PORTLAND, Ore. & FRIEDRICHSDORF, Germany—Maxon, which develops 3D software solutions, and Red Giant, a designer of tools for editors, VFX artists and motion designers, have come to terms on a merger, with the combined company falling under the media and entertainment division of Nemetschek Group.

The two companies have been providers of equipment and technologies to a wide range of production houses, and as a single entity will aim to serve the post-production and content creation industries.

“This merger is a major milestone, not only for Maxon and Red Giant but also for the design industry as a whole,” said David McGavran, CEO of Maxon. “Our combined technology and knowhow have the potential to progressively reshape the content creation landscape for years to come.”

“The combination of our companies is an exceptional fit of people, culture and technology,” said Chad Bechert, CEO of Red Giant. “We look forward to working together under a shared vision of how to design powerful and approachable software to serve creative artists around the world.”

The merger is expected to be completed in January 2020, subject to regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions.

Portland, OR - December 5, 2019 -Red Giant has released another Cheap Tricks episode: Frozen II VFX, in which Daniel “Hashi” Hashimoto of Action Movie Kid demonstrates how to recreate the magical visual effects from the newest Frozen film. Now available on YouTube for unlimited viewing pleasure, Hashi explains how to use the full arsenal of tools from Red Giant Complete, including Particular, Starglow, Colorista IV, Supercomp and Reflection, to create smokey portals, ice diamonds that float through the sky, and, of course, the enchanting sparkle magic Elsa creates when using her powers.

WATCH NOW:Cheap Tricks Episode 12 - Frozen II VFX

Red Giant Complete is the subscription service that gives editors, motion designers and VFX artists all Red Giant tools at one low price - Trapcode Suite, Magic Bullet Suite, Universe, VFX Suite and Shooter Suite. With Red Giant Complete, annual subscribers will have the most up-to-date versions of all tools, saving thousands of dollars over traditional perpetual licenses.

Red Giant Complete includes:

· Trapcode Suite (reg. $999): The industry’s most essential tools for creating 3D motion graphics and visual effects in Adobe® After Effects®, now with the Dynamic Fluids™ physics engine. Products used in this tutorial: Particular, Form, Mir, Starglow.

· Magic Bullet Suite (reg. $899): Widely-used for color correction, finishing and film looks, Magic Bullet Suite 13 gives editors and filmmakers everything needed to make footage look great, right on editing timelines. Products used in this tutorial: Colorista IV, Looks.

· Universe (reg. $199/year): Red Giant’s collection of over 80 GPU-accelerated plugins for editors and motion graphics artists. Products used in this tutorial: Spot Blur.

· VFX Suite (reg. $999): The all-new suite of keying, tracking, cleanup and visual effects compositing tools, all right inside Adobe After Effects. Products used in this tutorial: Supercomp, Shadow, Reflection.

· Shooter Suite (reg. $399): Shooter Suite 13.0 is a set of purpose-built applications, including the industry-leading PluralEyes, that give directors of photography, videographers, shooters and filmmakers the ability to bring footage from set to post.

To get all these individual tools it would cost $2,190 - but with Red Giant Complete it costs just $599/year ($299 for students and teachers). With the Year End Sale* on Dec. 10 (details below), it will cost $1,533 to get all of the individual tools - but with Red Giant Complete it will cost just $299 ($149 for students and teachers).

* The offer of 50% off Red Giant Complete for individuals, students and teachers is valid for only the first year of an annual subscription.

Upgrade to Red Giant Complete at 50% Off

For a limited time, those who already own any of the Red Giant suites or have a subscription to Universe can get 50% off the first year of Red Giant Complete. That’s $299 for individuals and $149 for students and teachers. Learn more about how to switch over to Red Giant Complete and why now is the best time to make the switch.

The Red Giant Year End Sale Delivers Magical Savings

On Tuesday, December 10th for 24 hours only, Red Giant will be having its annual blowout Year End Sale, where anyone can get 50% off Red Giant Complete or 30% off everything else. Read up for more details and set the alarm for 8:00 a.m. PST (11:00 a.m. EST) on the 10th when the sale kicks off.

The Red Pledge

Red Pledge is Red Giant’s commitment to customer happiness, with no purchasing hassles. Learn about the Red Pledge guarantee at https://www.redgiant.com/company/red-pledge/.

Request a Red Giant Complete Media Review Kit

Members of the media are invited to review Red Giant Complete as well as any individual tools or product suites from Red Giant. For more information or to request a product review kit, please contact Megan Linebarger at megan@zazilmediagroup.com.

About Red Giant

Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 250,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at www.redgiant.com.

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Portland, OR - November 26, 2019 - In just two weeks, Red Giant will kick off its Year End Sale, the 24-hour annual blowout on all Red Giant tools, running from 8:00 a.m. PST (11:00 a.m. EST) on Tuesday, December 10, 2019 to 8:00 a.m. PST (11:00 a.m. EST) Wednesday, December 11, 2019. This year’s sale will be the biggest one yet: customers will have access to 50% off Red Giant Complete, a subscription that gives editors, motion designers and VFX artists access to all Red Giant tools at one low price - Trapcode Suite, Magic Bullet Suite, Universe, VFX Suite and Shooter Suite. Everything else in the online store will be on sale at 30% off.

WATCH NOW:RED GIANT 2019 YEAR END SALE

Win Red Giant Complete - One Full Year of Free Software

For the next two weeks, Red Giant will be giving away free software every 12 hours. Simply follow @redgiantnews on Twitter and retweet the special contest tweets using the hashtag #RGYearEndSale for a chance to win a one-year subscription to Red Giant Complete. Enter once every 12 hours for a chance to win. Contest ends Monday December 9, 2019, at 6:00 p.m. PST (9:00 p.m. EST). That’s 24 chances to win tons of free software.

How to Save Big on Everything Red Giant Makes

Hold out on Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for the Red Giant Year End Sale, with discounts that can be applied to subscriptions, full suites, individual products, and upgrades. Here’s everything shoppers need to know:

· 50% off Red Giant Complete*

· 30% off Everything Else*

· The sale covers​academic pricing* (which is already 50% off for students and teachers)

· The Volume Program will also be included for the first time ever, for those buying five or more licenses.*

· 24 Hours Only!

· Sale starts: 12/10/19 at 8:00 a.m. PST

· Sales ends: 12/11/19 at 8:00 a.m. PST

Some examples of savings include:

· Red Giant Complete: Usually $599/yr. Get it on sale for just: $299

· Trapcode Suite 15: Usually $999. Get it on sale for just $699

· VFX Suite (NEW!): Usually $999. Get it on sale for just $699

· Magic Bullet Suite 13: Usually $899. Get it on sale for just $629

· PluralEyes 4: Usually $299. Get it on sale for just $209

· Universe*: Usually $199/yr. Get it on sale for just $139

These are just examples - everything we sell will be on sale. If you have any questions, we are here for you. For assistance, contact: http://redgiant.com/support.

Buying Five or More Licenses?

If you are a business, organization, school, or university buying five or more licenses, Red Giant is offering 50% off volume pricing for new Red Giant Complete subscriptions*. Learn more about the benefits of the Volume Program here. Please contact the volume team for full details.

*Important Notes:

The discounted price on subscriptions is a one-time introductory rate. After that, the renewal price will be at the standard annual fee.

This sale excludes renewals of all active and lapsed annual subscriptions and monthly subscriptions of Universe.

If you have never owned an annual subscription of Universe, you are eligible for this promotion.

Academic Buyers: It is strongly recommended that students and teachers should contact us and pre-qualify as an academic buyer before the sale.

The Red Pledge

Red Pledge is Red Giant’s commitment to customer happiness, with no purchasing hassles. Learn about the Red Pledge guarantee at https://www.redgiant.com/company/red-pledge/.

Request a Red Giant Complete Media Review Kit

Members of the media are invited to review any individual tools or product suites from Red Giant. For more information or to request a product review kit, please contact Cat Soroush at catherine@zazilmediagroup.com.

About Red Giant

Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 250,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at www.redgiant.com.

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Portland, OR – November 25, 2019 –Red Giant today announced the availability of Red Giant Complete for individuals, students and teachers. Expanding its software licensing options, Red Giant Complete is a subscription service that gives editors, motion designers and VFX artists all Red Giant tools at one low price – Trapcode Suite, Magic Bullet Suite, Universe, VFX Suite and Shooter Suite. With Red Giant Complete, annual subscribers will have the most up-to-date versions of all tools, saving thousands of dollars over traditional perpetual licenses.

