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Tiffen DFX Digital Filter Suite

Tiffen Dfx suite represents a major technological breakthrough and introduces a new and exciting way of unleashing ones creative use of filters into the digital environment. Tiffen Dfx offers the user an extensive simulated optical experience expanding and complimenting Tiffen’s optical filter range, blurring the lines between traditional and digital workflow.

Tiffen Dfx software offers something for everyone, whether photo enthusiast, professional photographer, cinematographer or editor—anyone who wants



Poser 7: Reviewed

This is a great program for creating quick and detailed animations of characters right out of the box.  Excellent for character stills and animation, medical illustrations, architectural, and storyboards.

In my case, having only dabbled a bit in the Poser of the past, but now, after seeing and using Poser 7, I am now convinced that this is the best program to quickly create and animate the human figure.  You also have access to numerous animal figures and even robots.  And now even more so, with the walk simulator, that definitely simplifies the animation process.  You also have lip syncing functionality, …



Ultimatte DV Chroma Keyer

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The Ultimatte DV is a huge timesaver! Forget having to Render – it’s done! Real-Time chroma key made simple! Feed your Camera into the Foreground input, an S-Video signal into the Background input – what you see out of the Output is your final composite!
We’ve beeen using an inexpensive DVD player as our Background source. Simply burn a DVD with your still images or animated backgrounds and you’re done.

The true beauty of the Ultimatte is being able to adjust your framing and lighting to make the scene appear real. Say for instance you have a window …



Synfig vector-based 2D animation software package (free!)

Synfig is a cartoon animation package with tweening- vector based so the results can be output at any size.

From their site:

“Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. While there are many other programs currently on the market to aid with the efficient production of 2D animation, we are currently unaware of any other software that can do what our software can.”

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Serious Magic Ultra

Serious Magic - Ultra (Windows) Revolutionary Keying Technology

So what is PC only software doing on mostly an Apple based site? This software is actually good enough to warrant buying a cheap PC just to run it!

Serious Magic’s ULTRA 2 is a breakthrough that transforms keying into a practical daily production tool for all types of video professionals. ULTRA 2’s drag-and-drop