Feb 2008
Noise Industries Partner SUGARfx Releases New FxPack Themes for Apple Pro Video Applications
27 February, 2008 08:30 AM
New release provides 3D landscape templates; team
also updates popular Drop Ins product
Boston MA – February 27, 2008 – Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, today announced that partner SUGARfx (www.sugarqc.com) has released a brand new Noise Industries FxPack titled “sugarFX Folding Cards LC”. The new FxPack is designed to run on Apple Final Cut Studio 2 (FCS 2) and Final Cut Express 4.0 (FCE 4) FxPlug architecture; providing users customizable 3D theme effects for branding urban landscapes. “Ricardo Silva is one of the world’s top broadcast designers and we are honored to have his design influence as part of our partner product line,” comments Niclas Bahn, director of business development, Noise Industries. “The new theme package is just exceptional… perfect for any editor or compositor working with landmark and urban landscape footage.”
The new sugarFX Folding Cards LC release offers 8 animated sequence graphics for designing environment transitions such as cityscapes, architectural elements, and famous landmarks. Straight forward controls allow users to adjust text positioning, size and font. Users can also modify or omit video content as well as adjust color. Folding Cards LC runs on the latest Apple OS (X Leopard). Apple users can get more information by viewing the demo movie at: http://www.sugarqc.com/info/foldingcards_SUGARfx.html
New Update for the SUGARfx Drop In Package
In addition to releasing Folding Cards LC, the SUGARfx team has updated their widely popular 3D Drop Ins package. The update adds support for Mac OS X Leopard and Final Cut Studio 2 applications. Themes have been completely redesigned offering two flavors; Drop In 1.6 which is a free update and Drop In 2.0 Studio, a more advanced version with more theme elements and parameters.
Users can get more information by viewing the Drop In demo movie at: http://www.sugarqc.com/info/dropin_SUGARfx.html
About Noise Industries Partners and FxPacks
FxPacks are developed by Noise Industries and its partners using the Noise Industries FxFactory Pro plug-in manager. The FxFactory Pro plug-in manager provides broadcast designers, such as Ricardo Silver of SUGARfx, a user-friendly development tool to create additional effects for the Apple Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Express products. Apple users must install the Noise Industries FxFactory engine to operate FxPacks. FxFactory is free and can be downloaded from http://www.noiseindustries.com/fxfactory.
Pricing and Availability
SUGARfx Folding Cards LC FxPacks is available today via the Noise Industries web site (http://www.noiseindustries.com) for an MSRP of $69.00 USD.
Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Express users can test drive FxFactory FxPacks by downloading the 15-day trial version from www.noiseindustries.com/fxfactory.
About SUGARfx Broadcast Designer Ricardo Silva
SUGARfx designer and founder Ricardo Silva’s impressive resume includes broadcast design for the National Geographic IMAX open, Norm, Ripley's Believe or Not, Noticias Telemundo, Univision News graphics, Top 10 A&E, TLC Investigators, DirecTV International Marketing, TNBC graphics, TechTV, and Fox Sports International.
About Noise Industries, LLC
Established in 2004, Boston Massachusetts based Noise Industries is an innovative developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast community. Their products are integrated with popular non-linear editing and compositing products from Apple and Avid. For more information about Noise Industries, please visit: http://www.noiseindustries.com.
Press Contact
Janice Dolan
(p) (617) 817 6595
(e) janice@zazilmediagroup.com
The Noise Industries logo is a trademark registered in the U.S. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Boston MA – February 27, 2008 – Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, today announced that partner SUGARfx (www.sugarqc.com) has released a brand new Noise Industries FxPack titled “sugarFX Folding Cards LC”. The new FxPack is designed to run on Apple Final Cut Studio 2 (FCS 2) and Final Cut Express 4.0 (FCE 4) FxPlug architecture; providing users customizable 3D theme effects for branding urban landscapes. “Ricardo Silva is one of the world’s top broadcast designers and we are honored to have his design influence as part of our partner product line,” comments Niclas Bahn, director of business development, Noise Industries. “The new theme package is just exceptional… perfect for any editor or compositor working with landmark and urban landscape footage.”
