Red Giant Looks to the Future with Universe

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Red Giant Looks to the Future with Universe - Published on 04/30/14

Available today, Red Giant Universe is a revolutionary new community with access to an ever-expanding library of new tools & effects for filmmakers & motion graphic artists. Membership in Red Giant Universe is free & it allows members to take control of the future of Universe development. Available now are 50 Free & Premium visual effects plugins built on a brand new platform: Supernova. All the tools in Red Giant Universe exploit the power of modern GPU to render most effects in near real-time.

San Francisco, California - Red Giant Universe, a revolutionary new community with access to an ever-expanding library of new tools and effects for filmmakers and motion graphic artists, is available today. Membership in Red Giant Universe is free and it allows our members to take control of the future of Universe development. Available now are 50 Free and Premium visual effects plugins built on a brand new platform - Supernova.

"Universe is a completely new platform for Red Giant and the culmination of nearly two years of work building a new architecture," said Sean Safreed, co-founder and lead visionary behind Universe. "The Red Giant team has put together an amazing set of 50 fast and useful effects using Supernova, our new development engine. This really is the future of visual effects development for us and the filmmaking community."

Free membership includes the use of 31 effects and transitions, including blurs, glows, distortion, generators and 3D transitions. Stand-out tools in our free membership include beautiful transitions such as Swish Pan and 3D Shutter as well as the unique Glo-Fi that creates pulsating, multi-hued glows for titling. These tools are truly free and NEVER expire. Premium membership includes access to 19 tools. The Premium tools include updated favorites such as Knoll Light Factory EZ, Holomatrix, ToonIt (powered by Toonamation), and Retrograde, from CrumplePop and Red Giant.

"The new Universe toolset is so blazing fast, interactions with the parameters are instantaneous, even on my MacBook Pro," said Joey Morelli, owner of DigiDojo, and a veteran editor and compositor. "It's actually fun to play around and get instant feedback. And the effects are SWEET! The new version of Universe Holomatrix is worth the price of admission alone. I cannot wait for future updates!"

Red Giant Universe community is now open on the web as well with our first feature called Labs. Labs lets our members vote on the amazing visual effects that they want to see next. The tool that wins the Labs voting round goes right into Universe and is available as part of the Universe membership. Red Giant is committed to frequent updates throughout the year. Members will receive dozens of new tools in 2014 alone.

Built on a ground-breaking new platform called Supernova, Red Giant Universe is able to deliver tools faster than any other platform on the planet. The secret is a simple scripting system uniting the power of Javascript and a GPU framework to allow our developers to fulfill the desires of our community in a matter of hours instead of days or weeks.

All the tools in Red Giant Universe exploit the power of modern GPU (graphics processing unit) to render most effects in near real-time. The platform is also scalable, working across small and light laptops such as Macbook Air with modern Intel graphics processors (HD4000 and later) up to high-end workstation GPUs from AMD and Nvidia. All effects render with floating point quality for feature film-ready output.

Universe at a Glance:
Red Giant Universe is a community with access to an ever-expanding library of new free tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists and motion designers. Universe includes:

* Tons of new GPU-accelerated effects and transitions.
* 31 free tools (22 Effects & 9 Transitions)
* 19 premium tools (12 Effects & 7 Transitions)
* Regularly updated (using our developer tool Supernova)
* Porting of some existing Red Giant products to Universe (Premium)
* Voting on new tools to decide what gets made next
* Invitations to private betas for new tools (Premium)

OS Requirements:
* Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5
* Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.0 and later
* Windows 7 with Service Pack 1
* Windows 8 and 8.1

Host App Compatibility:
* Adobe After Effects CS5.5, CS6, CC
* Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, CC
* Apple FCPX
* Apple Motion 5

Hardware Requirements:
* A GPU-accelerated graphics card

The Red Pledge:
Red Pledge is Red Giant's commitment to customer happiness, with no purchasing hassles. Learn about the Red Pledge guarantee via the link below.

Pricing and Availability
Red Giant Universe is available today as a subscription for $10/month or as a discounted yearly pre-pay for $99. Users who want the benefits of membership but don't want to pay monthly can opt for a lifetime membership for $399. The lifetime membership never expires and includes all Universe updates and upgrades released over the months and years to come. All Red Giant Universe tools and effects work in After Effects (CS 5.5, CS6, and CC), Premiere Pro (CS6 and CC), Final Cut Pro X (10.1.1) and Motion (5.1), and work on both Mac OS X (10.8.4 and later) and Windows 7 (64-bit) and Windows 8.1.

Red Giant Universe: http://www.redgiant.com/store/universe/
Vimeo Video: https://vimeo.com/92943432
Vimeo Video (Supernova): http://vimeo.com/88253005
Red Giant Red Pledge: http://www.redgiant.com/redpledge/


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. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet and Trapcode) 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. To watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software, please visit our website. All Material and Software (C) Copyright 2014 Red Giant. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh and Mac OS X, Apple Motion, and Final Cut are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.


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