Featured New Products at Toolfarm

Magic Bullet Instant HD Advanced (formerly named Instant HD Pro). This new plug-in for Adobe After Effects CS3 delivers the highest possible quality conversion for SD to HD, combining de-interlacing and de-noising; advanced pan and scan; and a super-resolution algorithm for providing actual resolution enhancement.

• Learn more about Instant HD Advanced in our Plug-in Finder
• Download a Free Trial
• Already own Instant HD or Magic Bullet Suite 2007/2008? Crossgrade to Instant HD Advanced.

Class on Demand Trapcode Particular Complete Training with Harry Frank will get you up to speed with Trapcode Particular through this series of informative and project-focused lessons. Explore emitter types and functions in-depth. Go beyond generating your typical particle effect and learn to use Particular in new and interesting ways. Choose from the download version and the DVD version. The download version is available immediately at checkout and is a great pick for those of you who live outside of North America because you will not incur any shipping.

Download a free trial of Trapcode Particular

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Templates & Presets Visual Effects Plug-ins and NLE Plug-ins

Training Point Updates

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Templates & Presets

Eye Scream Factory DVD Art Professional Volume II: Wedding is a collection of time-saving, wedding-themed templates for DVD menus, disc labels, and case inserts. Eye Scream Factory DVD Art Professional Volume I and II contains Eye Scream DVD Art Professional Volume I and Eye Scream Factory DVD Art Professional Volume II: Wedding. LME Templates for Trapcode Form Trapcode Form creates a special kind of eye candy that no other plug-in can produce and LME has put in hundreds of hours of experimentation to offer you an unprecedented spectrum of possibilities.

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Visual Effects Plug-ins (AE, Combustion, Nuke, etc.)
and NLE Plug-ins (FCP, AVX, PPRO, etc.)

Synthetic Aperture Test Gear 2.0 provides motion graphics artists and video editors with a variety of test instruments to make objective measurements of their visual and audio work, all from within Adobe After Effects CS3. Download or boxed version available. The Final Cut Pro version of Topaz Enhance is out. Topaz Enhance is a powerful After Effects and Final Cut Pro plug-in suite for high-end video enhancement using super-resolution enhancement technology.

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Point Updates

• Many Adobe bundles have been updated to version CS3.3. The bundles now come with new Acrobat 9 Pro plus Fireworks CS3. There are new productivity features and tighter integration to simplify creative and production tasks and they support the latest Mac and Windows systems.
• Apple updates Final Cut Pro, Pro Apps. The Pro Applications Update 2008-02 (138MB) are now available directly through Mac OS X's 'Software Update' feature or from Apple's website.
• Autodessys released formZ 6.6.0, an update of its 3D application. The Patcher utility is used to patch formZ, formZ RenderZone, and formZ RadioZity from v6.5.0 to the latest version.
• Trapcode Suite 2008.5 Upgrade for Trapcode Suite 2005 & Trapcode Suite 2007 customers is now available and includes the new Trapcode Form and Horizon plugins.

Michele Yamazaki of Toolfarm Interviews Shine Studio about Creating the titles for Kung Fu Panda

Shine Studio in Los Angeles, CA recently animated and produced the title sequence for Kung Fu Panda, DreamWork's blockbuster summer film starring Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman and Angelina Jolie. I spoke with Michael Riley, Creative Director at Shine Studio, about creating the titles...

Read all about it!

Toolfarm Tip- Silhouette FX Update and Free Import/Export Plug-in for After Effects

Did you know...

Silhouette FX Roto and Paint are no longer plugins, but have been incorporated into one standalone software package?

The free Silhouette Shape Import/Export plug-in for After Effects will import Silhouette Shapes and convert them to After Effects masks as well as export and convert After Effects masks to Silhouette Shapes--all without having Silhouette installed on your system. When importing Silhouette Shapes, the following shape parameters transfer into After Effects: opacity, shape color, shape name, locked state, transfer mode and blur settings. Note: The Silhouette Shape Import/Export plug-in is only supported for use with Silhouette v3 and above.

• Download Mac Silhouette Shape Import/Export Plug-in for After Effects
  (Mac versions require OSX 10.4 and above)
• Windows: Silhouette Shape Import/Export Plug-in for After Effects

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Tutorial: Vegas, Importing into After Effects

Here's an interesting tutorial from the Creating Digital Motion site on how to export a Vegas timeline into After Effects for finishing.

"Peter and I have been having a serious love-in with Sony's Vegas Video editing software this year. I'm a long-time Premiere user, but it hasn't been getting a look in since I realized just how much faster it is for me to edit video with Vegas. I've had my eyes opened to the flow. Vegas lets you make edits, rearrange, delete, fade, and layer clips without interrupting playback."

Intrigued about Vegas's unique, on-the-fly workflow? Learn more and purchase Sony Vegas here.

• Digieffects Damage reviewed at Creative Mac- Scott Novasic gives Digieffects Damage a fabulous review.
• A new prerelease version of Adobe Flash Player 10, code-named "Astro," is now available for download on Adobe Labs.
• Download Camera Raw 4.5 from Adobe Labs. The Camera Raw plug-in gives easy access to the raw image formats in Photoshop.
• Adobe Systems Incorporated's MAX 2008/2009 event series will be taking place Nov. 16 to 19 in San Francisco, followed by events in Milan from Dec. 1 to 4, 2008, and Tokyo from Jan. 29 to 30, 2009. MAX is the premier industry forum for designers, developers and business decision makers focused on creating and delivering rich, engaging digital experiences across mediums and devices.
• Adobe also launched its call for entries for the 2008 worldwide MAX Awards program, which recognizes the most innovative work from designers and developers around the world. Entries are being accepted through Sept. 5, 2008.
• Imagineer Systems, creators of next-generation VFX tools, today announced it is extending a challenge to Imagineer Systems customers and the entire VFX, content creation and post production community, to create the next great series of video tutorials for Imagineer Systems VFX tools. The top winner will receive a comprehensive Imagineer Systems VFX software suite valued at $10,000.