Joe's Filters enhance and extend the abilities of Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express. The set of plugins includes faster versions of Final Cut Pro effects, tools to simplify the timeline and reduce the number of tracks needed for simple effects, plus many more image processing tools requested by Final Cut Pro users. Joe's Filters work with all video formats supported by Final Cut Pro.
A fully-functional demo version is available.
Joe's Filters were created with FXScript, the effects language built into Final Cut Pro. The plugins work natively in RGB or YUV, and take advantage of all the QuickTime and multiprocessor acceleration Final Cut Pro offers. Joe's Filters work with Intel and PPC based Macs.
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Joe’s Blit Squish
A fast-scaling transition that uses digital artifacting to switch between two clips.
Joe’s Channel Viewer
A utility plugin for Final Cut Pro to displays a clip’s RGB or YUV color channels.
Joe’s Widescreen Matte RT
A time-saving matte generator for overlaying widescreen bars.
Joe’s Aspect Matte RT
A time-saving matte plugin for generating widescreen mattes for a variety of aspect ratios.
Joe’s Film Dissolve
A more film-like dissolve transition.
Joe’s Time Ramper
Sort of Time Bender 2, this is specifically designed to create the smoothest possible time-ramps.
Joe’s Temporal Replicator
Displays sequential frames of a clip across the frame.
Joe’s Field Expander
Extends the duration of each field, useful for smooth 50% slowdowns and forensic analysis.
Joe’s Pulldown Adjuster
A very simple, extremely efficient tool for translating between various NTSC pulldown formats.
Joe's Adjustment Filters
Joe’s Levels
A standard five-adjustment Levels plugin for Final Cut Pro with extensive channel targeting options.
Joe’s Saturation & Colorize
A plugin for Final Cut Pro to saturate, desaturate or colorize images towards a specific hue.
Joe’s Simple Saturation
A Final Cut Pro plugin to quickly saturate or desaturate clips to a variety of color channel targets.
Joe’s Sampled Color Levels
A semi-automatic full-color Levels adjustment based on sampled image colors.
Joe’s Threshold & Posterize
A multi-function threshold plugin for Final Cut Pro for reducing image values.
Joe's Alpha Effects
Joe’s Bevel & Emboss
Create bevel and emboss effects inside Final Cut Pro.
Joe’s Drop Shadow
A more complete alpha channel drop shadow effect for Final Cut Pro.
Joe’s Inner Shadow
Create bevel and emboss effects inside Final Cut Pro.
Joe's Blur Filters
Joe’s Diffuser
A time saving diffusion plugin for Final Cut Pro, simulates video shot with a silk stocking or through a diffusion filter.
Joe’s Channel Blur
A better channel blur plugin for Final Cut Pro, selectively blurs any combination of RGB or YUV channels.
Joe’s Motion Blur
Faster and smoother directional motion blur effects for Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express.
Joe's Generators
Joe’s Widescreen Matte RT
A time-saving matte generator for overlaying widescreen bars.
Joe’s Aspect Matte RT
A time-saving matte plugin for generating widescreen mattes for a variety of aspect ratios.
Joe’s Ellipse
A circle and ellipse shape generator plugin for Final Cut Pro.
Joe’s Shapes
A geometric shape generator plugin for Final Cut Pro.
Joe's Noise Filters
Joe’s Color Noise
A color noise plugin for Final Cut Pro for adding random noise to clips without additional tracks.
Joe’s Levels Noise
An adjusted color noise plugin for Final Cut Pro for adding subtle noise grain to clips without additional tracks.
Joe’s Noise Reducer
Combines an interlace-savvy median filter with two-pass edge detection to reduce noise and preserve detail.
Joe’s Saturation Noise
An adjusted noise plugin for Final Cut Pro for adding saturation adjusted noise grain to clips without additional tracks.
Joe's Soft Stuff
Joe’s Soft Ellipse
A soft-ellipse plugin for Final Cut Pro, acts as a reversible geometric diffusion effect, and border filter.
Joe’s Soft Gradients
A linear diffusion plugin for Final Cut Pro which blends a blurred image with the original through a gradient mask.
Joe’s Soft Shapes
A soft-shape plugin for Final Cut Pro, acts as a reversible geometric diffusion effect, and border filter.
Joe’s Soft Spot
A circular diffusion filter for Final Cut Pro to blur inside of or around a circular area.
Joe's Stylize Filters
Joe’s Color Glow
A Final Cut Pro plugin for creating color auras and glows around color-based selections.
Joe’s Maximizer
A Final Cut Pro plugin which expands pixels into user defined shapes, similar to Circles of Confusion.
Joe’s Gradients
A Final Cut Pro plugin for creating and applying customized gradients over images.
Joe’s Pixelizer
A mosiac plugin for Final Cut Pro, recreates an image as square, round or diamond shaped pixels.
Joe’s Flexi-Smear
An irregular distortion plugin for Final Cut Pro can simulate stretched and mylar-like distortions.
Joe's Time Filters
Joe’s Frame Rate Adjuster
Creates variable frame rate playback effects without adjusting timeline settings.
Joe’s Time Bender
The original time-mapping plugin for creating variable speed changes and flexible playback in Final Cut Pro.
Joe's Transitions
Joe’s Blit Squish
A fast-scaling transition that uses digital artifacting to switch between two clips.
Joe's Video & Utility Filters
Joe’s Channel Viewer
A utility plugin for Final Cut Pro to displays a clip’s RGB or YUV color channels.
Joe’s Y/C Corrector
A quick and efficient tool for adjusting Chroma/Luma sync.
Joe’s Broadcast Legalizer
A YUV color toolset including Luma ceiling and floor, Chroma offset and amplitude, plus Y/C offset correction adjustments.
Joe’s De-Interlacer
A better de-interlace plugin for Final Cut Pro. Faster, cleaner and more versatile.
Joe’s Field Blender
A simple filter for combining video frames.
Joe’s Field Fixer
A field-order utility plugin for Final Cut Pro for reversing and reordering fields across frames.
Joe’s Multi-Frame Blender
A frame stacking plugin blends up to 20 frames to reduce noise, isolate motion or brighten dark images.
Buying Joe's Filters
Purchasing is handled through Kagi Shareware. I can also accept PayPal upon request, but it will probably me take a few days to arrange.
A packaged product should be available in February.
Upgrading from the trial version
Because of the way Final Cut Pro attaches filters, the paid version of the filters do not simply replace the trial versions. Each instance of an applied effect is stored individually in the project file and each one will need to be replaced with the full version. This is just how Final Cut Pro works, and there doesn't seem to be much I can do about it.
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