After Effects Scripts + After Effects Plugins » François Tarlier Plugins

ft-Auto White Balance

Francois Tarlier — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:00:27 +0000

This plugin becomes handy when you have a bunch of footages where the White Balance wasn’t set properly and you need to color balance it before working with it. Just select a mid-tone color in your image, and ft-Auto White Balance will take care of the rest.

The plugin has the choice of two methods for white balancing:

Von Kire
Scale RGB

Version History:

2.1 – Now preserves original alpha – Oct 2011
2.0 – Initial release – Jan 2011

ft-UVPass

Francois Tarlier — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:00:22 +0000

This plugin will use a “UV pass” (or ST map) rendered from your 3D package to directly re-texture your objects in After Effects.

Features:

select a texture
tile texture
repeat texture
offset texture
keep uv pass alpha

Version History:

4.0 – Sample Texture to the nearest pixel – Feb 2011

ft-Vignetting

Francois Tarlier — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:10:28 +0000

This plugin creates a vignette around your footage quickly and easily.

You get these controls:

Size – The size of the vignette.
Feather – The amount of feather.
Center – Adjust the center to reposition the vignette.
Color – Tint the vignette.
Noise – Add noise.
Noise Time - Animate the noise.
Opacity – Adjust the transparency.

Version History

1.0 – Initial release – Jan 2011

ft-PPass2Matte

Francois Tarlier — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:19:37 +0000

This plugin will create mattes that are attached to objects in 3D renders by using a PPass (also called point pass, position pass or position point pass). This will allow you to create custom mattes in After Effects without having to go back to the 3D program to generate them. What the demo movie (top right button) to see the plugin in action in After Effects. **Please note that this is no audio on the demo movie.

Until now this functionality was only available in Nuke, so we are very excited to bring this tool to After Effects.

Here is a tutorial on how to create a point pass in 3DS Max using VRay:

ft-Clamp

Francois Tarlier — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:19:12 +0000

This plugin will ensure your comp is not exceeding specified colors values. It will legalize those values and let you specify which should be the whitest and blackest color.

ft-Filmic Contrast

Francois Tarlier — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:00:03 +0000

A one slider plugin that gives a very compelling filmic contrast “look” to your footage. Partially based on Ken Perlin’s Gain function.

Version History

4.0 Changed range to be -100 to 100 where 0 is the original image – Oct 2010
3.0 Added alpha channel support – Oct 2010
2.0 Bug fix to handle 32-bit images. (Please note that values will be clamped to 0-1 so apply this plugin at the end of the filter chain)
1.0 Initial Release – Sept 2010

ft-Technicolor

Francois Tarlier — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:01:04 +0000

A pixel bender plugin that mimics the color grading in Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator” otherwise called 2-strip and 3-strip technicolor. The code is based on snippets found on VFXTalk.com, Blender source code & Aviator VFX behind the scene website.

Version history:

2.0 Fixed divide by zero bug – Oct 2010
1.0 Initial release – Oct 2010

ft-Brightness Check

Francois Tarlier — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:00:46 +0000

A tool that lets you know which part of your picture is too bright or too dark by pointing the bad pixels directly on your footage. Similar to the way zebra-stripping works on digital cameras.

Usage:

Apply the filter on a comp or adjustment layer, and place a level or exposure or curve filter above it.

In the example project included with the plugin, if you open the RENDER comp, you will see that the “ft-Brightness Check” is applied on the “footage” comp, and the filter is already applied to it. By just activating the Level which is just above, you will see that the “error” will disappear.

Version History:

2.0 Initial release on aeplugins.com – Oct 2010

ft-Cubic Lens Distortion

Francois Tarlier — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:00:27 +0000

This is a Pixel Bender plugin that allows for quick and easy lens distortion correction or effects including chromatic aberration.

When working on tracking or composition CG elements with shot footage, you usually have to deal with lens distortion. At first you would undistort your footage in your matchmove or compositing package, then track it, render your CG and make sure to apply the same distortion to your CG so it will look and match perfectly! While this methos workd, it makes you go back and forth with your different applications to undistort, distort again and so on!
ft-Cubic Lens Distortion let you manage all those distortion steps in one place: After Effects. It is based on the Syntheyes cubic lens distortion algorithm! You will be able to un-distort your live footage, and distort your CG renders without going back to Syntheyes (or any other app you are using for lens distortion)!
On top of that, you will be able to apply finishing effects like chromatic aberration to your final composition.

*Please note that Pixel Bender plugins require CS4 or later*

Version History

7.0 Chromatic Aberration controls values now go between -100 to 100 10/2010
6.0 Updated the invert distortion algorithm 08/2010
5.0 Distortion is now properly applied to the alpha channel 07/2010
4.0 Initial release on aescripts.com 07/2010

ft-CombineRGBA

Francois Tarlier — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:45:52 +0000

ft-CombineRGA Pixel Bender plugin allows you to shift channels or combine channels from a second source. What makes this plugin special versus the similar plugins that comes with After Effects, is that it works in 32bit and has a very simple to use UI.

Version History

1.0 – Initial release on aescripts.com 08/2010