FBMN White Balance Plugin for Vegas by Frederic Baumann

wwaag wrote on 1/15/2024, 7:05 PM

Anyone had any recent contact with this developer of Vegas plug-ins? I purchased his White Balance Plugin (a great plugin) some years ago and used it in quite a few of my projects. Recently, I replaced my C drive and as a result had to re-activate the plugin. However, I had exceeded the number of allowed activations and was instructed to contact the developer. I've send numerous emails over the last month but have not received a reply. The website is still active and the plug-in is still for sale.

Any information on how to contact the developer would be greatly appreciated.

AKA the HappyOtter at https://tools4vegas.com/. System 1: Intel i7-8700k with HD 630 graphics plus an Nvidia RTX4070 graphics card. System 2: Intel i7-3770k with HD 4000 graphics plus an AMD RX550 graphics card. System 3: Laptop. Dell Inspiron Plus 16. Intel i7-11800H, Intel Graphics. Current cameras include Panasonic FZ2500, GoPro Hero11 and Hero8 Black plus a myriad of smartPhone, pocket cameras, video cameras and film cameras going back to the original Nikon S.

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Grazie wrote on 1/15/2024, 11:55 PM

@wwaag - Contact me.

Bfredo123 wrote on 1/16/2024, 4:09 AM

Dear Wwaag, Grazie,

Thank you Grazie for making me aware of this pending request. Wwaag, I have just handled your overlooked request and answered you privately.

Best regards,

Frédéric - FBmn Software

Grazie wrote on 1/16/2024, 4:19 AM

Thanks Fred. You’re a total Gent! 😀

Steve_Rhoden wrote on 1/16/2024, 7:08 AM

Was wondering myself if this developer was still around. He did a wonderful job back then with his White Balance and Exposure plugs, that i still use and still find quite effective...

Was so looking forward to see some other effective plugins from him at the time.

Grazie wrote on 1/16/2024, 12:20 PM

@Steve_Rhoden - Today I reinstalled his White Balance and Color Match into VP21, and it works very well.

wwaag wrote on 1/16/2024, 3:25 PM

@Bfredo123

Thanks so much. It's now activated and working.

@Grazie

Thanks so much. Your new name--the "Fixer".

AKA the HappyOtter at https://tools4vegas.com/. System 1: Intel i7-8700k with HD 630 graphics plus an Nvidia RTX4070 graphics card. System 2: Intel i7-3770k with HD 4000 graphics plus an AMD RX550 graphics card. System 3: Laptop. Dell Inspiron Plus 16. Intel i7-11800H, Intel Graphics. Current cameras include Panasonic FZ2500, GoPro Hero11 and Hero8 Black plus a myriad of smartPhone, pocket cameras, video cameras and film cameras going back to the original Nikon S.

cold ones wrote on 4/22/2024, 3:27 PM

Sorry to resurrect this, but I'm having a similar problem! I've tried reaching Frédéric via his contact email, but everything gets rejected (his mailbox is quarantined). I have a legacy PC with Vegas 13 (which previously worked with his plugins)---now they just turn the screen blank. Hoping someone out there can help?

Thanks in advance!

Steve_Rhoden wrote on 4/22/2024, 6:00 PM

Which Vegas version are you seeing this?

cold ones wrote on 4/23/2024, 9:08 AM

I've got v13 & v14 on this PC, both act the same.

wwaag wrote on 4/23/2024, 9:26 AM

@cold ones

Just sent a PM to Frederic alerting him to your problem with a link to this thread.

AKA the HappyOtter at https://tools4vegas.com/. System 1: Intel i7-8700k with HD 630 graphics plus an Nvidia RTX4070 graphics card. System 2: Intel i7-3770k with HD 4000 graphics plus an AMD RX550 graphics card. System 3: Laptop. Dell Inspiron Plus 16. Intel i7-11800H, Intel Graphics. Current cameras include Panasonic FZ2500, GoPro Hero11 and Hero8 Black plus a myriad of smartPhone, pocket cameras, video cameras and film cameras going back to the original Nikon S.

marcinzm wrote on 7/8/2025, 5:07 AM

@wwaag @Grazie

Hello

Can someone help me with reactivating FB White Balance Plugin

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/frdric-baumann-white-balance-plugin-contact-with-the-owner--149245/#ca938652

Regards

Marcin

If you are bored, drink water, you will want to pee. -> Albert Einstein - my idol!

I am 42. I have been creating videos since 2009 (the date when my first daughter was born in). My first video software was Pinnacle, next one was Sony Vegas 8 (I am not sure if remember it correctly). I am also a developer and wedding movie operator and editor. For example: I have created an Android app which let me control Vegas Pro rendering progress level on Android smartphone. I created it for fun, because I also love programming. I also created my own plugin for Audio To Text feature specified usage from Vegas Pro 19. I created proxy creation plugin which uses multiple GPU threads (maximum 3) to create proxy files for Vegas Pro. I also written many others plugin/softwares which enhance my video editing, also wedding editing.

