Red Giant Software

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Red Giant Software was founded in 2002 by industry veterans to develop and distribute special effects tools for digital video & film professionals.

The company sells Digital Video Plug-ins for famous Compositing Software and NLEs such as Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Adobe Premiere.

Two of their most famous products are the Magic Bullet Suite (a plug-in for After Effects made to make digital video look more like film) and Knoll Light Factory (A plug-in containing lights and sparks effect for digital video).

The Plug-ins Red Giant sells have been used in 1000's of feature films, music videos, national TV commercials & shows. These include Grindhouse, The Aviator, Day After Tomorrow, Vanilla Sky, Hellboy, Spy Kids 3D, Double Dare, Nike commercials, Good Eats, ESPN, Disney, CNN, Good Morning America, Cher videos, FooFighter videos, and MTV shows.

[edit] Founding

In 2002, Red Giant Software was founded in San Francisco, California.

[edit] Products

Red Giant's Products are mostly plug-ins that help digital video editors make their video look more like film and they also sell products that fix up and repair images and video.

Just recently, Red Giant Software had joined forces with Trapcode. (Red Giant's products are mostly plug-ins that help digital video editors make their video look more like film and they also sell products that fix up and repair images and video.) The company plans to sell Trapcode's products in late 2007. At Motion Graphics Los Angeles' (MGLA, a Los Angeles-area association for professionals in Motion graphics) August 21 2007 meeting, Peder Norrby announced that their project codenamed Flux — briefly demonstrated at the NAB 2007 Expo — will be released as Form. The plug-in, on which work was begun in March 2007, is intended to provide After Effects animators with a completely new set of design tools for use on both Mac and PC. Form works similar to Particular (a Trapcode plug-in for generating particles) but instead of limited types of particles, "any composition" can be used as a particle. According to Norrby, in Particular, a particle "is born, and lives a while, and then dies". In contrast, Form particles "exist forever", rather than coming in a stream from an 'emitter'. As of 21 August 2007, no price has been set, according to Norrby the price should be between USD $100 and $300 when the plug-in is released in September 2007.

As of November 2007, Toolfarm became the master reseller for Red Giant Software and Trapcode.