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ProEXR 1.8
Eagle-eyed Adobe watchers who have read through the list of features in the next version of After Effects have seen that it will include version 1.8 of the ProEXR plug-ins. Yes, such a thing does...
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WebP plug-in for Photoshop (beta)
A side project of the Google's WebM open source video format is WebP, a still image format based on the VP8 codec. WebP supports both lossless and lossy compression and claims to do each better than...
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WebM and Theora plug-ins for Premiere (beta)
When people think about video in HTML5, they usually think H.264. But many browsers also support Theora (.ogv) and WebM, two video formats that have the advantage of being truly open, with no patent...
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ProEXR 1.9 beta
There have been some significant changes in the world of OpenEXR this year, so it's time to incorporate some of them into ProEXR. The changes are big enough that I felt it best to release 1.9 in beta...
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Today Adobe released a major update to After Effects and the rest of the Creative Cloud suite. This new AE ships with version 1.9 of the ProEXR plug-ins, which have been available here in beta form....
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SuperPNG 2.5
I just posted a new version of SuperPNG for your downloading pleasure. The big new feature is the Quantize checkbox, which will convert your 32-bit RGBA image into an 8-bit indexed color image with...
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DWA compression in OpenEXR 2.2
OpenEXR 2.2 was just released, and it features a new lossy codec created by Karl Rasche of DreamWorks Animation. Simply called DWA, it uses techniques common in lossy image compression like the...
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MOX
Usually I use this blog to announce a piece of software I've written, but now I'm announcing something I'm hoping to write. It's MOX, an open source movie format for video and film production. You can...
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WebM for Premiere Pro
After well over a year in public beta, today we're calling the free WebM plug-in for Premiere Pro officially released. In that time the plug-in has evolved greatly based on feedback from users and from...
View ArticleOpenEXR for Premiere is Free
Adobe has released an update to Adobe Premiere CC 2015 that includes something relevant to this blog: an OpenEXR plug-in. This is actually the same plug-in that has been a part of ProEXR for the past...
View ArticleProEXR AE update
Several years agoProEXR added the ability to render the layers of an After Effects comp into an EXR sequence, each layer given its own set of RGBA channels that could be pulled out independently in AE,...
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I've teamed up with some old friends to make a new Mac application, Boardfish, a tool for creating storyboards. Make panels in the graphics app of your choosing and drag them in. Boardfish will let you...
View ArticleProEXR is Free
About 10 years ago I released ProEXR, a set of After Effects and Photoshop plug-ins for using multi-channel OpenEXR files. From the beginning, the core AE plug-ins were free and the source code was...
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OpenColorIO for Photoshop
Many moons ago I released an OpenColorIO plug-in for After Effects. Now there's a Photoshop plug-in as well. It has most of the same features and a similar interface.One useful feature for Photoshop...
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RenderGarden
Got a new product sold though Mekajiki: RenderGarden. I suppose the tagline sums it up best: it's not a farm, just a little garden. As opposed to full farm management software like Pixar's Tractor,...
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ProEXR 2.0
Version 2.0 of ProEXR is now available. The major new addition is support for Cryptomatte in After Effects.Cryptomatte is a clever improvement over OpenEXR’s ID channels, which have been supported by...
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The joys of an antique keyboard
Apple Extended Keyboard (AEK) photo by bujcichThe best tech I’ve bought this year is a keyboard made in 1987.Having sailed past the 40-year mark a few years ago, I’m an older geek. Also, I’m a...
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ProEXR 2.5
Today marks the release of Adobe After Effects 2020, which includes ProEXR 2.5. In fact, improved multi-channel performance is one of the highlighted features in this version of AE. Users who had...
View ArticleBRAWconverter
BRAWconverter is a command line program for converting Blackmagic RAW files into image sequences. It uses Blackmagic's public SDK to convert the BRAW file to RGB, complete with various color...
View ArticleProEXR 2.6
If you've been keeping your After Effects up to date you're already running ProEXR 2.6, which adds some performance optimizations to the AE plug-ins. Standard scanline multi-channel EXR files receive a...
View ArticleHow to read an OpenEXR file quickly
Over the past few years I've spent quite a bit of effort figuring out how to read OpenEXR files quickly, particularly files containing many channels. The short answer is that for maximum speed, all the...
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DCI Converter
When I released a JPEG 2000 plug-in for Premiere that had an option to perform XYZ color space conversions for DCI, I managed to open a little can of worms. My goal was to match the conversion done in...
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CDL for After Effects
Here's a little AE plug-in for applying CDLs. AE currently provides a plug-in for reading a CDL file, but the settings remain hidden and picking the .cc file is not scriptable. This plug-in comes with...
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AV1 in WebM
AV1 is the current cool kid in the world of video codecs. It boasts coding efficiency that is as high or higher than the previous king, HEVC (H.265), all while being free of patent and licensing...
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Magic Export for Lightroom
ImageMagick is a swell open source package that can do all manor of things to images, including save them in many different file formats. I was asked for a way to save files out of Lightroom into...
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