Third-party plug-ins for Adobe Premiere Pro
Enhancements to the powerful tool for professional digital video editing
Add even more capability to your Adobe® Premiere® Pro software. Find the latest and greatest plug-ins available from third-party developers.
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Filters, transitions, and effects
Neat Video
Neat Video is a noise reduction plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Premiere Elements. The plug-in efficiently reduces random noise, film grain, analog interference, and compression artifacts. Neat Video includes adaptive intra-frame and temporal filters that provide the most accurate video noise reduction currently available.
Boris Continuum Complete (BCC)
Continuum Complete unlocks the power of Adobe Premiere Pro with an expansive native filter set. Create effects from the practical to the inspired directly in the Effect Controls window. BCC provides unprecedented workflow with over 160 filters, including advanced keying, compositing, image processing, distortion, lighting, temporal effects, and integrated motion tracking. Each filter includes integrated online help and customizable presets to streamline effects creation. The unique PixelChooser provides integrated channel or region-based masks. BCC also works in the native interface of Adobe After Effects® software. A single license can be installed into all supported hosts on your system.
Boris Red
Boris Red is an integrated 3D compositing, titling, and effects application. Red delivers unparalleled performance at an affordable price with OpenGL accelerated previews to improve performance. Designed specifically for editors, Red integrates with Adobe Premiere Pro and adds the Red Engine for standalone rendering. Red combines advanced 2D and 3D compositing, sophisticated titling, paint, rotoscoping, tools to create and extrude vector objects, robust 3D creation and animation, and the industry-leading DVE technology in a single application.
Boris FX
Boris FX is a powerful solution for integrated effects creation. FX is a great value with realistic lighting, advanced keying and color correction, compositing, DVE, vector paint, and support for third-party After Effects filters. OpenGL accelerated previews improve performance. The Library Browser provides hundreds of customizable presets for easy application. Sophisticated vector paint and spline tools allow you to create animatable masks. More than 60 filters include motion tracking and image stabilization, as well as self-animating natural effects that easily interact with timeline video.
VideoFX
VideoFX is a consumer-oriented 3D video transition software package that makes it easy for video enthusiasts to add movie-style effects to home movies and video projects. VideoFX Transitions provides a collection of fun, creative, and high-quality scene changes.
Conoa 3D
Render 3D geometric primitives with video texture mapping, reflections, refractions, shadows, lights, and much more.
Conoa EasyShapes
Render cubes, spheres, and cylinders quickly and easily. Full 3D rendering features video texture mapping, reflections, refractions, shadows, lights, and more.
Conoa EasyFX
Unique 2D filters enable you to add new looks to your video. Make any layer into an alpha channel, create blobby transitions, add quick 'toon styles, apply tints, and smooth your video.
Elemental Technologies and NVIDIA
Elemental Accelerator for NVIDIA Quadro
Elemental™ Accelerator is a high-speed, high-quality video processing solution designed to add power and performance to the Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS4 workflow. Coupled with NVIDIA Quadro FX video cards for creative professionals, Elemental Accelerator harnesses the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU) to perform high-speed video encoding and deliver dramatic time savings over conventional CPU-only encoding solutions. Elemental Accelerator performs GPU-accelerated conversion of commonly distributed digital video formats to MPEG-4/H.264 AVC baseline, main, or high profile output ready for upload to the web or burning to Blu-ray disc. By executing demanding processing tasks using the GPU, Elemental Accelerator not only speeds video transcoding, it frees CPU resources to perform other tasks, resulting in a faster, more efficient video editing and production environment. Available for both Mac and PC platforms, Elemental Accelerator can deliver as much as a 10x performance improvement compared to the standard encoder.
Carrara Studio 3.0
Carrara Studio 3.0 is a complete and standalone solution for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering at an attractive price for creative professionals, educators, students, and serious hobbyists.
Sapphire Plug-ins
Sapphire Plug-ins is a collection of over 175 image processing and synthesis effects ranging from everyday tools to exotic effects. Each plug-in has many options and parameters that can be adjusted and animated for an unlimited range of results. They are resolution independent and include multiprocessor support for faster rendering. Onscreen widgets and online documentation make it easy to enhance any project.
TrinityFX
Do you want to add great-looking effects to your video but don't have time to fiddle with animation parameters? The solution is TrinityFX, a collection of over 500 ready-to-use broadcast quality effects applied with one simple plug-in. Just drag the plug-in onto your timeline, pick an effect from the list, and you're done. The package includes graphic wipes, 3D transitions, page peels, and ray traced eye candy.
CreativEase
This is a set of 11 all-new, affordable plug-ins that provide thousands of fresh, aesthetic, industry-first video effects. CreativEase includes many new types of color, blur, depth, grain, and time-based effects — all completely customizable and designed as “best-of-breed” tools despite their affordable price. CreativEase also solves everyday editing problems, such as selective softening without tedious masking to remove blemishes or create beautiful dreamy looks; generating color-accurate, smooth-edged animation directly from video; producing glossy 3D titles; adding subtle filmic looks and film grains; cropping edge noise without stretching or bordering the image; and more.
