The only other problem I had with the plug-in is that in Premiere Pro there was no way to keyframe the parameters. (Reviewer's Note: According to the folks at NewBlue, "We had a real tough decision here. It turns out there is a problem with the Premiere Pro API. You can either have presets or key framing, but you can't have both. We agonized over this and finally settled on presets, after surveying a lot of users who said that was the more useful of the two.") So you couldn’t move the blurs around to get any sort of motion effect; they just stay static on the screen. You also can’t stop and start, or slow down or speed up the motion effects. There was one keyframeable parameter available for “options”, but I don’t really need to be able to keyframe the “info” “help” or “activate” buttons. Hopefully this will get fixed in an upcoming release.
No, that's not your internet connection dropping video frames, it's the "Jumping Image" preset in Active Camera.
Depth of Options
You get ten separate filters in this plug-in package, each of which is meant to add a different motion effect to your footage. To be honest, I thought that a few of them replicated each other, in that you could pretty easily get the effect from one from another. For example, you could get the same effect as Earthquake from Active Camera, although admittedly Earthquake simplifies the process for getting this one specific effect. I also felt that Rolling Waves and Wiggle were a little too similar (with Wiggle being the better of the two), and the Motion Blur and Zoom Blur modules probably could have been combined into a single module as they produce very similar effects.
Ten different filters are included in Motion Effects, each of which applies a simulation of various types of movement to your footage.
As for the quality of the effects, they all look pretty cool. I appreciate that some of the modules let you choose how to handle the edges of the frame, and wish they all did this (i.e., when the video moves off the screen, do you want black in the background, do you want the whole picture stretched to fill the screen, do you just want the edges stretched, etc). I’d rather have the picture always take up the entire screen so that no black shows, but some of the presets in Active Camera and Earthquake move the picture so much that there are big chunks of empty space left on the edges of the screen. You’d have to manually resize your footage (post-effect) to get these empty spaces to go away.