Camera/video camera: Sony FX3, Sony A7 III, Sony FDR AX 100, Canon 5D Mark III, GoPro Hero Black 7,8,9,10

Lenses for Sony: Tamron 28-75mm F/2.8 Di III , Sony 24mm gm 1.4 FE, Sony 20 mm G FE 1.8

Lenses for Canon: Canon EF 24-70 mm F/2.8 L USM, Canon 70-200 f/2.8 L

Drone: DJI Mavic 3 & DJI Phantom 4 Pro v2.0

 

Editing: Vegas Pro 20 (365) with a lot of third party plugins, also my own plugins written in C#

 

PC:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-7900X CPU @ 3.30GHz   3.31 GHz

RAM: 128 GB

GPU: Nvidia RTX 2080 TI

storage: 4 SSD drives (including two M.2 flash drives) and two HDD drives

Windows system: 10 Home edition

Shinra Bansho wrote on 7/25/2025, 11:31 PM

@wwaag, @Grazie, I would also like to get a help on reactivating the FB white balance plug-in. I sent @Bfredo123 emails a couple of times but no reply. Thanks and regards, Shinra Bansho.

PC 1: ASUS ROG Strix B-760i Gaming Wifi, 64GB RAM (DDR5), i5 14600K, 2TB M2.SSD, ASUS RTX-4070 (12GB), Windows 11 Pro Version 24H2

PC 2: ASUS Prime H570-PLUS MB, 32GB RAM, i7-10700K, 1TB SSD (M.2), 8TB HD, NVidia RTX3080 10GB, Windows 11 Home 24H2

Gears: Panasonic GH4/GH5, Sony FDR-AX100/A7C/A74/FX30

Dexcon wrote on 7/26/2025, 12:15 AM

@Shinra Bansho  ... please click on the link given in the comment just before your post - it will no doubt explain why you have not received a reply and, unfortunately, are unlikely to get a reply unless there's a relative who can do so.

Cameras: Sony FDR-AX100E; GoPro Hero 11 Black Creator Edition

Installed: Vegas Pro 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 & 22, HitFilm Pro 2021.3, DaVinci Resolve Studio 20, BCC 2025, Mocha Pro 2025.0, NBFX TotalFX 7, Neat NR, DVD Architect 6.0, MAGIX Travel Maps, Sound Forge Pro 16, SpectraLayers Pro 11, iZotope RX11 Advanced and many other iZ plugins, Vegasaur 4.0

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Shinra Bansho wrote on 7/26/2025, 12:33 AM

@Dexcon, Thank you but @Bfred123 did actually respond to my query earlier this month telling me the location of the most recent installer. However, he failed to tell me at that time how I could reactivate it. I sent him a follow-up message but no reply since then hence asking a help here.

PC 1: ASUS ROG Strix B-760i Gaming Wifi, 64GB RAM (DDR5), i5 14600K, 2TB M2.SSD, ASUS RTX-4070 (12GB), Windows 11 Pro Version 24H2

PC 2: ASUS Prime H570-PLUS MB, 32GB RAM, i7-10700K, 1TB SSD (M.2), 8TB HD, NVidia RTX3080 10GB, Windows 11 Home 24H2

Gears: Panasonic GH4/GH5, Sony FDR-AX100/A7C/A74/FX30

marcinzm wrote on 8/6/2025, 6:08 AM

@Grazie @wwaag

Unfortunately nobody has replied to me and I have been still having this issue with activating key :(

If you are bored, drink water, you will want to pee. -> Albert Einstein - my idol!

I am 42. I have been creating videos since 2009 (the date when my first daughter was born in). My first video software was Pinnacle, next one was Sony Vegas 8 (I am not sure if remember it correctly). I am also a developer and wedding movie operator and editor. For example: I have created an Android app which let me control Vegas Pro rendering progress level on Android smartphone. I created it for fun, because I also love programming. I also created my own plugin for Audio To Text feature specified usage from Vegas Pro 19. I created proxy creation plugin which uses multiple GPU threads (maximum 3) to create proxy files for Vegas Pro. I also written many others plugin/softwares which enhance my video editing, also wedding editing.

Camera/video camera: Sony FX3, Sony A7 III, Sony FDR AX 100, Canon 5D Mark III, GoPro Hero Black 7,8,9,10

Lenses for Sony: Tamron 28-75mm F/2.8 Di III , Sony 24mm gm 1.4 FE, Sony 20 mm G FE 1.8

Lenses for Canon: Canon EF 24-70 mm F/2.8 L USM, Canon 70-200 f/2.8 L

Drone: DJI Mavic 3 & DJI Phantom 4 Pro v2.0

 

Editing: Vegas Pro 20 (365) with a lot of third party plugins, also my own plugins written in C#

 

PC:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-7900X CPU @ 3.30GHz   3.31 GHz

RAM: 128 GB

GPU: Nvidia RTX 2080 TI

storage: 4 SSD drives (including two M.2 flash drives) and two HDD drives

Windows system: 10 Home edition