The new sugarFX Folding Cards LC release offers 8 animated sequence graphics for designing environment transitions such as cityscapes, architectural elements, and famous landmarks. Straight forward controls allow users to adjust text positioning, size and font. Users can also modify or omit video content as well as adjust color. Folding Cards LC runs on the latest Apple OS (X Leopard). Apple users can get more information by viewing the demo movie at: http://www.sugarqc.com/info/foldingcards_SUGARfx.html
New Update for the SUGARfx Drop In Package
In addition to releasing Folding Cards LC, the SUGARfx team has updated their widely popular 3D Drop Ins package. The update adds support for Mac OS X Leopard and Final Cut Studio 2 applications. Themes have been completely redesigned offering two flavors; Drop In 1.6 which is a free update and Drop In 2.0 Studio, a more advanced version with more theme elements and parameters.
Users can get more information by viewing the Drop In demo movie at: http://www.sugarqc.com/info/dropin_SUGARfx.html
About Noise Industries Partners and FxPacks
FxPacks are developed by Noise Industries and its partners using the Noise Industries FxFactory Pro plug-in manager. The FxFactory Pro plug-in manager provides broadcast designers, such as Ricardo Silver of SUGARfx, a user-friendly development tool to create additional effects for the Apple Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Express products. Apple users must install the Noise Industries FxFactory engine to operate FxPacks. FxFactory is free and can be downloaded from http://www.noiseindustries.com/fxfactory.
Pricing and Availability
SUGARfx Folding Cards LC FxPacks is available today via the Noise Industries web site (http://www.noiseindustries.com) for an MSRP of $69.00 USD.
Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Express users can test drive FxFactory FxPacks by downloading the 15-day trial version from www.noiseindustries.com/fxfactory.
About SUGARfx Broadcast Designer Ricardo Silva
SUGARfx designer and founder Ricardo Silva’s impressive resume includes broadcast design for the National Geographic IMAX open, Norm, Ripley's Believe or Not, Noticias Telemundo, Univision News graphics, Top 10 A&E, TLC Investigators, DirecTV International Marketing, TNBC graphics, TechTV, and Fox Sports International.
About Noise Industries, LLC
Established in 2004, Boston Massachusetts based Noise Industries is an innovative developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast community. Their products are integrated with popular non-linear editing and compositing products from Apple and Avid. For more information about Noise Industries, please visit: http://www.noiseindustries.com.
Press Contact
Janice Dolan
(p) (617) 817 6595
(e) janice@zazilmediagroup.com
The Noise Industries logo is a trademark registered in the U.S. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Noise Industries Partner CoreMelt Releases New FxPack For Apple Final Cut Studio 2 and Final Cut Express 4
20 February, 2008 08:50 AM
GPU accelerated plug-ins support high precision
rendering for optimal visual effects production
workflows
Boston MA – February 20, 2008 – Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, today announced that partner Core Melt ( HYPERLINK "http://www.idustrialrevolution.com" www.coremelt.com) has released a brand new Noise Industries FxPack titled “CoreMelt PolyChrome”. The new FxPack is designed to run on Apple Final Cut Studio 2 (FCS 2) and Final Cut Express 4.0 (FCE 4) leveraging Apple’s FxPlug architecture.
The new CoreMelt PolyChrome FxPack offers 40 GPU accelerated transition effects for FCS 2 and FCE 4. Support for 10 bit and 12 bit codecs including footage shot using the RED Digital camera dramatically enhances effects workflows. High precision rendering means that PolyChrome transitions will never truncate video footage to 8bit color. Users can color grade after an online edit, film outs from video, or other media repurposing. Precise controls enable users to alter all aspects of the transition.
“This is a significant milestone for Noise Industries. Through our joint development partnerships with broadcast designers and visual effects artists such as Roger Bolton from CoreMelt, Apple Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Express users can pick and choose from over 300 unique FxFactory plug-ins,” comments Niclas Bahn, director of business development, Noise Industries. “Because our partners work in the industry day to day, they bring an immense amount of innovation to solving real-world workflow challenges, hence delivering packages like PolyChrome that are purpose-built for optimizing the effects production pipeline.”
