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3D Flag generates realistic flags, banners, and pennants within Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, or Apple Motion 2. Whether looking to create a flag high atop a pole, a banner hanging from a window, or a dramatic background image, 3D Flag can generate the imagery.
Use any layer (image, movie, or animation) to color the flag and determine its shape. Choose from a variety of included flagpoles or add a custom pole.
Customizing how the flag moves is easy. In addition to animating the flagpole, optionally set wind speed and direction or specify gravity. The flag itself can be stiff or limp, depending on the parameters set in the 3D Flag editor.
3D Flag enables the user to create flags of almost any color and shape. Use an image, image sequence, or movie to color the flag. Also, by choosing an image with transparent areas, create flags that look like pennants and banners.
A flag may or may not have a flagpole -- it's up to the creator. If the flag does have a pole, choose one of horizontal or vertical poles that come with 3D Flag -- or install your own. The flags may sit on any side of the flagpole but 3D Flag has a quick start menu that will help the user attach the flag to the pole. Flagpoles do not have to be fixed in space. Animate as with any other 3D object, adjusting the location and rotation. Make the flag wave in the air or simply rotate it into the correct orientation for the scene.
There are many different types of cloth materials with which to simulate. Make flags loose and rubbery or stiff and inflexible. The 3D Flag options window enables the user to select different cloth presets or set specific parameter values.
3D Flag offers forces such as wind speed, wind direction, and gravity. Animate them to simulate varying wind conditions (the wind is rarely constant, after all) or make the flags look like they're on the moon (that has much less gravity than Earth).
3D layer warp deforms After Effects layers using a variety of warp styles. Combine multiple warps to create an infinite number of shapes. Use any layer (e.g., image, movie, animation) to color the warp and determine its shape. Use a displacement map to apply user-defined warping.
3D grid warp also deforms layers, but it has a powerful grid generator to create a variety of grid styles. Overlay (or underlay) a color map for additional effects.
3D Layer Warp and 3D Grid Warp provide a variety of warp styles to choose from. Combine the styles in order to achieve complex shapes. Use the line controls and the color controls in 3D Grid Warp to create custom grids. Combine up to three warps to create unique shapes. Animate the parameters to put warps in motion.
Apply any other layer as the source for the color image used in the warp. Images with alpha channels can be used to cut out pieces of the source image. Color maps can be combined with the grids in 3D Grid Warp. Layers can have transparency, specular highlights, and reflection maps. Use the lights in the warp Plug-in or use After Effects lights for additional effects.
This collection of 100 plus presets includes a spectrum of effects that aren't included with the Trapcode software: unusual organics, 50s and 70s retro styles, luminescent configurations, cosmic effects, and dozens of original animations that can be used for wipes, transitions, kinetic backgrounds, and other elements in broadcast design projects.
This new collection of 102 beautiful and surprising animated light configurations are the same as the LUX collection by Little Men Entertainment but without the Plug-in. It includes a myriad of variations using 1 to 14 light with innovative positions, shadow and light movements, and colors. Use as is or as templates to create totally new designs by going in and moving lights, adding lights, deleting lights, changing intensity, angles, point of interest, and other variables.
This new collection of 102 beautiful and surprising animated light configurations include a myriad of variations using 1 to 14 light with innovative positions, shadow and light movements, and colors. Use as is or as templates to create totally new designs by going in and moving lights, adding lights, deleting lights, changing intensity, angles, point of interest, and other variables.
An outstanding algorithm of object-motion estimation, PatchMaker has a number of incontestable advantages compared to two-dimensional (2D) tracking tools:
Perfect motion tracking quality is attained because PatchMaker uses all the color data present in the object image rather than a few tracking points. The motion is computed with sub-pixel accuracy so that no artificial smoothing of motion parameters is needed -- the object moves as it actually does. The results are not feasible with common tracking techniques, especially in reproducing the finest motion details.
PatchMaker tracks 2D object motion in the image plane and this involves much less computation compared to full-fledged three-dimensional (3D) tracking. However, 2D transformations will do perfectly in a vast number of cases, particularly with the use of more complex motion models supported by the program. The motion of non-planar objects in a sequence can often be divided into segments where it can be quite accurately represented by 2D transformations.
Despite comparatively fast running times of other trackers, the inferior quality of their results and cumbersome tuning procedures make one re-track the same sequence many times. Overall, this will often take much longer than when using the PatchMaker.
Easy to use -- select a frame for which an overlay (a patch) is drawn, mark out an object that moves just like the overlay should, and run the tracker. The default parameters are chosen such that the need to change them would arise as rarely as possible. The effort required to become familiar with PatchMaker and obtain a first meaningful and high-quality result is minimal.
Wide range of supported motion models: translation; translation with rotation; translation with rotation and scaling, and affine transforms, using multiple motion types for differrent intervals in a single video sequence being possible.
Affine transformations computed by PatchMaker do not yield in quality to other motion types. In concurring products such transformations are estimated from the motion of as few as three points, and their total statistic error does not permit to use this model in practice.
Easy, familiar, and neat interface. The PatchMaker interface will seem familiar to users of After Effects and other Adobe products. Retaining their style and power, PatchMaker allows easy access to all supported features and operation modes, including:
Concurrent execution of independent actions. All lengthy computations are performed in the background and do not interfere with user activities such as drawing masks, editing parameters, previewing, or rendering the already obtained results.
Undo any action. One or more recent user actions can be undone, or redone.
In addition, direct data exchange between PatchMaker and After Effects (including footage, overlay, and motion parameters) is fast and easy.
Plugin Galaxy for After Effects is set of 20 Plug-ins including over 120 effects that can be animated. The product has oft-needed functions such as transparency manipulation, blurring, texture and pattern generation, noise creation, mirroring, and warping. It also includes amazing metal, chrome, neon, pop art, glass, rainbow, sunshine, and star effects. Additionally, enhance, colorize, add edges to videos and animations, or even encrypt them. Includes rarely found effects such as feedbacks, grids, or zooming.
The effects of Plugin Galaxy for After Effects can be adapted and animated with the help of sliders, check boxes, color dialogs, color pickers, and preview coordinates. Plugin Galaxy for After Effects works with Adobe After Effects 4/5 and Adobe Premiere 6, Windows, and Macintosh. It also be used with Apple Final Cut Pro, Pinnacle Commotion 3, and Discreet Combustion.
ProAnimator comes in two forms: as a standalone application and as an After Effects plug-in. Both products act exactly the same, but the plug-in is integrated into Adobe After Effects, so you can do all of your authoring with After Effects. The standalone application doesn't require a host product, so you may generate your animated movies independent of any particular target. You may even import a standalone ProAnimator scene into the ProAnimator plug-in (or vice versa) for added flexibility.
100 comps. Awesome motion effects for presenting photos, QuickTime films, text, graphics, and creating transitions. (This collection does not come with presets. Applying a preset isn't enough to create the animations developed for this collection.)
100 presets covering a broad range of cool styles that can be applied to text, shapes, and graphics. As with the other collections from Little Men Entertainment, each preset has a matching After Effects comp so the user can see the setting for each preset and use as is or tweak the key frames.
121 power-packed transitions (presets and QuickTime files) in dozens of visual styles not available in other collections. Little Men Entertainment has put in the time and the experimentation so the user won't have to.
100 plus presets include many categories of effects that can be used for animated logos, commercials, and other video and film projects including a multitude of animated light swirls, swooshes, grids, sabers, squiggles, matrixes, extrusions, and other effects. Camera motion travels through many of the effects adding powerful dynamics to many of the elements in this collection.
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