Digital Film Tools, has just released Rays, with updated support for video and film hosts. Rays allows users to create realistic light ray effects with stunning image quality. Known as volumetric lighting in computer graphics, or crepuscular rays in atmospheric optics, this dramatic effect adds polish and style to your footage. By creating shafts of light streaming through clouds, rays filtering through a forest canopy, beams of light on a foggy night, or rays shooting out from text, Rays adds a striking and dramatic quality to your work.

Rays Feature Highlights:

• Set the ray length and brightness
• Control ray direction with an on-screen controller
• Customize the color of the rays using a color picker
• Threshold control to specify where the rays will be visible
• Randomize the rays

Rays for Video/Film is now compatible with the following hosts:

• Adobe After Effects CS5 and up
• Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and up
• Apple Final Cut Pro 6, 7, and X
• Motion 5
• Avid Symphony
• Media Composer
• Newscutter
• Xpress Pro

For more information on Rays, you can visit: http://www.digitalfilmtools.com/rays/

By David Hague

David is the owner and publisher of AusCam Online. He has a background in media dating back to 1979 when he first got involved with photojournalism in motorsport, and went from there into technology via a 5 year stint with Tandy Computers. Following that, he ran a software distribution company on the Gold Coast and was one of the first to recognise the potential of Microsoft Windows.

Moving back to WA, David wrote scripts for Computer Television for video training for the just released Windows and Office 95 among others, and was then lured to Sydney to create web sites for the newly commercial Internet in 1995, building hundreds of sites under contract to OzEmail including Coates Hire, Hertz Queensland, John Williamson, the NSW Board of Studies and many, many more.

He went back into full time journalism as the Managing Editor for Channel 7's 'Gadget Guy', Peter Blasina's publications VideoCamera and Pixelmag, before starting Australasian Camcorder magazine when these publications were shelved. He lives at Sydney's Avalon Beaches nearly on the ocean front with dog Budweiser and in his spare time is a nut for motor sport, road safety, fishing, science fiction - especially Dr Who - and technology.

David can be contacted via david@auscamonline.com