Friday, January 27, 2012

Ringing In the New Year With a Burst of Creativity

Demos by eyeon Software, GenArts, Imagineer Systems and RE:Vision Effects

The Editors' Lounge started the new year off with a bang, bringing VFX to the editing masses with an event featuring plug-ins and toolsets from some of the best in the business. New to the Lounge this year was Jeff Krebs of eyeon Software who demonstrated their amazing 2D/3D compositing and VFX package Fusion and stereoscopic toolset Dimension. Long-time raffle sponsor GenArts was on hand with Todd Prives showing off the new features of the Sapphire V6 suite of powerful cross-platform plugins, with a nearly infinite variety of creative possibilities for manipulating your footage. Mary Poplin of Imagineer Systems also returned to demonstrate the amazing power of their flagship product mocha Pro, featuring planar tracking, object removal and rotoscoping tools that will blow your mind. Also new to the Lounge was Lori Freitag of RE:Vision Effects who demonstrated several of their amazing image processing plugins, including Twixtor, DE:Noise, and ReelSmart Motion Blur. The smartest plugins and tools from the smartest people, all under one roof!