Testimonials for Beauty Box Video Plugin

Beauty Box Video smooths out unwanted skin wrinkles so your client appears to have never had them. It’s difficult to show you the 'before' and 'after' images — since the 'before' images never *really* happened. Instead of an image gallery, we have listed the compliments and accolades that Beauty Box Video has gathered. Let us know if you have one to add!

• Rudi Schwab, Director/DP for Aveda
• Aaron Brenner, LA Kings Hockey Team
• Vincent MacTiernan, Extreme Digital Productions
• Howard Waddell, 2012 Productions
• Michael McGaha
• Bill Evans, Radiant Records
• Michael Maller
• Doug Blush, MadPix, Inc
• Amy Hanselmann
• Peter Mackie, Clear Stream Film
• David Rupert, Whitebrook Media
• Gary Adcock, Studio 37
• Bohuš Blahut, modern filmmaker
• Lisa E Yimm, HDR-VFX
• Ross Webb

 

Rudi Schwab, Director/DP for Aveda

"Love this software and it's very simple to use. I got the plugin for FCP. You simply drag the beauty box effect onto a clip in the timeline, open up the effects tab in the viewer window, click on, "analyze frame" and adjust the smoothing slider to your liking. I was amazed at how well the effect works on skin tones, it looks as good as sitting in a $1500 per hour Flame suite. Thanks Jim!"

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Aaron Brenner, of the LA Kings hockey team

We were excited to receive an email from Aaron Brenner, of the LA Kings hockey team, letting us know that they had used Beauty Box Video on a high profile piece they were doing.

An interesting aspect to Beauty Box Video is that it's difficult to get people to admit they are using it. A LOT of production companies have bought and loved the software but they're a little shy about singing its praises publicly. Their actor and actress clients aren't too keen about wanting fans to know they used software to make them (more) beautiful.

This wasn't a problem for the subjects of Aaron's production for the Kings. It's a behind the scenes video of the photo shoot of the LA King's Ice Girls calendar! Some very beautiful girls who you wouldn't think would need much retouching.

Click to read an interview and see a 'making of' video'

Do more jobs faster without sacrificing quality

"I just want to say that I was skeptical at first to get the BEAUTY BOX Video plugin for use with After Effects. But now, after actually biting the bullet and giving it a go, I must say I AM NOW A BELIEVER.
It is absolutely amazing. Though there are ways to achieve smooth skin with footage, your product did much more efficiently and most importantly rendered EXTREMELY FAST. This product does for Skin smoothing like MochaPro does for Tracking. And like that product, it's worth EVERY PENNY. I now have the means to do more jobs faster without sacrificing quality."

– Vincent MacTiernan
Extreme Digital Productions

It is a must have for independent filmmakers!

Feburary 2011 -- "I have been looking for a good, affordable plugin for After Effects (CS5) to do digital makeup for the talent in our independent film, 2012: Devolution. I stumbled on Beauty Box yesterday, downloaded the demo, and applied it to several scenes last night to see what it could do. In short, I was amazed at the power and simplicity of this program! Regardless of the lighting or other variables, it consistently and vastly improved the look and feel of the footage — my talent is going to be very excited by the final product. Needless to say, I rushed in this morning and placed an order for Beauty Box! Thank you so much for all of the hard work bringing this program to us — it is a must have for independent filmmakers! I will do my part to help spread the word."

– Howard Waddell
2012 Productions

I received the best support I've ever received from a software company

December 2010 -- "I'll be recommending Beauty Box to all my associates. When I had questions and needed help, I received the best support I've ever received from a software company. When other companies would have directed me to my hardware provider, the support personnel at Digital Anarchy helped me each step of the way and didn't stop until I had the correct drivers installed for my hardware and everything was working perfectly... and all of this was pre-sales support! Overall an excellent company to deal with!."

– Michael McGaha

We were able to solve the problem the same afternoon we downloaded it

Octber 2010 -- "BeautyBox is almost magical. We didn't have time to properly light our scene, and the artists didn't look like themselves. Options were slim and costly. With BeautyBox, we were able to solve the problem the same afternoon we downloaded it. The facial tracking really works, the skin-tone algorithms are pretty natural, and the interface is simple. I'm still amazed."

– Bill Evans
Radiant Records
[Project: Steve Morse & Sarah Spencer promotional video.]

It just makes a huge difference and at the same time is very subtle

August 2010 -- "I just wanted to let you know how awesome this plugin is. I have been experimenting with it on various types of interview footage and what is truly amazing about it, is it's invisibility! Once applied you really can't tell that a plugin of this nature was used. It just makes a huge difference and at the same time is very subtle. I have various other plugins that claim to do the same thing, but when compared to Beauty Box they just fall way short."

– Michael Maller

Another knockout from Digital Anarchy

May 2010 -- "I'm working on a feature doc with MANY interviews, some grabbed quickly in tough situations, and my first round of tests with Beauty Box have been just great. Several interviews that I was really sweating are now looking so much better...the results are natural looking and take care of the tough details that come out in HD faces! Another knockout from Digital Anarchy...thanks!"

– Doug Blush
Owner/Director
MadPix, Inc
Los Angeles, CA

It's not overwhelming or fake-looking

April 2010 -- "I am working on a mini-documentary (under 10 min) for a nonprofit organization, which serves adults with developmental disabilities, to promote their biennial "Variety Show" on their website via Youtube. I shot a bunch of close-up interviews with the staff, students and the executive director, to go along with the footage they shot of the show.

