Open Effects Association Formed At NAB 2009 Promoting Open Standards for Visual Effects Seven companies joined forces at NAB last month to launch The Open Effects Association. This non-profit, UK-based company aims to develop and promote open standards across the visual effects community. Founding members are Assimilate, Autodesk®, Digieffects, FilmLight, The Foundry, GenArts® and RE:Vision Effects. These companies have helped artists create ground-breaking VFX shots on just about everything that hits cinema screens. published 6 months agoread more
RE:Vision Effects releases Twixtor Express for Final Cut Express RE:Vision Effects today released Twixtor Express for Final Cut Express. Twixtor enables users to speed up, slow down image sequences with visually stunning results. In order to achieve its unparalleled image quality, Twixtor synthesizes unique new frames by warping and interpolating frames of the original sequence... employing RE:Vision Effects' Academy Award winning technology that calculates motion for each individual pixel. published 7 months agoread more
RE:Vision Effects releases ReelSmart Motion Blur v. 3.3.0 for Autodesk Softimage; adds 64-bit Linux support and floating licensing on Windows RE:Vision Effects today released version 3.3.0 of ReelSmart Motion Blur for Softimage animation software. ReelSmart Motion Blur (RSMB) automatically tracks every pixel in a sequence and blurs based on calculated motion. RSMB is fully integrated with your 3D scene, so it also works from Motion Vectors generated by shaders and user-supplied points (for example, tracker positions). RSMB gives Softimage artists an extremely fast, intelligent 2D motion blur for 3D renders, dramatically speeding up the rendering pipeline. published 7 months agoread more
RE:Vision Effects releases DE:Noise for OFX now available for Nuke, Fusion and Toxik! RE:Vision Effects today released its acclaimed DE:Noise plugin set for Nuke, Fusion and Toxik. DE:Noise is a plugin set that removes excessive noise and artifacts in one easy-to-use tool. It handles spurious frame-to-frame defects ranging from fine digital and electronic noise to blotchy spots (e.g. dirt on the film). published 11 months agoread more
RE:Vision Effects releases updates for Premiere Pro users RE:Vision Effects today released updates for Twixtor, ReelSmart Motion Blur and FieldsKit to specifically address issues of crashing and hanging that users were experiencing within Premiere Pro. published 1 year agoread more
RE:Vision Effects releases Video Gogh 3 Video Gogh turns your videos into moving paintings, using RE:Vision Effects optical flow technology to move brush strokes without stuttering artifacts. published 1 year agoread more
RE:Vision Effects and MacroSystem announce the availability of Twixtor for Casablanca Twixtor, the popular video retiming solution from RE:Vision Effects, which enables users to speed up and slow down image sequences with visually stunning results will soon be available for MacroSystem Casablanca users and will be demoed by MacroSystem at IFA in Berlin, August 29 through September 3, 2008. published 1 year agoread more
RE:Vision Effects, Inc. releases SmoothKit version 2 RE:Vision Effects has released SmoothKit version 2, the ultimate plugin set to smooth imagery that combines user-directed controls and feature-sensitive methods. published 2 years agoread more
News: RE:Vision Effects releases DE:Noise 1.0 a plugin set that removes excessive noise and artifacts in one easy-to-use tool. DE:Noise handles spurious frame-to-frame defects ranging from fine digital and electronic noise to blotchy spots (e.g. dirt on the film). published 2 years agoread more
News: RE:Vision Effects releases Shade/Shape 3.0 RE:Vision Effects announces the release of Shade/Shape 3.0, the acclaimed product that automatically turns your 2D artwork into 3D rendered imagery! published 2 years agoread more
MAXON Computer Inc. Announces "The Power Integration Tour." The Tour is a joint road show with Adobe Systems Incorporated where motion graphics artists will learn how to bring their vision to life with blockbuster visual effects and compelling motion graphics for film, video, DVD, the web, and mobile devices. published 2 years agoread more
News: MAXON Computer Inc. Announces "The Power Integration Tour." The Tour is a joint road show with Adobe Systems Incorporated where motion graphics artists will learn how to bring their vision to life with blockbuster visual effects and compelling motion graphics for film, video, DVD, the web, and mobile devices. published 2 years agoread more
