Hey Folks -

Red Giant is making a short film, and we need movie posters to use as props in the background of one of the scenes.

We love our customers and the work you do, so we want to use movie posters from your projects – Movies you have already made, or movies you hope to someday make. Whether it’s a documentary, action film, romantic comedy, sci-fi Bollywood drama – whatever – we want it.

Send us an image of your movie poster (post a URL below in the comments), and we’ll post them here in the blog as a gallery. We’ll ask the people who have created our favorites to send us either a print resolution file (24″ x 36″, 300 DPI) or a hard copy version (size can vary, since it’s already printed).

People who’s posters are chosen will be given a film credit and also win a FREE Red Giant Guru Preset Pack of their choice, including (but not limited to):

• Nick Campbell’s Vintage Film for Looks 2010
• Stu Maschwitz’s Rebel Epic for Looks
• Harry Frank’s Cinematic Flares for Knoll Light Factory

IMPORTANT: Ultimately, we need these in either hard copy (ideal) or as print-resolution poster-sized images. So please make sure you can deliver your final images in one of those formats, or you will be disqualified.

Submission due date: 2/5/11

It brings me a lot of pleasure to bring you a much-anticipated maintenance release for Magic Bullet Denoiser.

Announcing Magic Bullet Denoiser 1.0.1 : http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-denoiser/updates/ , fixing the following issues:

In Final Cut Pro:

• When rendering a clip with Denoiser applied – canceling and then resuming the render causes the canceled frame to be black with blue specs in it. This can also cause blue frames in other areas of the output.
• Fix an issue where you often get an “Unable to sample” error while using Denoiser.
• When Denoiser is applied, it sometimes scrambles the output video.

In After Effects:

• Denoiser can cause After Effects to crash while scrubbing the timeline and using Denoiser’s sliders at the same time.

As always, you can find updates for all of our products here: http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/downloads/updates/

Here’s a new QuickTip from Simon Walker about managing your Magic Bullet Looks and PhotoLooks presets. If you use Looks or Photolooks, and create your own presets, this tip will save you a lot of time.

Red Giant QuickTip #30: Managing Presets in Magic Bullet Looks & PhotoLooks

In this tip Apple Certified Master Trainer will show you how to quickly create and manage custom presets when using Magic Bullet Looks and Magic Bullet PhotoLooks, and how these are automatically shared across the host applications.

Magic Bullet Looks

Set the mood on any timeline

$399 New
$29-$299 Upgrade

Magic Bullet PhotoLooks

Your photo is worth a thousand looks – now available for Lightroom, Aperture and Photoshop

$199 New
$99 Upgrade

Simon Walker’s Weddings & Events for Looks

30 Presets to Make Timeless Memories

$69 New

07 – Color Correcting Food with Magic Bullet Colorista II

Recently, Stu Maschwitz sat down with a friend who wanted to learn about color and why his 7D stills look so much nicer than his video.  He had some 7D stills and video from a food prep shoot.

Stu helped him match the video to the stills and used almost every feature of CII.

Here is the Original footage, followed by the final result:

Get Colorista II HERE.

I was scanning twitter over the weekend and caught a tweet from Director/Editor Mick Jones about a project he just completed for Wrangler, in which he used Magic Bullet Colorista II. The spot is about to be released as a part of a web campaign for Wrangler Asia-Pacific. It will be in conjunction with the “Worn Across America” print campaign. Here’s the video:

This was such an amazing piece that we asked Mick to send us some still frames from the edit so we could see the before and afters:

About why he uses Colorista II, Mick says:

I use Magic Bullet Colorista because I like to do my color correction within the editing system that I use, Final Cut Pro. Due to the nature of commercials and music videos, the picture edit changes quite a bit throughout the evolution of the spot, and often at the last minute. So rather than round tripping projects to external software for my Color Correction, I keep it in the edit and can respond to the changes quickly. Colorista II has some really powerful controls such as the keyer and selective color correction that I use a lot. The density and exposure controls are great for primary level correction and having a secondary level of control within the one filter is great. I also often “Stack” multiple Colorista filters to build a look. So, having precision professional controls and being able to stay within my edit sequence means I use Colorista on a daily basis in my line of work.

