Digital Film Tools DFT 1.2.1 (x64)
Bernd Manison
Digital Film Tools brings together the unbeatable combination of superior software designers, motion picture visual effects veterans, video editors and photographers. Add three Emmy Awards and experience in creating visual effects for hundreds of feature films, commercials and television shows and you have a recipe for success. The understanding of photography, film and video editing, and in particular visual effects, allows us to design productive and highly specialized software. Software that is useful as well as easy to use. Our products stand up to the rigors of production and are the culmination of many years of experience.
For those looking for a set of Final Cut Pro Plug-ins featuring wowy, zowy transitions and filters full of exciting shard breakaways, 2 & 3D animated turns and flyaways, morphs and motion trackers....well, time to look elsewhere. They exist, but just not here.This is a very specialized set of plug ins, subtle in their effects but immeasurably more useful to the artist editor who is not just satisfied with the look and feel of standard video. Digital Film Tools' 55mm Plug-ins for Final Cut Pro is an exhaustive set of of optical filters meant to replicate and simulate the look and feel of many of the many camera filters, film grains, lights and specialized lenses inclusive of demanding color correction with either 8 or 16 bits per channel processing.
There are over 100 filters in this set providing a substantial basket of tools to work from. While I found that several of the filters ostensibly created many of the same effects, there is no denying that one could create literally thousands of different photographic effects. Several of the filters really stood out for me; you might find others that may be more useful in your grab bag of tricks. Either way there is certainly enough of a diversity of filters to chose from.
Steve Douglas, is an underwater videographer and contributor to numerous film festivals around the world. A winner of the 1999 Pacific Coast Underwater Film Competition, 2003 IVIE competition, 2004 Los Angeles Underwater Photographic competition, and the prestigious 2005 International Beneath the Sea Film Competition, Steve has also worked on the feature film "The Deep Blue Sea", contributed footage to the Seaworld parks for their Atlantis production, and is one of the principal organizers of the San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition. Steve leads both underwater filming expeditions and African safaris with upcoming filming excursions to Kenya, Bali and the Red Sea. Feel free to contact him if you are interested in joining Steve on any of these trips. www.worldfilmsandtravel.com
Boris DFT (aka Digital Film Tools) is the definitive digital toolbox that simulates optical camera filters, specialized lenses, film stocks and grain, lens flares, optical lab processes, color correction, keying, and compositing as well as natural light and photographic effects. Digital Film Tools features over 112 individual filters and thousands of customizable presets.
DFT
DFT (aka Digital Film Tools) is the definitive digital toolbox meant to simulate optical camera filters, specialized lenses, film stocks and grain, lens flares, optical lab processes, color correction, keying, and compositing as well as natural light and photographic effects.
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The merger marks the third Boris FX acquisition in recent years, following Imagineer Systems (2014) and GenArts (2016), and builds upon the most powerful creative editing, visual effects, and motion graphics solutions currently available to the film and television post-production industry. Silhouette and Digital Film Tools join Boris FX award-winning flagships Sapphire, Continuum, and Mocha Pro.
Digital Film Tools (DFT) emerged as an offshoot of a Los Angeles-based motion picture visual effects facility whose work included hundreds of feature films, commercials, and television shows. The team used their strong practical understanding of photography, film and video editing, and in particular visual effects to design highly-specialized software.
The Digital Film Tools portfolio includes standalone applications as well as professional plugin collections for photographers, filmmakers, editors, and colorists. The definitive digital toolbox contains hundreds of realistic filters for optical camera simulation, specialized lenses, film stocks and grain, lens flares, optical lab processes, color correction, keying, and compositing, as well as natural light and photographic effects. DFT plugins support Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, After Effects, and Premiere Pro; Apple Final Cut Pro X and Motion; Avid Media Composer; and OFX hosts, including Foundry Nuke and Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve.
You are partially correct. Tiffen Dfx has a film stock grouping of film replication presets, but DFT Film Stocks expands on the overall amount of film specific presets offered. Very similar (basically identical) layer based interface though. If film like presets were the only goal, I think DFT would be the better bet, but Tiffen Dfx includes a ton of different types of filters from color filter replications, to catch lights, toning, etc. Pricing also reflects that though too.
Digital Film Tools has won three Emmy Awards for its expertise in special effects in feature films, commercials and television shows but what its Film Stocks plug-in really wants to do is make your images winners.
We've recently fallen in love with taking Micro Four-Thirds digital images with our old (30 years old) film lenses. And our latest crush is shooting with our venerable Vivitar Series I 70-210mm macro zoom mounted to on an Olympus E-PL1 micro 4/3 digicam using a Lensbaby Tilt Transformer.
First, the telephoto range is spectacular. The 2x crop factor of the E-PL1 means we're shooting with a 140-420mm zoom. And just to make the package sweeter, the E-PL1 has body-based image stabilization, so the Nikon-mount Vivitar enjoys something it never had on any of our Nikon bodies, film or digital.
One reason that thought occurred to us was because we'd reviewed DxO's FilmPack 3, a collection of 60 emulsion renderings devised from film emulsion processed in Paris and New York labs. It's an impressive package.
And, as we noted above, Alien Skin's Exposure 4 also emulates films and historical processes. It even goes so far as to add dust and simulate other physical defects. Which was just a bit too far for this job.
DFT provides an interesting option, though, in Film Stocks, which simulates 288 still photographic film stocks, motion picture films stocks and historical photographic processes. And unlike the other products, these filters work on both stills and video, although video requires a more expensive license.
- 288 analog photographic film presetsSelect from Agfa, Fuji, Ilford, Kodak, Polaroid and Rollei color and black and white film stocksChoose from a wide range of historical photographic processesGet the skewed color look of cross processingApply Lo-Fi photographic looks from Lomo and Holga toy camerasAge your images with the looks of faded filmsCreate your own film stock presetsLayering system for multiple film stock application (photo plug-in version only)Sophisticated but easy to use masking tools (photo plug-in version only)Add a vignette to any presetModify images with presets or slidersQuickly search for presets8/16 bit image processingMulti-processor accelerationOne Film Stocks photo plug-in license will allow it to run in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Apple Aperture if installed on the same machine.One Film Stocks video/film plug-in license will allow it to run in Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro (including FCPX), Apple Motion 5 and Avid Editing Systems if installed on the same machine.
So you have two different digital interpretations of what Kodachrome 25 looks like. Of the two (feel free to argue the point), we found the FilmPack images more accurate and the Film Stocks image more interpretive.
While we're not sure how much to make of this, we do have to be wary of applying a digital cut-and-dried perspective to the analog world of film exposure and processing. Both of these programs provide adjustments to vary the effect, after all. So we're just looking at defaults here, not final results.
But we also enjoyed going a little further within the Film Stocks environment by using its sophisticated masking and layering. Those tools are available in our image editing software, of course, but they're pretty handy within the filter, too.
Boris FX, a leader in integrated VFX and workflow solutions for video and film, has added Academy award-winning SilhouetteFX and Digital Film Tools to its suite of post-production and visual effects applications. The highly specialized feature film rotoscoping, paint, and photo editing plug-ins support Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Avid Media Composer, and OFX hosts including Foundry Nuke and DaVinci Resolve. The merger marks the third Boris FX acquisition in recent years and builds upon the creative solutions available.
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