EFX Keying-Alpha Plugin Suite
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Compatibility After Effects Please check exact version compatibility under the "COMPATIBILITY" tab below
This suite of plugins consists of many tools developed over many years of compositing when off-the-shelf effects in After Effects would not provide satisfactory results. Some of them solve small problems, like softening an edge of a matte, others evolved into full blown keying solutions.
Feature highlights:
- combine alpha mattes of different layers with one simple effect,
- clean an alpha from small speckles left after keying noisy footage or difference matte,
- feather a matte edge "outwards" - you don't lose thin details,
- remove a dark edge after keying - this happens when the camera had sharpening turned on,
- tell the despiller which pixels he should despill and which to leave alone,
- difficult spill case? Just select the pixels with spill on them and use any of the normal AE effects to remove it,
- select pixels based on their color, luminosity or even transparency.
New features in version 1.0.5:
- Alpha Math:
- added operation Luma to Alpha
- added operations R,G,B,C,M,Y to Alpha
- HSL Color Select:
- added ability to invert each of the conditions
- SnP:
- added Iterations feature (SnPx5 is now obsolete)
- New plugin: Alpha Choke
New features in version 1.0.3:
- Alpha Math:
- new operations: clear alpha, fill alpha, fill alpha (color)
- the ability to blend between original alpha and the effect
- the ability to multiply the alpha channel by a float
- Keyer HSL:
- increased Hue threshold max value to 360 – helps with selecting white
- New plugin: Despill Brute
The suite includes 17 plugins:
- Alpha Choke
- Alpha Math
- Alpha S'n'P
- Alpha Select
- Alpha Streaks
- Color Select
- Color Select HSL
- Despill
- Despill Advanced
- Despill Brute
- Edge Bleed
- Edge Blur Keyer
- Keyer
- Keyer HSL
- Luma Select
- Spill Alpha
- Despill Brute
You can download the User Manual for details on individual plugins.
To check some of the plugins you can download the EFX Keying-Alpha Free plugins here.
After Effects | CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6, CS5.5, CS5, CS4 |
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1.5.3.3 (Current version) - Jun 3, 2017
Fixed a problem with 16bit mode after upgrading to AE 14.2
1.5.3.2 - Jun 3, 2017
Fixed a problem with 16bit mode after upgrading to AE 14.2
1.5.3.1 - Dec 7, 2015
Fixed a problem with 16bit mode after upgrading to AE 13.6
1.5.3 - Nov 3, 2015
Fixed driver problem on Mac
1.5.1 - Apr 7, 2015
Fixed installation archive
1.5 - Mar 25, 2015
Code cleanup
- 1.3 - Updated licensing framework (will require that you re-enter your license code) - Dec 2013
- 1.2 - Fixed color quantization bug in 16bpc mode (April 2013)
- 1.1 (Feb 2013) - Ported to native plugin, CS6 compatible
- 1.0.5 (Apr 2011)
- Alpha Math:
- added operation Luma to Alpha
- added operations R,G,B,C,M,Y to Alpha
- HSL Color Select:
- added ability to invert each of the conditions
- SnP:
- added Iterations feature (SnPx5 is now obsolete)
- New Plugin: Alpha Choke
- 1.0.3 (Dec 2011)
- Alpha Math:
- new operations: clear alpha, fill alpha, fill alpha (color)
- the ability to blend between original alpha and the effect
- the ability to multiply the alpha channel by a float
- Keyer HSL:
- increased Hue threshold max value to 360 – helps with selecting white
- New Plugin: Despill Brute
- 1.0.2 - Fixed crashing issue with Alpha Select and Edge Bleed (Dec 2011)
- 1.0.1 - Fixed compatibility with CS4 (Nov 2011)
- 1.0 - Initial Release (Oct 2011)