About the project, Mick had this to say:

For this piece I got to work with the legendary photographer Christopher Ferguson. For this collaborative piece we really wanted to capture the feeling of the great American road trip. Shot on the Canon 5DMkII with mostly a Zeiss 50mm 1.4 this was an exercise in seizing the moment. It was shot in conjunction with a still photo shoot that Chris was handling and the live action moments were often stolen as the shutter from his camera stopped firing. This stills and video collaboration definitely had it’s challenges, but I managed to build a good rapport with the models and was able to direct them through some live action sequences in order to get the shots that I needed for the edit.

This was such a fast paced shoot and the only gear I had was a Zacuto Z-finder 3x with pro anti fog and a Zacuto Target Shooter. The anti fog eyepiece was an absolute gem working in very humid conditions for this shoot...

The music went through a few variations before landing on this fantastic track from The SnowDroppers called “Do The Stomp”.

Check out Mick’s company, Litup Digital HERE, and his Vimeo page HERE.

As a side note, outside of the beta team, Mick’s was the first professional work we ever saw done in Magic Bullet Colorista II. This music video which came out just a few days after Colorista II’s release, is almost definately the first ever graded with Magic Bullet Colorista II:

Red Giant QuickTip #29: Magic Bullet Colorista and Window Layouts in FCP

In this tutorial, Apple Certified Master Trainer Simon Walker, will show you the benefits of using the window layout shortcuts when adjusting filter settings, to help you become a faster Final Cut Pro editor.

Get Colorista II HERE.

Hey folks – our very own Harry frank is giving a class this semester at fxphd. Join the class before it’s too late! Here’s the info:

We’re excited to have a new After Effects course lead by a familiar name in the motion graphics industry, designer Harry Frank. This practical, software-based course will focus on creating a professional broadcast graphics package from scratch. Harry has done numerous high-profile national broadcast packages over the year for networks such as NBC, ABC, Fox, and G4TV. One of the strengths of After Effects is its plug in architecture and offerings such as Trapcode Particular, Form, and Lux are workhorses of mograph artists. Over the ten weeks, After Effects will be at the center of the course in conjunction with these and other plug ins from Red Giant Software.

In the broadcast industry, turn-around times for deliverables can be short, which makes efficiency a key component of being a professional motion designer. We need to have the right tools at our fingertips with an in-depth understanding of them to achieve this. This will be the core focus of this course: accelerating your creativity with your tools.

In AFX213, students will be building a graphics package for a broadcast awards ceremony. We will build assets such as a short show open, logo animation, full screen graphic, lower third, and transitional elements. This class will give students the opportunity to be creative, building a graphics package from scratch. Students are encouraged to take advantage of this experience with peer and instructor review in a special work sharing forum on the site. Members have found this level of interaction to be extremely valueable part of the course.

Harry originally studied music engineering and worked in both audio post-production and studio engineering, before entering the motion graphics field 12 years ago. He has worked in Detroit, Chicago, and Los Angeles as a freelance motion designer, with clients such as, Blur Studio, Digital Kitchen, and many more. As an instructor and author, he has authored numerous tutorials and training titles on motion design, After Effects Expressions, Trapcode Particular and Form, and Cinema 4D. In Detroit, he was an Adjunct Faculty at the College for Creative Studies. Harry is the owner of graymachine.com, and host of the networking site, themotionexchange.com

As you can see from the quotes below, people are excited about the class, so get in now before it’s too late!

“My name is Juan and I am very excited about this class, I saw some of Harry’s works on his website and on the RED Giant site and it is amaizing the kind of things and how professional Harry is. Like to get to that level and also know it is years of experience that provide that level, so I am working hard to learn the most I can.”

“I have been working with AF for about 3 years now and I am looking to get to a bit more to the advance level, but still a long road before I can switch my beginer to intermediate-advance level. I love working with AF and learn from such a profesional expert voice. Hope to learn a lot here. Thank you.”

“Hey Harry – psyched that you’re here and for this class! Love what I’ve seen so far!”

RGTV Ep. 52: Re-creating the Lost Smoke Monster

In this Episode of Red Giant TV, Filmmaker/Motion Graphics artist Seth Worley will show you how to re-create the look of the Lost Smoke monster. Covered: Compositing, Masking, 3D tracking, Color Correction and some really cool Trapcode Particular techniques.

Watch it HERE.

