Hey folks – yesterday Adobe announced CS6, and committed to a release within 30 days. So now you’re thinking, “I’d love to get on board, but what about my plug-ins? I can’t MoGraph without Trapcode! I can’t cut without Magic Bullet!”

Well, if you’re ready to jump on CS6, I’ve got good news. 3 pieces of good news, actually:

1. Red Giant Products will be CS6 compatible on the day of the CS6 launch.
2. All current CS5 & CS5.5 compatible products will be updated to CS6.
3. All CS6 updates will be FREE for existing users (so if you already own the product, or want to buy it now, you’re covered).

Yeah, we got your back.

Learn more about how we’re here for you by checking out our unmatched Red Pledge.

Here’s a brief Recap of some of what we showed at NAB: Magic Bullet Arsenal and Knoll Light Factory 3. Neither is available yet, but will be soon.

Not to worry – If you buy the current version of Knoll Light Factory now, you are eligible for a free upgrade to 3.0 when it comes out.

More info coming soon.

Today, Vimeo announced the short list for videos to be considered for the Vimeo Festival + Awards, and, much to our excitement, Plot Device was among them.Vimeo features some of the best video content on the web and we are really proud to even be considered for a Vimeo Award.

You can check out and vote for the videos featured under Advertising HERE (all videos sponsored by a company or ad agency fall into this category), and vote for your favorite – we hope it’s Plot Device, but we know there is some seriously stiff competition, all deserving of recognition.  If Plot Device wins, director Seth Worley could get $5K, $25Kor even $30K to put towards his next film.

There’s also a lot of other amazing work being being recognized at the Vimeo Festival + Awards, and you can vote for all of the ones you like HERE.

It’s really been a whirlwind 2 weeks. In case you missed it, last week, Plot Device was nominated for a Webby. Also, Virgin America announced that Plot Device would be featured on Virgin Airlines flights as a part of their new programming (Seth calls it “the most expensive way to watch Plot Device).

If you haven’t already, head over to the Webby’s and vote for your favorite entries. There’s a lot of great stuff there.

In the meantime, you can watch Plot Device right here:

Well, that was fun! As you may have seen already, a recent update to FCPX ended up causing a bug with Previews in Magic Bullet Looks 2.0. We jumped right on getting a fix in place and are happy to say that the fix is ready to go! So, go ahead and update FCPX, update Looks to the latest (2.0.7) and you’re good to go.

Many thanks to the team over at Apple for helping us out on this one!

To get the update, either use the Red Giant Link updater already on your system or you can download the latest installer here.

We didn’t want to hold back a couple of other fixes we had in the pipeline so the full details on this Magic Bullet update include:

• Looks 2.0.7 fixes the Preview issue (image inversion and/or doubling) when used after updating to FCPX 10.0.4.
• It also fixes “hands on” mode in the Magic Bullet Looks application on OSX.
• Sony Vegas users will also notice we have fixed the issue with Looks not respecting the “assume Linear Gamma” setting.
• In all host apps, the Hue/Saturation tool is now available in the Subject category as it was meant to be!
• In other Magic Bullet news, we also took a look at Grinder and fixed the issue many users have reported where Grinder would crash on launch on OSX 10.5.8 (Leopard) systems.

Enjoy, and thanks for your patience while we fixed this up!

IMPORTANT: The new FCPX 10.0.4 update breaks the preview functionality for Magic Bullet Looks & some other non Red Giant plug-ins.

Do NOT update IF YOU ARE USING LOOKS. If you have already updated, we currently don’t know of any way to roll it back to a previous version. Here’s some more info:

In the latest release of FCPX, Apple fixed a bug  in FCPX 10.0.4 that makes it clearer to plugins about the orientation of the video. However, because of this bug fix, you’re now seeing a flipped image in Magic Bullet Looks. Here’s why:

We already knew about the issue  a long time ago. To make sure you never experienced any problem, we put work-around for the bug in MB Looks. So you never saw the issue, because we already had it covered. However, the work around we created isn’t compatible with the latest bug fix from Apple, so it ends up causing a flipped image.

Here’s the  good news:

• We’re on it and will fix it ASAP
• It does not affect renders, it’s only in the preview.

Again, our recommendation, for now, is that you do not update to 10.0.4 – if you are using Looks. As soon as we have a fix, we’ll let you know.

There are days you wake up and know it’s going to be a good day.  And then there are days where life really surprises you. Today was one of the latter.

This morning we found out that Plot Device, a short film we helped bring to life, was nominated for a Webby Award. I’m not going to lie to you… It’s a big fricken deal. The Webby’s are basically the Academy Awards for Internet content. And while it’s my nature to be humbled by recognition like this, I’m not really comfortable even saying that, because, in reality, this award isn’t really about Red Giant. It’s not for us to be humbled. But we are proud…and extremely excited.

The nomination is for Best Editing – something that can be attributed entirely to Seth Worley, the film’s director.  Seth is an amazing storyteller and, while the nomination is a surprise, the fact that a storyteller as talented as Seth is being recognized for his ability to tell a great story, is not.

Also – I know I said that we’re not feeling humble, but I totally lied. Me and the rest of the folks at Red Giant are actually quite humbled at this moment – Humbled and honored that a film we helped create is considered notable among the fantastic content being produced by the community of visual artists, for whom we work so hard to support.

It’s one thing to make software that your customers love and use in telling their stories. But it’s a whole other thing to tell those same creative people a story and have it pass muster. We’re totally floored by the reaction you’ve had to Plot Device.

I’m not a fan of telling people to rock the vote, and I’m even less a fan of when people email, asking me to vote for a creation in a contest without even considering that there may be someone who is truly more worthy of the win. But if you believe in the importance of acknowledging great work, then head over to the Webby Awards and check out all of the nominations. If, after that, you think Seth deserves the award, great – vote for Plot Device. If not – vote for someone else that worked hard and deserves the recognition that editors so often don’t get.

In the meantime, you can watch Plot Device right here: