Compositing & Effects

Streaming Video Made Simple... Adobe Visual Communicator 3 turns your computer into a production studio with streaming video capabilities.

A powerful, fun-to-explore video transition program... Implementing transitions is not the easiest part of video work. Working with a lot of effects can get intimidating, especially if you're just getting your feet wet with video. ProDAD understands and presents its family of Adorage products, a line of transition products that includes volumes such as Particles and Lights, Universal Tricks, Diamond Composites, Power FX Pearls, Eyecatcher FX and Particles and Objects.

Jennifer shows you how to create a magic wand effect using special effects and video green screen background software.

Visually Effective

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Cook Your Looks

Colorful Options

New Gear: Swipes are full-screen animated wipes bundled with matching custom sound effects. OWC's Oxford SATA-to-FireWire. Blackmagic Intensity Pro HDMI capture card.

Extra Texture

Animation is everywhere. From the flying logos that accompany the opening of a football game to the "did-they-just-say-that?" cartoons on late night cable, animation inundates the airwaves.

TriLab Productions Digital Hotcakes Stock Footage Library

Minor quirks aside, an easy to use, relatively inexpensive professional looking title animator.

Whether you're making movies, or corporate videos, in a virtual production world, having the right video effects are nowadays as important as acquiring that Big Name actor once was.

Avid Xpress Pro HD Video Editing Software

Animated Communications 3dChor Video Effects Studio

Your color creation palette is limited only to the imagination when you understand how to use the simple video filters in your editing software.

A Guide to Animation Software.

The best consumer video products of 2004, as selected by the editors of Videomaker.

wondertouch particleIllusion 3.0 Effects Software

Sony Pictures Digital Vegas 5.0 Editing Software

Producing The Polar Classic Animated Music Video

A Cut Above

Adobe After Effects 7.0 Professional Compositing Software

Adobe Production Studio Video Production Suites

Apple Final Cut Studio Video Editing Bundle

Apple Motion Compositing Software

Whether you’re looking for a stand-alone character generator or a computer-based titling software, you’ll find it here in our extensive buyer’s guide.

Ulead Systems Cool 3D 2.5 Titling Software

Step into the world of special effects. Tools to make your multi-camera shoots or linear edits magical.