Collection of four effects for "sabotaging your creativity"

Digieffects, a developer of popular visual effects software plugins today announced that it shipped Damage, a new set of plugins for video and film post production professionals.

Watch a demo of Damage

Watch the tutorial on how to use the Skew effect in Damage to imitate a CRT turning on and off

Digieffects Damage is a collection of four effects designed for post production professionals who want to create an extensive variety of digital and/or analog defects, errors and artifacts in their footage. It supports Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Autodesk Combustion and Boris RED.

“We designed the Damage package to be the most comprehensive set of tools for creating images that look affected by digital or analog artifacts available.” said Digieffects President, Robert Sharp. According to Sharp, Damage is a unique product in the marketplace.

No other plugin collection is dedicated to “damaging” a video clip”. Damage includes the following effects:

Blockade: Video acquired by low fidelity devices like cellular phones and PDAs is becoming more commonplace. Blockade makes your clip look like it is highly compressed and being transmitted through a very bandwidth-limited pipe. Essential for simulating internet based micro cam display or personal video communication.

Artifact: Developed to create digital defects, Artifact simulates lost DCT blocks and frame dropping, most often seen when a digital video file suffers from corruption or a satellite feed is hampered by weather. Make sure you warn clients and your house engineer that it’s only an effect…

Interference: If it’s television you want, traditionally you’ll need some sort of interlaced field scanning. Interference creates the look of interlaced video fields, even on progressive footage or still images, adding noise, colorization and offset separately for each field.

Skew: The never-ending quest to aim the rabbit ears so that the television show looks as good once you’re in your chair as it did when your hands were attached to the antenna is fast fading into the lore of old… That valuable (if under-appreciated) look is preserved in Skew. Uniquely analog/broadcast image badness like noise, image shearing, ghosts… it’s all there.

Damage has a retail price of $99 and is available immediately from Digieffects and its resellers.