Introducing Trapcode Suite 12 - the industry standard for broadcast and 3D design.

Get Trapcode Suite 12 HERE.

In short, here’s what’s new in Trapcode Suite 12 (see below for detailed info):

1. Trapcode Mir – Brand New Motion Design Tool

2. Guru Presets- 105 Particular/Shine from MoGraph artist David Vinson included in the installer package.

3. Maintenance Updates for: Lux, Echospace, Particular, & Form

1. Trapcode Mir: Create 3D motion design at OpenGL speed

Get Trapcode Mir HERE.

The core of Trapcode Mir is simple and powerful: A mesh object that’s made of polygons, shaped by fractal noise, and textured and illuminated in a 3D environment.   Mir uses the OpenGL rendering (hardware acceleration) so feedback and rendering is FAST!

Please download a Trial Version to test with your machine before purchase to see if your system performs well with Trapcode Mir.

Trapcode Mir is a powerful and fun plug-in that can do a lot. So to help you get started using Mir, Harry Frank has created 17 Mir Presets -  found in the AE Effects and Presets Panel. They’ll be installed with Mir and Trapcode Suite 12.

2. Guru Presets Now Included:

• Trapcode Suite: $899
• Trapcode Mir: $99
• Trapcode Suite 12 Upgrade: $99
• Trapcode Suite 12 Special Upgrade: $499 (Existing Customer Special. If you own Particular v2, or any four Trapcode products get the entire suite for only $499)
• Trapcode Suite Academic: $499

Anyone who made the switch right away to Apple’s newest operating system update, Mountain Lion, likely noticed a new security feature called GateKeeper. This feature is intended to protect you from installing malicious software downloaded from the Internet. In order for Mountain Lion not to think Red Giant’s installers are malicious, we had to go through a process called code signing with Apple in order to bring everything up to date. Even though we’ve been working on this for a while with developer seeds of Mountain Lion, we waited until the update was finally released so we could do our final testing; now that we’re through that process, we’re happy to announce that our installers are now “Mountain Lion Ready”.

So, all you need to do* if you’ve updated to Mountain Lion and want to get started on installing Red Giant products is ensure you download our latest installers and you’re all set!

* There’s always that one caveat to this type of information! We’re specifically talking about Mountain Lion’s GateKeeper feature in it’s default setting. If you’ve changed that security setting to only allow installations through the Apple App Store, you’ll need to change it back – outside of Plastic Bullet for OSX, we do not sell our products through Apple’s OSX App Store.

Enjoy!

Andrew Cheyne

Red Giant’s Engineering Manager

Hey folks – we’re looking to hire. Here’s the gig:

User Experience/Web Designer

Red Giant is an awesome software tools provider. The company builds kick-ass tools for visual effects production. 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.   If you feel like you have what it takes, this might be the best company you will ever work for–we really mean that.

Red Giant is looking for a User Experience Designer with a proven track record of outstanding conceptual design, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design skills. You will be responsible for the redesign of our store and shopping cart experience and will be using both your user interaction and design skills as you build out workflows, wireframes and final visual design. You must have the ability to successfully collaborate with other designers, product managers, and engineers to develop innovative, user-friendly and intuitive workflows that adhere to and help create an exciting and productive shopping cart experience. The ideal candidate for this position possesses a solid understanding of user-centered design principles, absolute comfort working with HTML and CSS, excellent visual design skills, great technical know-how, and proven expertise in designing for the Web.

This is a temporary contract position with opportunities for a permanent position within Red Giant Software.  We are looking for someone based in Portland, OR.

Responsibilities:

Delivering UI wireframes and design concepts
• Delivering final visual designs, along with HTML and CSS

Requirements:

• Solid academic background in human-computer interaction or related field.
• Proven record of designing usable web-based interfaces with technical skills around HTML and JavaScript.
Strong, clean visual design sense.
• Experience with ecommerce sites and design strongly preferred
Excellent leadership, communication and teamwork skills.
• Familiar with RG Products is a bonus

If your interested please send a resume along with the most current examples of your work to mandi (AT) redgiantsoftware.com.

Hey folks – Today we’ve updated Magic Bullet Denoiser II to include 2 new host apps. In addition to the already-supported After Effects Cs4, 5, 5.5, and 6  you will now be able to install Denoiser II v1.3 in Premiere Pro CS5, 5.5, and 6, as well as Final Cut Pro 7.

What’s new and what you need to know:

• FREE 1.3 update. Our newest update brings Denoiser II back into the editor’s favorite apps, Premiere Pro and Final Cut 7, and also adds subtle improvements to the denoising algorithm. Get the FREE update HERE.
• Already own Denoiser 1? If you own the previous Denoiser 1 or any version of Magic Bullet Suite, you get the new Denoiser II for free (get it HERE). Want to know the story behind Denoiser II replacing Denoiser? Read the FAQ
• Great defaults. The default settings were carefully chosen by professional editors and filmmakers, so you get immediate clean-up results when the plug-in is applied.
• Stable and reliable. Extensive redevelopment and improved stability give you a more reliable noise-reduction tool.
• Better support for Interlaced Footage. A new Separate Field checkbox makes sure that interlaced footage is properly treated when using Premiere and After Effects.
• Part of the family. Combined with other Magic Bullet products like Looks 2 and Cosmo, Denoiser is a smart way to clean up problems like overexposure or splotchy skin.

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, our awesome support and customer service team is here for you.

