

Let's explain to you first that each plugin for an application expands its capability. Developers may remove or cancel their free offers without warning.“How do I get plugins for Final Cut Pro X?” Please let us know if you found this article helpful, have questions, or just have a favorite free plugin you want to share. While their effects plugins can get pricey, it’s worth watching some of their tutorial videos – if only so you can get a jump on your Christmas list. Now that you have a sense of the worlds that can open up by plugging-in extra features and effects, go have a blast!Īnd speaking of having a blast, the first thing I would recommend is going to the MotionVFX website and just soaking everything they have built. For free, you can make your movie title look like Star Wars Rogue One, Assassins Creed, or Fantastic Beasts. But there is more: This free pack also includes LUTs, great Titles, Mandalas, and a bunch of horizon-bending effects.įinally, Stupid Raisins offers three free customizable opening credit templates in its Movie Pop plug-in. Strange at your fingertips? Thanks to MotionVFX (again), those burning portals can be turned into your very own transitions. It’s all there – the green hue, the Transitions, the typeface and, of course, the falling numbers. These may be single-use, one-joke, plugins but I think that is exactly what free plugins are for: When you need just that one title, effect, or joke but don’t want to spend oodles of hours custom building it.įor the look of The Matrix, check out mMatrix from MotionVFX. Just consider this Transition plugin a groovy throwback to help signify a flashback with a bit of a wink at the same time. If you don’t know who/what Scooby Doo is, how about Austin Powers? No? Okay, never mind. Alex 4D Flashback (aka the Scooby Doo effect, by Alex Gollner)

There will be one shot, one day, that just needs that jumpy grainy feel. Maybe the coolness of Super 8 has peaked, but I think every editor has to have an effect that makes footage look like it was shot on an old school Super-8 camera. An adjustment layer is particularly handy for color grading adding LUTs as all of the shots beneath the adjustment layer will quickly have the same look.

By placing one, like you would place a Title, over your entire movie any settings, formatting, or Effects you apply to it will apply to your whole movie. mAdjustment Layer (MotionVFX)Īn adjustment layer is a container for all kinds of effects. Three out of my four favorite productivity plug-ins come from a company called MotionVFX, and limiting it to three was hard because they make such great products and have so many free plug-ins and templates. Swish Transitions (Andy Mees via FxFactory)
