T_CircularBlur smears an image around a point giving the appearance of motion blur on a rotating object. It’s fast and includes filtering options and controls for the hold out at the centre.

T_GradientBlur finds the gradients in an image and uses these to produce directional vectors that selectively blur the image either along or perpendicular to the vectors. Interesting painterly effects can be achieved.

T_BadTV processes a clip to make it look as though it was being broadcast on a television suffering from poor reception. A master control alters the overall signal quality to produce ghosting, snow, edge distortions, colour loss, vertical roll, misaligned guns, shash effects, power loss and other effects for televisions, security camera and videos.

T_BumpShade gives images the appearance of depth by falsely extruding from the luminance or matte. Lighting is provided to accentuate the relief and parameters to soften the effect are supplied. Can be a useful tool for giving cartoons a shaded look.

T_Condensation renders thousands of water particles that clump together into water droplets. The droplets are used to distort the source image giving the appearance of water condensation on glass. There are lighting controls and the effect auto-animates drips.

T_DiffusionFilter simulates the effect of diffusion lens filters by softening and colouring the diffused highlights & lowlights.

T_EdgeDetect finds and highlights edges in images. The result can then be blended back into the original using the built-in blending methods. Quick glows and back-lit effects are possible using this technique.

T_MeltTime applies a temporal distortion of the image based on values in a matte.

T_MotionDetect compares the current frame with another frame in the same clip and generates a matte showing where the frames differ.

T_OldFilm converts contemporary video footage into images that look as though they have been shot on film and left to degrade over time. Scratches, dust, hair, stains, vignette, defocus, defielding, highlight diffusion, grain, camera flicker and other effects are included. There are controls to double up frames for that staccato old film look. Preset colour effects like sepia, black and white, techicolour and forties take the hassle out of setting up this effect. Brightness, contrast and saturation controls for each individual colour channel for fine tuning. A burn through effect allows the film to stick in the gate and burn under the light. Everything you need really.

T_RomanMosaic breaks an image up into irregular tiles. Dirt and lighting effects are included.

T_Silk is digital wrinkle cream. It is used to reduce wrinkles, freckles and minor blemishes in actors’ faces. It is a tolerance blur with a variable blur size that can be used to maintain edges and smooth off regions of a similar hue.

T_Turner generates noise artifacts in your image giving the look of a faded mottled painting. See also T_MinMax, T_GradientBlur and T_Paint in Tinderbox 2

T_Lightning generates highly realistic forked lightning and plasma bolts. There are numerous parameters to control all aspects of the bolt from fork depth to glow intensity. An optional matte can be used to restrict the path of the plasma around objects.

T_Plasma creates animating organic fractal patterns that can be used as backgrounds or to break mattes up.

T_Sparks is a particle generator suitable for generating fireworks or a shower of sparks. There are controls for the glow, colour, initial velocity and lifespan of the particles. Wind, gravity and drag parameters alter the particle behaviour over time.

T_Deband intelligently smooths out the appearance of colour banding on 8 bit images.

T_Defield generates a frame from a field. A number of sophisticated algorithms are supplied to create the missing field. Slope adaptive interpolation (right image) gives a greatly superior result on angled edges to standard line interpolation methods (left image). A motion mask has been developed to identify areas of the image that are moving and interpolate only these. By preserving static parts of the image less information is thrown away giving a higher quality result.

T_MatteTool provides a suite of tools to process mattes. You can grow or erode matte edges with sub-pixel precision from a single parameter, or extract outlines from mattes and soften just one side of it. There are tools for cleaning up mattes from keyers and removing colour spill before compositing.