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Noise Industries is a company dedicated to commercialize VFX plugins to facilitate and speed up certain tasks for editors and compositors. This time, they bring us two new products to speed up the process of split screens in both video and photography.
Nattress Video Scrapbook
Starting from still images (photographs), we can create animations in an automated way, without having to configure keyframes. It can be very useful if we have to make a photo montage, a corporate video or even a family video.
It has several options to modify them and create unique animations very quickly. For example, one of the possibilities it gives is to use a photograph as a background and another in the foreground. Also included are six types of transitions with fades, chained, glows, blurs and flares.
Like almost all Noise Industries plugins, this one is compatible with:
Final Cut Pro: 6, 7 and X.
Motion: 3, 4 and 5.
After Effects: CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.5 and CS6.
The following video is a demonstration of Nattress Video Scrapbook with a montage of several photographs with zooms, rotations, transitions, etc. applied to them.
It is priced at $49 (39,98€) and can be purchased or tested from here.
In this tutorial, made on Final Cut X, you can learn how to use it and change its parameters, adding vignetting, colors, transitions, etc.
Tokyo Split Animator
In this case, the plugin is designed to work with video clips, but it has a clear disadvantage with the previous one: it is only compatible with Final Cut Pro X.
This is a set of templates with several designs to create split screens, which can be fixed or animated. As in Nattress Video Scrapbook, its options are very simple and allow us to save a lot of time when making this kind of effects.
Through these options we can vary the entry point (inside the screen) and exit point of the image, add a border, or even create compositions with several clips so that the split screen is more than two images.
This is the demonstration video with examples:
You can also watch these two tutorials. The first one is shorter and explains how to apply the effect to a clip and modify the parameters. The second one goes a little more in depth and, in detail, tells us about each of the templates and how they work.
From this page you can get Tokyo Split Animator (for 41,19€) and also download the trial. This trial version has unlimited duration, its restriction is that it includes a watermark.
*Please note that all effects work through the latest version of FxFactory, which you can download here.
