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What does it take to upgrade? What happens to my current projects? What hardware do I need? Learn more about the most significant update to our plugins in years.

FxFactory Pro 6 brings Wide Gamut HDR support, perceptual color space effects, AI-powered subject isolation, face detection and deeply customizable, advanced features to Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro and After Effects. The upgrade is free for existing customers.

Fresh Face lets you easily add subtle facial beauty effects to human faces in Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Smart Blur is an AI-powered plugin for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion that automates cinematic blurring effects.

Drip is an AI-assisted visual effect plugin for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion that applies cartoon-style dripping effects over your graphics and footage.

Background Remover 1.0.2 makes it incredibly easy to insert titles or custom clips between the subject and background of your videos. The update is free for existing customers and available today for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion.

Keyper 2.1 adds new and powerful AI-assisted Subject detector for users on macOS 14 Sonoma. Free update for existing customers, available for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion.

Caption Burner 2 adds better subtitle layout options, effects and transitions with automatic timing, support for lyrics (LRC) and more. Free update for existing customers, available for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion.

Auto Balancer helps you remove unwanted color casts and simulate different lighting conditions in post production by combining white point balancing, color temperature and tint adjustment in a powerful, intuitive plugin for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion.

Background Remover detects people in your videos and extracts a quick key from footage shot without a greenscreen or bluescreen. Available on macOS 14 Sonoma in Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion.

AutoBlur lets you draw attention to the most important part of your video by simulating a reduced depth of field via a lens blur or darkening effect. Available for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion.

Keyper 2 adds pre-processing tools and output options to extract people from their backgrounds without requiring greenscreen or prepared backdrops in Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion.

Motype 2.1 introduces powerful particle emitters to create titles that burst into life. This version is a free update for existing Motype 2 users, available for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion.

Makeup Artist 3.5 is a complete rewrite of our smoothing and enhancement plugins with greater power than ever over skin tones, eyes and lips. Compatible with Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion.

Layouts lets you easily create complex, dynamic photo grids in Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro and After Effects. On sale for a limited time only!

Essential LUTs helps you find the perfect look for any project you are editing in Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro and After Effects. On sale for a limited time only!

FaceBlur brings automatic face detection to Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion, letting you blur or pixelate any faces in your video automatically. Get it for only $39 for a limited time only!

Motype 2 is a massive upgrade that brings unique, stunning titles to Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion. Existing Motype customers can upgrade for only $99, whereas new customers can take advantage of a limited-time intro price of $129.

Smart LUTs enables one-click color grading with 60 exciting looks to choose from in Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro and After Effects. On sale for a limited time only!

Hawaiki Keyer 5 is the industry’s most sophisticated green and blue screen keyer for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion, now with AI-powered face and object tracking and more advanced features. On sale for a limited time only!

Hawaiki AutoFix gives you automatic dead pixel removal in Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion. On sale for a limited time only.

Lines 2 gives you easy to use lines and arrows. The new hand-drawn styles support Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion in addition to Final Cut Pro. Available for only $9!

Photo Montage 3 creates stunning photo slideshows. This latest update for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion adds AI-assisted Pan and Zoom, Wide Gamut HDR, new effects and transitions, and it's on sale for a limited time.

Keyper extracts people from their backgrounds without requiring greenscreen or prepared backdrops. Currently on sale for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion.

Reverse Corner Pin is a tool for removing perspective from a shot. Define four pins and the plugin will stretch them back into a rectangular image. On sale for a limited time, and available now for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion.

Eric Jordan is back with us to talk about ROAM: Rider of Another Mortal, his latest project made possible by the Yanobox Nodes plugin in After Effects.

Storm creates stunning organic 3D surfaces that animate and evolve in real time. Available now for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion. On sale for a limited time!

Award winning motion designer Pierre Magnol shows us how to make a modern dance video with Yanobox Mosaic in After Effects, in his latest project: HKSTRONG, a film commissioned by the Hervé Koubi dance company.

Eric Jordan is back to showcase his latest project with Yanobox Nodes in After Effects creating motion graphics, animations and visual effects for StratoZen. Stay tuned for the eye candy.

Motype 1.5 is a free update to the particle-based titling plugin, adding 69 new presets and a redesigned UI. Available now for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Motion

Eric Jordan is back to discuss his latest project using Yanobox Nodes in After Effects, creating graphics and animations for Beyond Limits. Read on for some of the most inspiring eye candy in the industry!

Hawaiki Super Glow is a powerful new glow plug-in for Final Cut, Motion, Premiere Pro and After Effects that reinvents the glow and takes it to an entirely different level.

LUT Mixer is a color grading plugin for FCPX, Premiere Pro & AE that lets you combine and apply multiple LUTs with automatic skin tone protection and no loss in quality.