Watch now:Red Giant Complete

“Red Giant Complete has been available to our volume customers for years, with thousands of licenses in use at broadcast networks, film studios and universities. And now, due to popular demand, we're really excited to offer subscription licensing to all of our customers,” says Chad Bechert, CEO of Red Giant. “At the same time, nothing has changed. While we think Red Giant Complete is an incredible deal, we know some customers are more comfortable buying software the traditional way. We want to make sure our community of talented artists has what it needs, so we’re continuing to offer perpetual licenses at their usual prices.”

Red Giant Complete is $599 a year for individuals or $299 for students and teachers. Check out the Red Giant blog to learn more about how to switch over to Red Giant Complete and why now is the best time to make the switch, with a special, limited-time-only introductory offer for established Suite customers (see more details below).

The Benefits of Red Giant Complete

· All Access – Red Giant Complete gives artists full access to the complete set of Red Giant tools – including all four product suites and Universe.

· Up-to-Date – Red Giant Complete includes free upgrades, so users will always have the latest editing, motion graphics and VFX tools, the moment they are updated.

· Big Savings – With Red Giant Complete, individuals, students and teachers will save thousands of dollars. Buying all Red Giant tools would normally cost $3,495. With subscription pricing it would take over 5 years to pay the same amount for perpetual licenses – and that wouldn’t include upgrade costs.

Red Giant Complete includes:

· Trapcode Suite (reg. $999): The industry’s most essential tools for creating 3D motion graphics and visual effects in Adobe® After Effects®, now with the Dynamic Fluids™ physics engine.

· Magic Bullet Suite (reg. $899): Widely used for color correction, finishing and film looks, Magic Bullet Suite 13 gives editors and filmmakers everything needed to make footage look great, right on editing timelines.

· Universe (reg. $199/year): Red Giant’s collection of over 80 GPU-accelerated plugins for editors and motion graphics artists.

· VFX Suite (reg. $999): The all-new suite of keying, tracking, cleanup and visual effects compositing tools, all right inside Adobe After Effects.

· Shooter Suite (reg. $399): Shooter Suite 13.0 is a set of purpose-built applications, including the industry-leading PluralEyes, that give directors of photography, videographers, shooters and filmmakers the ability to bring footage from set to post.

Total if purchased separately: $3,495

Red Giant Complete: $599/YEAR

Upgrade Now for 50% Off Red Giant Complete

For those with current Red Giant licenses for any product suite, or an active subscription to Universe, Red Giant is offering a special upgrade to Red Giant Complete for just $299 - that’s 50% off the first year of Red Giant Complete*.

· Use Coupon Code: RGC50

· Upgrade Offer Ends: 2/25/20

Students and teachers who own any Red Giant Suite or have an active subscription to Universe, Red Giant is offering a special upgrade to Red Giant Complete for just $149.

· Use Coupon Code: RGC50A

· Upgrade Offer Ends: 2/25/20

* The offer of 50% off Red Giant Complete for individuals, students and teachers is valid for only the first year of an annual subscription.

Red Giant Complete for Volume Customers

If you are a business buying five or more licenses, check out Red Giant’s Volume Program (https://www.redgiant.com/volume/), which includes additional business-focused features such as floating licenses, remote deployment, advanced support, training and more.

Compatibility

Red Giant Complete is made up of several different suites, each with its own set of tools and relative compatibility info. Every tool runs on Mac and Windows and is compatible with Adobe After Effects, while some of the tools also work in additional host-applications. Visit the Red Giant compatibility page to learn more about each product.

The Red Pledge

Red Pledge is Red Giant’s commitment to customer happiness, with no purchasing hassles. Learn about the Red Pledge guarantee at www.redgiant.com/company/red-pledge/.

Request a Red Giant Complete Media Review Kit

Members of the media are invited to review Red Giant Complete as well as any individual tools or product suites from Red Giant. For more information or to request a product review kit, please contact Megan Linebarger at megan@zazilmediagroup.com.

About Red Giant

Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 250,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at www.redgiant.com.

Press Contact

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Portland, OR - October 10, 2019 - Red Giant is ready for Halloween with their latest tutorial: The Thing with a Hundred Eyes, a spooky new VFX how-to out now on YouTube. Created by Red Giant’s Lead Designer Leo Hageman, the short video walks viewers through how to use Red Giant’s free digital contact lens project file featuring a hundred different eye presets, based on characters from Hollywood movies and TV shows, including Storm’s changing eyes in X-Men, dead zombie eyes from The Walking Dead, the infamous ice blue eyes of the Night King of Game of Thrones, and more from The Mummy, The Witcher, Dune and plenty of others. Leo covers the tools in VFX Suite, Magic Bullet Suite and Universe, from how to track objects in an instant or add just the right amount of glow for a creepy effect, to renoising footage for the perfect horror movie look.

Watch Now: The Thing with a Hundred Eyes

Grab the project files on the tutorial page here. NOTE: there are two versions of the project file. One that uses only native effects in Adobe AE CC2019, and a much cooler enhanced version that uses VFX Suite and Magic Bullet Suite.

In this tutorial, Leo uses the following tools from Red Giant:

• VFX Spot Clone Tracker: Spot Clone Tracker is a tool for lightning-fast, simple object removal with a built-in tracker for moving footage. Easily fix blemishes or remove small, unwanted items. Spot Clone Tracker is easy to use, and even matches your lighting automatically, with options for how it clones light, color and texture.
• VFX Supercomp: Supercomp is a compositing environment that makes it easy to create complex, seamless composites. In Supercomp, light and atmospheric effects interact with all layers and elements of a scene in a far more natural way, and with far less pre-composing in After Effects than ever before.
• VFX Optical Glow: Optical Glow is a blazing fast, drop-dead gorgeous, photo-realistic glow effect for use in professional visual effects and motion graphics, for use in After Effects and Premiere Pro.
• VFX Primatte Keyer 6: Primatte Keyer is a powerful tool for fast, automatic chroma-keying. Whether using a green screen or blue screen, Primatte Keyer's auto-compute algorithms can often pull a perfect key automatically, with a new user interface and clean up tools that make it easy to select and separate the background and foreground.
• Magic Bullet Colorista IV: Magic Bullet Colorista IV provides professional color correction for filmmakers, turning Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects into a high-speed professional color grading environment.
• Magic Bullet Looks: Magic Bullet Looks is designed to give filmmakers powerful looks and color correction, with over 200 fully-customizable Look presets and over 40 tools to customize or build new Looks. Get the best, most-intuitive color correction experience in the industry.
• Magic Bullet Renoiser: Get cinematic texture and film grain with Magic Bullet Renoiser. Restore texture and noise to overly processed digital video. Give any footage a true-to-life 35mm, 16mm, or Super 8 film grain.
• Red Giant Universe: Red Giant’s collection of GPU-accelerated video effects and transitions plugins for motion graphics artists and editors, Universe boasts over 80 tools supported across eight host-applications.

Request a Media Review Kit or Briefing

Members of the media are invited to review any individual tools or product suites from Red Giant. For more information or to request a product review kit or private press briefing with a Red Giant executive, please contact Nick Govoni at nick@zazilmediagroup.com.

About Red Giant

Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 200,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at www.redgiant.com.

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Portland, OR – October 3, 2019 – Red Giant has just released the fourth and final installment of its special edition tutorial series for recreating the award-winning visual effects from Game of Thrones. In episode 11 of Cheap Tricks, Hashi shows viewers how to add a dragon into their shot. Using Red Giant tools, Hashi explains how to create two terrifyingly awesome dragon VFX shots - including one featuring dragon fire and the epic destruction of the zombie horde he created in episode 10. Viewers will learn tons of techniques in 3D animation, camera tracking, object replacement, keying, compositing, color correction, and much more.

Watch Now: Add a Dragon to Your Shot - Game of Thrones VFX Part 4

From Red Giant: “Great news! While we’ve been releasing our Cheap Tricks Game of Thrones inspired VFX tutorials a few weeks apart, this week we’re going mad (like Aerys II Targaryen a.k.a. Mad King mad) and we’re giving you a second helping of sweet, sweet learning! So gear up for one last adventure in Westeros. We promise it will end better than the show.”

Don’t forget to check out parts one through three of Cheap Tricks Game of Thrones VFX:

· Part One: How To Cast Firebolt In After Effects

· Part Two: Creating A Zombified Horse

· Part Three: Creating a Zombie Horde Battle Scene

In this tutorial, Hashi uses the following tools from Red Giant:

· VFX Primatte Keyer 6: Primatte Keyer is a powerful tool for fast, automatic chroma-keying. Whether using a green screen or blue screen, Primatte Keyer's auto-compute algorithms can often pull a perfect key automatically, with a new user interface and clean up tools that make it easy to select and separate the background and foreground.

· VFX Supercomp: Supercomp is a compositing environment that makes it easy to create complex, seamless composites. In Supercomp, light and atmospheric effects interact with all layers and elements of a scene in a far more natural way, and with far less pre-composing in After Effects than ever before.

