Pixel Bender Kernel Accelerator

  • Compatibility After Effects
    Please check exact version compatibility under the "COMPATIBILITY" tab below
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Quick Overview

Pixel Bender Kernel Accelerator (PBKAccelerator) is a native After Effects plugin that compiles Pixel Bender Kernel plugins and executes them on the GPU of your video card. Besides making them run fast it also means you can run pixel bender files in CS6!
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Pixel Bender Kernel Accelerator

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Pixel Bender is a video processing language that allows for easy creation of image and video processing filters. You can use the Pixel Bender kernel language to implement image processing algorithms (filters or effects) in a hardware-independent manner.

This native After Effects plugin translates Pixel Bender Kernel files (.pbk) to OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL), compiles it and runs it on the GPU of your video card which is much faster at image processing tasks than your CPU. Because this is a native plugin it means you can now run .pbk files in CS6! Adobe discontinued support for Pixel Bender in CS6 so without this plugin you cannot run pbk files in CS6. 

Please note that this plugin will only work with Pixel Bender Kernel (.pbk) files and not Pixel Bender Graph (.pbg) files.  There are other limitations so please download the free trial and try your .pbk files first before purchasing.

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Below is a slideshow of PBK images that the plugin can load. You can download those kernel in pixel bender exchange.
  • PBKA UI (Sample .pbk loaded)

    PBKA UI (Sample .pbk loaded)

  • PBK QuaternionJulia

    PBK QuaternionJulia

  • PBK MandelbulbQuick

    PBK MandelbulbQuick

After Effects CS6, CS5.5, CS5, CS4, CS3

Current version: 1.10(win) 1.11(mac)

  • 1.11 - (Update only for mac) license bug fix -Apr 2013
  • 1.10 - Respond to 16bpc, 32bpc(inputs) - Apr 2013
  • 1.09 - Respond to Multicore Rendering (Mac), Respond to 16bpc, 32bpc-Dec 2012
  • 1.08 - (Update only for Windows)Respond to multiprocess rendering - Nov 2012
  • 1.07 - Minor bug fix, respond to second image - Sep 2012
  • 1.06 - Respondes to low resolution renders - Aug 2012
  • 1.05 - Fixed bug: last choice of popup does not appear - Aug 2012
  • 1.04 - System maintenance - Aug 2012
  • 1.03 - Minor bug fix - Aug 2012
  • 1.02 - responded to 3 component color of PBK - Aug 2012
  • 1.01 - fixed problem (update only for windows) - Aug 2012
  • 1.0 - Initial release - Aug 2012