Hey folks – a great job opportunity has opened at Red Giant Software. This is a fantastic gig, so if you have the chops or you know someone that does, make sure to read through and apply. Here’s the info:

Online Marketing Manager

Location:

Downtown Portland (or possibly remote) (Portland, Oregon Area)

Job Description

Red Giant Software is an awesome software tools provider. Our tools are used by the best visual effects artists in the world creating the amazing things you see in feature films and on TV every day. The company has an office in Portland, Oregon but our employees are spread out all over the world giving us a reach far beyond the small team of employees. We give our employees a lot of autonomy, and responsibility to solve problems—all that matters is results. We like making decision and shipping products not having meetings. If you feel like you have what it takes, this might be the best company you will ever work for–we really mean that. Read on to see if you have what it takes to join our team.

Responsibilities

• You will need to develop ways to increase our marketing efforts outside of our core market in North America. You will drive programs to reach new consumer segments outside of the US.

• You will manage marketing budgets and work with outside agencies to develop and implement digital campaigns across social media, display ad, keyword and direct marketing efforts. You will manage implementation of all new marketing plans.

• You will need to track trends and new tools available for digital marketing, ROI is paramount.

• You will need to gather data from vendors/partners about traffic, online behavior, response rates and marketing campaigns. You will need to prepare and highlight reports for the management team and make recommendations on improving marketing spending and return on investment.

• You will create efficient processes for working with web developers to achieve marketing and sales goals.

• You will work with web developers to implement new programs, including overseeing integration with marketing automation and tracking tools.

• You will work with PR to coordinate our marketing campaigns with communications to bloggers, twitterers and every other avenue of one-to-many word-of-mouth opportunities that we can find to spread the gospel of Red Giant.

• You will definitely help us identify new ways to improve user experience, data-gathering and product presentation on our own properties and external sites.

• You will have access to a database of 200,000+ email recipients for direct marketing. You will need to exploit these names to communicate the Red Giant product messages in a way that delights and doesn’t annoy.

• You will manage the production of new marketing materials and web content to support product launches, marketing programs, etc You won’t be alone but everyone contributes and gets their hands dirty.

• You will have responsibility for optimizing cross-marketing initiative for all online properties to help us sell great products to our current customers.

Skills

• This role requires that you have a bachelor’s degree, an MBA is nice but not required. Experience matters as much as education.

• We are looking for someone with extensive experience developing digital marketing strategies and dashboards for tracking results. If you don’t have this, then why are you applying?

• At least 5 years direct experience in web-based marketing, with proven ability to measure results.

• We sell to creatives and we need you to be creative.

• Red Giant is about shipping products and your role is to help analyze how we do when communicating with our customers and prospects.

• You must have the ability to manage competing priorities.

• You won’t be managing dozens of people but we like folks that have some management experience.

• You must have the ability to crisply describe your vision. Every email you send needs to be short and to the point, any dissertations will be ignored.

* Some experience in using digital media tools is a plus, this include video editing or photo editing tools.

• Multi-lingual or multicultural experience outside of the US is a big plus.

• Please no drama queens or political players, we can smell it from a mile away and you just want fit into our culture.

Please review our web site, our Twitter feeds, Facebook page, download a trial of our software, send an email, or be creative in how you learn more about Red Giant. If you are interested in applying for this position, we expect that you would be able to generate a couple of simple ideas about how you would improve product and company communication. Please respond with your ideas and resume. We look forward to hearing from you!

Company Description

Founded in 2002, Red Giant Software creates an ever-expanding universe of effects tools ranging from plug-in suites, applications and mobile apps to Guru Presets and sharing communities. We provide software for motion design, photography and color correction that are used for everything from web production to major motion pictures to worldwide television programming. Red Giant offers the industry-leading Trapcode tools for broadcast design; Magic Bullet Suite for color correction; and over 60 products that run in After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture, Avid, Vegas, Nuke, and Studio. Our effects have enhanced dozens of feature films such as Angels & Demons and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and added sparkle to networks like NBC Universal, ESPN, Disney, CNN, Comedy Central, MTV, and TNT. Join us on Facebook (facebook.com/RedGiantSoftware), follow us on Twitter (@RedGiantNews) and get free content at www. redgiantpeople.com

Additional Information

Posted: January 13, 2011
Type: Full-time
Experience: Mid-Senior level
Functions: Marketing
Industries: Computer Software
Compensation: Based on Experience

Referral Bonus:* None

Job ID: 1345804

Apply HERE.