News: RE:Vision Effects founders to receive Academy Award Leading visual effects developer RE:Vision Effects, Inc. is delighted to announce that the company founders, Peter Litwinowicz and Pierre Jasmin, will be honored with a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences®. published 3 years agoread more
News: RE:Vision Effects releases FieldsKit 2.0 RE:Vision Effects announces the release of FieldsKit 2.0, the acclaimed set of plugins providing smarter deinterlacing and better workflow options for interlacing and pulldown. FieldsKit 2 now includes the powerful motion estimation found in Twixtor and ReelSmart Motion Blur. published 3 years agoread more
News: RE:Vision Effects releases RE:Map 1.1! RE:Vision Effects announces the release of RE:Map 1.1, an update to the ultimate kit of mapping and distortion tools introduced earlier this year. published 3 years agoread more
News: Twixtor and ReelSmart Motion Blur released for Intel-native FCP 5.1 RE:Vision Effects is now shipping universal binary plug-ins of Twixtor and ReelSmart Motion Blur (RSMB) for Apple Final Cut Pro that support both PPC- and Intel-based Macintoshes. Twixtor is the sophisticated slow-mo and speed-up solution, and ReelSmart Motion Blur adds and removes motion blur based on per-pixel calculated motion. published 4 years agoread more
News: RE:Vision Effects releases RE:Map RE:Vision Effects announces the release of RE:Map, the ultimate kit of mapping and distortion tools. RE:Vision Effects will be at NAB, booth SL5138 (the plug-in pavilion) to demo the newly released RE:Map and the rest of their products. published 4 years agoread more
News: RE:Vision Effects updates RE:Flex with High Dynamic Range Image Support A Major Performance Upgrade for Adobe® After Effects® 7.0; Other Platforms also Updated. RE:Flex provides superior morphing and warping for After Effects. RE:Flex uses both open and closed splines for its free-form interface rather than a mesh-based solution. RE:Flex is especially easy to learn because it uses the After Effects' own drawing and masking tools to direct the warping and morphing; as such, there is no need to learn a whole new user interface. published 4 years agoread more
News: RE:Vision Effects releases RE:Flex for Fusion 5 RE:Flex brings intuitive morphing and warping directly to eyeon Software's Fusion 5! Superior results are achieved using RE:Vision Effects' proprietary and sophisticated technology. RE:Flex is especially easy to learn because it uses the Fusion's own drawing and masking tools to direct the warping and morphing; as such, there is no need to learn a whole new user interface. published 4 years agoread more
News: RE:Vision Effects releases Shade/Shape 2.5 RE:Vision Effects releases Shade/Shape version 2.5, an After Effects-compatible plug-in that turns 2D elements into 3D rendered artwork! Shade/Shape gives imagery volume and depth without the hassle of 3D modeling by using a supplied matte channel. published 4 years agoread more
News: RE:Vision Effects, Inc. releases Twixtor for Softimage|XSI RE:Vision Effects releases Twixtor, their popular retiming solution, for SOFTIMAGE®|XSI® animation software. Twixtor 4.5 raises the bar in motion estimation. Nick Brooks, Academy Award and Emmy Award winner for visual effects says, "Twixtor 4.5 represents a new touchstone in retiming. The difference in accuracy means that retiming artifacts are either drastically reduced or disappear on the hardest to retime footage. " published 4 years agoread more
News: RE:Vision Effects releases ReelSmart Motion Blur for Fusion 5 adds floating point support. RE:Vision Effects releases a major update to their Fusion version of ReelSmart Motion Blur (RSMB) that adds and removes motion blur based on per-pixel calculated motion, and also blurs using user-supplied motion vectors. published 4 years agoread more
News: RE:Vision Effects releases Twixtor and ReelSmart Motion Blur for 64 bit Discreet Systems RE:Vision Effects, Inc. announces 64 bit support of their Irix Discreet Systems (Sparks) versions of Twixtor, their popular retiming solution and ReelSmart Motion Blur, which adds and removes motion blur based on per-pixel calculated motion. The new releases also work within the Linux versions of Smoke and Flint and are available for Burn render farms. published 4 years agoread more
News: RE:Vision Effects, Inc. releases FieldsKit 1.5 RE:Vision Effects releases FieldsKit version 1.5 for After Effects-compatible applications (Adobe After Effects, discreet Combustion, Adobe Premiere Pro, Digital Fusion and Apple Final Cut Pro, and others). published 4 years agoread more
