an arbitrary user defined region in the picture. Also control the gradient crossfade between regions and masking behavior, to pinpoint what gets tinted.
- Color Fixer Pro which provides the same quick and easy technique to fix color balance as Color Fixer Plus, while respecting broadcast-safe color values. Set the color balance, adjust the saturation, brightness, film gamma, and preserve blacks and whites to quickly get the look you want in one pass.
- ViewFinder which simulates a video camera viewfinder
- Old TV which creates one of the most sophisticated old TV looks we’ve ever seen. Using chroma, tint, saturation, brightness, contrast and ghosting you can create a nostalgic look and a lot more.
- Selective Color which creates a stunning look by isolating a narrow range of colors within your clip- leaving everything else gray.
- Alpha Processor which takes the alpha channel of your video and processes it in useful ways, including inverting, blurring and adjusting its width.
NewBlue, Inc., the fastest growing integrated video and audio effects provider, today released NewBlue Light Blends, the highly-anticipated set of 10 dynamic video transitions that delivers stylized, professional lighting looks with ease. NewBlue Light Blends video plugins integrates seamlessly into existing and familiar non-linear editing (NLE) workflows, on both Windows and Mac platforms. With just a few clicks, users can create an electrifying mood or a specialized atmosphere to add drama to any footage.
Like the company’s entire line of NewBlueFX video effects plugins, NewBlue Light Blends works with Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Premiere Elements, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Final Cut Express, Avid Media Composer, Avid NewsCutter, Avid Symphony, Avid Xpress, Corel VideoStudio, Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, Sony Vegas Movie Studio, MAGIX Movie Edit Pro and EDIUS.
Innovative video effects creator and technology developer NewBlue, Inc. announces the inclusion of select NewBlueFX plugins in the latest release of MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 17 Plus. The NewBlue collection includes a powerful set of plugins to give MAGIX users dynamic creative tools.
In delivering the collection, NewBlue worked closely with MAGIX to give its customers powerful effects features with minimal learning curve. Explains Sven Kardelke, Vice President, Product Management Video at MAGIX,
“MAGIX Movie Edit Pro Plus has a long history of providing a high quality, easy to use video editing platform. NewBlueFX is a perfect complement to our video editor, their sophisticated effects are just what our customers want to create exciting films without a long learning curve. We are also pleased to be offering the NewBlue products in our latest release.”
The release of MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 17 Plus marks the beginning of NewBlue’s relationship with MAGIX.
“We’re very excited to start this relationship with MAGIX, and work with such an innovative provider of high quality software”
adds Melissa Jordan Grey, NewBlue’s Chief Executive Officer.
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 17 Plus includes following NewBlueFX plugins:
- Diffusion from Video Essentials III gives a soft glow or otherworldly aura to images to create a mood or look.
- Film Look from NewBlue Film Effects modifies color and lighting to reproduce the look of a specific film stock such as Kodachrome or 28 other looks.
- Noise Reducer from Video Essentials II removes unwanted noise from footage, useful with old analog video or scenes shot in low light.
- Pixelator from NewBlue Video Essentials replaces an oval area on the screen with large colored blocks, obscuring the underlying image.
- Rack Focus from Video Essentials II creates an artificial focus blur that mimics camera depth of field.
- Spotlight from Video Essentials III provides a versatile way to bring focus to subjects and apply finishing touches such as background blur.
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 17 is available in North America at a suggested retail price (SRP) of $99.99 and is also available globally in German and other languages.
To purchase MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 17, please visit http://www.magix.com/us/movie-edit-pro/plus/.
Innovative video effects creator and technology developer NewBlue, Inc. announces the inclusion of select NewBlueFX plugins in the latest release of Adobe Premiere Elements 9. The NewBlue collection of integrated video effects filters provides a creative set of plugins that give Adobe users dynamic, easy to use creativity tools.
In delivering the collection, NewBlue worked closely with Adobe to give its customers powerful effects with a minimal learning curve. These NewBlueFX video plugins turn any video into an animated film and solve basic audio problems.
“We have long history of providing high quality effects to Adobe users, and we’re very excited to extend our relationship with such a creative provider of high quality software”
adds Melissa Jordan Grey, NewBlue’s CEO and Chief Creative Officer.
Adobe Premiere Elements 9 includes the following NewBlueFX plugins:
Cartoonr Plus (from NewBlue Paint Effects), which transforms the video image into a cartoon-like illustration by drawing dark lines around the edges of shapes and painting in between with smooth layers of colors.
NewBlue Audio Scrubbers Collection, including the following six filters:
- Audio Polish, which cleans and enhances audio tracks with minimum effort. It includes noise reduction, compression, brightening, and even adds a touch of reverberation.
- Auto Mute, which removes background noise by muting the signal below a threshold, a technique also known as “noise gating.” This is particularly useful with voice over narration.
- Cleaner, which removes many undesirable sounds from the mix. This must-have tool includes both noise reduction circuitry and hum elimination.
- Hum Remover, which removes electrical hum by applying a notch filter to the specific hum frequency and its harmonics (overtones).
- Noise Fader, which dynamically reduces the background sound by fading the signal progressively when it goes below a set threshold.
- Noise Reducer, which eliminates background noise with a powerful yet remarkably simple to use tool.
To purchase Adobe Premiere Elements 9 , please visit http://www.adobe.com.
Innovative video effects creator and technology developer NewBlue, Inc. announces support for Sony Vegas Pro 10, extending its long partnership with Sony to include video effects plugins that exploit the latest features of Sony’s desktop video editing product. Existing NewBlueFX customers can instantly access new features in Vegas Pro, such as 3D editing, or upgrade their NewBlueFX video effects plugins free of charge for OpenFX architecture support which makes editing workflow even easier.
Says Dave Chaimson, Vice President of Global Marketing for Sony Creative Software,
“For many years, NewBlue has provided top-quality, feature-rich plugins for Vegas Pro. Our users can benefit from the easy to use interface throughout the entire line of NewBlue products.”
