The Foundry - Plug-Ins

Tinderbox 4 - Plug-Ins

There are 20 plug-ins in Tinderbox 4.

T_Bars

Generates SMPTE, EBU, EIA, 75% and 100% colour bars and other test patterns for use in setting up monitors.

T_BleachBypass

Exactly mimics a film lab bleach bypass process where the silver in the negative is retained giving a very stylized look.

T_Cartoon

Flattens colour and adds lines to edges to give a cartoon feel to images.

T_Channels

A versatile tool for floating point channel and image manipulation. It provides a range of functionality including image based arithmetic, clamping, clipping, channel rewiring and colour space conversion. It replaces and improves upon a number of After Effects filters which are not floating point.

T_Colourist

Uses statistical analysis of the image to provide various forms of automated colour correction. It is designed to replicate the skills of a colourist for normal colour balancing. The software applies controlled statistical corrections and as such does not require the subjective input from the artist or a perfectly balanced computer monitor.

T_Convolve

T_Convolve is a general purpose spatial filter that uses a weighted average of sampled pixels to determine each new pixel value. A number of pre-defined kernel shapes are supplied together with the ability to use your own kernels.

T_Fire

Generates animating fire/flames as an alternative to using stock footage.

T_Flow

Essentially a flood fill along a path defined by a matte. It can be used to write on text and generate animating mattes as transition effects.

T_InfiniteZoom

Zoom transition effect from one image to another. As the pixels in the first layer are scaled up, the whole image of the second layer is revealed in those pixels.

T_Kaleid

T_Kaleid produces a classic kaleidoscope prism effect on an image. This is achieved by simulating the inter-reflections of a triangular prism over a picture.

T_LightWrap

Adds light spill around the edges of foreground objects that are composited over bright backgrounds.

T_LineDrawing

Creates line drawings from images. Edges are detected and splines drawn along them. The line thickness automatically changes to give a calligraphic feel.

T_Median

NxN median filter. It's faster than the median filter in After Effects and can be used on 32 bpc images. Median filters are useful for cleaning up isolated spots of noise.

T_MuzzleFlash

Generates the burst of light seen at the end of a gun barrel when fired.

T_Quantise

Reduces the colour information in an image to produce bands while preserving the quality of the original colours.

T_Rain

Renders 2D rain over an image. It's quick to render and gives very plausible results for many shots.

T_Security

Degrades images to make them look as though they were shot on low cost surveillance cameras.

T_Snow

Renders swirling, falling snow that can settle on objects.

T_SoftGlow

Provides a subtle glow to images.

T_Water

Renders multiple distorting droplets over an image. The ripples can be sourced from a layer or drip randomly on the image. The ripples can also bounce off objects defined by mattes.

After Effects