I have used Red Giant Universe for years and think their whole suite is a must have. I use them literally on every project. I still wish Maxon still allowed you to have an installation on Laptop and Desktop, and even worse the Application Manager now signs out at least once a week, leaving renders with X’s in Premiere all the time. Honestly it was better when owned by Red Giant alone, but I still use the plug-ins all the time.
Knight of the Editing Table have released a new Premiere Pro Extension Anchor.
Anchor allows you to move the anchor point of a clip without moving the clip itself.
It has an alpha mode for Clips with transparacy.
And it works with already Animated Clips.
Anchor is $15.
I am buying every plug in from Knights of the Editing Table. These guys are amazing.
Charles Yeager at the Beat blog at PremiumBeat has an article 10 Underrated After Effects Plugins, Scripts, and Presets. I already use Neat Video which is by far the best noise reduction plug in out there. Color Vibrance from Video Copilot is also good and free. And I use Decompose Text which makes working with text in After effects so much easier.
Logan Baker has a article that is well worth reading. I have to say I didn’t even know about the Fairlight Foley Sampler. This is really very cool, especially the ability to use a MIDI keyboard!
Maxon has updated most of it’s apps, Cinema 4D to 25, Redshift, Trapcode to 17, he VFX Suite to 2 and included new plug-in Bang!, Magic Bullet to 15 and Universe to 5.
Trapcode 17 is updated.
Features the long-requested ability to work with Particular and Form in the same 3D space by bringing Form behaviors to Particular. The release also sees upgrades to the Flocking simulation with the addition of On Predator/Prey Contact and Team designations as well as improvements to system organizational capabilities in the Designer. Form also includes many quality-of-life updates and all Trapcode tools now support Adobe’s multi-frame rendering.
Includes the newly acquired Bang plugin, a fully procedural 3D muzzle flare generator that enables the quick and easy addition of muzzle flashes to your footage. Bang gives full creative control over the look of muzzle flares, including position, shape, color, decay and duration. Recent enhancements include more realistic Glows, Heat Blurs and Age Control refinements. VFX 2 also introduces compatibility with Apple’s Metal Graphics API for Primatte Keyer for optimal performance on supported systems.
Incorporates compatibility and optimization for Apple Silicon-powered Macs, as well as support for Multi-Frame Rendering (MFR) in Adobe After Effects. In addition, Cosmo, Mojo, Film, Renoiser now take advantage of Apple’s Metal Graphics API for optimal GPU performance on Mac.
Both Magic Bullet and Universe 5
now support Multi-Frame Rendering (MFR) in Adobe After Effects. *Denoiser has not been updated in this release.
The most intuitive 3D application interface just got even better with a new modern skin, user interface enhancements and an expansive preset system for optimizing your workflow. All-new Spline Import options allow users to easily use Illustrator, PDF and SVG vector artwork in their 3D scenes. Capsules allow anyone to tap into the power and flexibility of Cinema 4D’s Scene Node system, with plug-in-like features directly in the Classic Object Manager. And the New Spline and Data Integration functionality can be used to build powerful Capsule Assets.
A new rendering mode that provides near real-time rendering performance while using the same shaders, lights, and efficiently co-existing with the standard Redshift render engine in the same DCC and scene. Perfect for artists to use during the development process of a project or even final render if the project does not need the same amount of fidelity as standard Redshift.
II have been using Red Giant for years, still hate that you only get 1 install vs 2 you had before Maxon bought them, but there suite is still something I use almost every day.
As soon as I switched my Mac to dark mode, I immediately began to hate all the white on web sites. It is glaring to see so much white on web sites, when everything else on your computer is dark. Some web sites, switch from bright to dark when they detect dark mode, but most have done nothing about it. So it turns to web browser plug ins fill in the gap. Unfortunately most do not work well.
My favorite is the free open source Dark Reader. It is available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge, though strangely costs $5.99 for safari, and doesn’t work quite the same with the site list, though it still does the conversion of pages just as well.
The plug in gives you options to change your settings on a site by site basis.
And you can keeps sites from being affected or set individual sites to work. It is a great plug in and works the best of any dark mode I have seen and it doesn’t send your user’s data anywhere.
You can also read about these 4 plugs in at 4K Shooter.
OK I haven’t used these yet, but I want to try them all out.
I use Optical Flares from Video Copilot for flares in my motion graphics all the time, so I do love having access to flares and $39 for LensMaster Flares is ridiculously cheap.
And I have to admit to hating doing audio mixes and cleanup, and though I do use Essential Sound in Premiere it doesn’t do as much as it looks like Alex Audio Butler does. And I really want to get my hands on the ERA 5 Bundle. I don’t really mess with EQ and compression unless I have to, so these tools would be amazing to have.
And I just installed Reactor from We Suck Less. I haven’t delved too deep into Fusion as of yet, but I have played a bit. And to have this amazing set of tools for free. Wow! I can’t wait.
Oliver Peters at his digitalfilms blog has written 2 article son Audio Plug-ins for Editors. Parts 1 & 2 focus on categories, such as equalizers and compressors, part 3 is on the audio plug-ins from FabFilter Software Instruments and 4 is on Free Plug-ins.
You should go to his blog and check out parts 1, 2 , 3 and 4.
Sound is my worst part of editing. So often of late I am working for companies that expect me to mix, when an audio guy can add so much to a mix. Maybe this can help a little with audio if you want to dive into it.
Toolfarm, the plug-in seller has posted it’s top 5 plug-ins for under $99 for various software. For Premiere Pro, Davinci Resolve, AVID, Final Cut Pro X, Audio and various 3D packages.
Always good to see lists of inexpensive plug ins.
Neat Video the creator of the best Noise Reduction software out there has updated it’s software to version 5.4.6.
It has expanded AMD support, optimization for Apple’s M1 chips, and support for the latest Adobe releases. You can read about the changes here.
Neat Video is incredibly good and they keep getting better and faster, the only rival is noise reduction in the Studio version of DaVinci Resolve, but I have found they are great companions, and tend to work on software that the other doesn’t do well on. I try out one and then switch to the other if that one isn’t working as well. And I have Neat for Premiere Pro and After Effects as well.