Third-party plug-ins included with after effects, C/c++ plug-ins and the after effects sdk – Adobe After Effects User Manual
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Foundry Keylight
Synthetic Aperture Color Finesse
fnord ProEXR
Digieffects FreeForm
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CycoreFX (CC)
CycoreFX HD
Imagineer mocha shape AE
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Third-party plug-ins included with After Effects
After Effects comes with several third-party plug-ins. These plug-ins are installed by default with the full version of Adobe After Effects software.
Some of these plug-ins are not included with the trial version of Adobe After Effects software.
Keylight installs its documentation in the plug-in’s subfolder in the Plug-ins folder. For more information, see Keying effects,
including Keylight.
(Not included with the trial versions of After Effects CS5 or After Effects CS5.5.) Color Finesse installs its
documentation in the plug-in’s subfolder in the Plug-ins folder. For more information, see Resources for Synthetic Aperture Color Finesse.
After Effects CC and CS6 includes Synthetic Aperture Color Finesse 3.
(Included with the trial version of After Effects CS5 and After Effects CS5.5.) Documentation for ProEXR plug-ins is available in a
For more information, see About 3D Channel effects, including ProEXR effects.
(Not included with the trial versions of After Effects CS5 or After Effects CS5.5.) For more information, see Resources for
Digieffects FreeForm.
Digieffects FreeForm is no longer included with After Effects CS6 and later.
(Not included with the trial version of After Effects CS5 or After Effects CS5.5.) Documentation for Cycore FX plug-ins is available
on the
In After Effects CS5.5, and earlier. For more information, see Resources for Cycore FX (CC) effects.
CycoreFX HD (1.7.1) is included in the installation of After Effects CS6. There is 16-bpc support in all effects, and 32-bpc (float)
support in 35 effects. Included are 12 additional plug-ins. CycoreFX HD plug-ins have support for motion blur, lights, more controls, and options.
by Todd Kopriva and video2brain, the new Cycore effects and improved color bit depth are shown. Learn how to apply a couple of
these effects and see what it means to use different bit depths.
(Not included with the trial version of After Effects CS5 or After Effects CS5.5.) Documentation for the mocha shape
for After Effects (mocha shape AE) plug-in is available on the
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Unlike the similarly named mocha shape for After Effects (mocha shape AE), Imagineer mocha-AE is not a plug-in; it is a separate,
standalone planar tracker application. For more information, see Resources for mocha for After Effects (mocha-AE).
C/C++ plug-ins and the After Effects SDK
Many plug-ins for After Effects are written in the C/C++ programming language using the After Effects SDK. Effect plug-ins written with C/C++
have the filename extension .aex. For information on developing plug-ins for After Effects with the C/C++ SDK, go to the
of the Adobe website.
Kas Thomas provides a tutorial on the
that shows step by step how to write an After Effects plug-in.
To ask questions about writing plug-ins with the C/C++ SDK for After Effects, go to the
Pixel Bender effect plug-ins and the Pixel Bender Toolkit
Increasingly, many effect plug-ins for After Effects are written in the Adobe Pixel Bender language. Pixel Bender is designed to improve the
performance of image-processing operations by taking advantage of multiple processor cores; multiprocessing for Pixel Bender effect plug-ins
does not rely on the Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously option being selected.
Support for Pixel Bender (.pbk, .pbg) plug-ins has been removed in After Effects CS6. Existing projects that use them appear as missing
effects. Using the File > Save As > Save a Copy As CS5.5 command allows the plug-ins to work when opened in CS5.5.
Effect plug-ins written with Pixel Bender have the filename extension .pbk (for single-kernel effects) or .pbg (for multiple-kernel effects).
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