by Noise Industries·Motion Graphics
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Photo Montage sits in the toolfarm library among slideshow and photo-animation tools. It stands out for automating the montage build with no keyframes, custom durations per photo, and AI-driven Pan and Zoom, while supporting Wide Gamut HDR output.
Noise Industries Photo Montage creates photo montages automatically: select your photos and the plug-in handles the build. It ships with more than a hundred presets to match the look of your projects, and a simple UI lets you rearrange photos and set a custom duration for each one.
No keyframes are needed. Set a duration for each photo and the transition effect, and leave the rest to the plug-in. Changing the order in which photos appear doesn't require editing your timeline. Multiple transitions can be used within the same slideshow, so you can assign a specific transition to each photo, and AI-driven Pan and Zoom identifies the prominent regions in your photos to create natural animations.
The plug-in supports Wide Gamut HDR output, GPU acceleration using Metal, and built-in motion blurring for high-quality animations at any frame rate. It reads JPEG, PNG, PSD, OpenEXR, HEIC and more formats. Photo Montage requires Noise Industries FxFactory to run.
Noise Industries Photo Montage is best for building automatic photo slideshows and montages with per-photo transitions and pan-and-zoom animation.
Noise Industries Photo Montage is completely free to download and use.
Photo Montage requires Noise Industries FxFactory, a free download, in order to run. FxFactory Pro is a paid version with the same system requirements as the free version. For current system requirements, refer to the FxFactory page on the developer's site. Once FxFactory is installed, Photo Montage becomes available inside your host application alongside the rest of the FxFactory library, so you install FxFactory first and then add the plug-in.
Photo Montage works in Final Cut Pro X, Motion, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve, running on Apple Silicon and Intel processors. Because it relies on Noise Industries FxFactory, you'll need FxFactory installed first before the plug-in becomes available in any of these hosts. GPU acceleration is handled through Metal, and for the most current system requirements you can check the FxFactory page on the developer's site.
Photo Montage supports JPEG, PNG, PSD, OpenEXR, HEIC and more formats, so you can bring in a mix of image types for a single slideshow. You set a duration for each photo along with the transition effect, and the plug-in builds the animation without keyframes. Changing the order in which photos appear doesn't require editing your timeline, and built-in motion blurring produces high-quality animations at any frame rate.
Photo Montage is listed as free here. It does require Noise Industries FxFactory to run, which is itself a free download; FxFactory also comes in a paid Pro version that shares the same system requirements as the free version. For current licensing terms, check the developer's page. Once FxFactory is set up, you can add Photo Montage and its hundred-plus presets to your projects across the supported hosts.
Photo Montage's AI-driven Pan and Zoom identifies the prominent regions in your photos to create natural animations. You can also use multiple transitions within the same slideshow, assigning a specific transition to each photo. Effects and transitions support more randomization for varied animations, and Wide Gamut HDR is supported for output quality at every step. No keyframes are required at any point, and the plug-in relies on Metal for GPU acceleration.
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