The Too Much Too Soon Free FXScrips =================================== Copyright 2002-2009 Mattias Sandstršm/Too Much Too Soon These scripts are freeware, meaning you may copy and distribute them free of charge as long as they're kept intact, including the copyright message. Feel free to use the code as inspiration for your own scripts, but don't steal. Install by copying this folder to your FCP plugins directory. Have fun. Mattias Sandstršm mattias@beauty.se http://www.mattias.nu/ The Scripts =========== Warp Sharp (New Aug 2009) This sharpens the image by making edges thinner. It produces no halos and can often be used to bring back some edges from out of focus material, or define the detail in material that has been scaled up by a large factor. It's also perfect for cartoons and other drawn or computer generated images, where you can go crazy with the sharpening and get really smooth and sharp results, whereas for normal video the image quickly looks plastic and creamy if you go too far, often as little as 0.5-1 is enough. D90 Upscaler (Updated Mar 2009) This plugin works because the D90 really captures an 800p image and scales it to 720p and the way it's done makes it possible to scale it back up almost losslessly to 800p and then back down to 720p or even better up to your resolution of choice. This update uses a new and largely superior workflow, but the previous "slug and image well" works too. You start by nesting your 720p sequence in a 1080p one, make sure no automatic scaling is done and if it is just reset it, then nest this sequence again in another 1080p sequence. Now apply the filter to this nest, and either use scale to fit, or select native 1280x801 and apply your own scaler. If you're using Instant HD from Red Giant Software for example here's where you apply it, setting the source size to 1280x801. You'll notice that the workflow is exactly the same so no need to nest the clips again, just apply it. You can also use the motion tab, which if motion quality is set to best might yield better results, or maybe export using compressor and its frame control scaling. Good luck. D90 Rescaler (New Nov 2008) If you're a D90 user I'm sure you've seen the stairstepping of diagonal lines, as well as the flickering aliasing of horizontal lines. No more, thanks to this plugin. Lee Wilson posted the concept behind this script on the dvxuser D90 forum. Check it out. Basically the D90 uses a lousy algorithm to scale the footage down to 720p, and what the plugin does is resampling it to the original size and scaling it back down using FCP's bicubic interpolation instead. Frame by Frame Interpreter (New Nov 2008) Interprets a clip frame by frame to the framerate of the current sequence. Useful for converting back and forth between 24p and 25p, or for creating smooth slow motion from footage shot at a higher speed, like from 60p to 24p, or even 60i to 24p along with my slow motion plugin (or even 60i to 50i for the adventurous since the fields are preserved as is). Place a slug or scratch clip on the timeline, apply this filter, and drag the clip you want to interpret onto the well. Smooth & Sharp Splits the image in the high and low frequency parts, allowing independent noise smoothing and detail sharpening, one having minimal effect on the other. The threshold selects the breakpoint between noise and detail and the amounts are the amounts to respectively attenuate and gain the signal. Slow Motion Change the speed of interlaced video to 50% then apply this. It will alternate between the fields creating the smoothest slow motion possible. Regrain When working with film footage it's either often necessary to remove the grain before performing things like sharpening and keying, or some filters you add like diffusion and time remapping will remove grain that you wanted to keep. Drop the origina clip on this filter, and it will lift the grain from it and add it back. If you regrain something that was previously "noise reduced" make sure you use the same settings and you will get near lossless performance. Smart Anamorphic Stretches 4:3 footage to 16:9 without cropping. Make sure you remove any automatically added distortions in the motion tab before you apply this. Currently in beta so please send all the feedback you got. This update stretches in a more subtle way, more like the panorama setting on many widescreen tv's. Noise Reduction New Heavy Blur method may remove more noise, but may also create an artificial look. Mainly meant for web video and for footage that will be Regrained, see the new filter. You can also chose to show edges, to fine tune what's considered detail in the image and what is noise. Removes video noise and grain by averaging pixels where there's no