Digieffects Damage is a collection of four effects designed for post production professionals who want to create an extensive variety of digital and/or analog defects, errors and artifacts in their footage. It supports Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Autodesk Combustion and Boris RED.
“We designed the Damage package to be the most comprehensive set of tools for creating images that look affected by digital or analog artifacts available.” said Digieffects President, Robert Sharp, in the press release. According to Sharp, Damage is a unique product in the marketplace.
No other plugin collection is dedicated to “damaging” a video clip”. Damage includes the following effects:
• Blockade: Video acquired by low fidelity devices like cellular phones and PDAs is becoming more commonplace. Blockade makes your clip look like it is highly compressed and being transmitted through a very bandwidth-limited pipe. Essential for simulating internet based micro cam display or personal video communication.
• Artifact: Developed to create digital defects, Artifact simulates lost DCT blocks and frame dropping, most often seen when a digital video file suffers from corruption or a satellite feed is hampered by weather. Make sure you warn clients and your house engineer that it’s only an effect…
• Interference: If it’s television you want, traditionally you’ll need some sort of interlaced field scanning. Interference creates the look of interlaced video fields, even on progressive footage or still images, adding noise, colorization and offset separately for each field.
• Skew: The never-ending quest to aim the rabbit ears so that the television show looks as good once you’re in your chair as it did when your hands were attached to the antenna is fast fading into the lore of old… That valuable (if under-appreciated) look is preserved in Skew. Uniquely analog/broadcast image badness like noise, image shearing, ghosts… it’s all there.
Damage retails for US$99. A free trial version is available.
More info here.
$99 for lowering video quality, nice. Sure it has its uses but it seems a shame to make HD video look like analog.
So, we’ve come full circle now. Lo-Def is the new Hi-Def. I knew the day that they came up with the “artifact” filter that the end was nigh.
The package is of course for “Final Cut Pro”.
That is to say, you’re not really doing this just for fun.
Therefore, chances are YOU’RE not going to be the one buying it per-say.