· VFX Shadow: Shadow is a plugin for After Effects that makes it super easy to add a perspective shadow in front of or behind a layer, based on its alpha channel, brightness, and more, with options for softness, bend, length, color and many other properties.

· VFX Reflection: Reflection is a plugin for After Effects that makes it easy to add a reflection to your layers, with controls for softness, distance fade, length and more.

· VFX King Pin Tracker: King Pin Tracker makes it simple to place signs or objects into a shot, even if they aren’t simple rectangles. With powerful “To” and “From” pins, and the ability to offset and rotate in planar space, artists can pin whatever they want, wherever they want it.

· Trapcode Mir 3: Trapcode Mir is a plugin for After Effects that creates flowing surfaces, endless tunnels, terrains and 3D objects for use in your motion graphics. Design flowing surfaces and abstract shapes for motion graphics or import 3D OBJ Models.

· Magic Bullet Looks: Magic Bullet Looks is designed to give filmmakers powerful looks and color correction, with over 200 fully-customizable Look presets and over 40 tools to customize or build new Looks. Get the best, most-intuitive color correction experience in the industry.

· Magic Bullet Colorista IV: Magic Bullet Colorista IV provides professional color correction for filmmakers, turning Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects into a high-speed professional color grading environment.

· Magic Bullet Mojo II: Mojo gives footage a cinematic color grade in seconds. Accentuate and protect skin tones, cool off your backgrounds and more.

· Red Giant Universe: Red Giant’s collection of GPU-accelerated video effects and transitions plugins for motion graphics artists and editors, Universe boasts over 80 tools supported across eight host-applications.

Request a Media Review Kit or Briefing

Members of the media are invited to review any individual tools or product suites from Red Giant. For more information or to request a product review kit or private press briefing with a Red Giant executive, please contact Nick Govoni at nick@zazilmediagroup.com.

About Red Giant

Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 200,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at www.redgiant.com.

Press Contact

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Portland, OR - October 1, 2019 - Red Giant, creator of filmmaking, visual effects and motion graphics tools, has just released the third installment of its Cheap Tricks special edition Game of Thrones tutorial series. In this latest episode, Action Movie Dad, Hashi, demonstrates how to recreate intense battle scenes between the living and the dead from the Emmy®-award winning television show, including how to animate the zombie horde that would make up the dreaded army of the dead. As part of today’s tutorial release, Red Giant will also be giving away free green screen footage and launching a contest to give folks a chance to win all tools from the Red Giant product family.

Watch Now: Create A Zombie Horde Battle Scene - Game of Thrones VFX Part 3

“The whole point is to show you that attacking a fully CG character doesn’t have to be a big deal, even when it’s got some cool character effects and things associated with it,” Hashi says in the tutorial.

Don’t have Red Giant VFX Suite? Download a fully functioning trial to follow along: https://www.redgiant.com/products/vfx-suite/free-trial-download/.

Get Started with Free Green Screen Footage
Red Giant is offering VFX artists 75 free green screen clips to use in their own VFX shots to get started. Featuring professional stunt artists from the UK’s Independent Drama, the shots can be downloaded now from Digital Pigeon, at http://bit.ly/RG-Warriors.

Win the Complete Red Giant Toolset
Red Giant will be giving away all the tools they make to one grand prize winner, and a single suite each to two additional winners as part of their Red Giant Green Screen Twitter contest. Here are the rules:

1. Follow Red Giant on Twitter @RedGiantNews
2. Post your video entry to Twitter with the hashtag #RGGreenScreen
3. Use Red Giant footage in your entry (does not have to be the main feature)
4. Include the link to this blog post in your entry (redgiant.com/RGgreenscreen)
5. Contest Ends 10/8/2019 at 10AM PDT

Once all the entries are in, the Red Giant team will pick their favorite for the grand prize. Two additional entries will win a single suite of their choice. Winners will be chosen entirely based on a series of complex judging algorithms, or maybe just whatever judges think is cool/funny/epic/awesome looking.

In this tutorial, Hashi uses the following tools from Red Giant:

• VFX Primatte Keyer 6: Primatte Keyer is a powerful tool for fast, automatic chroma-keying. Whether using a green screen or blue screen, Primatte Keyer's auto-compute algorithms can often pull a perfect key automatically, with a new user interface and clean up tools that make it easy to select and separate the background and foreground.
• VFX Supercomp: Supercomp is a compositing environment that makes it easy to create complex, seamless composites. In Supercomp, light and atmospheric effects interact with all layers and elements of a scene in a far more natural way, and with far less pre-composing in After Effects than ever before.
• VFX Shadow: Shadow is a plugin for After Effects that makes it super easy to add a perspective shadow in front of or behind a layer, based on its alpha channel, brightness, and more, with options for softness, bend, length, color and many other properties.
• VFX King Pin Tracker: King Pin Tracker makes it simple to place signs or objects into a shot, even if they aren’t simple rectangles. With powerful “To” and “From” pins, and the ability to offset and rotate in planar space, artists can pin whatever they want, wherever they want it.
• Trapcode Particular: Create organic 3D particle effects, complex motion graphics elements and more After Effects. Now with Fluid Dynamics.
• Magic Bullet Looks: Magic Bullet Looks is designed to give filmmakers powerful looks and color correction, with over 200 fully-customizable Look presets and over 40 tools to customize or build new Looks. Get the best, most-intuitive color correction experience in the industry.
• Magic Bullet Colorista IV: Magic Bullet Colorista IV provides professional color correction for filmmakers, turning Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects into a high-speed professional color grading environment.
• Magic Bullet Mojo II: Mojo gives footage a cinematic color grade in seconds. Accentuate and protect skin tones, cool off your backgrounds and more.
• Red Giant Universe: Red Giant’s collection of GPU-accelerated video effects and transitions plugins for motion graphics artists and editors, Universe boasts over 80 tools supported across eight host-applications.

Request a Media Review Kit or Briefing
Members of the media are invited to review any individual tools or product suites from Red Giant. For more information or to request a product review kit or private press briefing with a Red Giant executive, please contact Nick Govoni at nick@zazilmediagroup.com.

About Red Giant
Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 200,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at www.redgiant.com.

Press Contact

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Zazil Media Group

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Portland, OR - September 25, 2019 - Red Giant today released Universe 3.1, an update to their GPU-accelerated plugins for editors and motion graphics artists. Red Giant Universe 3.1 introduces three new tools for animating motion graphics to the collection: Numbers, Array Gun, and Progresso. Also new to Universe 3.1, Red Giant has added 35 new presets into HUD Components, a tool for quickly adding animated Heads Up Display elements into shots, bringing it to a total of over 65 ready-to-go animations that artists can completely modify for their unique work. The latest update brings the Red Giant Universe 3.1 collection to over 80 tools supported across eight host-applications. 

Watch Now: What’s New in Universe 3.1

Three Brand New Tools in Red Giant Universe 3.1
- Numbers: Render and animate a wide variety of numbers, including currency, percentage, date and time. 
- Array Gun: Generate animated motion graphics based on grids, shapes and lines, featuring built in animation functions.
- Progresso: Generate animatable progress bars in many different styles.

Updates in Red Giant Universe 3.1
- HUD Components: 35 new presets have been added into HUD Components, bringing it to a total of over 65 ready-to-go animations that you can completely modify for your work.

Universe 3.1 Pricing and Availability 
- Full: $199 annual; $30 monthly
- Academic: $99 annual

NEW TO UNIVERSE?
If you aren’t already a Universe customer, you can purchase a subscription or download a free trial at http://redgiant.com/universe.

Universe 3.1 runs on Windows and OS X, and includes over 75 tools that run in:
- Adobe After Effects CC 2017 or later
- Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 or later
- Apple Final Cut Pro X 10.2.3 or later
- Apple Motion 5.3.2 or later
- Avid Media Composer 8.2 or later
- Magix VEGAS Pro 14 or later
- Davinci Resolve 14 or later
- HitFilm Pro 6.0 and later

Visit the Universe Compatibility page to learn more about specific version and OS support. 

As always, if you have any questions or problems, the Red Giant support team is here for you.

The Red Pledge
Red Pledge is Red Giant’s commitment to customer happiness, with no purchasing hassles. Learn about the Red Pledge guarantee at www.redgiant.com/redpledge/. 

Request a Universe 3.1 Media Review Kit
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About Red Giant
Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 200,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at www.redgiant.com. 

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Portland, OR - September 19, 2019 - Red Giant has just published yet another tutorial, this week’s being inspired by some of the (intentionally) worst motion graphics ever featured in an opening title sequence, those of Better Call Saul. Seth Worley is at it again, bringing his wit and hilarity to a useful tutorial that will have any aspiring motion graphics artist creating campy effects in less than five minutes. In the newest tutorial now available on Red Giant’s YouTube channel, Seth shows us how to recreate the purposely bad look of the Better Call Saul title sequence using free fonts, iPhone camera footage and Universe AV Club.

