AE FEC plugins list tested

[createmedia]

AE Plugins in Edius;- (Basic primary function only tested, not tracker or pre-process source)

Folder: FEC Blur & Sharpen
Blur OK
Channel Blur OK
Directional Blur + Direction OK
Sharpen OK
Soften NO
Spin Blur OK (but no Spin Fall off)
Spiral Blur OK
Unsharp Mask OK
Vector Blur OK
Zoom Blur OK

Folder: FEC Colour Correction

Brightness Contrast OK
Colour Balance HLS OK
Colour Balance RGB OK
Colour Offset OK + modes OK
Gamma-Pedestal-Gain OK
Invert OK
Replace Colour OK
Threshold OK
Threshold RGB OK
Tint OK
Toner OK

Folder: FEC Distort

Bend It OK
Bender OK
Bulge OK
EZ Lazy Waves OK
EZ Ripples OK
Flo Motion OK
Griddler OK
Lens OK
Power Pin OK (RT playback better than NBlue)
Rectangular Scale Wipe OK
Ripple Pulse NO
Slant OK but Floor X doesn’t work
Slant Matte OK but ditto
Smear OK
Spherize OK
Split OK
Split 2 Not supported on this Host
Tiler OK except softness control
Twirl OK
Water Waves OK

Folder: FEC Edges

Burn Edges – Not Convinced it works
Gradient Blur OK
Power Ramp OK
Sparkle Edges Works but not sure about edge bit not like Vitascene
Spot Blur OK
Spot Feather (Vignette) OK
Spot Frame OK (Highlighter frame)
Spot Tatter OK (Tattered edge Vignette)
Spot Turbulance OK (Rippling picture)
Wiggle Edges Not sure just adds spots to screen

Folder: FEC Light

Light Blast OK
Light Burst OK
Light Rays OK
Light Sweep OK
Light Tornado OK
Light Whirl OK
Spotlight OK

Folder: FEC Particle

Ball Action NO
Bubbles NO
Drizzle NO
Hair OK but can’t see a use
Mr Mercury NO
Particle Systems II NO
Particle World NO
Pixel Polly NO
Rain NO
Star Burst NO

Folder: FEC Perspective

Advanced 3D OK
Cylinder Including light position OK
Page Turn OK
Simple Shadow OK but can’t see use might work on a Graphical object
Sphere OK
Super Shadow OK as simple shadow above

Folder: FEC Stylise

3D Relief OK
Blobbyise OK
Burn Film OK
Emboss OK
Fractal OK
Glass OK
Glow OK
Glue Gun NO black screen
Kaleida OK
Lens Star OK
Mr Smoothie OK
Repetile OK
Scatteriize OK
Video Fragment OK

Folder: FEC Time

Force Motion Blur Not supported in host
Time Blend OK
Time Blend FX NO
Wide Time NO

Folder: FEC Transitions

Blur Dissolve OK
Glass Wipe OK
Grid Wipe OK
Griddler Wipe OK
Image Wipe OK
Jaws OK
Lens Wipe OK
Light Wipe OK
Pin Wipe OK
RGB Dissolve NO
Radial Scale Wipe
Radial Scale Wipe OK
Rain Wipe NO
Scale Wipe OK
Slant Wipe OK
Spherise Wipe OK
Super dissolve just brightens up centre and goes away
Twister OK

I will move on to the others including BCC 8 & 9, Sapphire etc, when I have time, I hope this is of some use.

Mike

[John Lewis]

BCC are not supported via AE Bridge
I have tried some and i got an unsupported host message from BCC
There were also loads off Edius crashes

[createmedia]

AE Plugins Testing Continued

The caveat is that this applies to my system 4 set up as in the signature, others may have different results with a different hardware set up.

The Attached Jpeg shows the AE plugins folder list, excluding NewBlue and Vistitle which live in the GV Plug-ins folder.

Generally filters that have a mask or shape in which to apply the effect, do not show that shape, or the effect is not defined by the shape.

Some of the light rays ones in GenArts Sapphire memory leak into GPU2 memory despite Nvidia control panel being configured to GPU1 only for Cuda and OpenGL

Ones not listed below in the Plug-ins packs generally work, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that BCC9 generators did produce rain and snow.

In the folders the following were removed as causing issues or not working at all.

BCC9

3WayColorGrade not supported in host.
Beat Reactor
Bulge not supported in host
GLImage Shatter
Ripple
RippleDissolve
RippleDissolve
RippleDissolvePrTr
Scaterize
Turbulence
trwirl
Wave

Re:Vision DeNoise These Cause Edius to go not responding.

DeNoise
DeNoise_64
DENoiseaverage
DeNoiseAverage_64

FEC

BallAction
Bubbles
BurnEdges
Drizzle
ForceMotionBlur
GlueGun
MrMercury
ParticleSystemsII
ParticleWorld
PixelPolly
Rain
RainWipe
RGBDissolve
RipplePulse
Soften
Split2
StarBurst
SuperDissolve
TimeBlend
TimeBlendFX
WideTime

Fields Kit3 (these don't work but control panels do appear ok)

Deinterlacer
Pulldown
Reinterlacer (would be useful for 25p to 50i)

Knoll Light Factory

All

Magic Bullet Frames

BroadcastSpec
FramesPlus
Letterboxer
Opticals

MB Looks

Looks3_64 (This crashes on exit from Edius and causes file open issues and Edius disappearing instantly) 2.1.3 is recommended version, this is v2.5.3

Red Giant Text Anarchy

Path Distort

REFlex

REFlexMorph
REFlexMotionMorph
REFlexWarp

Sapphire Blur+Sharpen

BlurMotionCurves - Controls very sluggish
BlurMotion
Convolve
ConvolveComp GPU error
Deband
DefocusPrism
EdgeAwareBlur
Median - Controls very sluggish

Sapphire Time

All (as per GV not compatible list)

Sapphire Transitions

CardFlip
DissolveDistort
DissolveEdgeRays
DissolveFlashbulbs
DissolveGlare
DissolveRays

Smooth kit part

SKDirectionalAE
SKDirSplines

SmoothKit3

All

Twixtor6AE

All

Regards

Mike

[John Lewis]

For me Looks 2.5 is crash on exit free
2.52 and 2.53 cause crash on exit
Some get 2.53 to work

[createmedia]

Yes John it seems less than clear cut in terms of crashing or not, depending on hardware configurations and other software installed.

Mike

[Drbgaijin]

As an aside, I'd like to mention that many of the FEC effects (and transitions) are available directly to Edius through Boris Red.
I have taken 2 screen shots.
Regards
Douglas
feceffects.png

fectransitions.png

[Jerry]

...and in both cases they have no real time performance..... in Edius.

[Drbgaijin]

That is very true, Jerry
Any effects done in Boris Red need to be rendered.
I was just pointing out that there are other places that you can access the FEC Effects from, without having to round-trip.
I seldom use the FEC Effects, but I did a couple of tests just now, and I did not have any problems with crashes.............. but I did need to render
As they say, "Everybody wants to get to Heaven - but nobody wants to die"
Regards
Douglas

[createmedia]

BCC9 Rain or Snow is real time in Edius.