Au Naturel 1.1.2 review

Au Naturel is a plug-in for Adobe After Effects, Apple's Final Cut Pro, Autodesk (Discreet) Combustion and compatible hosts that allows you to work on your footage in a 32-bit per channel floating point linear RGB color space giving you much more natural looking results when compositing, blurring, or correcting your footage.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 4276K Developer: Buena Software, Inc Buy Now Price: $142.00 Updated: 26 Jun 2006

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Au Naturel is a plug-in for Adobe After Effects, Apple's Final Cut Pro, Autodesk (Discreet) Combustion and compatible hosts that allows you to work on your footage in a 32-bit per channel floating point linear RGB color space giving you much more natural looking results when compositing, blurring, or correcting your footage.

Au Naturel comes with 6 built-in effects:
- Adjust Exposure Allows you to adjust the exposure of your footage in f-stops, producing much more pleasing and realistic results and with much less effort than using Brightness and Contrast controls.
- Levels Similar to your host application's built-in Levels function, but without the limitations. You can set levels above the maximum or below the minimum pixel values giving you a much wider range to work with. And values that go above the max or below the min are preserved for the next effect to work with rather than being clipped.
- Gaussian Blur An effect that produces a much more realistic looking blur than the built-in Gaussian Blur. Plus, it allows you to choose how the edges are handled and whether to apply the blur to only a single channel or all the channels.
- Directional Blur As with the Gaussian Blur, this blur produces much more realistic looking results than your host's built-in Directional Blur.
- Transform Scale, rotate, translate, and skew your image with sub-pixel accuracy and using high-quality resampling algorithms for results that are sharper than the built-in tools.
- Composite Composite scenes together in linear RGB using a separate alpha channel for each color channel if you want. This allows you to reproduce the actual interactions that occur with light in the real world.

What's New:
Fixed the directional blur filter so that the blur length no longer changes as the angle changes.

Requirements:
After Effects 6.0 or later, or a compatible application such as Final Cut Pro 4 or later or Combustion 3 or later.