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	Software Review: Final Effects Complete 5, Pg. 2

I’ve put together a number of samples for this article that will give you a sense of the range of effects available in FEC5, and some of their uses.

The FEC5 library doesn't entirely overlap AE CS3 effects. Some effects seem to duplicate existing native AE effects, although often with better controls. Some effects overlap the CC effects. And some effects (31 of them, by my count) are unique to FEC5.

Here is a table where I've attempted to sort the FEC5 effects. The green ones in the first column seem to duplicate effects that are already native in AE. The red ones in the middle are the effects that are included in AE as CC 8-bit effects. And the black ones in the third column are effects unique to FEC5.

	AE FEC5 effects in this column seem to duplicate effects that are already native in AE	CyCore FEC5 effects in this column are included in AE as CC 8-bit effects	BorisFX Effects in this column are unique to FEC5
Blur & Sharpen	Blur, Channel Blur, Directional Blur, Sharpen, Unsharp Mask	Vector Blur	Chroma Luma Blur, Soften, Spin Blur, Spiral Blur, Zoom Blur
Color Correction	Brightness-Contrast, Color Balance HSL, Color Balance RGB, Gamma-Pedestal-Gain, Replace Color, Tint,	Color Offset, Toner, Threshold, Threshold RGB	Invert
Distort	Spherize, Twirl, Water Waves	Bend It, Bender, Bulge, Flo Motion, Griddler, Lens, Power Pin, Ripple Pulse, Slant, Slant Matte, Smear, Split, Split 2, Tiler	EZ Lazy Waves, EZ Ripples
Edges	Power Ramp		Burn Edges, Gradient Blur, Sparkle Edges, Spot Blur, Spot Feather, Spot Frame, Spot Tatter, Spot Turbulence, Wiggle Edges
Image	Noise	Simple Wire Removal	Alpha Map, Channel Noise, Composite, Median, MinMax
Light		Light Burst, Light Rays, Light Sweep, Spotlight	Light Blast, Light Tornado, Light Whirl
Particle		Ball Action, Bubbles, Drizzle, Hair, Mr. Mercury, Particle Systems II, Particle World, Pixel Polly, Rain, Snow, Star Burst
Perspective	Sphere, Cylinder	Page Turn	Advanced 3D, Simple Shadow, Super Shadow
Stylize	Burn Film, Emboss, Fractal, Glass, Glow	Mr. Smoothie, Repetile, Glue Gun, Kaleida, Blobbylize,	3D Relief, Lens Star, Scatterize, Video Fragment
Time		Force Motion Blur, Time Blend, Time Blend FX, Wide Time
Transitions		Glass Wipe, Grid Wipe, Image Wipe, Jaws, Light Wipe, Radial Scale Wipe, Scale Wipe, Twister	Blur Dissolve, Griddler Wipe, Lens Wipe, Rain Wipe, Slant Wipe, Spherize Wipe

UL: Original. UR: Toner w/ Crisp Cranberry preset. LR: Toner with w/ preset. LL: Toner w/ Forest Green preset.

Rapid, high quality, preset tones. Certainly changes the mood of the scene.

UL: Tornado Light with Bright Zoom preset. UR: Gamma-Pedestal w/ BlueBlacks preset to turn the blacks to blue. LR: Rain, a particle effect, with the Torrential preset. LR: Rain and Gamma-Pedestal together with presets.

Fixing the weather
I created this shot as a pickup for Crosswater Entertainment’s “Cowboy Funeral”, directed by Len Anderson (now in post). At the last minute we caught a farm in a real rainstorm. It will be interesting to see which shot makes it into the movie.