Watch Now: Creating the "Better Call Saul" Title Sequence

“A couple years ago I became obsessed with the opening titles of Better Call Saul. I didn’t just pore over every article about them I could find, nor did I simply recreate them on my own from scratch - I did those things - but I actually tried to make a plugin based on them. And with the help of much smarter and more talented people, that plugin actually went on to become a tool in Red Giant Universe called AV Club,” Seth recounts in the video. “AV Club is designed to make texts and logos look like they’ve been run through a crappy old switcher in a cable access TV studio. I’ve since used AV Club on pretty much everything. But now I’m thinking it’d be fun to show you guys how to recreate all the other stuff in the opening titles from Better Call Saul, and not just, you know, the titles.”

Red Giant Universe is Red Giant’s collection of GPU-accelerated video effects and transitions plugins for motion graphics artists and editors, with 79 tools supported across eight host-applications. Universe AV Club, which was literally inspired by this very title sequence from Better Call Saul, lets artists recreate the lo-fi, noisy text usually found on ancient video tapes, old infomercials and local access cable channel shows, giving footage a classic low-budget look.

Don’t forget to check out Seth’s previous tutorials for Red Giant, how to recreate the Mind Flayer from Stranger Things Season Two and the Star Wars Force Push.

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About Red Giant

Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 200,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at www.redgiant.com.

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Portland, OR - August 22, 2019 - Red Giant, creator of filmmaking, visual effects and motion graphics tools, today released the second installment of its multi-part Game of Thrones visual effects tutorial series: how to turn a live horse into a member of the Night King’s undead army. Daniel “Hashi” Hashimoto demonstrates keying and compositing techniques using tools including King Pin Tracker, Spot Clone Tracker and Supercomp from the new Red Giant VFX Suite, to add and track gory effects to a very much alive horse. Watch now and stay tuned for more Cheap Tricks Game of Thrones VFX tutorials.

Two weeks ago Hashi kicked off Red Giant’s Game of Thrones VFX series by showing fans how to recreate Game of Thrones magic fire effects, and then some. In episode nine of Cheap Tricks, he’s taking viewers further into the world of Ice and Fire. You’ll learn some great keying and compositing techniques, not to mention some great info on object removal and tracking. The VFX process is long and full of terrors - but Cheap Tricks is here to help you through it.

In this tutorial, Hashi uses the following tools from Red Giant:

• VFX King Pin Tracker: King Pin Tracker makes it simple to place signs or objects into a shot, even if they aren’t simple rectangles. With powerful “To” and “From” pins, and the ability to offset and rotate in planar space, artists can pin whatever they want, wherever they want it.
• VFX Spot Clone Tracker: Red Giant’s tool for lightning-fast, simple object removal with a built-in tracker for moving footage, Spot Clone Tracker easily fixes blemishes or remove small, unwanted items. Spot Clone Tracker is easy to use, and even matches your lighting automatically, with options for how it clones light, color and texture.
• VFX Primatte Keyer 6: Primatte Keyer is a powerful tool for fast, automatic chroma-keying. Whether using a green screen or blue screen, Primatte Keyer's auto-compute algorithms can often pull a perfect key automatically, with a new user interface and clean up tools that make it easy to select and separate the background and foreground.
• VFX Supercomp: Supercomp is a compositing environment that makes it easy to create complex, seamless composites. In Supercomp, light and atmospheric effects interact with all layers and elements of a scene in a far more natural way, and with far less pre-composing in After Effects than ever before.
• Magic Bullet Looks: Magic Bullet Looks is designed to give filmmakers powerful looks and color correction, with over 200 fully-customizable Look presets and over 40 tools to customize or build new Looks. Get the best, most-intuitive color correction experience in the industry.
• Magic Bullet Mojo II: Mojo gives footage a cinematic color grade in seconds. Accentuate and protect skin tones, cool off your backgrounds and more.

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About Red Giant

Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 200,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at www.redgiant.com.

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How to Create “Game of Thrones” Worthy Fire Effects with Red Giant

Get your cup of Starbucks, mount up, and yell "Dracarys!" with reckless abandon, as we cross the Narrow Sea and explore the VFX of Game of Thrones.

Portland, OR - August 8, 2019 -Red Giant is once again taking on what is arguably one of the greatest TV series ever made with the latest edition of its popular YouTube tutorial series, Cheap Tricks, diving into the mind-blowing visual effects of Game of Thrones. In part one of the series, Action Movie Dad Dan “Hashi” Hashimoto demonstrates how to create magic fire effects like the many seen throughout HBO’s adaptation of “A Song of Ice and Fire,” particularly those created by the Red Priestess, Melisandre. Watch now and stay tuned for more Cheap Tricks Game of Thrones tutorials.

“One of the things I hope you learn from these examples was how quick and intuitive Supercomp can feel when applying to a shot using raw materials like this and outputting a final shot like that,” Hashi says in the YouTube video, as he talks viewers through the Red Giant tools used to create magical fire effects. “Honestly one of the best parts of integrating Supercomp into your workflow is that you can shop through final looks really quickly. You can browse through different presets and get some really wonderful results using super simple ingredients as it were, to go into your shot. You don't have to add a series of six adjustment layers to see what a fire and its compound blur and its distortion map would look like; they’re all applied right here, altogether in one workspace.”

While Game of Thrones has come to its fiery conclusion, the show’s VFX still stand as some of the best stuff ever created for the small screen. Subscribe to the Red Giant YouTube channel now to see it all come together, as Hashi demonstrates how to recreate many of the effects seen on the show using the Red Giant VFX Suite and a ton of great tools and techniques.

In this tutorial, Hashi uses the following tools from Red Giant suites including VFX Suite, Trapcode Suite and Magic Bullet Suite:

• VFX Supercomp: Supercomp is a compositing environment that makes it easy to create complex, seamless composites. In Supercomp, light and atmospheric effects interact with all layers and elements of a scene in a far more natural way, and with far less pre-composing in After Effects than ever before.
• VFX Knoll Light Factory: Create camera-inspired, photo-realistic lens flares with Knoll Light Factory, designed by John Knoll, Chief Creative Officer at Industrial Light and Magic.
• VFX Reflection: Reflection is a plugin for After Effects that makes it easy to add a reflection to your layers, with controls for softness, distance fade, length and more.
• Trapcode Particular: Create organic 3D particle effects, complex motion graphics elements and more in After Effects. Now with Fluid Dynamics.
• Magic Bullet Mojo II: Mojo gives footage a cinematic color grade in seconds. Accentuate and protect skin tones, cool off your backgrounds and more.
• Magic Bullet Renoiser: Add cinematic texture and film grain with Magic Bullet Renoiser. Restore texture and noise to overly processed digital video, and protect footage from color banding and blocky compression artifacts.

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About Red Giant

Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 200,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at www.redgiant.com.

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Red Giant Celebrates Summer with 40% Off

On July 30, 2019 for 24 hours only, redgiant.com shoppers can save 40% on Red Giant products including the all-new VFX Suite

Portland, OR - July 23, 2019 -Red Giant just announced its upcoming 24-hour summer sale. For 24 hours only, from 8am PDT (11am EDT) on Tuesday, July 30, 2019 to 8am PDT (11am EDT) on Wednesday, July 31, 2019, full products, upgrades and new subscriptions in the redgiant.com online store will be 40% off - including the all-new Red Giant VFX Suite, a powerful lineup of keying, tracking, cleanup and visual effects compositing tools, all right inside Adobe® After Effects®, part of Adobe Creative Cloud®. Savings apply to all regular and academic customers (who already receive 50% off); the sale excludes all subscription renewals, Universe Monthly subscriptions and the Red Giant Volume Program.

What’s Included in the Sale:

● All product suites

● Individual products

● Full licenses

● ​Upgrades

● New Universe subscriptions

● ​Academic store (which is already 50% off - be sure to qualify first! For details, visit: https://www.redgiant.com/academic-pricing/).

Sale Details:

● 40% off in the Red Giant store for 24 hours

● Sale starts: 7/30/19 at 8am PDT (11am EDT)

● Use Coupon Code found on redgiant.com on day of the sale

VIDEO: The Red Giant Summer 2019 Sale is coming - 24h only!

Win the Complete Red Giant Toolset

In addition to 40% off products in the Red Giant online store, every 24 hours for the next seven days leading up to the sale, Red Giant will be giving away its complete tool set comprised of VFX Suite, Trapcode Suite, Magic Bullet Suite, Shooter Suite and Universe.

