Create your own amazing cinematic special effects or choose from hundreds of presets, including particle systems, sci-fi lightswords and realistic muzzle flashes.

Create incredible special effects:
Choose from hundreds of different visual effects, powered by four highly flexible 'engines' that provide full creative control.

• Muzzle flashes: Photo-realistic, 3D flashes for any type of explosive weapon. Exciting action sequences can now be safe and realistic.
• Particles: An endless variety of particle-based effects, including: smoke, rain, fireballs, blood squibs, bullet impacts and many more.
• Optics: Select a lens flare preset or construct your own using a versatile shape editor. Perfect for enhancing on-set lighting and CG effects.
• Neon light: Stunning hand-drawn neon for vivid sci-fi and fantasy movies with versatile glow options and animation.

Powerful masks and filters:
Integrate your effects into your movie using different blending methods, colour grading filters and a variety of masks, including hand-drawn and alpha transparency.

• Blurs: Enhance your effects using a selection of high quality blurs including motion, zoom and radial.
• Colour correction: A selection of grading filters enables your effects and live action footage to be tweaked and perfectly matched.
• Masking: Blend stock footage and effects together using a variety of masks, including hand-drawn shapes. Transfer alpha transparency between different objects to create unique layering effects.
• Distortions: Manipulate your effects and footage to apply artificial depth of field, mosaic and oil painting styles and a variety of twirls and waves.
• Composite filters: Explore exciting and innovative visual possibilities with displacement warping and stunning gleam rays.

Simple and powerful:
EffectsLab provides filmmakers of all ages and experience with an easy to use, exciting and powerful creative environment.

• Preset library: Choose from a huge selection of included presets, with more added everyday to the free online FXhome.com library.
• Import stock footage: Light-based (explosions etc.) and alpha channel (3D renders etc.) stock footage can be added to projects.
• Alpha support: Full support, from alpha masks to final rendered output, ensuring easy integration with other applications.
• High Definition support: Work with mixed source footage, from standard miniDV to high definition resolution video and still images.
• Keyframe animation: All your decisions are stored as timeline keyframes, allowing for precision and easy adjustment.
• Languages: EffectsLab's interface can be used in several languages including: English, French, Spanish, Italian and German.