Dot Pixels

A native plugin for After Effects and Premiere Pro to pixelate your image into circles and rings.

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Description
TV Distortion Bundle: 5 plugins for only $129.99

Use this plugin to pixelate your image into circles and rings. Highly useful to create LED screen effect or a porous surface effect. Can also be used to create new abstract, artistic version of images and footage. It has optional shading that helps you to simulate spherical and torus objects. Check out the sample images below to understand its capabilities.

Features

  • Pixelates into circles and rings.
  • Shading option to simulate spherical and torus objects.
  • 32bit Floating Point Support (AE only).
  • Compatible with After Effects & Premiere Pro.

Parameters:

  • Dimension Factor: The dimension factor to pixelate the image and also the size of each pixel block after pixelation. Increase this parameter to increase the size of each block/circle/ring generated by the filter.
  • Outer Roundness: The Outer roundness of each pixel block. Increase this parameter to decrease the size of each circle.
  • Inner Radius: Control the radius if the inner circle in a ring. Increase this parameter to make the ring thinner.
  • Shading Type: Type of shading to be applied to pixel blocks. Spherical shading is generally applied to circles and Ring shading is applied to get shaded rings.
  • Shading: Amount of shading to be applied for each circle/ring. By default no shading is applied.
  • Fill Background: Checkbox to fill background with a color or not. By default, the background is transparent.
  • BG Color: The Background color to apply, if 'Fill Background' is checked.

License options

Floating licenses are available for purchase separately by selecting them from the "License Type" pulldown above the price. Please note that Floating Licenses only work in conjunction with the Floating License Server.

Render Only licenses are available for purchase separately here.

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Version History

2.7.5 -

Apr 21, 2025

- Fixed version mismatch errors.

2.7.4 -

Sep 24, 2024

- Minor bugfixes

2.7.3 -

Mar 29, 2024

- Minor bugfixes and compatibility update

2.7.2 -

Dec 23, 2021

- Floating License Server Compatibility Update

2.7.1 -

Aug 5, 2021

- MFR Support in After Effects.

- Apple Silicon support for Premiere.

2.6.0 -

Jun 8, 2021

- Resolved Issues in Premiere Pro

- Linking version to TV Distortion Bundle version

2.5.6b -

Mar 15, 2021

- Updated installer for 2021

2.5.6 -

Jun 2, 2020

- Floating License Compatibility

2.5.5b -

Nov 5, 2019

- 2020 Installer

2.5.5 -

Sep 21, 2019

- Catalina Compatibility

2.5.4 -

Jun 21, 2019

- Fixed Floating License Server Compatibility

2.5.3 -

Dec 3, 2018

- Support for Floating Licenses

2.5.2b -

Oct 22, 2018

- CC 2019 Installer

2.5.2a -

Oct 23, 2017

- Minor bug fixes in Premiere

2.5.2 -

Mar 16, 2017

- Minor bug fixes in Premiere

2.5.1b -

Jan 3, 2017

Adds installer support for CC 2017

2.5.1a -

Jun 23, 2016

Adds installer support for CC 2015.3

2.5.1 -

Jun 16, 2015

Added support for CC 2015

2.5f -

Jun 22, 2014

Added support for CC 2014

Compatibility

After Effects

2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6

Premiere Pro

2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6