AlphaStar – the bundle of professional lighting effects Word Count: 502 Summary: AlphaStar by AlphaPlugins - it is a new collection of plug-ins for Adobe After Effects and compatible. It lets to create of lighting effects such as highlights, sparks, rays, flashes, blinks, lens flares, irises and animates ones. Keywords: Special effects, visual effects, video, plug-in software, plug-in filter, plug-in, adobe after effects, design, art, highlights, star, flash, ray, blink, lens flare, final cut, combustion, AE CS3, video editor, compositing, video effects, bundle Article Body: The power bundle of plug-in modules for After Effects lets to making various sorts of special effects which are so indispensable for each video artist. In one set several types of powerful instruments are collected in order to create all kinds of incredible video FX, such as flashes, rays, stars, sparkles, glow, rainbow, lens flare etc. Each module in the AlphaStar set is a very powerful tool in itself that covers the whole trend in the sphere of producing special effects and permits great variety of methods of its application. AlphaStar allows create pictures amazing in their beauty and quality. Being built based on the unique 64-bit drawing algorithm, this plug-in allows achieving quite complex types of the half-tone transitions, chromatic aberrations and color mixing. All these create very effective pictures, so attractive to people's eyes. additionally, AlphaStar contains special facilities to perform complex effects with significant number of lighting objects easily and quickly. Well thought of and convenient particle systems and automatic object generation systems allow easily decorating the compositions with myriads of immensely beautiful start and make them live their own life on the screen. The UI of AlphaStar is quite convenient; it is aimed at easing working with this solution to the maximum by making it more pleasant and productive. Despite the great amount of adjustable parameters, it is really convenient to work with our module. All parameters are grouped in thematic lists. All parameters which are not used at the moment become disabled and minimized. The special solution for the quick and productive work with AlphaStar should be mentioned especially. The Presets mechanism shows the basic possibilities of plug-ins in the form of buttons with icons. By just pushing a button, you can automatically change the corresponding parameters to achieve the same effect on the screen as on the chosen image. After that you just need to adjust few parameters a little based on what you wish. This presets kit allows getting familiar with the basic abilities of our product very quickly which, of course, are a much more numerous that those shown in the presets. Undoubtful, AlphaStar is a very powerful and convenient instrument in the inventory of any video artist. You do not need to install and study any other plug-ins, which separately perform only a small part of thing that our product is able to do. The quality of drawing and convenience of usability make our product an indispensable assistant which give a creative person the ability to create the truly glamorous masterpieces of the computer art. As AlphaStar works in Windows OS so it will be available for Mac OS a bit later. The mild price of this product is 179 USD. Host and system Requirements: Adobe After Effects, Autodesk Combustion, Apple Final Cut Pro and all AE compatible applications. Windows 95/ NT/ 2000/ XP/ 98/ ME/ Vista etc. At least 32 megabytes of RAM, 64 megabytes of RAM recommended. 12-bit (4096) display color; true color (16.7M colors) recommended. 640 x 480 display resolution; 800 x 600 or better recommended. Contacts: AlphaPlugins. admin@alphaplugins.com