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Software Review: Final Effects Complete 5, Pg. 2

I’ve put together a number of samples for this article that will give you a sense of the range of effects available in FEC5, and some of their uses.

The FEC5 library doesn't entirely overlap AE CS3 effects. Some effects seem to duplicate existing native AE effects, although often with better controls. Some effects overlap the CC effects. And some effects (31 of them, by my count) are unique to FEC5.

Here is a table where I've attempted to sort the FEC5 effects. The green ones in the first column seem to duplicate effects that are already native in AE. The red ones in the middle are the effects that are included in AE as CC 8-bit effects. And the black ones in the third column are effects unique to FEC5.

  AE
FEC5 effects in this column seem to duplicate effects that are already native in AE
CyCore
FEC5 effects in this column are included in AE as CC 8-bit effects
BorisFX
Effects in this column are unique to FEC5
Blur & Sharpen Blur, Channel Blur, Directional Blur, Sharpen, Unsharp Mask Vector Blur Chroma Luma Blur, Soften, Spin Blur, Spiral Blur, Zoom Blur
Color Correction Brightness-Contrast, Color Balance HSL, Color Balance RGB, Gamma-Pedestal-Gain, Replace Color, Tint, Color Offset, Toner, Threshold, Threshold RGB Invert
Distort Spherize, Twirl, Water Waves Bend It, Bender, Bulge, Flo Motion, Griddler, Lens, Power Pin, Ripple Pulse, Slant, Slant Matte, Smear, Split, Split 2, Tiler EZ Lazy Waves, EZ Ripples
Edges Power Ramp   Burn Edges, Gradient Blur, Sparkle Edges, Spot Blur, Spot Feather, Spot Frame, Spot Tatter, Spot Turbulence, Wiggle Edges
Image Noise Simple Wire Removal Alpha Map, Channel Noise, Composite, Median, MinMax
Light   Light Burst, Light Rays, Light Sweep, Spotlight Light Blast, Light Tornado, Light Whirl
Particle   Ball Action, Bubbles, Drizzle, Hair, Mr. Mercury, Particle Systems II, Particle World, Pixel Polly, Rain, Snow, Star Burst  
Perspective Sphere, Cylinder Page Turn Advanced 3D, Simple Shadow, Super Shadow
Stylize Burn Film, Emboss, Fractal, Glass, Glow Mr. Smoothie, Repetile, Glue Gun, Kaleida, Blobbylize, 3D Relief, Lens Star, Scatterize, Video Fragment
Time   Force Motion Blur, Time Blend, Time Blend FX, Wide Time  
Transitions   Glass Wipe, Grid Wipe, Image Wipe, Jaws, Light Wipe, Radial Scale Wipe, Scale Wipe, Twister Blur Dissolve, Griddler Wipe, Lens Wipe, Rain Wipe, Slant Wipe, Spherize Wipe

UL: Original. UR: Toner w/ Crisp Cranberry preset. LR: Toner with w/ preset. LL: Toner w/ Forest Green preset.

Rapid, high quality, preset tones. Certainly changes the mood of the scene.

UL: Tornado Light with Bright Zoom preset. UR: Gamma-Pedestal w/ BlueBlacks preset to turn the blacks to blue. LR: Rain, a particle effect, with the Torrential preset. LR: Rain and Gamma-Pedestal together with presets.

Fixing the weather
I created this shot as a pickup for Crosswater Entertainment’s “Cowboy Funeral”, directed by Len Anderson (now in post). At the last minute we caught a farm in a real rainstorm. It will be interesting to see which shot makes it into the movie.

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