Red Giant has updated Universe to 1.1 with 3 new Free and 6 New Premium Effects. And 3 updated Effects. What's New in Red Giant Universe 1.1 from Red Giant on Vimeo. Very cool. Lets hope they keep pouring out updates this quickly. The great thing about the subscription model is if they keep getting in money they can keep updating.
Luckily that didn't take long. Red Giant has updated all their software for Adobe Creative Cloud 2014.Really many of the most important plug ins for After Effects. I use them every day!
Nebula Construction Kit examples from Peder Norrby on Vimeo.Red Giant has released a Nebula Construction Kit and Tutorial using Trapcode Mir and Form.Very cool! Going to have to play with this one.Check out their tutorial and download the kit from Red Giant.
Red Giant has released version 1.0 of it's new GPU accelerated Universe Plug ins. These include 31 free GPU accelerated plugs ins and currently 19 Pro plug ins that can be had for $10 a month, $99 a year or $399 for a lifetime subscription. And they promise dozens of new tools in 2014 alone. Already these protools include a version of Knoll Light Factory, Toonit and Holomatrix.I love Red Giant's stuff, so this is a great thing. Not sure about all these subscriptions though. So far the small businesses I work with have been very averse to a monthly fee, but the free plug ins are great to have.
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.
Red Giant has updated it's color suite for Premiere Pro CC 7.2.
You can download it at it's products download page.
Red Giant has released the 3.2.0 update for OS X. Support for the just-released Avid Media Composer 7Using MP3 files as external audio is now supportedAdded an option to save the synced project to a specified locationNow properly supports audio tracks with more than two channelsNow properly handles ProRes PAL footageNow supports Avid Media Composer 5.0 AAF filesAdded support for imported media where audio gain was applied in Avid Media ComposerSpanned P2 MXF files will no longer show up as an “Unsupported Format”Now preserves clip spacing when importing an AAF fileFixed problem with media captured from iMovie, CineForm Studio, and Final Cut ExpressYou can download the update here.
Scott Simmons at the Pro Video Coalition takes a look at Red Giant's soon to be released BulletProof. It is basically a tool for DIT's. It easily allows the DIT to Import, Organize, Review, Refine and Export your Clips. Allowing backups, simple color corrections and transcodes before the edit.It is going to be $199 when it is released, though will start as a free Beta as I have previously posted.
Red Giant has announced the sign up or the BulletProof public beta, a new program to ingest, backup, color correct and compress footage.I signed up right away, looking forward to check this out. Especially with DSLR footage this could be very interesting.