It's pointless to mention every plugin included in Universe by name (there are dozens). What's particularly nice about Universe is that it's available either as a cut-down free install or via premium subscription (US$10 a month, $99 a year), or outright for $399, an approach that suits people working in various different circumstances where monthly fees might not make sense.
Recently, Red Giant has made a vast compendium of its catalogue available via the Universe subscription service, including a simplified version of the well-known Knoll Light Factory plug-in.įor those unfamiliar with Knoll Light, it's been more-or-less the last word in lens flares for some time. In-house tools include the immensely popular Magic Bullet Suite, which, if you were born some distance outside the solar system, you may need to be reminded is an expansive software tool-set designed to help electronically-acquired footage look more like film. Red Giant is arguably best known today for the Trapcode plugins which it publishes, but which are still developed by Peder Norrby's company in Sweden. Although industry adoption of OpenFX (and thus de-facto standardisation of moving image plugins) has perhaps not been as widespread or as quick as we all have hoped, none of this is Red Giant's fault and OpenFX adoption will undoubtedly progress over time. Resolve compatibility with many plugins is ensured via OpenFX, which implies that there should be ways to get things working in other OpenFX hosts, too. While After Effects still reigns supreme in motion graphics (and it's widely used in visual effects as well), much of Red Giant's output is now available as a series of plug-ins compatible with popular applications, including Final Cut, Premiere and Avid.
You might think Red Giant has been a fixture of motion graphics for as long as After Effects itself, but in fact, the company was founded in 2002, almost ten years after Adobe's finest.
Phil Rhodes gives us his take on Red Giant's TrapCode Suite, Effects Suite and Universe software tools, and why it makes sense to have all three.
REd Giant Trapcode Suite, Effects Suite and Universe
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