Post Production Technology News

Video as film

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:29

Digital Film Tools, developer of visual effects software, has announced the release of Film Stocks with plug-in support for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Adobe After Effects CS5 and up, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and up, Apple Aperture, Apple Final Cut Pro 6 and 7, and Avid editing systems.

Film Stocks offers artists simulations of 288 different color and black and white photographic film stocks, motion picture film stocks, and historical photographic processes.

"The new Film Stocks plug-in draws on our experience creating visual effects for hundreds of feature films and our expertise with film scanning and recording techniques. We have laboriously researched and analysed different film stocks to come up with a set of interesting analog photographic, motion picture and vintage looks that will serve any project requiring that special analog film stock simulation," comments Marco Paolini, founder and president, Digital Film Tools.

Film Stocks offers a wide range of preset looks as well as the necessary controls to create analoueg film stock presets from scratch, including color correction, curves, colored filters, sharpness, diffusion, vignetting and film grain.