Maxon Updates Universe to 4.0

Maxon has updated Universe (formerly Red Giant Universe) to 4.0. Universe is a set of Transition and effects plugs ins for editors and motion graphics artists, and is red giants fast rendering transitions. The suite has 3 new plug ins, Electrify to add electrical effects, Analog to add the look of Analog video, and Texturize Motion which adds animated textures to your footage for a sketchy stop motion look. They have also included 100+ presets for the new effects and 140 new presets for Array Gun and Typographic. Universe is available as a subscription for $199 a year, or as part of Red Giant Complete for $599.99 annually or Maxon one with all their products for $1199 a year or you can pay a monthly for $30, $79 or $149. Personally I have used the Red Giant plug ins for many many years, and they have many of my go to effects. They are also fast and work across editing software for the most part. It is a big expense every year, but I find it very worth it for the suite of tools. And honestly if I could afford it would love to add Cinema 4D to the mix.

Some really cool online editing tools at EditiingTools.io

EditingTools.io is a very cool web site with some very useful tools online. You might not need them right now, but when you do it is going to be great to remember they are there.EditingTools.io is a collection of generators, scripts, converters and machine learning applications made over the last years for various projects & productions. They accept donations to keep their free tools online.There are some very useful tools for converting or combining AVID Log Exchange files or ALE files.XML to Splitscreen XML to perfectly do split screens.A very useful Marker Converter to convert timeline markers from Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Frame.io, SubRip Subtitle, CSV, PDF and more.A subtitle tool & converter.A tool to generate an Editor's Codebook from ALE files.A Music Cut Sheet creator from XML files (woohoo, awesome if you have to make them).A Edit Shot List / VFX Shot List from XML.And so much more. These are great tools to know about in case you need them.