This Thursday, July 23, our free What's New in After Effects webinar has a sponsor worth talking about. RE:Vision Effects is backing the session, and giving three registrants a real reason to show up: your choice of their Effections bundle, a single plugin of your choice, or a full Twixtor Stand-Alone license. If you have edited motion graphics for any length of time, you have almost certainly used their software. You may just not have known the name on the box.
So before the webinar, it is worth introducing the team behind the tools. Because the story of RE:Vision Effects is a story about how a small group of engineers and artists quietly built some of the most-used image-processing plugins in the industry, and picked up an Academy Award and an Emmy along the way.
Twixtor. ReelSmart Motion Blur. DE:Noise. DEFlicker. RE:Match. If any of those names ring a bell, you have met RE:Vision Effects. Their plugins solve the unglamorous but essential problems of post-production: slowing footage down without turning it to mush, adding believable motion blur, cleaning up noise and grain, matching color across shots, stabilizing a shaky handheld take. This is the work that separates a rough cut from a finished piece, and for more than 25 years RE:Vision has been building the tools that do it.
The company was founded in the fall of 1998 by Pierre Jasmin and Peter Litwinowicz, two developers who came out of the visual effects trenches rather than a boardroom. That origin still shows in how the software works. These are tools made by people who have had to hit a delivery deadline, and it is one reason RE:Vision's plugins have become a visual standard across film, broadcast, and independent production.
Pierre Jasmin's resume reads like a tour of visual effects history. Before co-founding RE:Vision Effects, he worked at Mass Illusion, where he contributed to the Best Visual Effects Academy Award winner What Dreams May Come, from early demos that helped the film get funded all the way to the final days before release. While there, he also helped deliver the initial bullet-time effect for The Matrix before the film was even greenlit. Earlier, at Discreet Logic (now part of Autodesk), he was a startup engineer on Eddie, the industry's first commercial nodal compositing application, and on the software that grew into flame, flint, fire, and smoke. Today he also serves as a co-director of the OpenFX association, the open API standard that lets plugins work across host applications.
Peter Litwinowicz came from Apple's Advanced Technology Group, where he developed and patented image-warping software along with the interfaces that made those techniques usable for designers and animators. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has authored academic papers, and has screened short films at SIGGRAPH, the industry's premier graphics conference. He is the rare combination of researcher, artist, and practical developer, someone who knows how to take a genuinely advanced technique and make it something an editor can actually use.
That combination has been recognized at the highest level. RE:Vision Effects received a 2006 Academy Award for Technical Achievement for the design and development of its family of affordable, user-friendly plugins, and a 2020 Engineering Emmy from the Television Academy for its visual effects and video processing software. The founders' work also sits behind earlier honors, including the Best Visual Effects wins for What Dreams May Come (1998) and Dreamkeeper (2003). Few plugin makers can point to a shelf like that.
Since 2009, the technical direction has been shaped by Christophe Souchard, who serves as Chief Scientist and Head of R&D. His background is in advanced image processing, computer vision, and machine learning, and his early career included writing the first point tracker, object stabilization, and match-moving modules for the paint-and-animation lineage that became Avid Media Illusion, plus architecture work on film color-management tools and on the product that became Autodesk's MotionBuilder. His later focus on retiming, stabilization, and optical flow is exactly the technology that powers RE:Vision's best-known plugins.
That is the throughline of the whole company. Optical flow, motion estimation, and machine-learning algorithms are not marketing terms here; they are the actual math that lets Twixtor invent convincing in-between frames for slow motion, or lets DE:Noise clean an image without smearing detail. When you trust one of these plugins on a paying job, you are trusting decades of specialized research.
Here is how RE:Vision describes the breadth of what they offer, in their own words:
RE:Vision Effects (revisionfx.com) a long-time leader in plug-ins for After Effects has you covered: retiming, denoising, deflickering, motion blur, warping and morphing, texture mapping, upscaling and image enhancement (color, contrast, sharpness), distortions, fisheye, VR 180 and 360 and stabilization and reframing and much more. Licenses are permanent and work in all OS and applications we support. We have 16 products for AE available individually or as a bundle. Don't worry about bothering tech support, we like what we do and are here to help.
Two things in there are worth underlining for working professionals. First, the licenses are permanent, not subscriptions, which is increasingly rare and genuinely valued by freelancers and small studios managing their own tools. Second, that closing line about tech support is not throwaway copy. RE:Vision has long been known for having some of the most responsive sales and technical support in the plugin business, backed by real post-production experience rather than a ticket queue.
This is not a company resting on a legacy. The release schedule over the past two years tells its own story: ARRI Film Lab arrived in November 2025, REZup Version 2 pushed past previous resolution limits in August 2025, Twixtor Standalone landed in January 2025 to bring the industry-standard retiming engine to editors outside of a host application, and Color Genius introduced automatic color matching in 2024. For a team of its size, that is a remarkable pace, and it reflects a company that is still actively investing in the problems its customers face today, from higher resolutions to AI-assisted workflows.
There's an undeniable symmetry in RE:Vision sponsoring an After Effects webinar. Karl Hill's session covers the newest Adobe AI tools and features reshaping motion graphics, and RE:Vision's plugins live in that same timeline, extending what After Effects can do out of the box. Learning the host application and knowing the best third-party tools are two halves of the same craft. A stronger command of both is what turns good work into great work.
That is really what the giveaway is about. A few lucky registrants will walk away with tools that professionals rely on every day, and everyone who attends walks away knowing more than they did that morning. It is a good week to show up.