Hey folks – With a new feature packed OS from Apple, comes new opportunities for software developers. Sometimes there are a few hurdles as well. Fortunately, Apple has been communicating with us on an issue you may see with Red Giant and other installations in Mountain Lion.

The issue: The new OS from Apple (OS X 10.8) has a new “Gatekeeper” Security setting that is by default turned on.  You will find that Gatekeeper currently only opens installers that Apple has “signed” (learn more here). Our current installer packages are not signed in this way so you may encounter that they aren’t opening up after you’ve upgraded to OS 10.8.

But fear not! You know team RG is always here for you. We’re currently testing the newly released OSX 10.8 with our signed installer packages and we’re hoping to have it available to you within the next few business days once we make 100% sure it’s compatible. Customers looking to install Singular Software Products may go to their downloads page this afternoon to get their 10.8 compatible installers.  All products, including the public Beta of PluralEyes 3 will be ready by the end of day today.

In the meantime, to install all the Red Giant goodness you’ve come to know and love, you can consult our fully illustrated and detailed Support FAQ or you may follow our quick steps listed below:

How to turn off Gatekeeper to Install Red Giant Products on Mountain Lion 10.8:

1. Click on the Apple icon in the upper-left corner of your screen.
2. Select System Preferences.
3. Click on Security & Privacy
4. Click the Lock icon at the bottom-left corner to enter your administrator’s name and password to make changes if it does not appear unlocked.
5. Under “Allow applications downloaded from:” choose the “Anywhere” option
6. When the Dialog box pops up, click “Allow from Anywhere” to confirm.
7. You may now open and run the Red Giant installer.
8. After installation finishes, you may change the Security Download Setting back to its previous and/or default option.

Learn more about Gatekeeper, HERE on the Apple website. As always, if you have any trouble, you can always reach out to our awesome tech support team, right HERE.

Have more questions? Check out these links:

• FAQ: How to Turn off Gatekeeper to Install Red Giant Products on Mountain Lion OS X 10.8
• FAQ: Mountain Lion 10.8 Gate Keeper and Red Giant’s Installer

Introducing Red Giant Carousel for Final Cut Pro X – A fast, easy way to create strikingly beautiful vintage camera looks in Final Cut Pro X – co-produced with CrumplePop. Get it HERE.

Co-Produced? What’s that about?

Recently, behind the scenes, Red Giant partnered with a fantastic company called CrumplePop to make some new products. They have a really awesome, hip aesthetic that we just love. They also have a company culture that matches our own – Do what you love, and focus on happy customers and happy employees above all else.

Even so, you might be asking why we partnered with anyone to make a product – and it’s a great question.

The release of Final Cut X really rocked our industry – it was both scary and exciting.  Because of the lower price point and the ease of use, it opened the door for millions of new editors. It also created new challenges for developers who want to cater to these new editors.

Red Giant is dedicated to making the best products and user experience possible, and this always starts with the best resources in the world.  As some of you may know, the plugin workflow and architecture for Final Cut X is a little different than in other host applications, such as After Effects or Final Cut Pro 7.   As we began discovering the different possibilities, we met the folks from CrumplePop, who have a really deep understanding of, and commitment to, the Final Cut X platform.  We use the word “partnership” because we believe that by mixing the best of what both Red Giant and CrumplePop do, we can deliver some amazing stuff,  in a  standard 1 + 1 = 3 equation.

In this partnership, all products are sold and supported by Crumple Pop directly. As a part of this relationship, we are leveraging their expertise in Final Cut Pro X from a development and user experience standpoint. They are awesome at what they do, and we are thrilled to be working with them.

Red Giant Carousel is the first result of combining our Wonder Twin powers, but we have a lot more coming. we hope you like it, because there’s more fun stuff on the way.

You probably caught the news that Red Giant acquired the Audio Syncing technology (such as PluralEyes) from Singular Software. We’re pretty jazzed but, we know you probably have questions about what this means for the future of Singular technology, not to mention simple things like upgrade policies now that that the software has changed hands – or has it?

In this interview, I sit down with Bruce Sharpe, CEO of Singular Software to talk about what all this acquisition stuff means for the future, and how it will effect existing and new customers.

I am very excited to announce that Red Giant has acquired Singular Software’s audio synchronization products and technology.

Andrew Little and I started Red Giant in 2002. Over the last 10 years we have grown from a small team with a couple of great plug-ins, to a fast-growing company with dozens of plug-ins, artist-driven presets, stand-alone apps like Magic Bullet Looks and Grinder, and even iOS apps that tens of thousands of users rely upon every day.

When talking with Singular Software, we realized that we share a similar culture and vision. Our companies are both spread out geographically, with many team members working remotely but efficiently using Google Docs, Skype and other tools to refine ideas and build products. Bruce Sharpe and his full product team are partnering with Red Giant, and will continue their laser-like focus on PluralEyes®, the best tool for synchronizing video.

With PluralEyes 3.0, we see a fantastic product that makes media preparation faster and easier for users. It also makes production simpler. PluralEyes fits naturally alongside our Magic Bullet Looks to make video productions come together faster. Version 3.0 is coming soon and will continue to support a variety of video editors on Mac and Windows.

Beyond PluralEyes 3.0, our companies have a shared vision for media production. We think that too many tedious tasks get in the way of real editing, and we want to help our users focus on the creative parts. We’re excited to include Singular Software’s technology in future Red Giant products.

Sean Safreed
Co-founder