MetaTools' Final Effects AP is set to do for Adobe Premiere what its KPT Final Effects did for Adobe After Effects — for hundreds of dollars less. Final Effects AP is a collection of 16 transition and filler plug-ins for Premiere, the most popular video-editing program in the Macintosh world. (It also works with programs that fully support Premiere plug-ins.)
Final Effects APs modules install in Premiere's plug-ins folder and weave themselves into the Premiere interface. You get four transition effects: two wipes stretch the video in track A while gradually revealing tile video in track B; another twists track A like a piece of toffee while revealing track B; and the fourth peels away track A to reveal track B, Not only is this page peel much more attractive than Premiere’s, but it lets you specify more peel directions.
The 12 filters in Final Effects AP distort video tracks and add other special effects. The Rain and Snow filters simulate precipitation; the Sphere filter projects an image onto a sphere whose surface properties and illumination you control; the Scattertze filter creates an exploding image; the Flo Motion filter sucks images into a digital black hole; the Pixel Polly filter creates a sbaucring-glass effect; and a sophisticated particle generator creates everything from star hursts to bubbles to flames. You can also animate the effects over time by creating keyframes in the filters dialog box..., With the snow filter for example, you can create gentle flurries that evolve into a windblown blizzard.
One of the beauties of Adobe After Effects is the control it gives you over effects: you can specify numeric values for filter settings, for example, and adjust the way a filter evolves by drawing Bézier curves. This control extends to third-party modules like KPT Final Effects. Because Adobe Premiere doesn't provide this fine control, neither does Final Effects AP. However, you can specify that an effect evoke in a linear fashion or begin and end gradually, or you can use the Bézier option to create a less dramatic effect (though you can’t edit the curve as in After Effects).
The Last Word With Final Effects AP, MetaTools has made the renowned image quality of KPT Final Effects accessible to Premiere users. If you do most of your work in Adobe Premiere or a program that’s compatible with Premiere plug-ins — and you can’t justify the expense of After Effects and KPT Final Effects — you won’t find a higher quality collection of transitions and filters for your money.
Heid, Jim. (August 1996). Final Effects AP. Macworld. (pg. 86).
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
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