About Noise Industries Partners and FxPacks
FxPacks are developed by Noise Industries and its partners using the Noise Industries FxFactory Pro plug-in manager. The FxFactory Pro plug-in manager provides broadcast designers, such as Roger Bolton of CoreMelt, a user-friendly development tool to create additional effects for the Apple Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Express products.
Highlights of the CoreMelt PolyChrome FxPack
There are considerable advantages to the new CoreMelt PolyChrome FxPack;
Users can test drive the new CoreMelt PolyChrome FxPack by downloading the software from:
http://www.coremelt.com/products/products-for-final-cut-studio/polychrome-free-trial.html
Pricing and Availability
CoreMelt PolyChrome is available today via the Noise Industries web site (www.noiseindustries.com) for an MSRP of $99.00 USD.
Users must install the Noise Industries FxFactory engine to operate FxPacks. FxFactory is free and can be downloaded from http://www.noiseindustries.com/fxfactory.
Apple Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Express users can test drive FxFactory FxPacks by downloading the 15-day trial version from http://www.noiseindustries.com/fxfactory.
About CoreMelt effects designer Roger Bolton
CoreMelt founder Roger Bolton is a visual effects veteran with seven years experience in post production. His feature film credits include "Lord of the Rings", "Kingdom of Heaven" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Roger has worked as a senior flame operator, lead compositor and online editor in Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, India, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Roger has also published a whitepaper on end-to-end effects workflows using FCP, Motion, AE and Apple Color. The paper outlines how users keep the full dynamic range of color information right through to the final master. For more information visit: http://www.coremelt.com/support/workflow.
About Noise Industries, LLC
Established in 2004, Boston Massachusetts based Noise Industries is an innovative developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast community. Their products are integrated with popular non-linear editing and compositing products from Apple and Avid. For more information about Noise Industries, please visit: http://www.noiseindustries.com.
Press Contact
Janice Dolan
(p) (617) 817 6595
(e) janice@zazilmediagroup.com
The Noise Industries logo is a trademark registered in the U.S. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Boston MA – February 20, 2008 – Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, today announced that partner Core Melt ( HYPERLINK "http://www.idustrialrevolution.com" www.coremelt.com) has released a brand new Noise Industries FxPack titled “CoreMelt PolyChrome”. The new FxPack is designed to run on Apple Final Cut Studio 2 (FCS 2) and Final Cut Express 4.0 (FCE 4) leveraging Apple’s FxPlug architecture.
The new CoreMelt PolyChrome FxPack offers 40 GPU accelerated transition effects for FCS 2 and FCE 4. Support for 10 bit and 12 bit codecs including footage shot using the RED Digital camera dramatically enhances effects workflows. High precision rendering means that PolyChrome transitions will never truncate video footage to 8bit color. Users can color grade after an online edit, film outs from video, or other media repurposing. Precise controls enable users to alter all aspects of the transition.
“This is a significant milestone for Noise Industries. Through our joint development partnerships with broadcast designers and visual effects artists such as Roger Bolton from CoreMelt, Apple Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Express users can pick and choose from over 300 unique FxFactory plug-ins,” comments Niclas Bahn, director of business development, Noise Industries. “Because our partners work in the industry day to day, they bring an immense amount of innovation to solving real-world workflow challenges, hence delivering packages like PolyChrome that are purpose-built for optimizing the effects production pipeline.”
About Noise Industries Partners and FxPacks
FxPacks are developed by Noise Industries and its partners using the Noise Industries FxFactory Pro plug-in manager. The FxFactory Pro plug-in manager provides broadcast designers, such as Roger Bolton of CoreMelt, a user-friendly development tool to create additional effects for the Apple Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Express products.
Highlights of the CoreMelt PolyChrome FxPack
There are considerable advantages to the new CoreMelt PolyChrome FxPack;
- GPU accelerated: PolyChrome transitions run on the GPU for both PPC and Intel Macintoshes.
