Digital Juice®, the highly acclaimed developer of digital content and professional camera gear and accessories, today announced the release of Animated Shoulder Sets™ Collection 4. Animated Shoulder Sets are an easy-to-use downloadable collection of templates for Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion, and Sony Vegas Pro. The Shoulder Sets product line features animated “virtual sets” or environments specifically designed to display a video screen area and a green-screen “keyed” presenter in a stylish, exciting way.

Each collection has 10 unique template sets that work directly in any one of the five supported host applications. “To make sure you wouldn’t have any compatibility issues, we only used the native effects and features that are already built into your editing or motion graphics application,” says David Hebel, CEO of Digital Juice. “Getting started is as simple as loading a project into your editor and then adding your video clips. Each set comes with a matching animated background, animated frame and a revealer/wipe animation to help transition between video segments. Combining these elements can deliver a highly polished professional look.”

Unlike the ready2go Projects & Templates and Toxic Templates product lines that feature complex layers and multiple segments per template, the new Animated Shoulder Sets templates offer the same complex sophisticated look in a simpler streamlined design with video and text segments uniquely designed to act as a virtual environment for your keyed talent. “We've engineered these templates so that they are easy for you to produce what you need for your production, without the extra technical infrastructure that comes with heavier, more complicated project files,” says Hebel.

In the new Animated Shoulder Sets™ Collection 4, users will find a unique collection of virtual sets that are powerfully simple and that push the limits of cutting-edge style, while still remaining exceptionally intuitive and easy to use — even for beginners. It's incredibly easy to use the Animated Shoulder Sets projects as-is or you can use the individual components from each set on their own to create a custom look anywhere it’s needed. Each set is designed to seamlessly loop for as long as you need. You can also seamlessly chain together an infinite number of segments for a production that is as long as you need it to be, using the built-in matching animated revealer and wipe elements.

Some of the creative looks in the new Animated Shoulder Sets Collection 4 include everything from a beautiful office cityscape view at night with animating LCD screen, to a crisp, clean stage featuring a falling set of blocks that organize and form a cube-shaped rotating video wall – to name just a few of the many creative designs in this package. “One important difference between the new Animated Shoulder Sets™ product line and its big brothers, the ready2go Projects & Templates and Toxic Templates, is the fact that you can choose to purchase and download individual projects as opposed to having to buy an entire collection,” says Hebel. This is especially handy for an editor or artist who is working on a budget with a deadline who needs a specific look immediately.

Animated Shoulder Sets™ projects and templates can be used for a wide variety of green screen “talking head” productions – in everything from high-tech news reports, event videos and network promos to broadcast television commercials, corporate presentations and training material.

System Requirements

Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro

• After Effects and Premiere Pro CS4 & above
• No 3rd Party Plug-ins required
• Latest version of Apple® QuickTime®
• Windows XP Professional SP2 / Vista / 7 / Intel Pentium 4 / AMD Athlon XP / Min of 1 GB system memory
• Mac OS X 10.4+ / OSX Leopard / G4 / G5 / Mac Intel Processors / Min of 1 GB system memory

Apple Motion and Final Cut Pro

• Apple Motion 4.0 & 5.0 & Apple Final Cut Pro 7.0 & above
• No 3rd Party Plug-ins required
• Latest version of Apple® QuickTime®
• 1GB of RAM (4GB recommended)
• Graphics processor with at least 128MB of VRAM
• Mac OS X v10.5.6 or later

Sony Vegas Pro

• Sony Vegas Pro 9.0 and above
• No 3rd Party plug-ins required
• Latest version of Apple® QuickTime®
• Latest version of Juicer
• Microsoft® Windows® XP SP3 / Vista SP2 / Windows 7
• 2 GHz processor (multicore or multiprocessor CPU recommended)
• 2 GB RAM

Browse, Search & Select
Digital Juice® provides a free Windows® and Mac® utility, Juicer™ 3, that makes it easy to browse, search, and select from any of the Animated Shoulder Sets™ Projects & Templates Collections for After Effects, Premiere Pro, Motion, Final Cut Pro or Vegas Pro.

Pricing & Availability
The new Animated Shoulder Sets™ Collection 4 templates can be ordered through Digital Juice's online store individually or as an entire collection via instant download at www.digitaljuice.com. Individual templates retail for $25 each or you can purchase an entire collection for $99.95, a 60% discount off the per template cost. Check the website for details on specials. The company's free Juicer™ 3 software can be found at www.digitaljuice.com/juicer/

About Digital Juice®
Digital Juice® is the world-leader in royalty-free broadcast animation content for video, motion graphics and multimedia professionals. Digital Juice® products are in use in nearly every major studio, broadcast, and cable station including NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, HBO, CNBC, Fox News, and countless high profile television shows such as American Idol and the Grammy Awards. The company provides royalty-free animations, music, stock footage, organic film effects, graphical fonts, layered Photoshop® illustrations, After Effects® project files, plug-ins and production gear to a wide variety of video, motion graphics, print and web enthusiasts. The company is known for its extremely high quality and innovative content as well as for its aggressive and affordable pricing.