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Peter Litwinowicz said on Feb 18, 2008 at 11:43 AM :

RE:Vision Effect's SmoothKit extends the standard AE blur and sharpen
filters that supply the extra features:

* Ability to selectively filter the luminance, or the chrominance, or each of
the RGB channels independently.
* Soften areas while preserving sharp edges.
* Sharpen plugin with a "multi-res" mode that significantly reduces usual
sharpening ringing artifacts.
* Z-blur that uses depth maps for blurring control. Ability to change where
the focal point should be.
* Optional grayscale images may be used to scale filters on a pixel-by-pixel
basis.
* Includes a jaggie-reducing filter, to help eliminate staircasing.
* Median filter option (in the Diffusion plugin) that produces much less
blocky results than regular median filters.
* Directional filtering with per-pixel direction and strength controls.
* Ability to use splines to control the direction of the blur at each pixel
* Multi-frame (temporal) filtering with several processing modes.
* floating point support in AE 7 and up

More info, demos, screencasts of the product in use: http://
www.revisionfx.com/products/smoothkit/