Video Essentials V

[Edward Troxel]

NewBlue, Inc., the fastest growing integrated video and audio effects provider, today introduced the fifth edition of its best-selling Video Essentials series, NewBlue Video Essentials V. NewBlue Video Essentials V, offers over 100 presets in 10 distinct effects designed for producing professional quality results with minimum effort, saving time, energy, and accelerating productivity. NewBlue Video Essentials V provides advanced editing techniques including Progressive Stretch, Background Generator, Outline, Selective Focus, Selective Tint, Color Fixer Pro, ViewFinder, Old TV, Selective Color and Alpha Processor. Each video plugin benefits from NewBlue’s innovative approach to making technology powerful, yet accessible.

Akin to NewBlue’s entire line of NewBlueFX video effects plugins, NewBlue Video Essentials V integrates seamlessly into Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Premiere Elements, , Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Final Cut Express, Avid Media Composer, Avid NewsCutter, Avid Studio, Avid Symphony, Avid Xpress, Corel VideoStudio, MAGIX Movie Edit Pro, MAGIX Video Deluxe, MAGIX Video Pro, Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas Pro, Sony Vegas Movie Studio and Grass Valley EDIUS.

Says Todor J. Fay, president and CTO,
“Video Essentials V offers less work yet remarkable results. Whether you’re magnifying and altering an image into a backdrop or creating a refined old TV look, Video Essentials V empowers editors to create inventive looks minus the tedious tasking.”

Video Essentials V includes the following powerful filters, all with a number of preset configurations:

Progressive Stretch, which takes a 4:3 (standard definition) video clip and stretches it nicely in a widescreen format with optional cropping. Now it’s easy to cut to standard definition shots without ugly black side bars or sacrificing part of the image.
Background Generator, which magnifies and alters your video image to turn it into a beautiful backdrop, complete with perpetual panning motion.
Outline which adds a colored outline to text, chromakey, or other visuals with transparent borders. Create cut-out paper looks, give your titles an edge glow, and more.
Selective Focus which blurs the image outside an arbitrarily shaped area. Use Selective Focus to mimic a shallow depth of field or call attention to a region in the image.
Selective Tint which applies sophisticated tint algorithms to an area inside and outside an arbitrary user defined region in the picture. Also control the gradient crossfade between regions and masking behavior, to pinpoint what gets tinted.
Color Fixer Pro which provides the same quick and easy technique to fix color balance as Color Fixer Plus, while respecting broadcast-safe color values. Set the color balance, adjust the saturation, brightness, film gamma, and preserve blacks and whites to quickly get the look you want in one pass.
VeiwFinder which simulates a video camera viewfinder
Old TV which creates one of the most sophisticated old TV looks we’ve ever seen. Using chroma, tint, saturation, brightness, contrast and ghosting you can create a nostalgic look and a lot more.
Selective Color which creates a stunning look by isolating a narrow range of colors within your clip- leaving everything else gray.
Alpha Processor which takes the alpha channel of your video and processes it in useful ways, including inverting, blurring and adjusting its width.