Noise Industries Releases: Factory Tools Visual Effects Suite for Avid AVX
Noise Industries, developer of integrated effects technology for video and film production, today announced that version 1.0 of Factory Tools is now available. Factory Tools is the first software suite for creating, applying and sharing effects on the Avid AVX architecture which dynamically extends the effects supported by Avid editing systems. Factory Tools is a Macintosh only product and supports numerous features available only in Mac OS X Tiger.
Boston, MA (September 6, 2005) –- Factory Tools includes a comprehensive
collection of real-time plug-ins designed for quality and performance, available
directly in the Avid non-linear editing system. The suite includes 85 effects
out of the box, with many more available for download at the Noise Industries
Effect Market.
Factory Floor
The Factory Tools suite includes Factory
Floor, the revolutionary effect management and authoring tool for the Avid AVX
architecture. Current offerings in the integrated effects industry limit users
to a fixed set of conventional plug-ins. Factory Floor sets a new standard by
letting end users create brand new AVX-compatible effects in minutes, requiring
no programming experience or coding.
Effect Market
The Noise
Industries Effect Market is an online marketplace where effect artists and users
can share and distribute free and commercial visual effects created with the
Factory Tools suite. “The Noise Industries Effect Market is bound to convert the
integrated effects industry from a market driven by a few sellers, to a market
driven by the needs and creativity of the users and artists,” said Noise
Industries Head of Business Development Niclas Bahn.
Factory Tools
Features
- Tight integration with Mac OS X Tiger
technologies such as Core Image, Quartz Composer and
Spotlight.
- Modern rendering pipeline based on OpenGL for
superior performance and real-time support in all
plug-ins.
- Powerful compositing functionality in every
effect: multiple blend modes, Apply to Title or Matte, geometry adjustments and
support for high-resolution external graphic files, honoring embedded alpha
channels.
- Create new effects based on Core Image units or
Quartz Compositions, using Factory Floor.
- Share, download
and buy new effect libraries at the Effect Market
Pricing and
Availability
Factory Tools Basic is bundled with all retail versions of Avid
Media Composer Adrenaline, and Avid Xpress Pro systems. It is available directly
through Noise Industries for $499 for the Basic version and $729 for the
Professional version, with unlimited extensibility via additional effect
libraries.
About Noise Industries, LLC
Founded in 2004 in Boston MA,
with the mission of bringing innovative graphics software to the editing and
special effects community.
Press Contact
Niclas Bahn
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