detail. Aside from giving you a cleaner image, this can really improve the results you'd get from most compression schemes. Smart Noise Reduction Reduces noise considerably by averaging frames where there's no motion. Needs to be first in the filter chain to work properly. Smart Deinterlace Deinterlaces motion areas only, maintaining maximum sharpness and minimizing artifacts. Needs to be first in the filter chain to work properly. Custom Diffusion Add diffusion with more control than the old one, but otherwise the same effect. Hair Removal Just razor on each side of the frame with the hair or dust speck, draw a line over it, select whether to replace it with the previous or next image, add an optional offset, and it magically disappears. You'll find that simply drawing the line is sufficient in most situations. Clock Generates a digital clock, for countdowns or whatever. The update adds the option to select which figures are shown, plus you can now count hours too. The clock doesn't animate on its own, so you have to keyframe the "milliseconds" slider. I thought that would be the most flexible way of handling this... Flashframe A flashframe transition. Now with optional gradual pre and / or post blur and luma clamping for legal levels. Color Balance Adjusts color balance without changing the luminance. Works a little like the built in color balance filter as well as the Quicktime RGB filter, but much better and more intuitive than both. Color Balance 3-way As above but with separate controls for shadows, midtones and highlights. Similar to the color balance tool found in many image manipulation tools for stills. Scratch Removal Removes vertical scratches from old and damaged film. Move the sliders (you can enter fractions by hand for fine tuning) until the guide covers the scratch and then uncheck the guide box. Scratches like these are often stationary but otherwise the filter is completely keyframeable. Anamorphic Squeeze The benefit of doing this using a filter is that the letterbox area becomes usable for other filters applied to the same clip, such as Timecode Reader. This is not the case when you use the automatic squeeze or the motion settings. Make sure you undo any other squeeze before applying this. Shadow/Highlight Gamma Applies gamma correction to the highlights and shadows independently. Originally designed to correct the excessive contrast often found in film material transfered on a film chain, but feel free to use it whichever way you want. Black & White Offers more control over the conversion to black & white than simple desaturation. Use it to emulate different b&w filmstocks as well as camera filters. I like to use 50% red and 50% green and lose the blue altogether for that orange filter look. Chroma Resample Resamples the chroma channel using FCP's bicubic interpolation instead of Quicktime's built in nearest neighbor algorithm. Makes keying a lot easier and generally improves the image, especially if used with the Black & White or Fast Deinterlace filters. Diffusion Silk stocking, Soft Filter, ProMist, LoCon, Diffusion and so on -- this filter does it. Just experiment with the settings. Normal, Overlay and Screen seems to be the most useful transfer modes, but don't let that stop you. Speeder III Speed ramping tool. Ramps by keyframing the frame number or progress percentage. Works on the clip it's applied to, but if you want to change the duration you can apply it to a scrap clip and drop the clip to ramp in the source clip box. Fast Deinterlace Same as the built in, but it renders more than twice as fast. And now it shouldn't destroy the last line of video as it sometimes did before. Black Restore If you've lost the blacks for some reason, like video noise, bad telecine or dirty VHS heads, or even because of some filter you applied, this one's for you. It gives the image its punch back, with deeper blacks and better saturation in dark colors, without changing the brightness of the rest of the image. Blend Fields This does the exact same thing as the famous "double deinterlace filmlook method," but it renders *a lot* faster. Clock Well, generates a digital clock, for countdowns or whatever. It doesn't animate on its own, so you have to keyframe the "seconds" slider. I thought that would be the most flexible way of handling this... Mosaic Well, mosaic. Reduce Flicker Same as Blend Fields, but only blends where there's interlace artifacts. Useful for removing flicker in text and still images while preserving as much sharpness as possible. RGB Gamma A simple but effective color corrector. Typewriter Types the letters one at a time. Uses keyframes to control the speed, which allows for a more "real" and "natural" typing look. Try it with the Harting font.