The Red Giant Universe Expands With Version 1.2

The Red Giant Universe Expands With Version 1.2
Nine New Effects and Transitions. Sony Vegas Support. Premiere Pro improvements. GPU-powered for lightning-fast speed.

Portland, OR – September 3, 2014 – As part of its aggressive expansion of new tools and host support, Red Giant today released Universe 1.2. The update to the multi-host-app library of GPU-accelerated tools includes nine new effects and transitions. Universe 1.2 also adds support for Sony Vegas as well as native editing of transitions in Premiere Pro CC and CC 2014. These updates expand the Universe toolset to 68 effects and transitions, more than half of which are free and run in Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro X and Motion, and now, Sony Vegas.

What’s New in Universe 1.2 Video

Imagery can be downloaded here

“When we released Universe, we promised frequent updates,” said Sean Safreed, co-founder of Red Giant. “In just two updates, including this one, we’ve added 18 new effects and transitions. But more than that, we are very proud to add support for our first OFX host, Sony Vegas, so quickly. We plan to add more certified OFX applications in 2014.”

Lightning-Fast Transitions and Effects
Universe 1.2 includes many new features, including three new effects. The Glitch plugin creates the video compression and digital glitches seen in low-bandwidth video. The Billowed Background tool quickly and automatically creates animated fractal backgrounds for your motion graphics work. Edge Glow adds a neon-like glow around the edge of text or shapes within a video.

The new release also adds six new transitions, including three premium tools from Red Giant partners. Partner transitions include CrumplePop HalfLight (a popular tool, formerly exclusive to Final Cut Pro X), Glitch Transition, and ToonIt Cartoon Transition. Other premium transitions include Triangle Wave and Diamond Wave, which generate 3D folding shapes as transitions. Universe 1.2 also includes the new free Exposure Blur transition – the winning tool in the Universe Labs community voting. All of the effects and transitions available in Universe are GPU-accelerated, giving artists a serious boost in speed.

Finally, native-style Premiere transitions have arrived in Universe 1.2. This change brings native editing of transitions to Premiere Pro CC, eliminating the need for a custom dialog box and speeding up the transition setup and adjustment with all Universe transitions.

“What is Red Giant Universe?” Video

Lightning-Fast Product Development
Since Red Giant Universe was launched this past March, community members have been loving both the quality of the effects as well as the speed at which they are being developed.

“A constantly expanding choice of effects that look great and render fast makes Universe a key tool in my motion graphics tool set,” said John Dickinson of Motionworks.net. “It’s exciting to see what is going to be added next, and brilliant that Red Giant is active in seeking out community input, resulting in tools that are truly useful.”

In addition to being popular with motion graphics and visual effect artists, Universe’s quickly growing library of free and premium tools has been a big hit with filmmakers and editors as well.

“We are working in a time where things move and progress very quickly,” said Ryan Connolly of FilmRiot.com. “Universe is the perfect response to that. The ability to get updated plugins at crazy fast turnarounds is a massive win for editors."

The secret to Red Giant’s rapid release cycle is the new Supernova development platform, which allows Red Giant’s team of artists and engineers to build and improve software tools for artists at an unprecedented rate. Supernova also makes it simple to output plug-ins for all supported host applications at the touch of a button.

“How does Supernova work?” Video

Pricing & Availability
Red Giant Universe is available today as a subscription for $10/month or as a discounted yearly pre-pay for $99. Users that want the benefits of membership but would prefer to opt out of the subscription model 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, CC and CC 2014), Premiere Pro (CS6, CC and CC 2014), 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. This release is fully certified for the new Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro CC 2014.

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.redgiantsoftware.com/redpledge/.

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. 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 provide tools for artists, and inspiration, as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at redgiant.com.

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Red Giant Universe 1.2

A new update to Red Giant Universe that includes new free and premium tools, Sony Vegas support, and an improved Premiere Pro Transitions workflow. In total, there are 9 new tools, bringing the Universe library to 68 effects and transitions. If you already have Universe Installed, the new tools and updates can be downloaded through Red Giant Link.

