Red Giant Software sells digital video plug-ins for compositing software and NLEs such as Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Adobe Premiere.
Two of their best-known products are the Magic Bullet Suite (a plug-in for After Effects made to make digital video look more like film) and Knoll Light Factory (a plug-in containing light and spark effects).
The plug-ins Red Giant sells have been used in many feature films, music videos, national TV commercials & shows. These include Grindhouse, The Aviator, Day After Tomorrow, Vanilla Sky, Hellboy, Spy Kids 3D, Double Dare, Nike commercials, Good Eats, ESPN, Disney, CNN, Good Morning America, Cher videos, FooFighter videos, and MTV shows.
History
In 2002, Red Giant Software was founded in San Francisco, California[citation needed] by industry veterans to develop and distribute special effects tools for digital video & film professionals. In 2007 Red Giant Software had joined forces with Trapcode. As of November 2007, Toolfarm became the master reseller for Red Giant Software and Trapcode. In November 2008, Red Giant Software launched Red Giant TV, a branch of the company devoted to providing free weekly video training in the use of their products.
Products
Red Giant's products are mostly plug-ins that aid digital video and film editors.
List of Products:
- Image Lounge - collection of over 20 After Effects filters creates smoke, water, or walls of fire, realistic 3D shadows, simulate camera blurs
- Knoll Light Factory Pro - Creates lens flares, sunsets, photon torpedoes, stars and other effects. It offers a custom lens editor, auto tracking, alpha channel support
- Radium Glow - Simulates the way real light behaves, giving glimmers and glows.
- Trapcode 3D Stroke - uses paths from one or more masks to render volumetric strokes that can be rotated and moved freely in 3D space. It has a built-in camera to create dynamic 3D environments.
- Trapcode Echo Space - Speeds and automates the creation of 3D layer effects in Adobe After Effects. Layer iterations can be controlled as a group or individually for sophisticated 'house-of-cards' or 'Cover Flow'-style animations.
- Trapcode Form - Creates flame, smoke and other organic 3D shapes — and then synchronize it with audio.
- Trapcode Horizon - Create environments by using Trapcode Horizon to wrap sphere maps, panoramas or video around the After Effects world.
- Trapcode Lux - Simulates the "visible light" phenomenon of light in a dark or foggy environment.
- Trapcode Particular - Creates natural smoke, explosions, geometric or organic abstract elements.
- Trapcode Shine - Shine is a 2D plug-in that simulates 3D volumetric light effects.
- Trapcode Sound Keys - Sound Keys is a keyframe generator plug-in for Adobe After Effects. Visually select parts of an audio track and convert that audio into keyframes. Intended for audio-intensive animations.
- Trapcode Starglow
- Magic Bullet Colorista - Color correction plug-in that works with Final Cut, After Effects, Motion, Premiere Pro, or Avid systems.
- Magic Bullet Looks - Create looks for your film/video
- Composite Wizard - Repairs tattered edges, removing artifacts, and fixing bad extractions.
- Key Correct Pro - Key Correct Pro is a set of 15 plug-ins designed to help After Effects users create better composites with built-in keying tools.
- Primatte Keyer Pro - A greenscreen tool that extracts keys from any color background easily.
- Film Fix - Eliminate flicker, remove dust and dirt, and stabilize jerky footage.
- Magic Bullet Frames - Take interlaced video and get the 24p look of film, right from within your editor.
- Magic Bullet Instant HD - Conversion from SD video to HD within your favorite video application.
- Magic Bullet Instant HD Advanced - Advanced version of InstantHD that offers sharp, motion-compensated de-interlacing and de-noising; advanced pan and scan; and an algorithm for resolution enhancement.
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Categories: Film and video technology | Special effects | Film production | Software companies of the United States
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hfortysixit
Mon, 04 May 2009 13:00:57 GM
Red Giant. Particular 2 and ToonIt 2 During the NAB 2009 . Red Giant software. released there brand new Particular 2 and Toonit 2. The nice people over at ProVideo Coalition get some video demonstration of both products! ...
