What’s the Top 10?
Get your votes in for the Top 10 before the survey closes on December 30th! Enter to win a GoPro, a $100 Toolfarm Store Coupon, or a copy of Green Screen Made Easy, 2nd Edition!
Every year we ask you, the users, to vote in the Toolfarm Top 10 Awards to rate your favorite products! It’s that time again where we’re encouraging you to get involved and let us know what you think! Our big survey featuring the top-selling plug-ins to determine the Top 10 favorites for each category. It started out with just Adobe After Effects, which has plenty of delightful plug-ins, and it now includes Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro X, Maxon Cinema 4D, and OFX (which doesn’t have a lot of plug-ins but the platform is growing each year).
So, give your favorite products some love!
Why Vote?
Because every vote counts! The results are a good way to see what your peers in the community are using. Not only that but once you vote you are registered to win one of three great prizes! This year’s prizes are as follows:
- First prize – 2 people will each receive a GoPro Hero5 Black, $399.00 Value!
- Second prize– 3 people will each receive a $100 Coupon to the Toolfarm Store, Obvious Value!
- Third prize – 5 people will each receive a copy of Green Screen Made Easy: Keying and Compositing Techniques for Indie Filmmakers 2nd Edition by Jeremy Hanke and Michele Yamazaki Terpstra
Survey closes Friday, December 30th, 2016.
Have a Look at Last Year’s Results
These are the top products of 2015 as voted by our After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, CINEMA 4D, Avid Media Composer, and OFX Users! We had several ties this year, so we are listing the top products for each host.
Adobe After Effects Top 10 – 2015
Trapcode Particular is the industry standard for particle system creation in Adobe After Effects. It’s realistic shading allows spotlights to illuminate particles and logos as they move through 3D space. Give particles depth with Trapcode Particular’s full 3D rotation and use it’s expanded physics controls to generate more support for air resistance and turbulence. Trapcode Particular will take your visual creations to another dimension.
Runners-Up:
Video Copilot Element 3D
Video Copilot Optical Flares
Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks
Adobe Premiere Pro Top 10 – 2015
Magic Bullet Looks 3.0 is the easiest, most powerful way to make your video look great. Sporting a major update to its UI and UX, Magic Bullet Looks features 198 brand new, completely customizable presets based on popular film and TV shows. With an intuitive set of tools for creating your own color grade, you’ll understand why Magic Bullet Looks is voted the number one plug-in for professional editors, year after year.
Runners-Up:
Red Giant Colorista
Red Giant PluralEyes
Apple Final Cut Pro X Top 10 – 2015
Several Ties! Here are the top products for FCPX:
Boris Continuum Complete FXPlug
Digieffects Damage
GenArts Sapphire
Red Giant Colorista
Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks
Video Copilot Action Essentials
Avid Top 10 – 2015
Titler Pro’s Title Designer and Quick Edit features provide a simple workflow and eliminate the need for expensive motion graphics software. Titler Pro offers a wide array of built-in styles, templates, and animations for a quick start, as well as a wealth of powerful design features for creating and customizing animated titles from the ground up. Titler Pro 4 offers a host of features including 3D text extrusion, custom lighting, and dynamic animations. It hosts OpenFX plugins like GenArts Sapphire and more for enhanced results. Whether generating titles for indie films or primetime, Titler Pro 4 is the editor’s choice for unparalleled titling.
Magic Bullet Looks 3.0 is the easiest, most powerful way to make your video look great. Sporting a major update to its UI and UX, Magic Bullet Looks features 198 brand new, completely customizable presets based on popular film and TV shows. With an intuitive set of tools for creating your own color grade, you’ll understand why Magic Bullet Looks is voted the number one plug-in for professional editors, year after year.
Runners-Up:
Boris Continuum Complete
Red Giant PluralEyes
MAXON CINEMA 4D Top 10 – 2015
Light Kit Pro turns Cinema 4D into a professional lighting studio. Quickly light your scene with realistic lights directly in Cinema 4D.
Using a unique system of Questions and Actions you get full control over your particle simulations without the need for Xpresso or Cinema 4D’s native particle system. Particles, fluids, and gaseous simulations all in one place.
Runners-Up:
Greyscalegorilla Texture Kit Pro
The Pixel Lab 3D Models
OFX Top 10 – 2015
Boris Continuum Complete for OFX delivers over 175 filters, giving editors the most comprehensive VFX and compositing plug-in suite ever created. The collection includes 3D Objects such as Extruded Text, 3D particle effects, image restoration tools, lens flares and other dazzling light effects, keying and motion tracking tools, realistic in-camera effects, a full suite of color correction tools, warp and perspective effects, and blurs, glows, and cinematic effects.
