Red Giant Universe
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 9:52AM From the Red Giant blog:
Red Giant Universe is a community that gives members access to fast and powerful free tools for editing, filmmaking, visual effects and motion design.
Every tool in the Universe library of effects and transitions is GPU-accelerated, both Mac and Windows compatible, and works across multiple host applications including: After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X and Motion. The Universe library of tools is continuously growing—new effects and transitions are added regularly, and existing tools are updated often, based on user feedback.
A free subscription gets you access to tons of effects. A paid subscription ($10 per month, or $99 per year) gets you more. Don’t like subscriptions? Buy a perpetual license for $399.
How can Red Giant promise to keep Universe growing so quickly? Because they built Supernova, an internal development tool that’s like a 3D printer for plug-ins:
If you want to be a part of this today, you can sign up for the public beta.
Inverse-disclaimer: Universe doesn’t fall within my Creative Director duties at Red Giant. I don’t have anything to do with it (yet). I’m just a huge fan. And speaking of being a huge fan, the directing/producing team of Seth Worley and Aharon Rabinowitz did such a rockin’ job on both this video and the teaser.
Reader Comments (3)
I just joined this open beta...
So far I'm very impressed with most of the features I have tried. I have not seen anything I couldn't recreate with AE's native set of plug-ins and some hand work, but every universe effect I tried so far would save me at least a half hour of monkeying around to achieve the effect.
Nice Job Red Giant
I'm most impressed by this in house tool. How on earth do you turn ExtendScripts into native plugins?
Do you have your own interpreter that turns the code into native C++ code or does Adobe provide ways for that?
I agree Roger, Supernova is very impressive. And it is entirely developed within Red Giant. Remember that Universe effects work on multiple hosts, including FCP X. A real accomplishment.