NewBlueFX | Avid effects, Media Composer effects, Xpress effects, Avid plugins, Video plugins

Much of making a video look like film involves recreating the unintended artifacts of old technologies (hand cranked cameras, for example) and the ravages of time and lazy projectionists.

There’s also a very positive side to the look of film. For example, film responds to light in a non-linear way that compresses the brightest and darkest parts of the image with appealing results. Different film stocks accentuate different colors.

Often, people go to great lengths to achieve a particular “film look” which they use throughout a movie or even a TV series. They set a unique look that might be tied to mood, place, or a time period.

You can design your own look using the appropriately titled “Film Look” plug in.

It doesn’t take much for you to create a wide range of aesthetically interesting looks. The most dramatic changes occur with adjustments to the Color, Saturation, and Film Gamma controls.

So, let’s start with this parking lot scene:

Drop the “NewBlue Film Look” plug in from the Film Effects collection on it. Make sure to choose the “Reset to None” preset so no effect takes place yet.

We’ll start by accentuating the color. Click on the Tint color button to open the Color Chooser.

Choose an orange color to add “warmth” to the scene.

Close the dialog. Notice that the color hasn’t done anything yet. Dial up the Tint knob to add the orange into the image.

Notice that the image takes on a subtle orange warmth.

Now, try the reverse. Drag the Tint to the left to subtract out the Orange.

With the orange dialed down, the whole scene takes on a colder, blueish tint.

Not bad. Let’s leave it this way.

Next stop: Saturation.

The Saturation knob increases or decreases the amount of color in the picture. When you turn Saturation up, the colors in the image become vivid and strong. Turn to the left to reduce the amount of color; turn all the way down to pure black and white.

Typically, for film looks, the saturation should be turned down. However, there’s nothing wrong with dialing up the saturation if it creates the look you want!

For our example we turn it down half way. Note that the colors become darker and subtler.

Now we’ve got our color, but it doesn’t yet look like film. It still looks flat like video. It’s time for the Film Gamma control.

Turn Film Gamma to the right and watch how it changes. As the darks darken and the lights lighten, the image really starts to pop out.

Depending on the overall light intensity of the scene, you might need to adjust the Brightness up or down as the Film Gamma increases.

Finally, for a little extra fun, add a little Diffusion to the scene. Diffusion adds a little glow around the lighter elements in the picture.

Not bad!

Now, just for fun, go back to Saturation and turn it positive to create the perfect "car dream" sequence.

After making any final adjustments to Contrast and Brightness, save this as a preset. Call it “Glowing Warm Saturated Film” for lack of a better name.

Note: The easiest way to use this preset is to drop it onto an entire video sequence. Do this in Vegas by inserting the effect as a Track FX or Video Output FX.

NewBlueFX | Avid effects, Media Composer effects, Xpress effects, Avid plugins, Video plugins

NewBlueFX is a powerful collection of audio and video effects plugins from NewBlue, Inc. Video editors, professional videographers, effects artists, compositors and amateur video enthusiasts worldwide employ NewBlueFX to easily add creative video effects and transitions to their digital video projects.‘

The NewBlueFX product line for consists of two main categories, VideoFX and AudioFX. In the VideoFX collections, users will find video effects and transitions plugins that provide artistic techniques, as well as motion effects. Features of the AudioFX collections run the gamut from audio filtering, such as equalization, noise reduction and compression to creative sound manipulation tools. Currently, NewBlueFX includes 3 video effects collections, 4 video transitions collections and 5 audio effects products boasting 978 presets in 114 distinct video and audio plugins.

NewBlueFX works perfectly with Adobe Premiere, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Premiere Elements, Sony Vegas Movie Studio, Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum or Sony Vegas Pro. And soon, they will also work with Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Express, Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid Liquid, Avid Media Composer, Avid Xpress, Canopus Edius, Pinnacle Studio and ULead VideoStudio.

There are so many cool video effects and transitions you can use!

Exploding 3D Transitions and 3D Wipes for Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro

It's fun to make video wipes and transitions explode in 3D. NewBlue offers two collections of video transitions plugins, NewBlue 3D Transformations and NewBlue 3D Explosions. Using 3D Transformations, you can twist, fly, fold, and bounce from one scene to the next. This exciting assortment high-energy collection of video transitions breaks creative ground with new ways to create a page turn effects, flying effect, revolving door effect and more.

And NewBlue 3D Explosions introduce creative new ways to blast a scene into pieces! Morph between scenes with explosive energy, swirl pieces that reassemble into the new scene or dramatically blast a scene into smithereens. These video transitions and wipes for Sony Vegas allow you to make expoding cubes, flying video, confetti, ripples, wind and other cool video transitions for Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro.

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Paint, Drawing and Art Video Transitions for Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro

NewBlue offers a great collection of art transitions and wipes plugins for Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro: NewBlue Art Blends. With these video plugins for Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro, you can add glow dissolves, bloom dissolves, light dissolves and much more. You can also simulate a camera flash, make a ghostly image and add fog to your video. The vide art transitions like metallic wipe, duochrome, and shiny fog are among users' favorite art effects and transitions for Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro.

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Paint, Drawing and Art Video Effects for Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro

NewBlue also offers art effects video plugins for Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro. Entitled NewBlue Art Effects, the collection includes video plugins that colorize video, airbrush video, and paint video. You can also create a video art effect, line drawing effect, chalk effect and pencil sketch look quickly and easily. This collection of art effects plugins for Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro also includes a pastel color effect, a metallic effect and lots of cool color effects, like color glow and duochrome.

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Film Look Effects Plugins for Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro

NewBlue Film Effects helps you easily create a "film look" for your video. You can make your video look like an old super 8 movie by adding scratches and graininess to your video. This collection of video effects plugins for Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro includes an old film camera effect, a film flicker effect, and lots of interesting ways to change the color of the video to make it look like an old movie or even like today's cinema.

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Moving Transitions Plugins for Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro

It's fun to add moving transitions and wipes to your video. NewBlueFX provides NewBlue Motion Blends for just ths purpose. Using this variety of video effects transitions and wipes for Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro, you can create spin wipes, liquid wipes, bent image wipes and more. Want a moving bands transition or sliding bars transition? You can do that with this collection of video effects transitions and wipes for Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro. You can warp, shred, bend and tear your video. Or you can spin, twirl or make water wave video effects.

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Moving Effects Plugins for Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro

NewBlueFX offers lots of video effects plugins for Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro that use movement to create visual interest. In NewBlue Motion Effects, you can experiment with cool camera techniques to make a shaking camera effect, roving camera effect or active camera effect. You can also simulate an earthquake! Using these video effects plugins, you can add a motion blur to your video and streak, smudge, zoom and spin. NewBlue Motion Effects also includes lots of cool water video effects to add water distortion, rain drop effects, water ripples and image melt. There are also dozens of image warping options included in these video plugins for Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro.

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