Runners-Up:
RE:Vision Effects ReelSmart Motion Blur
RE:Vision Effects Twixtor
We want to give a huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this years Top Product Awards!
2014 Results
Adobe After Effects Top 10 – 2014
1. Trapcode Particular
Trapcode Particular is the industry standard for particle system creation in Adobe After Effects. It’s realistic shading allows spotlights to illuminate particles and logos as they move through 3D space. Give particles depth with Trapcode Particular’s full 3D rotation and use it’s expanded physics controls to generate more support for air resistance and turbulence. Trapcode Particular will take your visual creations to another dimension.
2. Video Copilot Element 3D
3. Video Copilot Optical Flares
4. Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks
5. Trapcode Form
6. Digieffects Damage
7. Trapcode Shine
8. Imagineer Systems Mocha Pro
9. Video Copilot Action Essentials
10. Red Giant Universe / Boris Continuum Complete 9 (Tie)
Adobe Premiere Pro Top 10 – 2014
1. Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks
Whether you’re warming up a scene or building a palette from scratch, Magic Bullet Looks 2 brings professional color finishing to projects of any budget. It starts out very simple, with 100’s of beautifully designed treatments that range from practical lighting to popular Hollywood cinema.
2. Red Giant Colorista II
3. Red Giant PluralEyes
4. Red Giant Universe
5. Video Copilot Action Essentials
6. Digieffects Damage
7. Boris Continuum Complete 9
8. Red Giant Denoiser II
9. Video Copilot Twitch
10. Trapcode Shine
Apple Final Cut Pro Top 10 – 2014
1. Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks
Whether you’re warming up a scene or building a palette from scratch, Magic Bullet Looks 2 brings professional color finishing to projects of any budget. It starts out very simple, with 100’s of beautifully designed treatments that range from practical lighting to popular Hollywood cinema.
2. Noise Industries FxFactory Pro
3. Red Giant PluralEyes
4. Boris Continuum Complete FxPlug / Red Giant Colorista II (Tie)
5. CrumplePop Products / Digieffects Damage (Tie)
6. Trapcode Products
7. CoreMelt Complete / Red Giant Universe (Tie)
8. Video Copilot Action Essentials
9. Red Giant Primatte Keyer
10. Tiffen DFX
Maxon Cinema 4D Top 10 – 2014
1. Greyscalegorilla Light Kit Pro
Light Kit Pro turns Cinema 4D into a professional lighting studio. Quickly light your scene with realistic lights directly in Cinema 4D.
2. Greyscalegorilla Texture Kit Pro
3. X-Particles for Cinema 4D
4.Greyscalegorilla Transform
5. Nitro4D Thruasi
6. Greyscalegorilla City Kit
7. The Pixel Lab Products
8. The Pixel Lab Packs
9. Vray for C4D
10.Greyscalegorilla Signal
Avid Media Composer Top 10 – 2014
1. Boris Continuum Complete AVX
Boris Continuum Complete AVX gives Avid editors the most comprehensive VFX and compositing plug-in suite ever created. A whopping 200+ filters include 3D Objects such as Extruded Text, 3D particle effects, image restoration tools, lens flares and lights, award-winning chroma keying and compositing, a full suite of color correction tools, time-based effects such as Optical Stabilizer, warp and perspective effects, and blurs, glows, and cinematic effects. All BCC AVX filters take advantage of either multi-processing or OpenGL hardware acceleration for an interactive effects design experience.
2. Boris FX
3. Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks
4. GenArts Sapphire
5. Red Giant PluralEyes
6. Red Giant Color Suite
7. Boris Final Effects Complete
8. Boris Red
9. iZotope Audio Products / NewBlueFX Titler Pro / Tiffen DFX (Tie)
10. Red Giant Shooter Suite
Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve Top 10 – 2014
1. FilmConvert
Ever since the introduction of Digital Cameras, digital evangelists have been saying how Film would eventually be superseded and replaced. After several decades, this is finally happening. However, for many people, the look of the digital footage still leaves a lot to be desired and doesn’t look as good straight out of the camera.
2. GenArts Sapphire
3. Boris Continuum Complete OFX
4. ABSoft Neat Video OFX
5. GenArts particleIllusion
6. Boris Red
7. Koji Studio
8. Imagenomic Portraiture
9. Koji Products / Boris Motion Graphics Pack
10. Red Giant Universe
Want to learn more about Michele’s thoughts on 2017?
