Joes Filters 3.5 review

Joe's Filters now includes over 30 useful tools and effects for Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 280K Developer: Joe Maller Buy Now Price: $95.00 Updated: 30 Mar 2006

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Joe's Filters now includes over 30 useful tools and effects for Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express.

Some of the highlights include motion-difference De-Interlacing, Variable Frame Rate playback, edge-detecting Noise Reduction and a new intelligent frame blending algorithm in Time Bender.

Here are some key features of "Joes Filters":
A standard five-adjustment Levels plugin for Final Cut Pro with extensive channel targeting options.
A semiautomatic full-color Levels adjustment based on sampled image colors.
A plugin for Final Cut Pro to saturate, desaturate or colorize images towards a specific hue.
A plugin for Final Cut Pro which quickly saturates or desaturates clips to a variety of color channel targets.
A multifunction threshold plugin for Final Cut Pro for reducing the number of image values.
Create four different types of bevel and emboss effects
A more versatile drop shadow plugin for clips with alpha channels
Casts shadows which appear to be inside a clip's visible pixels.

Limitations:
The trial plugins are fully functional on short clips, longer clips will have their last second watermarked.

Requirements:
Final Cut Pro version 1.2.5 or later.