Las Vegas, Nev. - Seven
companies joined forces at NAB to launch The Open Effects
Association, a non-profit, UK-based company that aims to develop and
promote open standards across the visual effects community. Founding
members are Assimilate , Autodesk, Digieffects, FilmLight, The Foundry, GenArts, and RE:Vision Effects.
The
Association’s initial focus is to improve the OFX image processing
plug-in standard launched by The Foundry in 2004. The goal for the
OpenFX API is to reduce the level of development and support required
for plug-ins across different compositing and editing host platforms.
The OpenFX API has, to date, been adopted by:
· Assimilate SCRATCH
· AutodeskToxik software
· FilmLight’s Baselight
· GenArts Sapphire plug-ins
· The Foundry’s Nuke compositor and Tinder, Keylight and Furnace plug-ins
· RE:Vision Effects' ReelSmart Motion Blur and DE:Noise plug-ins
· Digital Vision’s FilmMaster
· Grass Valley’s Bones
· Eyeon Fusion
· Avid DS
· Photron's Primatte Keyer
The
Association hopes that as a new, independent organization, it will
encourage increasingly open communication and collaboration between
hosts and plug-in developers and establish a uniform specification to
benefit everyone involved, starting with the artists.