Does anyone else lament the loss of Red Giant’s Keying suite from the VFX suite?
So I was playing with Red Giant Supercomp, which is pretty powerful, but it seems to be missing the ability to deal with Motion Blur.
I was hoping to use supercomp for a comp I was doing, but the comp had motion blur in it. And the motion blur doesn’t show up in supercomp. It must interact with all the other comp features.
I was actually hoping to use the features to deliver in RAW, as the background plate was RAW and the item I was comping in was not, so I wanted to deliver it all in RAW without straight eyeballing it.
So just know that Motion Blur doesn’t currently work with Supercomp.
So Red Giant has released the new VFX Suite for Keying, Tracking, Cleanup and Visual Effects Compositing. They have a full blog post with many YouTube videos on features and how to use the new tools.
The only bummer is that they have killed their Keying and Effects suits to do so. I say bummer, not because the new tools don’t look awesome, but because you have to owned the previous to get a special offer upgrade (it isn’t just available on the site) and you get no discount for owning both previous suits.
Supercomp looks impressive though, basically it makes compositing much easier, and allows all layers to effect your comp, so you don’t have to do a bunch of pre-composing to make your comps looks the best they can, and it is all GPU accelerated.
And Primatte has reached version 6. Many people just go with Keylight, but I have always found that Primatte is faster and easier to reach a good key, so I am excited about this.
Key Pin tracker seems to supercharge corner pin tracking (though the demo does show some features they need to add, like copying the from and to points automatically by a single button).
Spot Clone Tracker looks super easy and powerful.
Optical Glow also looks amazing, and should negate the need to every use the built in After Effects glow which never was very good.
I already have some ideas for the new Chromatic Displacement plug in.
Will have to see how the new Knoll Light Factory 3.1 is. I used to use it all the time, but have completely given up on it, because of Video Copilot’s Optical Flares plug in, which I think surpassed it years ago.
And Shadow and Refection looks cool when needed.