NEWS •MARCH 6, 2001
RE:Vision Revamps Entire After Effects Plugin Line
New versions get bug fixes, performance enhancements

by David Nagel
Executive Producer
dnagel@digitalmedianet.com

RE:Vision FX says it has revamped its entire line of plugins for Adobe After Effects. RE:Vision makes such plugins as Video Gogh, ReelSmart Motion Blur, Twixtor and Shade/Shape. There had been problems with the plugins when used with Discreet's Combustion, particularly when saving and then reopening a file that used a RE:Vision filter. According to RE:Vision, all of their plugins now work properly with Combustion 1.011. They have also been updated to work in Premiere 6.0 via Premiere's After Effects plugin support.

In terms of individual plugins, Video Gogh 2.5 has been updated to offer speed gains of 20 percent to 30 percent, depending on brush size. ReelSmart Motion Blur 1.8.1 no longer crashes when the "Get Motion from" source and output resolutions are different. Twixtor 1.3 got a Windows crash fix, as well as a new lineup of tutorials on the company's Web site (in the tech support section). And ReelSmart Shade/Shape 1.2 fixed a bug that caused projective environment mapping to crash.

All of the upgrades, available for Macintosh and Windows, are free. For more information or to download the updates, visit http://www.revisionfx.com.

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