MacTech is reported that RE:Vision has announced a new version of their amazing slow motion plug in TWIXTOR. This includes GPU Support for NUKE and SCRATCH.Love this plug in. The most amazing slow motion plug in yet created. Well worth it if you need it, though not cheap!
Red Giant has released a new set of GPU accelerated plug ins called Universe. Right now you can try out the Free plan which includes 32 free plug ins, and you will be able to get Premium plug ins, or create your own. They are also updating many of their old plug ins to work GPU enhanced in universe. Supernova: Behind the Scenes of Red Giant Universe from Red Giant on Vimeo.There is the free membership, a $10 a month Premium Plan or a $99 per year plan, or a $399 Lifetime plan that does not expire!The Plugs include: Universe Free Tools Universe Blur (7 plugins) Universe Distort (8 plugins) Universe Generators (4 plugins) Universe Glow (3 plugins) Universe Transitions (9 plugins) Universe Premium Tools Universe Chromatic Glow Universe Holomatrix Universe Knoll Light Factory EZ Universe Noise Universe Premium Transitions Universe Prism Displacement Universe Retrograde Universe ToonitThis sounds very cool, and I have already installed and am looking forward to trying them out. Not sure about the monthly pricing unless they do add as many effects as they say they will, but the Lifetime is probably the best deal here, especially seeing things like Knoll Light Factory being added with GPU support.Also is an addition is called Red Giant Supernova, which allows you to program plug ins quickly using the Red Giant Universe Library. So it fairly easy to create your own plug ins. Supernova: Behind the Scenes of Red Giant Universe from Red Giant on Vimeo.
Todd Kopriva has announced the release of NVIDIA Cuda Drivers 5.5.47. You can download them from the CUDA control panel or NVIDIA's CUDA site.I had to update to 5.5.28 first to get the 5.5.47 update, guess I have not updated in a while.
Red Giant has updated it's color suite for Premiere Pro CC 7.2.
Todd Kopriva has info on the new features of the 12.2 release of After Effects CC that was recently released.
The After Effects blog has some info on some of the new features of the latest After Effects CC update 12.2. I love that Adobe is really listening and releasing new features and bug fixes so quickly! It is just really too bad that the studios are basically forcing people to use AVID Media Composer, when for any graphics heavy show, Premiere Pro is such a better solution, just for lack of render time, and saving time with alphas and exports.
Adobe's After Effects blog has the news, on this manual update (it is only for Mavericks users so it is not installed through the creative cloud app). You can download it here.
John Dickson at motionworks has a video on new features of the soon to be released Adobe After Effects Creative Cloud 12.1. After Effects: New Features in Ae 12.1 from Motionworks on Vimeo.I love that new layers now are created directly above the selected layer, and the ease of linking layers across compositions! VERY VERY COOL!
Yes, just 4 months after their last upgrade, Adobe is good to it's word and is turning around much faster upgrades with creative cloud, and in October are upgrading Premiere Pro, After Effects, Speed Grade, Prelude, Media Encoder, Story and are adding the iOS app Prelude Live Logger. Awesome! You can check out the upgrades at Adobe. Steve Forde at the Adobe After Effects Blog has a post on the new After Effects Features. The Adobe Premiere Pro Work area Blog has more on Premiere Pro, Media Encoder (which now has GPU enabled rendering!) and Prelude and Prelude Live Logger.The Adobe Moving Colors blog has more on the SpeedGrade Upgrade which includes direct link (an improvement over Dynamic Linking which you can see more about here) and GPU acceleration.Thank you Adobe, looking forward to it! And here's to hoping that Adobe permanently keeps up this rapid pace of development, except it will certainly keep us editors on our toes, as I have just scratched the surface of CC by now! Ha!
Stu has updated his ProLost Burns effects. You can read all about them, or order them for $3.99. It is a simple and easy way to create the Ken Burns effect within After Effects.Thanks Stu!