Friday Freebies - FCP Plugins
Everyone loves free stuff. When that free stuff is cool and useful and good then the world is a better place.
But before we get all excited about what we can score in a fit of techno-selfishness it's worth asking what frameworks in the creative media industries suppourt the prolification of free good and useful stuff...? The answer is open plug-in architectures.
Any software developer that thinks that they can internally produce an application that achieves all desired targets, that is everything to everyone is out of their mind. Ay software developer who thinks that their software is ?better? without the contributions of developers external to the company is completely out of their mind.
The grand collective consciousness of the external tech-savvy universe will always exceed the humble internal directions of the development team.
And there is a trail of highly successful software tools that are so because of their openness rather than their insularity. Adobe learned long ago this lesson the open plugin and scripting system for tools like Photoshop and After Effects became the benchmarks for all other developers. The internal engine itself of Adobe?s editing system Premiere Pro is also open to 3rd parties and so we?ve seen the mind-blowing HD ?real-time with effects? performance of Premiere when mounted with the Cineform Prospect and Aspect plugin systems - systems that effectively replace Premiere?s own engine with one tuned specifically for the Cineform codec. The results make all other software-only editing systems weak at the knees for real-time performance.
Despite an oftentimes archaic and overly convoluted interface and working paradigm ProTools remains the most popular pro DAW on the market largely because of its plug-in architecture that has such huge and widespread suppourt form 3rd party developers.
Final Cut Pro is an NLE that has built up a head of steam to broad professional popularity and acceptance in a very short time. Final Cut is effective and very functional but it?s also got a great many flaws. Its success is arguably not through innovation or outstanding quality - FCP is tied to neither. But FCP has got two things going for it that have made it such a massive success.
1) The most dynamic, profound, all encompassing, overbearing marketing campaign of any creative software ever.
and
2) An open scripting and plugin architecture.
The former is a no-brainer. No body markets like Apple and the marketing of FCP over the past 5 years has been nothing short of superb. Lots of money, lots of glam, lots of total white washing hyperbole, lots of bullshit. Absolutely superb.
But its the later, once the bullshit has been wiped away, that gives FCP lasting value. Lots and Lots of plugins - big ones, small ones, funky ones and earnest ones. And best of all FREE ones.
So you could jump into your Google toolbar and type ?free fcp plugins? and see what shows up or you could just use this list below compiled
by Oliver PetersMost of these are FCP plugins; a very large proportion of them are free and there?s some links here that arent FCP plugins but are cool none the less.
The old adage of the sum of the parts being greater than the whole is an absolute truism when it comes to creative software - open architectures make for applications that exponentially exceed the vision of the development team.
cgm-online.com
kafwang.com
joesfilters.com
chv-plugins.com
lyric.com
borisfx.com
genarts.com
nattress.com
digital-heaven.co.uk
redgiantsoftware.com
digiconform.com
riverrockstudios.com/riverrock/pages/FCP.html
synthetic-ap.com
noiseindustries.com
idustrialrevolution.com
peterwiggins.com
coremelt.com
haiku.com.au
digitalfilmtools.com
tiffen.com
pureandapplied.com.au
mattias.nu/plugins
digitalzoo.com.au/lunchtime/lunch_docs/related_02_free.htm
1z1.at/plugins
spherico.com/filmtools
homepage.mac.com/tomhenderson/beziermatte
web.mac.com/andymees/Free_and_Easy/main/main.html
dharmafilm.com/sebskytools
automaticduck.com
squared5.com
lemkesoft.com
belle-nuit.com
videotoolshed.com
pistolerapost.com/pluginz
straylight.tv/pluginz
dvfilm.com
apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/jesdeinterlacer.html
digitalrebellion.com
chesa.com
fcprescue.andersholck.com
red.com
flip4mac.com
sorensonmedia.com
coloruser.net/grades
livetypecentral.com
kuler.adobe.com
Posted at 12:00AM Jul 11, 2008
by Mike Jones in video |