To enter, follow @redgiantnews on Twitter and retweet the special contest tweets that use the hashtag: #RGSummerSale. Enter once every 24 hours for a chance to win. Contest ends Monday, July 29, 2019, at 6pm PDT (9pm EDT).

How to Get 40% Off

Starting at 8am PDT (11am EDT) on July 30, 2019, visit redgiant.com and use the code found on the homepage to activate major savings on purchases made in the Red Giant online store.

Savings on products will include:

NEW - VFX Suite - $599 (usually $999):VFX Suite offers a powerful toolkit for realistic visual effects composites in Adobe After Effects, including Supercomp, a completely reinvented compositing environment that makes it easy to create complex, seamless composites. With Supercomp, light and atmospheric effects interact with all of your layers and the elements of a scene in a far more natural way than can be modeled with a simple stack of 2D layers.

Comprised of nine tools in total, VFX Suite offers a powerful toolkit for realistic VFX composites, automatic chroma-keying, lightning-fast and accurate planar tracking, object replacement / removal, photo-realistic glow effects, beautiful prismatic displacement effects and camera-inspired lens flares for visual effects and motion graphics. Watch now: the all new VFX Suite.

Trapcode Suite 15, now with Fluid Dynamics - $599 (usually $999): The industry’s most essential tools for creating 3D motion graphics and visual effects in Adobe After Effects CC, Trapcode Suite 15 introduces the Dynamic Fluids™ physics engine. For the first time ever, artists can create particle systems within After Effects that interact in a realistic fluid environment, creating particles that swirl, mix and react to realistic forces. See what’s new in Trapcode Suite 15.

Magic Bullet Suite 13 - $539 (usually $899):Magic Bullet Suite 13 gives filmmakers everything needed to make footage look great, right on editing timelines. Balance out shots with powerful color adjustments that work the way the human eye expects them to. Go beyond color correction, with accurate simulations of lens filters and film stocks. Magic Bullet Suite delivers powerful real-time color correction thanks to OpenCL support in Adobe Premiere Pro CC, enabling filmmakers to improve footage without ever needing to switch to a different app.

Shooter Suite 13.0 - $239 (usually $399):Shooter Suite 13.0 is a set of purpose-built applications, including the industry-leading PluralEyes, that give directors of photography, videographers, shooters and filmmakers the ability to bring footage from set to post. With PluralEyes 4 ($179; usually $299), users can sync audio and video directly in Premiere Pro, without having to leave the host app. Compatible with any NLE, PluralEyes 4.0 features Smart Start capabilities, automatic drift correction, vertical track scaling, integration with Red Giant Offload, and more simplicity and automation than ever before.

*Universe 3.0 - $119 (usually $199):Universe 3.0 offers an enhanced user experience thanks to the brand new Universe Dashboard, a dockable control board for Premiere Pro and After Effects that makes it simple to add effects and presets. Five new, customizable text generation effects give users even more ways to add a unique flair or specific look to their work. Universe also includes tools for stylizing video, adding glows and blurs, creating motion graphics and much more. See what’s new in Universe 3.0.

*The discount on Universe subscriptions is for customers who have never purchased an annual subscription of Red Giant Universe. If you have previously had a Universe annual subscription, you will not be able to use the coupon code to buy an annual subscription. If you are currently (or have been) a monthly subscriber, but have never owned a license of Universe annual, you are eligible for this promotion. This 40%-off price is a one-time introductory rate for Universe Annual. After that, the renewal price will be at the standard annual fee.

The Red Pledge

Red Pledge is Red Giant’s commitment to customer happiness, with no purchasing hassles. Learn about the Red Pledge guarantee at www.redgiant.com/redpledge/.

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About Red Giant

Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 200,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at www.redgiant.com.

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PORTLAND, ORE. (PRWEB) JUNE 18, 2019

Red Giant today announced VFX Suite, an all-new suite of keying, tracking, cleanup and visual effects compositing tools, all right inside Adobe® After Effects®, part of Adobe Creative Cloud®. Comprised of nine tools in total, Red Giant VFX Suite offers a powerful toolkit for realistic VFX composites, automatic chroma-keying, lightning-fast and accurate planar tracking, object replacement/removal, photo-realistic glow effects, beautiful prismatic displacement effects and camera-inspired lens flares for visual effects and motion graphics.

“The VFX Suite was built from the ground up for visual effects artists in need of powerful, fast and professional tools that they can use without ever leaving Adobe After Effects,” commented Chad Bechert, CEO of Red Giant. “The team at Red Giant is made up of talented artists, filmmakers and developers, with decades of experience in creating great products and great visuals. Over the last couple of years, we’ve been quietly building a cohesive toolkit aimed at solving some of the biggest challenges faced by visual effects artists today. VFX Suite is the culmination of that work, and is packed with tools for keying, compositing, motion tracking and object replacement/removal, plus beautiful glows, distortions and lens flares. We are extremely proud and excited to share it with the visual effects community.”

“Red Giant’s VFX Suite is a fantastic, realistic toolkit to up your VFX game due to its breadth of compositing tools inside After Effects,” said Victoria Nece, Sr. Product Manager of Motion Design and VFX at Adobe. “Supercomp, in particular, is exciting as it streamlines the pre-composing process and makes it simpler to composite elements into atmospheric effects and distortions.”

Meet the Tools of Red Giant VFX Suite
Red Giant VFX Suite is made up of nine powerful tools, all accessible from right within Adobe After Effects. All plugins come with a GPU-accelerated engine, giving artists great results at incredibly fast speeds.

SUPERCOMP: A toolkit for realistic VFX composites in After Effects
Supercomp is a compositing environment that makes it easy to create complex, seamless composites. In Supercomp, light and atmospheric effects interact with all layers and elements of a scene in a far more natural way, and with far less pre-composing in After Effects than ever before. Supercomp includes more than 15 GPU-accelerated context-aware tools for integrating all of your elements into your final shot, such as Light Wrap, Volumetric Fog, Optical Glow, and more.

PRIMATTE KEYER 6: Fast, automatic chroma-keying
Primatte Keyer is a powerful tool for fast, automatic chroma-keying. Whether using a green screen or blue screen, Primatte Keyer's auto-compute algorithms can often pull a perfect key automatically. The new user interface and clean up tools make it easy to select and separate your background and foreground. Brand new to Primatte Keyer is Core Matte, a tool that keeps the inside of the key solid while still preserving fine semi-transparent details on the edges by utilizing the luminance in the foreground, creating an incredibly natural key. And now, with GPU optimization, users will get even more speed, with previews and renders up to 3x faster than in previous versions.

KING PIN TRACKER: The power of planar tracking, directly in After Effects
King Pin Tracker gives you fast, accurate planar tracking, right inside Adobe After Effects.
King Pin makes it simple to place signs or objects into a shot, even if they aren’t simple rectangular shapes. With powerful “To” and “From” pins, and the ability to offset and rotate in planar space, artists can pin whatever they want, wherever they want it. King Pin Tracker is incredibly fast and accurate, and can track surfaces in changing lighting, even as they leave the frame.

SPOT CLONE TRACKER: Fast, simple object removal with a built-in tracker
Spot Clone Tracker is a tool for lightning-fast, simple object removal with a built-in tracker for moving footage. Easily fix blemishes or remove small, unwanted items. Spot Clone Tracker is easy to use, and even matches your lighting automatically, with options for how it clones light, color and texture.

OPTICAL GLOW: The most beautiful glow, ever
Optical Glow is a blazing fast, drop-dead gorgeous, photo-realistic glow effect for use in professional visual effects and motion graphics. It’s easily the most beautiful, highest-quality glow you’ve ever had on your timeline. With built-in gamma management, glows will always look realistic, whether footage is video, log, or even linear. Perfect for professional VFX work, Optical Glow offers tons of control for making lightsabers, starship engines, police lights, neon signs and more with beautiful, photo-realistic results.

CHROMATIC DISPLACEMENT: Force fields, heat ripples, light refractions and more
Chromatic Displacement uses one layer to displace the pixels of another, while smoothly separating out the colors. Unlike the Displacement Map effect in After Effects, Chromatic Displacement uses the displacement image as a height map, which gives you beautiful, organic results. Chromatic Displacement was designed for creating professional visual effects, such as force fields, heat ripples, light refractions, cloaking effects, and much more – but it’s also great for motion graphics.

KNOLL LIGHT FACTORY 3.1: 3D lens flares for motion graphics and VFX
Designed by John Knoll, Chief Creative Officer at Industrial Light and Magic, Knoll Light Factory creates camera-inspired, photo-realistic lens flares that render fast, thanks to new GPU acceleration. Using the intuitive Lens Editor, artists can create their own flares from scratch, or customize one of the 200 included presets inspired by some of the most iconic films of the past few decades.

