NewBlue, Inc. selected NewBlueFX plugins in the new Adobe Premiere Elements 4. In delivering NewBlueFX Elements, NewBlue worked closely with Mike Iampietro, senior product manager for Premiere Elements at Adobe, to give its customers powerful effects features with a minimal learning curve.

    Iampietro said that, "We welcome collaboration with third party developers, like NewBlue, to provide our customers with options to extend and enhance their Premiere Elements experience. Beneath NewBlueFX Elements' deceptively simple design are powerful, inventive visual techniques that will deliver sophisticated and professional quality effects for more impressive video storytelling. Incorporating tools like the NewBlue Old Film Effect will help people quickly take current footage and add old world drama with a sepia-toned finish."

    Collectively entitled NewBlueFX Elements, the offering features more than 43 dazzling effects chosen from the NewBlue 3D Transformations, NewBlue 3D Explosions, NewBlue Art Blends, NewBlue Art Effects, NewBlue Film Effects, NewBlue Motion Blends and NewBlue Motion Effects collections, as well as the upcoming NewBlue Video Stabilizer plugin.

    "We carefully selected a wide variety of effects from the NewBlueFX collection to provide Adobe Premiere Elements customers with a large toolbox of techniques," adds Todor Fay, NewBlue's chief technology officer. "From old time filmic effects to cutting edge 3D transformations, NewBlueFX Elements give Premiere Elements users a way to stand out."

    NewBlueFX Elements includes the Old Film effect, which makes the video look like an aged movie complete with scratches, jitters and graininess. Airbrush, which creates an airbrushed effect by smoothing colors while maintaining sharp edges; Colorize, which creates the look of re-colored black and white film; Line Drawing , which converts an image into a series of dots and lines that it draws against a plain-colored background; Metallic, which paints an image to look like it's hammered out of metal;

    Pastel Sketch, which blends the picture with a color that you select and draws sharp lines around the edges, creating the effect of a painting in pastel colors with edges of objects drawn in a second color. Shear Energy, which twists the images with a shearing blur on two axes; Active Camera, which simulates every variety of camera movement, from agitated hand-held to jackhammer to a gentle train ride; Earthquake, which re-creates the chaos of an earthquake by moving, rotating and blurring the image to simulate the effect of a shaking camera.

    Roll, which transitions between scenes by rolling the first over and over at an increasingly frenetic pace, ultimately easing into the second; Shake, which violently rattles the image as it transitions from one clip to the next; Shear, which transitions between two video clips by twisting the images with a shearing blur on two axes. Bouncing Cubes, which turns the first image into a series of realistic-looking cubes that bounce around the screen as they transition to the second image; Bouncing Frames, which creates a series of bouncing "frames" around one image before blending into the next; Box Explode, which folds the first image into a spinning box that flies apart to reveal the second image;

    It's sort of like pushing a row of books on a library shelf to the right or left; Smear, which transitions between two video clips by blurring the image along a moving axis; Spin, which transitions between two video clips by rotating and blurring the image around a point you select in the first image; Wave, which transitions between two video clips by modulating the picture side to side in a rippling pattern you can orient vertically or horizontally; and Zoom, which blurs and zooms the first image outward, then sharpens and sharpens the second image inward as it fills the screen.

    Confetti, which shreds the first image into confetti-like pieces that flow off the screen to reveal the second image; Plane Explode, which shrinks the first image toward the center of the frame, then slices it into a grid whose pieces fly off the screen to reveal the second image; Spiral Rotation, which slices the first image into flat squares that spiral inward, then outward to re-form as the second image; Spiral, which breaks the first image into small squares that shrink as they spiral inward; and Wiggle, which pulsates the first image in what looks like a wiggling funhouse mirror before flattening out as the second image.