Having been under development for years at Wondertouch and now, after GenArts taking over, being sold under the Wondertouch by Genarts label, this is an offspring of the standalone version of particleIllusion. It adds the functionality to After Effects without having to render image sequences of the particle effects first. However, the separate program is still required to edit and design the effects. The plug-in will then use the presets and render them.

Satisfying the need for psychedelic effects, this plug-in produces various kinds of random footage artifacts such as channel offset, light flashes, tape stutter, camera shakes and blur.

Sure Target 2 is a hard-coded and enhanced version of the original script collection of same name. It applies and manages expressions and keyframes on 3D layers that allow you to automatically fly from one layer to another and thus facilitate navigation in the 3D environment. This is especially useful for text in promos and trailers, but can of course also be used for anything else.

Beauty Box marks the return of Digital Anarchy to the video plug-in market after they sold their older tools to Red Giant Software. Similar to SmoothKit and select plug-ins found in some of the big suites, this aims at digital beauti farm use for removing wrinkles, blemishes and specks on human skin while also retaining details that define human features and distinctiveness.

Usually, when you plan to insert an effect in your shot, you mask out areas by putting up green screens/ blue screens and filming the action in front of them. However, sometimes you cannot do so for technical reasons associated with the location or someone in the production chain decides to turn a non-effects plate into something more exciting by inserting some stuff. This usually then means that you manually have to separate objects using paint and masking procedures, commonly referred to as rotoscoping. Here Power Matte comes into play. Instead of having to be über-precise and match your roto work as precisely as you can, you only draw loose boundaries using masks and the plug-in then analyzes those. When it finds contiguous areas, it will interpret them and generate a corresponding matte.