SHADOW: Go for realism with complex perspective shadows
Shadow is a plugin for After Effects that makes it easy to add a perspective shadow in front of or behind a layer, based on its alpha channel, brightness, and more. With options for softness, bend, length, color and many other properties, the Shadow effect extends the various shadow tools available inside After Effects.

REFLECTION: Add life to your motion graphics
Reflection is a plugin for After Effects that makes it easy to add a reflection to your layers. With controls for softness, distance fade, length and more, this effect goes far beyond the standard methods for creating reflections.

Red Giant VFX Suite Price

• Full: $999
• Academic: $499

Compatibility

• Host-App: All of the tools work in Adobe After Effects CC 2018 and later. Knoll Light Factory, Primatte Keyer, Optical Glow and Chromatic Displacement also work in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018 and later.
• OS: All tools work on both Windows and Mac.
• Check the individual product pages for specific host-app and OS compatibility.

The Red Pledge
Red Pledge is Red Giant commitment to customer happiness, with no purchasing hassles. Learn about the Red Pledge guarantee at http://www.redgiant.com/redpledge/.

Request a Red Giant VFX Suite Media Review Kit
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About Red Giant
Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 200,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at redgiant.com.

Portland, OR - March 26, 2019 -Red Giant just announced a 24-hour flash sale for Shooter Suite, a set of purpose-built applications that give cinematographers, videographers and filmmakers the ability to bring footage from set to post. Included within Shooter Suite is PluralEyes 4, the industry’s fastest, most accurate audio/video sync tool available.

For the next 24 hours, from 10am PT (1pm ET) on Tuesday, March 26th to 10am PT (1pm ET) on Wednesday, March 27th, Shooter Suite will be 50% off in the redgiant.com store. Additionally, individual Shooter Suite tools will be 30% off. To receive 50% off Shooter Suite, use code SUITE50. To receive 30% off individual Shooter Suite tools, use code TOOLS30. Discounts are applied to full licenses, upgrades, and academic purchases (already 50% off - be sure to qualify first! For details, visit: https://www.redgiant.com/academic-pricing/).

Shop Shooter Suite here.

Example Pricing:

• 50% Off
• • Shooter Suite 13: $199 (Reg. $399)
  • Use code: SUITE50
• 30% Off
• • Shooter PluralEyes: $209 (Reg. $299)
  • Shooter Offload: $69 (Reg. $99)
  • Shooter Instant 4K: $69 (Reg. $99)
  • Shooter Frames: $69 (Reg. $99)
  • Use code: TOOLS30

Shooter Suite 13.0: Essential Tools for Today’s Filmmakers

The Red Giant Shooter Suite is a set of purpose-built applications that give directors of photography, videographers, shooters and filmmakers the ability to bring footage from set to post. With powerful automation and workflow capabilities, creatives can offload, analyze, touch up and synchronize digital media destined for post with confidence and ease.

Tools in Shooter Suite v13.0 Include:

• PluralEyes 4: The most accurate audio/video sync tool available; compatible with any Non-Linear Editor
• Offload: Simple & reliable backup of your footage in the field
• Instant 4K: Upconvert video to 4K resolution and other high-resolution formats
• Frames: Deinterlace your older footage and convert it to 24P

30% Off PluralEyes: The Industry-Leading Audio/Video Sync Tool

With PluralEyes 4, users can sync audio and video directly in Premiere Pro, without having to leave the host app. Additionally, PluralEyes 4.0 features Smart Start capabilities, automatic drift correction, vertical track scaling, integration with Red Giant Offload, and more simplicity and automation than ever before.

The Red Pledge

Red Pledge is Red Giant commitment to customer happiness, with no purchasing hassles. Learn about the Red Pledge guarantee at www.redgiant.com/redpledge/.

Request a Shooter Suite Media Review Kit

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About Red Giant

Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 200,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at www.redgiant.com.

Portland, OR - March 19, 2019 -Red Giant just announced a flash sale for Magic Bullet Suite, its widely-used color correction, finishing and film looks tools for filmmakers. For the next 24 hours, from 10am PT (1pm ET) on Tuesday, March 19th to 10am PT (1pm ET) on Wednesday, March 20th, Magic Bullet Suite will be 50% off in the redgiant.com store. Additionally, individual Magic Bullet Suite tools will be 30% off.

To receive 50% off Magic Bullet Suite, use code MBSUITE50. To receive 30% off individual Magic Bullet Suite tools, use code MBTOOLS30. Discounts are applied to full licenses, upgrades, and academic purchases (already 50% off - be sure to qualify first! For details, visit: https://www.redgiant.com/academic-pricing/).

Shop Magic Bullet Suitehere.

Example Pricing:

● 50% Off

○ Magic Bullet Suite 13: $449 (Reg. $899)

○ Use code: MBSUITE50

● 30% Off

○ Magic Bullet Looks: $279 (Reg. $399)

○ Magic Bullet Denoiser III: $139 (Reg. $199)

○ Magic Bullet Colorista IV: $139 (Reg. $199)

○ Magic Bullet Cosmo: $69 (Reg. $99)

○ Use code: MBSUITE30

Magic Bullet Suite 13: Essential Tools for Color Correction, Finishing and Film Looks

Magic Bullet Suite 13 gives filmmakers everything needed to make footage look great, right on editing timelines. Balance out shots with powerful color adjustments that work the way the human eye expects them to. Go beyond color correction, with accurate simulations of lens filters and film stocks. Magic Bullet Suite delivers powerful real-time color correction thanks to OpenCL support in Adobe® Premiere® Pro CC, enabling filmmakers to improve footage without ever needing to switch to a different app.

Tools included within Magic Bullet 13.0 include:

● Magic Bullet Looks 4.0: Powerful looks and color correction for filmmakers, with over 200 fully-customizable Look presets

● Colorista IV: Professional color correction directly on your editing timeline – no need to switch to a different app to grade footage

● Denoiser III: Quickly remove video noise and grain from footage in one step while preserving detail

● Mojo II: Instantly give footage a cinematic color grade in seconds

● Cosmo II: Balance skin tones, reduce wrinkles and remove blemishes quickly and naturally

● Renoiser: Restore texture and noise to overly processed digital video

● Magic Bullet Film: Emulate the look of real motion picture film with 22 negative stocks and four print stocks

The Red Pledge

Red Pledge is Red Giant commitment to customer happiness, with no purchasing hassles. Learn about the Red Pledge guarantee at www.redgiant.com/redpledge/.

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About Red Giant

Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 200,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at www.redgiant.com.

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Portland, OR - February 27, 2019 - Red Giant just announced the availability of Trapcode Suite 15.1 – a free update for Trapcode Suite 15, the essential set of tools for creating 3D motion graphics and visual effects in Adobe® After Effects®. This update includes new text and mask-based particle systems as well as advanced shadowlet features in both Trapcode Particular 4.1 and Form 4.1. In addition, to take advantage of these new features, the Designer has been updated and over 40 new presets have been added. This update comes just a few months after the launch of Trapcode Suite 15, which includes the brand new Dynamic Fluids™ physics engine for creating particle systems that interact, swirl, and mix in a realistic fluid environment.

Flash Sale: Get 25% Off All Trapcode Suite Products for 48 Hours!

For just 48 hours, Trapcode Suite and all individual Trapcode products (11 in total) will be 25% off on the Red Giant online store. The flash sale starts Wednesday, February 27th at 10 am PDT (1:00 pm EST) and ends Friday, March 1st at 10 am PDT (1:00 pm EST), and includes full licenses, upgrades, and academic store (which is already 50% off). Use code TRAPCODE25 to receive sale pricing.

Sale pricing is good for the Trapcode Suite and all individual tools. Example pricing includes:

• Trapcode Suite - $749 (reg. $999)
• Trapcode Particular - $299 (reg. $399)
• Trapcode Form - $149 (reg. $199)
• Trapcode Mir - $74 (reg. $99)
• Trapcode Tao - $74 (reg. $99)
• Trapcode Shine - $74 (reg. $99)

WHAT’S NEW IN TRAPCODE SUITE 15.1

TRAPCODE PARTICULAR 4.1

Create organic 3D particle effects, complex motion graphics elements and more with Red Giant Trapcode Particular 4.1.

New Features in Particular 4.1 Include:

• Text Emitters - Use text as an emitter, speeding up the creation process dramatically from previous versions. No precomping required. Create write-on effects by controlling the reveal of particles along text paths.
• Mask Emitters - Use masks as an emitter, making it simple to create uniquely shaped emitters or to use parts of an image as the source of particle emissions. No precomping required. Create write-on effects by controlling the reveal of particles along mask paths.
• Updated Designer - New in this version is support for text and masks, making it possible to create text and mask path-based effects directly in the Designer.
• Shadowlet particle type matching - Match the shadowlet shape to the particle type for shadowing that matches the source. Previously, all shadowlets were circular.
• Shadowlet softness - Control the softness of your shadowlet.
• Presets - 21 new presets have been added to give you instant results and help you get started with new features. There are now over 355 presets included with Particular.