SpiceMASTER
The custom soft/organic effects and transitions in SpiceMASTER 2.5 give you wonderfully creative, subtle alternatives to standard looks. New to version 2.5 are film-style dissolves, resolution independence, up to 1,000 "spice" geometries, and an industry-first visual "mixer" that automatically tailors the effects to your image content. SpiceMASTER can also organically animate any effect or key in Adobe Premiere Pro, leveraging the power of all your other effects (built-in or third-party). With SpiceMaster, you can organically animate titles, mattes, backgrounds, and graphics. SpiceMASTER gives you complete creative control over all effect parameters, ultra-smooth Bezier keyframing, thousands of instantly useful presets, 100-plus undo/redo, and a comprehensive visual help/tutorial system. SpiceMASTER is available in TFX and ultra-powerful pro versions.
Adorage
Adorage is the ultimate special effects library. It contains more than 8,000 effects for spectacular transitions, picture-in-picture, split-screens, and decorative frames, offering you endless possibilities in the shortest time. Just select an effect and let Adorage do the rest. Dynamic pan and zoom, 3D objects, and photo-realistic effects offer professional results for projects like wedding videos, vacation movies, and documentaries. Adorage works directly within Adobe Premiere and Adobe Premiere Pro and is HD/DV as well as NTSC/PAL compatible.
CameraPOV
CameraPOV is a suite of eight camera viewfinder simulations. Each effect gives a realistic simulation of what a scene would look like when viewed through the lens of a particular type of camera. Provided are views for three types of 35mm cameras, a digital camera, two types of video cameras, a night vision camera, and a security camera.
Magic Bullet Editors
Magic Bullet Editors, a plug-in that works inside Adobe Premiere Pro, enables filmmakers to add film treatments right on the timeline. Based on the award-winning Magic Bullet technology, the software delivers film stock emulation, diffusion filters, and easy-to-use film-look presets. Magic Bullet Editors also includes the film damage creation tool Misfire, which accurately re-creates characteristics of old film.
Movie Looks
Movie Looks Library is an upgrade for the Movie Looks for Adobe Premiere Pro plug-in. For just US$49, you get 40 additional looks.
RE:Fill
Mend holes in images by intelligently filling user-specified regions.
FieldsKit
Get smarter deinterlacing and more workflow options for interlacing and pulldown.
ReelSmart Motion Blur
Automatically track every pixel in a sequence and blur the scene based on calculated motion.
Shade/Shape
Turn 2D elements into 3D rendered artwork.
Twixtor
Intelligently slow down, speed up, and frame-rate convert image sequences.
SmoothKit
Get the ultimate toolset to smooth your imagery by combining user-directed controls and feature-sensitive methods.
Video Gogh
Turn your pictures and videos into painted works of art.
MovingPicture
MovingPicture is a tool for producers and editors to pan and zoom on high-resolution still images. It takes scanned images up to 8,000 pixels and allows for perfectly repeatable pans and zooms directly from a Windows® or Macintosh computer or as a plug-in to most nonlinear editors.
MovingPicture is widely used by broadcasters, documentary film producers, schools, and corporate and event videographers. Clients include ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, BBC, PBS, Discovery, Lifetime, A&E, and the legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.
Color Finesse
Color Finesse offers high-end color correction and enhancement tools including multiple color spaces, tonal correction, curve-based correction, automated color matching and balancing, six-channel secondary color correction, reference images with split wipes, smart color legalizing, and waveform monitor and vectorscope displays.
Shine
Shine is a fast light effect plug-in. The effect looks very much like volumetric light but is actually a 2D effect. The plug-in includes special controls to make shimmering lights and numerous coloring modes. This is an effect you see every day on TV and in many movie titles. Previously, it was only possible to create this effect using 3D applications (real volumetric lights) or using slower rendering 2D plug-ins.
Starglow
Starglow is a fast-rendering glow effect. It creates a star-shaped glow around the highlights of the source. The star shape consists of eight directions, and each direction can be assigned an individual colormap and streak length.
ViviClip Video Filters 3 Pro (Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 not supported)
ViviClip Video Filters 3 Pro is a professional plug-in that enhances and legalizes video clips. The software focuses on fixing technical issues and improving video aesthetics, using selective color correction and other mechanisms. With its five processing engine layers and its unique integrated interface, you can create unlimited effects without constraints.
ViviClip Video Filters 3 Basic (Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 not supported)
ViviClip Video Filters 3 Basic is a plug-in that enhances and legalizes video clips. The software focuses on improving video aesthetics using color correction and other tools.