"Beauty Box has made such a difference. It's not overwhelming or fake-looking. I know the women in my current video are going to be *extremely* pleased with this video (and me) when they see how great they look, which I hope will result in more business. They just look so fabulous I can't wait for them to see it! I wish I could go back to other videos I've already produced and use this effect on those as well, but at least I have it now."

– Amy Hanselmann

Beauty Box... will thrill anyone appearing on camera

April 2010 -- "A TV personality (of a certain age) that I shot an interview with didn't exactly dig her HD close-ups. I was on a tight deadline, she was in NYC and I was in L.A. She was insisting on a re-shoot with a new makeup person. I told her we had neither time nor budget. Frantic, I started calling skin colorists/ specialists in L.A. to see if the footage was fixable. The less expensive ones were quoting $300 - $500 per hr., with no guarantees of quality.

"Then I stumbled across Beauty Box on the web, tried the free sample download and was blown away by the result. I sent the re-touched footage to the talent, and she was thrilled. No re-shoot, deadline made. If you're shooting HD, Beauty Box is a must-have, simple-to-use plug in that will thrill anyone appearing on camera. And best of all, you no longer have to tell clients those dreaded words, "Look, I'm not a freakin' magician!" Thank you Digital Anarchy.

"On the technical side, I think it's important to let customers know that they should add Beauty Box after all other changes are made and picture is basically locked. Going back in to make changes once Beauty Box has been applied can be tough. But the results are worth any pain. ;) "

– Peter Mackie
Clear Stream Films
clearstreamfilms.com

I need tools that work out of the box and get the job done

March 2010 -- "What led me to Beauty Box (BB) is the following situation: My short "how-to" video was filmed on location in a near zero degree Vermont barn, where a supermodel's skin wouldn't look good, let alone the talented over-40 horseperson. I needed to find a way to reduce wrinkles fast. A quick google search of pro video-related websites turned up BB as the go-to product for on-screen talent wrinkle reduction. While I was initially reluctant to pay the $ to buy BB because my budget was very tight, I decided that the trade-off in time savings, ease of use and quality of results would make up for the $ investment.

"I have neither the budget nor the time to learn precise post production techniques. I need tools that work out of the box, have very short learning curves, and get the job done.

"Downloading and installing the software was quick and easy, and I was editing within 24 hours. My only big challenge was how to reduce the long render times (I shoot in HDV, edit on a newer Macbook Pro, and the clip that needed BB was about 3 minutes in duration). My first two times I let the machine render overnight, but then learned, with the benefit of a helpful email from you guys at DA, that I could speed things up considerably by adjusting a few key settings. Overall, this product worked for me, and I look forward to the update that further optimizes render time."

Here is a link to the finished video on YouTube.

– David Rupert
Founder, Whitebrook Media
Greenwich, CT

I think Beauty Box Frakin' Rocks

March 2010 -- "As someone who is always pushing the limits in production and post, having something like Beauty Box as part of my toolset is indispensable. On a recent shoot for a big corporate client, we had an issue with our “talent” having had a little extra to eat and drink the night before, leaving his skin noticeably ruddier and somewhat more red in all the wrong places.

"I was able to grab a couple of clips and process the footage in the FCP version of Beauty Box right onset to let us know if we would have any success by bringing in an additional makeup artist or if it was going to be necessary to reschedule the shoot until this CEO’s skin cleared up. After looking at my quick test, we were able to have our makeup artist smooth the tone somewhat and leave the clean up and smoothing out the ruddy texture of his complexion in post.

"We have since gotten additional work from this client, asking if we can bring the “magic” back again, I cannot tell you enough how much I think Beauty Box Frakin' Rocks."

– Gary Adcock
Studio 37
Chicago

Your program worked right out of the box

March 2010 -- "Everyone knows that skin issues are only magnified by video lights & cameras and such. It is really cool that with this plug-in one can fix those sorts of things in the post, and not in some plastic, fakey way. Very cool... Seriously, it's an awesome plug-in. Too many require bizarre hacky work arounds that are a real bear. Your program worked right out of the box in both Premiere Pro and After Effects."

– Bohuš Blahut
modern filmmaker
The Vantage Point, Chicago

The real value... was that it made us more productive

February 2010 -- "We recently used Beauty Box on a project featuring a high profile celebrity. The real value of the software was that it made us more productive. For the kind of touchup we did, we could have done the work in After Effects alone, but Beauty Box made our workflow much easier. It saved us time and allowed us to be more productive, which made the client happy. Also, the ability to generate a quick, accurate mask was invaluable. Not only did we use it within Beauty Box, but we were able to use that mask with other effects, like color correction."

– Lisa E Yimm
Founder & Digital Artist, HDR-VFX, LLC
San Francisco & New York
hdrvfx.com

It really saved our bacon on this shoot

December 2009 -- "Our model was pretty blown away as well after she saw these. Real trick though was a great make up artist taking her let's say 60% of the way there, and then Beauty Box does a great job on the last 40%... Garbage in, Garbage out so to speak. I'm happy for beauty box to get the credit as it really saved our bacon on this shoot."

– Ross Webb
San Francisco, CA