WATCH NOW: What’s New in Trapcode Particular 4.1

TRAPCODE FORM 4.1

Create immortal particle grids and 3D particle objects in After Effects with Red Giant Trapcode Form 4.1.

New Features in Form 4.1 Include:

• Text Forms - Use text as a base form, speeding up the creation process dramatically from previous versions. No precomping required. Also includes options for write-on effects that control where along the text paths particles are created.
• Mask Forms - Use masks as a base form, making it simple to create forms with the After Effects mask/path tools, or to use parts of an image as the source of the form. No precomping required. Create write-on effects by controlling the reveal of particles along mask paths.
• Updated Designer - New in this version is support for text and masks, making it possible to create text and mask path-based effects directly in the Designer.
• Shadowlet particle type matching - Match the shadowlet shape to the particle type for shadowing that matches the source. Previously, all shadowlets were circular.
• Shadowlet softness - Control the softness of your shadowlet.
• Presets - 21 new presets have been added to give you instant results and help you get started with new features. There are now over 170 presets included with Form.

Update to Trapcode 15.1

Trapcode Suite 15 users can update to Trapcode 15.1 for free HERE or use Red Giant Link to update.

WATCH NOW: What’s New in Trapcode Form 4.1

NEW TO TRAPCODE SUITE?

Download a free trial HERE.

Compatibility

• Host-App: All of the tools work in Adobe After Effects. Trapcode Shine, Starglow, and 3D Stroke also work in Premiere Pro.
• OS: All tools work on both Windows and Mac.
• Check the individual product pages for specific host-app and OS compatibility.

The Red Pledge

Red Pledge is Red Giant’s commitment to customer happiness, with no purchasing hassles. Learn about the Red Pledge guarantee at www.redgiant.com/redpledge/.

Request a Trapcode Suite 15.1 Media Review Kit

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About Red Giant

Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 200,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at www.redgiant.com.

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Portland, OR - January 29, 2019 - today announced , a major update to its video effects and transitions plugins for motion graphics artists and editors. With this update, users can enjoy an enhanced user experience thanks to the brand new Universe Dashboard, a dockable control board for Adobe® Premiere Pro® and Adobe® After Effects® that makes it simple to add effects and presets. Five new, customizable text generation effects give users even more ways to add a unique flair or specific look to their work. features over 75 tools supported across 8 host-applications.

New Universe Dashboard Keeps Tools At the Ready

In Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, the dockable Universe Dashboard keeps tools at users’ fingertips, making it simple to explore and apply Universe’s entire library of effects and presets. Users can now save effects as favorites and easily find recently used effects and transitions - a top request from Universe users. A modified version of the Dashboard is also available for other applications outside of Adobe Creative Cloud, and is a convenient and easy way to explore the effects and presets in the Universe library.

Five All-New Text Generation Effects

Red Giant Universe 3.0 now includes five new customizable text effects including a multitude of presets to help users get started:

● Type Cast: Easily animate text properties like color, opacity, size, position and rotation - by the word or character. .

● Type On: Quickly create computer terminal-style type reveals. Includes tons of options for customization and randomization. .

● Screen Text: Fill your screen with scrolling code to create the look of an old-school or modern computer terminal. .

● Hacker Text: Easily create computer hacker-style scrambled text animations. Simulate encrypting or decrypting text with many options for randomization and look. .

● Text Tile: Generate multiple columns full of random data for use in motion graphics and computer terminal effects. Displayed information can be static or animated. .

Presets

In Red Giant Universe 3.0, every tool comes with presets that can be explored via the new Dashboard. In addition, there is now a “Save Preset” button for every Universe effect that lets users save presets to the Dashboard (Adobe Creative Cloud apps) or the preset browser (non-Adobe Creative Cloud apps), depending on which application is being used.

Universe 3.0 Pricing and Availability

● Full: $199 annual; $30 monthly

● Academic: $99 annual

Get Red Giant Universe 3.0

Installation is easy. Download the Universe installer from the Red Giant site () and run the installer application. Once installation completes, if you are a current Universe user, you are ready to start working. New users, simply click the “Activate…” button to launch , and sign in to authorize the machine or start a trial. You are now good to go and all set to enjoy Red Giant Universe 3.0!

To learn more about Red Giant products, please visit .

Compatibility

Universe 3.0 runs on Windows and OS X, and includes over 75 tools that run in:

● Adobe Premiere Pro

● Adobe After Effects

● Apple Final Cut Pro X

● Avid Media Composer

● DaVinci Resolve

● Apple Motion

● Magix Vegas

● Hitfilm Pro

Visit the to learn more about specific version and OS support.

The Red Pledge

Red Pledge is Red Giant commitment to customer happiness, with no purchasing hassles. Learn about the Red Pledge guarantee at .

Request a Universe 3.0 Media Review Kit

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About Red Giant

Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 200,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at .

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Portland, OR – July 17, 2018 – For the next two weeks, Red Giant is offering 30% off the annual subscription price for Red Giant Universe, its collection of over 70 GPU-accelerated plugins for editors and motion graphics artists. Red Giant Universe comprises plugins for Adobe® Premiere® Pro, Adobe® After Effects®, Apple® Final Cut Pro®, Avid® Media Composer® and more, and offers unique solutions for stylizing footage, adding motion graphics, and building fast transitions and effects. See what’s new in Red Giant Universe.

Details on the introductory offer* to Red Giant Universe:

• Price: $69 (usually $99)
• Offer Ends: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 at 12AM PDT
• Use Coupon Code: UNIVERSE30

*This is an introductory offer for customers who have never purchased an annual subscription of Red Giant Universe. Those who have previously had a Universe Annual subscription will not be able to use the coupon code. If you are currently (or have been) a monthly subscriber, but have never owned a license of Universe Annual, you are eligible for this promotion. This 30%-off price is a one-time introductory rate. After that, the renewal price will be at the standard annual fee.

NEW TO UNIVERSE?

Red Giant Universe is a library of over 70 GPU-accelerated plugins for editors and motion graphics artists, packed with tools for video stylization, text effects, transitions, glows and much more. Learn more and download a free trial at: http://redgiant.com/universe.

Universe 2.2 runs on Windows and OS X, and includes over 70 tools that run in:

• Adobe Premiere Pro
• Adobe After Effects
• Apple Final Cut Pro X
• Avid Media Composer
• Davinci Resolve
• Apple Motion
• Magix Vegas
• Hitfilm

Visit the Universe Compatibility page to learn more about specific version and OS support.

ACADEMIC BUYERS:

If you are a student or faculty member and want to buy from the Red Giant academic store, please make sure to Pre-Qualify as an academic buyer before purchasing. If you are already qualified to purchase at the academic rate please feel free to email academic@redgiant.com to request the Introductory Academic Universe code or you may miss out on this introductory offer.

As always, if you have any questions or problems, the Red Giant support team is here for you.

Request a Media Review Kit

Members of the media are invited to review any products or suites from Red Giant. For more information or to request a product review kit, please contact Alexis Isaacs at alexis@zazilmediagroup.com.

About Red Giant

Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 200,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at www.redgiant.com.

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Portland, OR – July 10, 2018 – Red Giant has teamed up with Kelsey Brannan, AKA Premiere Gal to launch “Short Cuts,” a bi-weekly video tutorial series on YouTube. In the new series, Kelsey will show viewers how to quickly up their YouTube game with tools and techniques for getting slick results, quickly. In episode one of Short Cuts, debuting today on the Red Giant YouTube channel, Premiere Gal shows you how to add video transitions and how to quickly build unique transitions with some of the plugins in Red Giant Universe.

“We’ve been talking to a lot of YouTube creators and vloggers lately, and the most common thing we hear is that, while artistic quality matters, when you have to put out 3-5 videos a week, speed matters far more – and that often means sacrificing production value to get things done in time,” explains Aharon Rabinowitz, Red Giant’s head of marketing. “We don’t think people should have to choose between the two, so we got together with Kelsey to bring you Short Cuts.”

With more than a billion users on YouTube generating billions of views each day (YouTube), having a presence on the world’s largest video platform is a must for anyone from the self-made entrepreneur to a global brand. But making that content stand out is becoming more and more difficult. Digital storytellers looking to up the production value of their video content can look to Red Giant Short Cuts to learn how to polish their videos with quick and comprehensible tips on incorporating transitions, designing beautiful logo openers, building animated end screens, adding eye-catching title effects and much more, and including an introduction to the tools and editing software to use.

Subscribe to Red Giant YouTube now to be notified when the next episode of Short Cuts is live.

NEW TO UNIVERSE?

