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Review - PHYXware’s Color

Companies that make effect plug-ins for FCP, Motion and After Effects are looking to companies like Noise Industries to harness the power of the FXFactory architecture to create their plug-ins.  Why, you ask?  Well, I’m of the opinion that (much like in video game development) this way they can focus more on creating the effects they want to sell, as opposed to worrying about creating the engine/infrastructure for it to run on.  PHYX (pronounced FIX) is just one of those companies.  I thought that for my first look at their plug-ins, we would take a look at PHYX Color, which again is available only for Mac users running FCP, Motion or After Effects.  Let’s see if PHYX Color is worth your hard-earned dollars.

WHAT YOU GET AND HOW IT WORKS

As I mentioned before, PHYX’s effects run on the back of Noise Industries FXFactory architecture, and if you want to check them out for a free 14 day demo, head over to Noise Industries’ website, and download FXFactory Pro.  It’s free and you can check out PHYX Color, as well as all of the plug-ins that Noise Industries and their partner companies have to offer.  I thought I would do this review a little different, and look at each plug-in in the pack as a little mini-review, so here we go!

ShiftSuppress

PHYX’s definition of what this plug-in does is “Color Suppress enables users to shift / suppress any color in any image. The amount of shift and suppression is controllable. Pre-saturation varies the amount of saturation present in the image before the color shift/suppression is applied.”  What that means for you the user is that you can take any color you want, and add it to your image while still maintaining control of the saturation values of the original image.  I like to use this plug-in to create quick and simple sepia “looks” using any color I want.  I do this effect all the time in AE, and it’s normally a two layer, four step process.  Now, I can do it with one effect.  Nice!

BleachBypass

The title says it all.  Are you looking for the “Saving Private Ryan” or “Three Kings” look.  This is the effect that will give it to you.  One thing that I liked about this particular effect was that there were only 5 parameters that were very easy to use, and I got a great looking result in about two minutes.  Check it out.

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