- Lightening fast rendering
- Render in high precision color: All PolyChrome transitions have been tested with 10 bit and 12 bit codecs including footage from the RED Digital camera, 10 bit ProRes footage and other high bit depth codecs.
- Advanced Curves control: Dissolves and cross fades include precise control of transition curves, either symmetrical or separate for exact control over in and out clips.
- Four Free Transitions: FxFactory users who test drive PolyChrome receive 4 free transitions (no purchase necessary). Blend Mode, Curl Apart, Exposure Flash, Projector Malfunction.
Users can test drive the new CoreMelt PolyChrome FxPack by downloading the software from:
http://www.coremelt.com/products/products-for-final-cut-studio/polychrome-free-trial.html
Pricing and Availability
CoreMelt PolyChrome is available today via the Noise Industries web site (www.noiseindustries.com) for an MSRP of $99.00 USD.
Users must install the Noise Industries FxFactory engine to operate FxPacks. FxFactory is free and can be downloaded from http://www.noiseindustries.com/fxfactory.
Apple Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Express users can test drive FxFactory FxPacks by downloading the 15-day trial version from http://www.noiseindustries.com/fxfactory.
About CoreMelt effects designer Roger Bolton
CoreMelt founder Roger Bolton is a visual effects veteran with seven years experience in post production. His feature film credits include "Lord of the Rings", "Kingdom of Heaven" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Roger has worked as a senior flame operator, lead compositor and online editor in Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, India, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Roger has also published a whitepaper on end-to-end effects workflows using FCP, Motion, AE and Apple Color. The paper outlines how users keep the full dynamic range of color information right through to the final master. For more information visit: http://www.coremelt.com/support/workflow.
About Noise Industries, LLC
Established in 2004, Boston Massachusetts based Noise Industries is an innovative developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast community. Their products are integrated with popular non-linear editing and compositing products from Apple and Avid. For more information about Noise Industries, please visit: http://www.noiseindustries.com.
Press Contact
Janice Dolan
(p) (617) 817 6595
(e) janice@zazilmediagroup.com
The Noise Industries logo is a trademark registered in the U.S. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Noise Industries Heads to Las Vegas With Expanded Product Line and Partnerships
12 February, 2008 08:44 AM
Award-winning Noise Industries demonstrates new
releases at NAB on stand SL2128H; special
presentations at Motion Media Ball and Apple Final
Cut Super Meet
Boston MA – February 12, 2008 – Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced their plans to exhibit at the NAB 2008 exhibition held in Las Vegas NV from April 14 – 17, 2008 on stand SL2128H. The Noise Industries team will showcase new versions of their visual effects plug-in applications for Apple Final Cut Studio/Express and Avid AVX as well as introduce new partner releases.
In addition to the new product releases, special partner presentations will be done by well-known broadcast designers Peter Wiggins of idustrial revolution, Ricardo Silva from SUGARfx and Roger Bolton of CoreMelt.
Noise Industries will also showcase the new product releases at the following NAB 2008 special events; Motion Media Ball (Sahara Hotel on April 14, 2008) and the Apple Final Cut Super Meet (Rio Hotel on April 16, 2008).
About FxFactory
FxFactory is an extensive 2D / 3D compositing and effects plug-in environment offering over 200 GPU accelerated filters/generators and transitions. Developed for the Apple FxPlug architecture, FxFactory filters extend and enhance the production capabilities of the Apple Final Cut Studio 2 and Final Cut Express 4.0 solutions.
About Factory Tools
Noise Industries’ Factory Tools for Avid AVX runs natively on the Intel-based Macintosh platform; offering 115 GPU accelerated native plug-ins for Avid Xpress, Xpress Pro and Media Composer users.
Noise Industries Partners
idustrial revolution founder Peter Wiggins is a successful broadcast editor with more than 25 years of industry experience. His credits include work with the BBC, CBS, and CNN – covering everything from the Winter Olympics to working with Michael Jackson on a video for the World Music Awards. A well known power user of Final Cut Pro, Peter has designed a number of popular Noise Industries FxPacks based on his years of experience and passion to improve postproduction workflows for broadcast designers everywhere.
