Nick Jushchyshyn has posted a new addition to his excellent collection of NickFX: NFXNoise.
As most experienced users know the MSPro Noise video filter is lacking in several ways. Firstly it's not truely random, updating its random number seed only every second or so. It also has a tendency to be symmetrical, looking like a kaleidoscope.
Nicks new NFXNoise filter finally solves this problem in grand style. It's truely random and can be set for up to 100 levels of noise; everything from barely there to enough noise to look like an old TV without a station (think: the TV in Poltergeist).
The following link is to Nicks announcement on Creative Cow;
http://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_p ... forumid=10
Note that this is an early version and not tested much on pre-7.3 builds, but it's worked very nicely here so IMO the chances of it not working are very slight.
New NickFX Noise filter posted;
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Terry Stetler
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New NickFX Noise filter posted;
Terry Stetler
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NickJushchyshyn
Terry, Thanks for posting this!
I've tried this out on a few more computers now, and it seems stable on all MSP7 versions. It *should* work fine on MSP6 and probably even MSP5 if anyone is still running those.
To save you guys from excess internet hopping, here are the details:
This filter is designed to address two limitations of the standard "Add Noise" filter:
1- The noise pattern in this new filter changes every few milliseconds of CPU time, rather than every second. This should prevent adjacent frames (some times many adjacent frames with the standard filter) from having the same noise pattern.
2- The noise pattern is no longer perfectly symmetrical. Under the standard filter, you could see a kaleidoscope effect with the higher settings, since the patter was symmetrical both top to bottom and left to right.
Download link:
http://jushhome.com/Download/NFXNoise.vft
Just drop into your vft_plug directory in your MSP install folder prior to starting MSP to install. It will appear as "NFX Noise" in the filters dialog and in the "Nick FX" group of the Production library.
I'll build a web page for this sometime in the ...... well .... eventually. :p
In the meantime, here's a video demo (~21meg) that shows the difference between the the standard "Add Noise" filter and this new "NFX Noise" filter. The only difference between the first three clips and the last three is which noise filter was used.
http://www.jushhome.com/nick/media/NFXNoiseDemo.mov
If you try this out, please let me know if it works or what problems you found.
Thanks.
- Nick
I've tried this out on a few more computers now, and it seems stable on all MSP7 versions. It *should* work fine on MSP6 and probably even MSP5 if anyone is still running those.
To save you guys from excess internet hopping, here are the details:
This filter is designed to address two limitations of the standard "Add Noise" filter:
1- The noise pattern in this new filter changes every few milliseconds of CPU time, rather than every second. This should prevent adjacent frames (some times many adjacent frames with the standard filter) from having the same noise pattern.
2- The noise pattern is no longer perfectly symmetrical. Under the standard filter, you could see a kaleidoscope effect with the higher settings, since the patter was symmetrical both top to bottom and left to right.
Download link:
http://jushhome.com/Download/NFXNoise.vft
Just drop into your vft_plug directory in your MSP install folder prior to starting MSP to install. It will appear as "NFX Noise" in the filters dialog and in the "Nick FX" group of the Production library.
I'll build a web page for this sometime in the ...... well .... eventually. :p
In the meantime, here's a video demo (~21meg) that shows the difference between the the standard "Add Noise" filter and this new "NFX Noise" filter. The only difference between the first three clips and the last three is which noise filter was used.
http://www.jushhome.com/nick/media/NFXNoiseDemo.mov
If you try this out, please let me know if it works or what problems you found.
Thanks.
- Nick