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Version 1.4 | May 25, 2006

  • Added Intel support for Final Cut Pro. Read about limitations.
  • On the Macintosh, for all applications except Final Cut Pro you need to delete the previous set of plugins for SmoothKit in your plugins folder, because the name of the plugin files have been changed
  • On the Macintosh users of After Effects 7.0 or later will see a significant improvement on G5 CPUs running Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger).

Version 1.3.2 | August 18, 2004

  • Fixed a problem with crashing and hanging on multiprocessor Windows machines when deleting a plugin from a project or quitting a host application.

Version 1.3.1 | July 9, 2004

  • Fixes a crashing bug with SmoothKit Viewer from within combustion.

Version 1.3 | July 5, 2004

  • Fixes a rare crashing bug.
  • SmoothKit Staircase Suppress now has two extra modes that work only on aliased alpha edges. Previously the plugin could not handle staircases caused by alpha aliasing
  • SmoothKit Viewer now shows up as SmoothKit Channel Viewer.
  • SmoothKit Gaussian now properly handles a max deviation set to 0.

Version 1.2 | September 3, 2003

  • On Macintosh, only MacOS X and later supported
  • Multiprocessor support added for SmoothKit Gaussian
  • Altivec support added for Mac version
  • SmoothKit Temporal did not work in Digital Fusion and Boris Red. Fixed. Works in 16 bpc in DF 4.0+.
  • SmoothKit now works in Premiere 6.5 and above. Note recommended for Premiere Pro to use in Progressive Mode.
  • Avid systems (Symphony, Media Composer, DV XPress, Digital Studio?) via Profound Effects Elastic Gasket now officially supported. Note SmoothKit Temporal won?t work in Digital Studio (requires AVX 1.5)
  • SmoothKit Temporal replaced with SmoothKit Accumulate Frame, which is very much like SmoothKit Temporal but has more options. See manual for more information.

Version 1.1.1 | January 24, 2003

  • Most important change: In order to make workflow easier, we have changed the way you set up modulators for each of the filters. In prior versions, you set the Modulator source to "None" to not use modulators (and when a Modulator Source was set to "None" it did not matter what you set the Modulator Chan to).

    • In order to create easier workflow, all the Modulators by default now use the clip/layer/sequence/composite applied to as the Modulator. All Modulator source settings are labelled "ALT Modulator Source"... so you use "None" when using the clip itself as a Modulator, and point to the appropriate clip when you want a different source. If you want NO modulator, you'll need to make sure the Modulator Chan setting is set to "OFF".

    What to do with old projects to update to version 1.1:
    1. For each Modulator setting that you previously wanted no Modulator.
    The Fix: Make sure that the Modulator Chan setting is set to "OFF." Old projects will not have this setting, so you'll get different (and probably unwanted) results if you don't do this.
    2. For each Modulator setting where you used a Modulator. The Fix:
    The Modulator Chan options will have moved up by 1 (so, for example, a previous Luminance setting will now erroneously read Alpha). The fix: make sure you move the Modulator Chan setting down by 1 in the menu options.

    Why did we do this? Due to a bug/feature in After Effects (other application users were not affected, when a plugin requests a layer via a popup menu (as is the case for modulators in these filters), it gets those images before the application of filters and transformations. So, for example, if you apply SmoothKit Gaussian to "Layer 1" and use another layer, "Layer 2" as a modulator, then any filters or transformations to "Layer 2" will not be applied before its use as a modulator in SmoothKit Gaussian on Layer 1. In order to have filters and transformations applied before use as a modulator, apply the desired filters and transformations to the modulator in another comp (a "pre-comp") , then include that pre-comp into the composition with "Layer 1" and use the pre-comp as the modulator.

    This limitation in After Effects of modulator layers being retrieved without their filters does not apply when the ALT modulator clip is set to "None" (so that you are using the layer itself as a Modulator with all its filters applied). When the ALT modulator is set to "None" then the layer the filter is applied to is used with all the filters above it in the filter stack applied.

  • Gaussian: Now supports individual channel processing. Fixes a bug where a very large size blur could make application crash.
  • Directional: Now correctly handles images with alpha, smearing outside of the matte properly. Fixes some incorrect control channel mapping issues. Adds a new Direction Blur Type which maintains more crisp edges.
  • Temporal: Removes the 5 frames before and after limit (naturally the more frames you use, the longer it will take)
  • Diffuse: Fixes incorrect Inverse Scale Deviation option.

Version 1.0.1 | April 29, 2002

  • Fixed the Chroma option in the Gaussian filter of SmoothKit. (before this fix, erroneous colors were returned in the image when "Chroma" was selected).