Digital Anarchy today announced the first release of Beauty Box Video for the Avid Media Composer family of products. Avid editors will now have access to the industry leading plug-in for removing blemishes and wrinkles from film, 4K, and HD. In addition to Avid support, Beauty Box Video 3.0 introduces new masking algorithms that improves automatic masking, and greatly increases the quality of the automatic retouching. It also further refines OpenCL support and increases rendering speed on ATI and Nvidia graphics cards. There are now over 35 preset Styles that video editors can choose from to make things even easier when getting the perfect look for a feature films, commercials, and music videos.
“We always need to make our artists look their best and Beauty Box from Digital Anarchy is the go-to software plug-in for this purpose.”, says Dave Pollard, Head of Video Production for Universal Music. “It’s an enhancer rather than a replacer and it brings out the natural flesh tones and removes unsightly lighting effects without looking air-brushed.”
Since 2009, Beauty Box Video has been a critical tool for dealing with skin and makeup problems that HD and 4K video reveal. Beauty Box Video 3.0 solves this problem by giving subjects an incredible makeover in post-production, using state-of-the-art face detection, masking, and smoothing algorithms that preserve important details and the natural skin texture. All this combines to create realistic digital makeup. The retouching is subtle and the resulting video looks natural creating a look that is indistinguishable from real makeup.
HD and 4K show so much detail that it’s essential video editors have tools to reduce the skin and makeup detail when necessary. Beauty Box Video is a proven way of dealing with these very common problems, winning numerous awards and rave reviews in the last three years. It automatically analyzes the footage for skin tones, creates the mask, and smoothes out the skin while retaining the texture. The video editor only needs to dial in the amount of smoothing on the first frame and then render it. It saves a tremendous amount of time when compared to how this is traditionally done.
“Beauty Box Video is an impressive addition to the list of AVX plug-ins now available for the Media Composer family of products., said Robert Damico, Avid Media Composer Product Manager. “So were excited that Avid editors will now have access to the most sophisticated skin retouching plug-in out there.”
New features
- Avid Support: Media Composer 6 & 7, NewsCutter, and Avid DS are now supported.
- Better Masking: The skin tone mask algorithm has also been rewritten for a better automatic mask. It still uses face detection, but now incorporates other algorithms for a more precise mask.
- Beauty Box Styles: Add style to your video, by applying any of the over 35 preset effects.
- Faster Rendering: Further optimizations of OpenCL mean Beauty Box Video renders faster than ever on AMD or Nvidia GPUs.
- Shine Removal: This has been improved, so you can better reduce the hot spots caused by bright lights on shiny skin. This feature dramatically reduces the effect of poor lighting conditions.
Pricing and Availability
Beauty Box Video 3.0 for Avid is regularly priced at $249 USD, but will be on sale for $199 USD until August 30th, 2013. For users that already own Beauty Box Video, you can crossgrade to the Avid version for $99.
