Those familiar with Tiffen’s optical lenses will see familiar names: Glimmerglass, Smoque and so on. They’re sorted mostly logically by filter type and broken into categories like Gels, HFX Grads / Tints and Lens. Otherwise, the install process went smoothly, and, after reboot, we found the plug-ins safely nestled in the Video Filters menu. The installation package required us to install several dubiously-named programs for no stated reason – we weren’t sure what a Nalpeiron Daemon was, we didn’t like how it sounded and the meager documentation was no help – but that will bother only security-conscious power-users. For our tests, we downloaded the trial version of the plug-ins and installed them on a Mac Powerbook G4 running Final Cut Pro 6.0 on top of OS X 10.4.6. You can also purchase a boxed version for an extra shipping and handling fee. You can download all three versions from Tiffen’s Web site for a 15-day free trial. While Tiffen offers its still-image manipulation tools as either a stand-alone piece of software or a set of plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop, the video editing capabilities of Dfx can only be utilized as plug-ins for a specific set of video editing applications, namely Avid, Final Cut Pro and Adobe’s Premiere and After Effects. Aimed at both still and video shooters of all skill levels, the Tiffen Dfx software suite aims to digitally simulate a variety of post-production techniques and, for the most part, succeeds.

With its Dfx digital filtering software, Tiffen has stepped out of its role in optical filters and into digital film editing.

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