This feature is brought to you in association with, a new competition that offers the chance to work with one of 2000AD's most iconic characters and win an all expenses paid trip to the SIGGRAPH conference. Find out more at In recent years, has come into its own as one of the leading editing packages for everything from home videos to feature films. Ever since Adobe gave Premiere an overhaul and added the Mercury playback engine to speed up workflow alongside an ability to add nearly any video clip to the timeline without any need to transcode it before hand, it's gained wide acceptance. Primarily from old Final Cut Pro users, for whom Premiere was easier to switch to than the new Final Cut Pro X.

But although Premiere has an excellent core set of tools, it can always be made better. And there are a wide range of plugins provided by excellent third-party developers which can provide new ways of new using Premiere and enhancing your work. Denoiser cleans up artefacts in seconds Denoiser II, which is from the same Color suite as Look and Colorista 2 from Red Giant, is a personal favourite.

It takes the noise out of footage, which I find particularly useful for ironing out any glitches in 3D renders. Denoiser cleans up artefacts in seconds rather than the hours that troubleshooting and re-rendering would take. It can also work with lowlight footage to help remove the telltale noise digital cameras create when working at low light levels. Separate RGB by Rowbyte allows you to bull apart the colour channels into their constant elements to work with at your will Another way to distort your footage is also provided by Rowbyte Software. Separate RGB can be used as the title suggests to pull apart your footage by the Red, Green and Blue Channel and play with each. This can be used, for example, to create 'Chromatic Aberation', where distortions in a camera lens can create colour fringing on highlights.

This is especially useful when working with VFX integration into existing shots. Mercalli Pro provides a wide range of stabilising tools for your footage Having issues with shaky footage? Even though Premiere now has the excellent Warp Stabilizer built in, it's always better to have more than one option when stabilising or tracking shots. Thankfully Mercalli Pro is a full featured stabilising plugin that can use 3D stabilisation along with a range of controls. It can quickly help your handheld footage look like it was shot on a dolly. It is also excellent for helping to fix rolling shutter. Knoll Light Factory is an excellent way to add realistic lens flares to your footage to release your inner J.J.

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Abrams John Knoll is legend in VFX. As one of the creators of Photoshop along with his work at Industrial Light and Magic, he is a pioneer in the field of CGI. Xray Engine Exe Скачать Бесплатно Торрент there. One of his best known gifts to the community is the Flares plugin Knoll Light Factory, which can be used to add complex lens and lighting effects to your footage. Now that we're working with higher bit rate footage as the norm, plugins like Light Factory can enhance your footage in a way previously not possible. Pluraleyes is the best way to sync audio and video together from disparate sources While it's great having plugins that can make your footage look pretty, what happens when your audio and video is out of sync?

This can happen a lot, especially on lower budget shoots where the audio and video are recorded on two separate devices such as a DSLR and an external audio recorder, and it can be a pain to get the footage to sync. Pluraleyes 3 from Red Giant takes away this pain by syncing your footage with your audio, seemingly by magic. For when the magic doesn’t quite work, Pluraleys has a range of controls to help finesse the result. After Effects is the best way to get the most out of Premiere Now it's time to mention the biggest plugin for Premiere, After Effects. I find it a constant source of surprise how many people either use After Effects or Premiere but not both.

Now that everything's in the Creative Cloud, there really never has been a better time. Especially as many After Effects plugins are coming across to Premiere such as the previously mentioned Warp Stabilizer. Adobe is working hard at integrating a cross-application workflow with the new text template tools coming to Premiere.

These work with After Effects to create dynamic text, which would be hard to do in any other NLE. Also check out all the Adobe Creative Cloud applications for video such as Prelude, and Audition for audio work, which can drastically improve and streamline your Premiere workflow. Conclusion One of the great things about buying third-party plugins for Premiere, is that your purchase usually covers installation in After Effects and sometimes Final Cut Pro, Avid and Sony Vegas. So they make an excellent investment and give you rich and deep tools that can really make your video compete with the latest from Hollywood. Think we have missed a plugin? Add your suggestion in the comments.

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