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Effections

Overview | Compatibility | Operating System Requirements | Cross-Product FAQs

Overview

Effections is our bundled collection of After Effects-compatible plugins for use within After Effects, combustion, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, commotion and Boris Red.

There are two versions available:

Effections, which includes: FieldsKit RE:FIll ReelSmart Motion Blur Pro Shade/Shape SmoothKit Twixtor Pro Video Gogh	Notes: Effections is available for After Effects, Final Cut Pro, commotion, combustion, Premiere Pro and Boris Red. Please read about exact compatiblity on the Effections Compatibility item.
Effections Plus: Adds RE:Flex to all the plugins in Effections.	Effections Plus available for After Effects only.

Compatibility

Effections, After Effects compatible plug-in set.

Includes FieldsKit, RE:Fill, ReelSmart Motion Blur Pro, Shade/Shape, SmoothKit, Twixtor Pro and Video Gogh (no RE:Flex).
Available for both Macintosh (OSX only) and Windows.

For use in:

Adobe's After Effects 5.0 and later
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.0 or later. Read about limitations.
Apple's Final Cut Pro 1.2.5 or later. Read about limitations.
Pinnacle Systems' Commotion 4.1 or later.
Discreet's combustion 2.1 or later
and other programs that offer After Effects plugin compatibility

Effections Plus, After Effects plug-in set.

Only for use within Adobe's After Effects 5.0 and later.
Available for both Macintosh (OSX only) and Windows.
Includes FieldsKit, RE:Fill, RE:Flex, ReelSmart Motion Blur Pro, Shade/Shape, SmoothKit, Twixtor Pro and Video Gogh.

Operating System Requirements

Mac OS. Mac OS X or later only.
Windows. Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/ME/2000/XP or later needed.

Cross-Product FAQs

Known limitations of our plugins with Premiere Pro 1. 5.

Please note that our plugins that deal with interlaced material (Twixtor and FieldsKit, in particular) need to be dealt with specially within Premiere Pro 1.5.

With the release of Twixtor 4.5 and FieldsKit 1.5, there are no more limitations with working on interlaced material within Premiere Pro 1.5.

Known limitations of our plugins with Premiere 6.0, 6.5 and Premiere Pro 1.0.

Please note that our plugins that deal with interlaced material (Twixtor and FieldsKit, in particular) need to be dealt with specially within Premiere and Premiere Pro. Twixtor and FieldsKit can read and output interlaced material from within Premiere, but need to manage the interlacing themselves. Because of this, these plugins need to be applied to material from within progressive Premiere projects.

So the workflow is this:

Apply Twixtor or FieldsKit from within a progressive project. You can then write out the processed footage and read it back into a project with fields.
Set up the Twixtor or FieldsKit "Fields" settings appropriately and Twixtor will take care of handling fields. You can then write out the processed footage and read it back into a Premiere project that is fields-based.
We realize this workflow is non-optimal but is necessary due to a bug within Premiere.

Known limitations of our plugins with FCP version 3.x.

Please note that our plugins that take clips as input settings (Twixtor, FieldsKit, ReelSmart Motion Blur, SmoothKit, RE:Fill and Shade/Shape) work properly in all versions of FCP.

However, in FCP 3.x, two After Effects plugins cannot be applied together. For example, it is often the case you want to apply FieldsKit to deinterlace, followed by ReelSmart Motion Blur to add motion blur.

FCP 3.x will crash if you do this. FCP 3.x will also crash if you try to apply one of these plugins in one sequence and then put that into another sequence and apply another plugin (that is, you cannot avoid the problem by trying to "break up" the two plugins with an intermediate sequence.

Because of this you need to apply one plugin, write out the footage, read it back in an apply the next plugin. An ugly workaround.

Please note this problem does not exist in FCP 1.2.x, 2.x or 4.x.