What’s New, At a Glance:

Free:

Exposure Blur
Billowed Background
Edge Glow

Premium

CrumplePop HalfLight
Diamond Wave
Glitch Transition:
ToonIt Cartoon Transition
Triangle Wave
Glitch

Updates:

New Host App: Sony Vegas 12 and 13
Premiere Pro: Updated transitions to Native-Style Premiere Transitions
ToonIt (P): Presets added to Cartoon, Paint and Retouch plugins
Minor Bug Fixes in a few plug-ins.

What’s New, in Detail:

NEW EFFECTS AND TRANSITIONS:

Free Transition (1):

Exposure Blur: A transition effect that blurs footage while bumping up the exposure to create a dynamic blend. (Chosen through community voting in Red Giant Labs).

Free Effects (2):

Billowed Background: Quickly create simple and colorful looping fractal noise backgrounds with 11 noise styles to choose from. With predesigned color map, lower third, and blend mode features for easy customization.
Edge Glow: Creates a glowing effects on the edges and outlines of images—perfect for titles and logos. Includes controls for glow, brightness, saturation, and tint options.

Premium Transitions (5):

CrumplePop HalfLight: A library of optically captured highly customizable light leak transitions that give your footage a moody and filmic look.
Diamond Wave: A 3D Transition that divides the layers into diamond shaped segments which rotate in an offset fashion vertically or horizontally, revealing the second layer.
Glitch Transition: An effect that transitions your footage and text by creating the look of compressed, glitched video, corrupted data streams, and low-bandwidth broadcasts.
ToonIt Cartoon Transition: A preset-driven transition plugin that transforms your layers between stylized cartoon effects.
Triangle Wave: A 3D Transition that divides the layers into triangular segments which rotate in an offset fashion vertically or horizontally, revealing the second layer.

Premium Effect (1):

Glitch: An effect that gives your footage and text the look of compressed, glitched video. These tools create the effect of poor internet connections, bad video encoding, corrupted data streams, and low-bandwidth broadcasts.

SONY VEGAS SUPPORT
Red Giant Universe 1.2 introduces support for Sony Vegas 12 and 13. This update brings almost all of the free and premium library of Universe effects and transitions (a total of 67 out of 68 plug-ins) to Vegas users.

NATIVE-STYLE PREMIERE PRO TRANSITIONS
Previously, to make things compatible with both CS6 and CC, we had to make a version of Premiere Transitions that had a pop-up modal dialog that customers didn’t love. So we made changes that make them just like standard Premiere Pro transitions - a simple UI without a custom pop-up dialog.

So in short, this new interface brings native editing of transitions to Premiere Pro CC, removing the custom dialog and speeding up the transition setup and adjustment with all Universe transitions.

About Red Giant Universe

Red Giant Universe (new hero video, now includes Sony Vegas):

https://vimeo.com/104742127

Red Giant Universe is a free community that gives you access to fast and powerful free tools for editing, visual effects and motion design. Every tool in Universe’s library of effects and transitions is GPU enabled (making them super fast) and works across multiple host applications on both Mac and Windows. The universe library of tools is continuously growing – new effects and transitions are added regularly, and existing tools are updated just as frequently.

Premium Membership: http://vimeo.com/92943432
In addition, as a Premium member of Universe, you’ll get access to even more Universe tools – and you’ll get to help us choose what effects and transitions we build next.

What’s Included in Universe?

10 FREE video transitions
27 FREE effects & motion design tools
All GPU-enabled & multi-host-app compatible
Regularly updated with new FREE tools

What’s Included in Universe Premium?

12 additional premium transitions
19 additional premium effects & motion design tools
New tools from third-party developers
Voting for new tools in our Universe Labs
Regularly updated with new premium tools

Who is Universe for?

- Filmmakers - Motion Designers
- Editors - VFX Artists

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OS Requirements:

Mac OSX 10.8.5 or later
Windows 7, 8.1

Host App Compatibility:

After Effects CS5.5, CS6, CC (includes CC 2014)
Premiere Pro CS6, CC (includes CC 2014)
Apple FCPX 10.1.1 or later
Apple Motion 5.1 or later
Sony Vegas 12 and 13

Hardware Requirements:

A GPU-accelerated graphics card

Pricing & Availability:

Red Giant Universe is available now:

Basic Membership: Free
Premium Monthly: $10
Premium Yearly: $99
Premium Lifetime: $399

Learn more at http://redgiant.com/universe.