HD For Indies

Algolith Software has announced the availability of some of their key software technology as After Effects 6.0 compatible plugins.

They have the following useful plugins for digital video (SD or HD) manipulation:

Anti-Aliaser to remove aliased edges from CG footage
Adaptive Deinterlacer to remove field tearing from interlaced footage and smooth the results
Content Adaptive Scalar this is a biggie - this is a much better algorithm to uprez footage, for instance from 720p to 1080p. I've seen the results of this filter, and it looks MUCH better than Final Cut Pro HD's methology, better than After Effects, better than Cleaner (my favorite scaling app)
Frame Rate Converter for conforming one frame rate to another
Time Warp for retiming shots
Noise Reduction ( Dynamic or MPEG to reduce noise in footage, either from film/CCD noise or any DCT type compression artifacts (such as from JPEGs or MPEG footage)

I hope to play with these in the near future, if they fulfill their promise, they will be great tools to improve the look/quality of digitally acquired imagery.

I am especially curious to see the results of 720p taken up to 1080p with this plugin.

mike