SUGARfx founder Ricardo Silva’s impressive resume includes broadcast design for the National Geographic IMAX open, Norm, Ripley's Believe or Not, Noticias Telemundo, Univision News graphics, Top 10 A&E, TLC Investigators, DirecTV International Marketing, TNBC graphics, TechTV, and Fox Sports International. CoreMelt is run by Roger Bolton, a visual effects veteran with seven years experience in post production and whose list of feature film credits include "Lord of the Rings", "Kingdom of Heaven" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Roger has worked as a senior flame operator, lead compositor and online editor in Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, India, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
For more information about Noise Industries at NAB 2008, please contact Niclas Bahn at njb@noiseindustries.com. To schedule a press briefing or request product reviews, please contact Ryan Wood at ryanw@zazilmediagroup.com.
About Noise Industries, LLC
Established in 2004, Boston Massachusetts based Noise Industries is an innovative developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast community. Their products are integrated with popular non-linear editing and compositing products from Apple and Avid. For more information about Noise Industries, please visit: http://www.noiseindustries.com.
Press Contact
Janice Dolan
(p) (617) 817 6595
(e) janice@zazilmediagroup.com
Noise Industries is a registered trademark. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Boston MA – February 12, 2008 – Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced their plans to exhibit at the NAB 2008 exhibition held in Las Vegas NV from April 14 – 17, 2008 on stand SL2128H. The Noise Industries team will showcase new versions of their visual effects plug-in applications for Apple Final Cut Studio/Express and Avid AVX as well as introduce new partner releases.
In addition to the new product releases, special partner presentations will be done by well-known broadcast designers Peter Wiggins of idustrial revolution, Ricardo Silva from SUGARfx and Roger Bolton of CoreMelt.
Noise Industries will also showcase the new product releases at the following NAB 2008 special events; Motion Media Ball (Sahara Hotel on April 14, 2008) and the Apple Final Cut Super Meet (Rio Hotel on April 16, 2008).
About FxFactory
FxFactory is an extensive 2D / 3D compositing and effects plug-in environment offering over 200 GPU accelerated filters/generators and transitions. Developed for the Apple FxPlug architecture, FxFactory filters extend and enhance the production capabilities of the Apple Final Cut Studio 2 and Final Cut Express 4.0 solutions.
About Factory Tools
Noise Industries’ Factory Tools for Avid AVX runs natively on the Intel-based Macintosh platform; offering 115 GPU accelerated native plug-ins for Avid Xpress, Xpress Pro and Media Composer users.
Noise Industries Partners
idustrial revolution founder Peter Wiggins is a successful broadcast editor with more than 25 years of industry experience. His credits include work with the BBC, CBS, and CNN – covering everything from the Winter Olympics to working with Michael Jackson on a video for the World Music Awards. A well known power user of Final Cut Pro, Peter has designed a number of popular Noise Industries FxPacks based on his years of experience and passion to improve postproduction workflows for broadcast designers everywhere.
SUGARfx founder Ricardo Silva’s impressive resume includes broadcast design for the National Geographic IMAX open, Norm, Ripley's Believe or Not, Noticias Telemundo, Univision News graphics, Top 10 A&E, TLC Investigators, DirecTV International Marketing, TNBC graphics, TechTV, and Fox Sports International. CoreMelt is run by Roger Bolton, a visual effects veteran with seven years experience in post production and whose list of feature film credits include "Lord of the Rings", "Kingdom of Heaven" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Roger has worked as a senior flame operator, lead compositor and online editor in Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, India, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
For more information about Noise Industries at NAB 2008, please contact Niclas Bahn at njb@noiseindustries.com. To schedule a press briefing or request product reviews, please contact Ryan Wood at ryanw@zazilmediagroup.com.
About Noise Industries, LLC
Established in 2004, Boston Massachusetts based Noise Industries is an innovative developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast community. Their products are integrated with popular non-linear editing and compositing products from Apple and Avid. For more information about Noise Industries, please visit: http://www.noiseindustries.com.
Press Contact
Janice Dolan
(p) (617) 817 6595
(e) janice@zazilmediagroup.com
Noise Industries is a registered trademark. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.