File-format support
DebugMode FrameServer
DebugMode FrameServer is a plug-in that allows nonlinear editors to do FrameServing and AudioServing, the techniques used to transfer audio/video data from one application to another without doing a full-fledged render and using temporary files.
Flashants
SWF2Video
SWF2Video Plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro is an importer plug-in that allows users to import SWF files just like any other video or image files. With this powerful plug-in, you can import SWF files directly into Adobe Premiere Pro projects, edit and composite them with other clips in the timeline, and export to any file format in any dimension supported by Adobe Premiere Pro. This plug-in provides the best solution for integrating SWF files into your Adobe Premiere Pro projects.
Minnetonka Audio
SurCode Dolby Digital 5.1
SurCode for Dolby Digital, a 5.1 surround Dolby Digital (AC-3) encoder plug-in, is built into the new Adobe Premiere Pro digital video editor. SurCode for Dolby Digital is included as a trial version encoder that is tightly integrated into the Adobe Premiere Pro Media Encoder. Now both MPEG-2 video and AC-3 surround (or stereo) audio can be encoded and multiplexed simultaneously within Adobe's latest release of its flagship nonlinear editor.
VST audio plug-ins
Bias Inc.
SoundSoap 1.0
Easily and instantly reduce noise from your digital video or digital audio files.
This top-quality spectrum analyzer just happens to be free.
Maxim VST effects
Find 30 free effects and generator plug-ins, including speaker simulator, stereo delay, overdrive, de-esser, degrade, sub-bass synthesizer, vocoder, and tone generator.
Free VST plug-ins
Find eight free effects, including reverb and tempo delay.
Device control
Pipeline ProVTR
ProVTR is the leading deck control plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro. ProVTR and the Pipeline Digital cable let you control video recorders and stamp timecode to your clips. If you use Adobe Premiere Pro, you can have the best deck control in the business. ProVTR brings Pipeline Digital's expertise in VTR control to the world's most popular nonlinear editor. You'll have the ability to insert (video and audio), assemble, or hard record.
Royalty-free media
SmartSound Quicktracks for Adobe Premiere Pro
Custom soundtracks add impact and professionalism to any video. Now, the celebrated leader in soundtrack creation, SmartSound, has made its famous Adobe Premiere plug-in even better. A completely redesigned interface gives you almost instantaneous access to any SmartSound music. SmartSound's embedded technology ensures you get exactly the right cuts of music for your project. And you can search and audition from the entire SmartSound library — not just the tracks you own. If you like a piece, just enter your purchase information and download it right into your Adobe Premiere project file. Nothing could be easier or quicker, and you always get exactly the right piece you're looking for. The new Quicktracks plug-in includes the SmartSound Full Spectrum music CD with 23 great pieces of royalty-free music to get you started. More great royalty-free music and sound effects of every type are available from SmartSound Music Library.
SmartSound Music and Sound CDs
SmartSound Software offers a tremendous selection of top-quality, royalty-free music and sound effects to bring your video projects to life. Designed specifically to work with any SmartSound software, this music and audio will expand your options so that you always have just the right mood or sound for your project. Choose from three great series of CDs: the versatile and expansive Audio Palette series, the cutting edge contemporary Edge series, and terrific sound effects with the Sound Palette series.
Titling
Boris Graffiti
Graffiti is a powerful vector-based titling plug-in that integrates with Adobe Premiere Pro. Easily create 2D and 3D title animation over your timeline video without importing and exporting. The sophisticated extruded text and shapes include bump maps, reflections, and textures as well as animatable 2D and 3D charts. Advanced animation options include text on a path, jitter, randomization, and type-on effects. An expansive Style palette and the Library Browser streamline title creation with hundreds of preset effects and styles. Adding Graffiti to Adobe Premiere Pro puts the most innovative and easy-to-use titling tools in the industry at your fingertips.
Portfolio Server 8.5
Portfolio Server 8.5 serves as the powerful hub of your creative asset management system, providing the core set of capabilities you need to keep your rich media on the move — for routing to other departments, for final delivery to clients and partners, or for more secure archiving.
Portfolio 8.5 (Standalone version)
Want your digital assets at your fingertips, with thousands of graphics, photos, and other digital files efficiently organized? Whip your assets into shape with Portfolio 8.5, an intuitive, powerful, and expandable system.
Heroglyph
With Heroglyph, you can produce titles and trailers just like those for your favorite TV shows. A wide range of text-editing possibilities and impressive effects make your titles glow and dance. The possibilities are endless with unlimited text combinations and path animations. Create stunning video walls with hundreds of images, let them fly in 3D space, and create trailers ready for the big screen! Produce animated travel route visualizations or animated handwriting using the powerful route assistants. Heroglyph works directly within Adobe Premiere and Adobe Premiere Pro and is HD/DV as well as NTSC/PAL compatible.
