This, and the plug-in customisation make it a strong contender in its market. Photo Montage, Nodes 2, Motype, Moods, Mosaic - buy only the plugin you need. However, FxFactory Pro is significantly less expensive. FXFactory Pro is a storefront for pro video plugins and responsible for installing and updating plugins for various compatible applications. FxFactory Pro is available only for Apple's video products (with some features reserved for FCP 6.0) and it doesn't quite match up to some of the competition, such as BCC's 180 plug-ins.
FXFACTORY NODES 2 MANUAL
There's a contextual help button in each plug-in dialogue box that calls up an informative PDF, but a decent manual would be welcome. Make sure your Nodes and Open FX workspaces are selected in the top bar. Open your desired project in DaVinci Resolve. But open the program to get started on using your new plugin. This way of working will be familiar to most professional compositors. Each plugin could be located in a slightly different place. A preview screen and a direct editing link from the FxFactory Pro dialogue help the customisation process.
FXFACTORY NODES 2 MAC OS X
There are several filter collections available for the major non-linear editing applications, but unlike most other packages, FxFactory Pro offers an extra management application.Īs well as allowing you to expand the number of plug-ins by adding more FxPacks, this management centre makes it simple to customise filters, adjusting the parameters of existing filters to create new effects.īecause the plug-ins are based on the Apple Quartz architecture, FxFactory Pro takes advantage of the built-in Quartz Composer in Mac OS X to drill down and edit the composition behind each plug-in via a node-based interface. All the effects render quickly, using the graphics hardware in the Mac rather than the CPU to accelerate the process. Other new additions include Random Crop, which creates an animation by dicing up the screen, and Light Streaks, which creates animated smears of light, based on a specified luminance range in the original image. All three are effective at the default setting, but footage with less contrast will need tweaking. Pencil Sketch produces a rougher, more scribbled effect. Rendering video in an illustration style is popular at the moment, so the well-stocked Stylise category now adds Artist Sketch and Artist Sketch Colour, which rapidly simulate hand-drawn sketches. It was easier to apply in Motion than Final Cut Pro, but this plug-in would be handy for assembling a news bulletin intro. Some effects were completely new to us, however, such as the RSS World News plug-in, which runs a news-style feed from the Web into your footage.