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ProDAD Vitascene.

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ProDAD Vitascene

SYNOPSIS:

The transitions and effects provided in Vitascene are highly unique and very applicable to a variety of events, including weddings, ballets, and other artistic productions. Many effects would apply equally well to business and training videos. All tested effects rendered to very high quality, and the common themes make it easy to create a consistent, polished look. As a plugin with Premiere Pro, Vitascene proved very easy to use.

PRICE: $399

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As a rule, I'm not a big special effects guy, but the more weddings, concerts, ballets, and training videos I produce, the more value I see in finding efficient ways to spice up my work. For example, in a couple of weeks I'll deliver my fifth ballet DVD to my wife's ballet company, and while each has some unique touches, they are becoming a bit uniform. In weddings that I shoot, the "ten wows" concept--or how to make the viewers say "wow" ten times while viewing the DVD--is always in the back of my mind. While you can do a lot with multicam, picture-in-picture, and pan-and-zoom slideshows, special effects, tastefully used and applied, are also a big help.

I'm conversant in After Effects, and have some "go-to" activities that I always perform in that program, including chromakey, creating moving backgrounds, and some text effects. On the other hand, I don't have the skill or time to create custom special effects within After Effects. I need a drag-and-drop library of effects that take seconds to apply and configure, but ooze production value. For these reasons, I was eager to have a look at ProDAD's Vitascene, a library of highly customizable transitions and effects you can apply as a plugin or by using the standalone Vitascene application.

In terms of speeds and feeds, you can run the program as a plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro (Versions...