Better Black and White is a plugin for creating rich black and white images using film emulation – right inside Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro.

Color Cone offers precise color correction for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and After Effects that allows for smooth results that leave highlights and shadows intact.

Light Show Plugins are Glows, light spills and distortion effects designed for titles and videos.

Warping Wheels for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and After Effects reinvents color wheels to protect skin tones during adjustment, creating great looks with a familiar UI.

Hedge combines superfast transfers with a clean, intuitive UI. Simultaneous transfers give you peace of mind in the shortest time. This is quite simply the best backup software for filmmakers.

Hedge combines superfast transfers with a clean, intuitive UI. Simultaneous transfers give you peace of mind in the shortest time.

This is quite simply the best backup software for filmmakers.

We caught up with Eric Jordan, author of graphics, animations and visual effects for the award winning documentary People's Republic of Desire and asked him about what went into creating the motion graphics of the film and how the After Effects plugin Yanobox Nodes was utilized in the process.

Eran Stern, who will be will be teaching several sessions at the Conference, created the event's promo video. Watch his tutorial demonstrating the process of creating the video using Yanobox Nodes in After Effects.

Award-winning motion designer, Pierre Magnol (aka BrightPhoton), joins us again to tell us about his new project using Yanobox Nodes. We have previously featured Pierre’s work on the promo video for the Falcon 8X from Dassault Aviation and Orchestra.

We noticed some awesome work using Yanobox Nodes posted on social media. We reached out to the creator Steve Richey to ask him about his background and what inspires him. He was also kind enough to share some images of his work using Nodes in After Effects.

We caught up with Aaron from AEW Media Productions to ask him about what went into creating the short film Rebel Plans and how FanFilmFX plugins were utilized in the process.

We caught up with We Are Alive, an animation studio based in Dubai, UAE, specializing in motion graphics animation and digital art, and asked them about what went into creating the Trovicor image film and how the After Effects plugin Yanobox Nodes was utilized in the process.

Cinematographer Michael Satrazemis talks in Variety about the use of 16mm celluloid when filming The Walking Dead.

Renato Marques is a designer, motion graphics artist, 3D artist and director with some pretty deep roots in creative design and content creation. With over a decade of experience in his craft, Renato has tapped into his passion for visual arts to create visually stunning designs for brands, studios, artists and directors. He continues to explore the tension between design and art. And his work speaks for itself.

Nawaz Alamgir is an award-winning motion graphic designer working in film, video game and television advertising. For the past 10 years he has collaborated with a range of high profile clients and worked with big brands creating graphics for numerous feature film trailers, TV spots and other digital formats.

Mat Hale from imag8nineteen was kind enough to share his thoughts on Yanobox Nodes and how the plugin was used on their latest project, the visuals for the Twitter Flight 2015 Developer Conference Keynote.

Inka Kendzia was kind enough to share her thoughts on Yanobox Nodes and its use on her latest project, an advertisement for Econet Broadband.

Nicolas Lichtlé was kind enough to share his thoughts on Yanobox Nodes and its use on his latest project Sciences Po, which was made to showcase the Sciences Politiques School's diversity through the visualizing of its admission process.

The award winning motion designer Duncan Elms was kind enough to share his thoughts on Yanobox Nodes and its use on his latest project Deep Web.

The award winning motion designer Pierre Magnol (aka Bright Photon) was kind enough to share his thoughts on Yanobox Nodes and its use on his latest project, a promotional video for the Falcon 8X from Dassault Aviation.

The award winning motion designer Tony Zagoraios was kind enough to share his thoughts on Yanobox Nodes and its use on his latest project for the Kazakhstan National Museum.

Corey Bramall shares his thoughts on Fictional User Interface design for motion pictures and how he used Yanobox Nodes in After Effects for the latest blockbuster in the Transformers series: Transformers: Age of Extinction.

Yanobox Nodes has been used by many talented artists on awesome projects. One new project that caught our eye was Pixellation by Chris Cousins.

BEMO, a design oriented boutique VFX studio in Los Angeles, uses Yanobox Nodes in After Effects for VFX in sci-fi feature film Earth to Echo.

Jayse Hansen tells us about using Nodes in After Effects for the epic sci-fi adventure Ender's Game.

Jayse Hansen has recently used Yanobox Nodes on a number of Hollywood Blockbusters. He was kind enough to answer some of our questions in an interview.

Jayse Hansen, freelance 3D VFX and screen designer/animator, turned to Yanobox Nodes for his work on The Avengers. Nodes offers editors and Motion graphics artists a unique tool to combine text, images and graphics into beautiful 3D animations.

We recently spoke with Jayse Hansen, a freelance visual effects artist, on using Yanobox Nodes in Rise of the Planet of the Apes to combine text, images and graphics into a dynamic 3D animation.