If you aren’t already a Universe customer, you can purchase a subscription or download a free trial at http://redgiant.com/universe. Watch Red Giant Universe: Live to Hustle.

Universe runs on Windows and OS X, and includes over 70 tools that run in:

• Adobe Premiere Pro
• Adobe After Effects
• Apple Final Cut Pro X
• Avid Media Composer
• Davinci Resolve
• Apple Motion
• Magix Vegas
• Hitfilm

Visit the Universe Compatibility page to learn more about specific version and OS support.

Request a Media Review Kit

Members of the media are invited to review any products or suites from Red Giant. For more information or to request a product review kit, please contact Alexis Isaacs at alexis@zazilmediagroup.com.

About Red Giant

Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 200,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at www.redgiant.com.

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Portland, OR – June 19, 2018 – Red Giant has just released a brand new Trapcode Form 3 training series, available free of charge on the Red Giant YouTube channel and led by award-winning filmmaker and motion designer Chad Perkins. The new training videos are the latest to come out of Red Giant, on the heels of the captivating short film “TANK,” created by ILM veteran Stu Maschwitz, and Dan “Hashi” Hashimoto’s “Cheap Tricks: Wakanda Form-ever!” where he demonstrates how to use Trapcode Form's OBJ Model settings to create sand sculptures in true 3D space.

Part of the Red Giant Trapcode Suite, which just got an update in April, Trapcode Form 3 is a unique and powerful 3D particle system for Adobe After Effects, used in broadcast and feature films. Whether you’re creating motion graphics, fantasy user interfaces or audio-driven effects, Form gives you the power to build beautiful effects fast. But, Form is unlike other particle systems and so feature rich that it can be a little daunting to get started with it. Even if you’ve been using it for years, it’s packed with so many hidden features there’s always more to learn - which is why Chad Perkins will show users everything to know when using Form to its fullest. Red Giant’s Trapcode Form 3 training series videos were designed for everyone from beginner to experienced user.

THE DETAILS

• 12 tutorials on Form 3
• Over 3.5 hours of training
• For beginners or experienced users
• Absolutely, totally free

Watch the Trapcode Form 3 tutorials right here, right now.

Red Giant Trapcode Suite Recent Update

This past April, Red Giant released Trapcode Suite 14.1, a free update to its suite of 3D motion graphics and visual effects tools for use in Adobe® After Effects®. As a part of that release, Trapcode Form was updated to version 3.1, with new features and capabilities including:

• Multiple forms in the same 3D Space. Like Trapcode Particular, you can now have multiple form particle grids and 3D objects (AKA Forms) in the same 3D space.
• Over 60 new multiple Form presets to help quickly create motion graphics and VFX.
• Updated UI with playback controls added to the Designer to make previewing easier than ever before.
• GPU acceleration, giving you a speed boost of up to 2x (or more), depending on your setup.

See what’s new in Red Giant Trapcode Suite 14.1.

Request a Media Review Kit

Members of the media are invited to review any products or suites from Red Giant. For more information or to request a product review kit, please contact Alexis Isaacs at alexis@zazilmediagroup.com.

About Red Giant

Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it “the double bottom line” – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 200,000 users, it’s nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at www.redgiant.com.

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For more than 10 years, Red Giant has offered real-time grading and color correction software that allows filmmakers to create a distinct look to their films. Magic Bullet Suite 12 offers new features that you can access directly from your editing software.

Red Giant’s Suite 12 consists of the following programs:

• Magic Bullet Colorista III, color correction software with precise control over all of the nuances of your scene;
• Magic Bullet Cosmo 2.0, a correction tool for adjustment of blemishes, age lines, and skin tones;
• Magic Bullet Film, software that gives you the power to emulate the look and photochemical process of film negative and reversal stocks, grain, vignettes, and print stocks;
• Magic Bullet Looks 3.0, the fastest and easiest tool to color grade and enhance the look with nearly 200 customizable presets including diffusion and flares, and
• Magic Bullet Mojo 2.0, software that allows your project to look like a stylized professional film by using sliders that adjust the color treatment to contrast skin tones with their environment.

This split-screen shot illustrates some the effects achievable with the Magic Bullet Suite 12 package. Looking at each of these software applications a bit closer, the Magic Bullet Colorista III has been improved and now works in conjunction with the masking and automatic tracking features of Adobe Creative Cloud. Red Giant boasts that this software is now easier to use—something that I appreciate—and is integrated into your editing software. New additions include individual point editing for Curves, better shadow and highlight controls, and a vignette slider; all operating in real time.

Cosmo 2.0 is the package’s airbrushing tool. Just as with Adobe Photoshop, you can remove skin blemishes, soften wrinkles, and balance the talent’s skin tone in moving video. The intuitive nature of the software enhances your talent without the editor spending hours in post.

The newest addition—Magic Bullet Film—allows your video to look like motion picture film by emulating the whole photochemical process of 35mm and 16mm, reversal, four print stocks, and 22 negative stocks.

With Magic Bullet Looks 3.0, you now have 198 brand-new preset looks that are each fully customizable. Tools include:

• Color Space that does an initial color adjustment to provide the best look from Log footage;
• Colorista provides users with three “color wheels”—Highlight, Midtone, and Shadow—with additional adjustments for Curves and HSL;
• Duotone, which enables shadows and highlights to be tinted with colors you specify;
• Mojo, which cools the background and also warms up the skin tones;
• Lens Vignette, which allows you to remove or add vignetting;
• Shadows and Highlights to give you control over the brightness of your shot; and
• 4-Way Color that provides a “color wheel” for Highlights, Midtone, and Shadows as well as a Master wheel.

Magic Bullet Mojo makes your actors stand out from their background by accentuating their skin tones, even if your colors are pushed into the shadows.

Color correction and grading is more important now than ever before. Student filmmakers want their products to look like the Hollywood blockbusters and know that most of this occurs in post. Color correction software is available for this purpose, but the learning and mastery curve is often too steep. However, with Magic Bullet Suite 12, this process of creating your look has become much easier.

The software is compatible with Adobe (Premiere and After Effects), Avid, and Final Cut, so multiple editors can all work on the same project across the chain.

IN USE
I first became aware of Magic Bullet several years ago when one of my students used it to “enhance” one of his class projects. When I asked how this “look” had been accomplished, he simply said, “Magic Bullet.”

Being a producer and director of photography, I often have to edit my own work due to time limitations, and more importantly, I know the final “look” I want in the completed project. With Magic Bullet’s presets and the ability to open the software in Final Cut or Premiere, this process becomes a lot more fun and enjoyable.

I shot a short film with a young, darkhaired woman standing in the snow. The stark contrast between the bright snow, her red coat, black hair and pale skin was quite dramatic. Opening Adobe Premiere CC 2014 and accessing Magic Bullet Mojo in my effects window, I used the sliders for Mojo Tint, Balance, and Warm It to create the warmer flesh tone I wanted. As I color balanced on the snow, I sought a warmer skin tone than the cooler one offered due to the snow. By adjusting the sliders, I was able to correct her skin tone, but did not visibly change the background hue.

Opening Magic Bullet Cosmo, I then softened her facial features slightly. Moving to Magic Bullet Colorista III, I slid the Shadows slider to 74 percent to lighten the harsh shadows on her face— much as if I’d used fill light or a reflector on location. I adjusted the vignette to 30.84, which seemed to stop-down the background, allowing the viewer to focus more on the subject.

Moving to Looks, I could choose any one of the presets under the 16 different possibilities. The best part of this program is the customization it provides. Working with HSL, Curves, and other options, I found that I could create the exact look I wanted.

In another film noir project I was working on, I needed the main character to flash back to a black and white film image. I found that I could easily achieve such a vintage film noir look by choosing the film stock, grain, and vignette attributes available with the software. If you’d care to see the result of Magic Bullet applied to my work, check it out on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZMUSzAi8JU.

SUMMARY
I did initially have an issue getting Film and Looks to work on my Mac laptop; however, my iMac desktop had no such issues, but transferring my hard drive and attaching it to my Macbook would not work. When I consulted with the Magic Bullet tech people about this, they created a fix for my laptop that allowed the program to work perfectly. How often does a software giant do something like that for one of their customers?

All in all, Magic Bullet Suite 12 is one of the easiest color correction programs I’ve used. It’s the perfect tool for creating that specialized “look” for your videos without a steep learning curve.

Chuck Gloman is an associate professor and chair of the TV/film department at DeSales University. He may be contacted atchuck.gloman@desales.edu.

FAST FACTS

APPLICATION
Video grading and color correcting
KEY FEATURES
Factory presets, ease of use, customizable options in all programs, and an inexpensive way for creating Hollywood blockbuster “looks”
PRICE
$799
CONTACT
Red Giant
260-918-4505
www.redgiant.com