http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T18:24:36 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a9d3c597-7bad.html#80849 RE:Vision Effect's SmoothKit extends the standard AE blur and sharpen <br />filters that supply the extra features:<br /><br />* Ability to selectively filter the luminance, or the chrominance, or each of <br />the RGB channels independently.<br />* Soften areas while preserving sharp edges.<br />* Sharpen plugin with a "multi-res" mode that significantly reduces usual <br />sharpening ringing artifacts.<br />* Z-blur that uses depth maps for blurring control. Ability to change where <br />the focal point should be.<br />* Optional grayscale images may be used to scale filters on a pixel-by-pixel <br />basis.<br />* Includes a jaggie-reducing filter, to help eliminate staircasing.<br />* Median filter option (in the Diffusion plugin) that produces much less <br />blocky results than regular median filters.<br />* Directional filtering with per-pixel direction and strength controls.<br />* Ability to use splines to control the direction of the blur at each pixel<br />* Multi-frame (temporal) filtering with several processing modes.<br />* floating point support in AE 7 and up<br /><br />More info, demos, screencasts of the product in use: http://<br />www.revisionfx.com/products/smoothkit/ Peter Litwinowicz 0 0 2008-02-18T11:43:34