Joe's Filters for Final Cut ProJoe'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.

BETA

These are currently under development, feedback is appreciated.
Joe’s Blit Squish

Joe’s Blit Squish

A fast-scaling transition that uses digital artifacting to switch between two clips.

Joe’s Channel Viewer

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

Joe’s Widescreen Matte RT

A time-saving matte generator for overlaying widescreen bars.

Joe’s Aspect Matte RT

Joe’s Aspect Matte RT

A time-saving matte plugin for generating widescreen mattes for a variety of aspect ratios.

Joe’s Film Dissolve

Joe’s Film Dissolve

A more film-like dissolve transition.

Joe’s Time Ramper

Joe’s Time Ramper

Sort of Time Bender 2, this is specifically designed to create the smoothest possible time-ramps.

Joe’s Temporal Replicator

Joe’s Temporal Replicator

Displays sequential frames of a clip across the frame.

Joe’s Field Expander

Joe’s Field Expander

Extends the duration of each field, useful for smooth 50% slowdowns and forensic analysis.

Joe’s Pulldown Adjuster

Joe’s Pulldown Adjuster

A very simple, extremely efficient tool for translating between various NTSC pulldown formats.

Joe's Adjustment Filters

Joe’s Levels

Joe’s Levels

A standard five-adjustment Levels plugin for Final Cut Pro with extensive channel targeting options.

Joe’s Saturation & Colorize

Joe’s Saturation & Colorize

A plugin for Final Cut Pro to saturate, desaturate or colorize images towards a specific hue.

Joe’s Simple Saturation

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

Joe’s Sampled Color Levels

A semi-automatic full-color Levels adjustment based on sampled image colors.

Joe’s Threshold & Posterize

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

Joe’s Bevel & Emboss

Create bevel and emboss effects inside Final Cut Pro.

Joe’s Drop Shadow

Joe’s Drop Shadow

A more complete alpha channel drop shadow effect for Final Cut Pro.

Joe’s Inner Shadow

Joe’s Inner Shadow

Create bevel and emboss effects inside Final Cut Pro.

Joe's Blur Filters

Joe’s Diffuser

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

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

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

Joe’s Widescreen Matte RT

A time-saving matte generator for overlaying widescreen bars.

Joe’s Aspect Matte RT

Joe’s Aspect Matte RT

A time-saving matte plugin for generating widescreen mattes for a variety of aspect ratios.

Joe’s Ellipse

Joe’s Ellipse

A circle and ellipse shape generator plugin for Final Cut Pro.

Joe’s Shapes

Joe’s Shapes

A geometric shape generator plugin for Final Cut Pro.

Joe's Noise Filters

Joe’s Color Noise

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joe’s Color Glow

A Final Cut Pro plugin for creating color auras and glows around color-based selections.

Joe’s Maximizer

Joe’s Maximizer

A Final Cut Pro plugin which expands pixels into user defined shapes, similar to Circles of Confusion.

Joe’s Gradients

Joe’s Gradients

A Final Cut Pro plugin for creating and applying customized gradients over images.

Joe’s Pixelizer

Joe’s Pixelizer

A mosiac plugin for Final Cut Pro, recreates an image as square, round or diamond shaped pixels.

Joe’s Flexi-Smear

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

Joe’s Frame Rate Adjuster

Creates variable frame rate playback effects without adjusting timeline settings.

Joe’s Time Bender

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

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

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

Joe’s Y/C Corrector

A quick and efficient tool for adjusting Chroma/Luma sync.

Joe’s Broadcast Legalizer

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

Joe’s De-Interlacer

A better de-interlace plugin for Final Cut Pro. Faster, cleaner and more versatile.

Joe’s Field Blender

Joe’s Field Blender

A simple filter for combining video frames.

Joe’s Field Fixer

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

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.