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Red Giant Software LLC, founded in 2002 by industry veterans to develop and distribute high-end special fx tools for digital video professionals. Products are available as plug-ins for popular video editing and effects applications, including Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid, Sony Vegas and Apple Final Cut Pro. The products are based on production-proven technology developed by visual effects industry veterans such as John Knoll, Photoshop creator & Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light + Magic; and Stu Maschwitz, CTO and Co-Founder at The Orphanage. Our products have been used in 1000's of feature films, music videos, national TV commercials & shows such as The Aviator, Day After Tomorrow, Vanilla Sky, Hellboy, Spy Kids 3D, Nike commercials, Good Morning America, Cher videos, FooFighter videos, and MTV shows. With a growing base of 60,000+ customers we will continue to deliver more innovative and exciting solutions, stay tuned!
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KNOLL LIGHT FACTORY V2.0

Supports After Effects, Digital Fusion, Combustion,
Final Cut Pro, Photoshop (CS), Electric Image

The Only Thing More Realistic is the Sun Itself

Overview

Created by John Knoll, co-author of Adobe Photoshop and Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light + Magic, Knoll Light Factory is a top selling After Effects plug-in. Used by thousands of graphic professionals, Knoll Light Factory simulates reflections from a very bright light source as seen in a camera lens. Real-world examples range from enhancing the glow in Terminator eye to adding a magical effect to adding sparkle to your next picture.

-25 individual lens components to create custom lighting effects.
-40 pre-built effects designed by John Knoll.
-Auto Trackrack multiple points and add multiple, identical lighting points to a scene.
-Auto Obscurationutomatically hide and reveal a light effect as the light source moves behind another object.

How is this product used? [See examples]
Simulate a bright spotlight behind text or logos.
Create mood by emulating a fabulous sunset in seconds.
Enhance the dramatic impact of explosions.
Add sparkle and glows to any 2D or 3D object like text and logos. Frequently used on the Today Show and ESPN.
Replicate sun flares around a planet or above water.

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MAGIC BULLET EDITORS V2.0

Supports Final Cut Pro, Avid, Premiere Pro, Vegas & Motion (New)

The Cost of Video, the Look of Film!

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Supports HD & new Sony HDV camera

Overview

Developed at The Orphanage, by former Industrial Light + Magic visual effects artist Stu Maschwitz, Magic Bullet Editors provides digital video professionals with simple tools to transform the crisp, soap-opera look of video to the softer, more organic look of film. Select from over 50 custom-designed Looks or create and save your own.

-Make any video source look like film including DV, HDV, HD, Beta Cam & DigiBeta
-NEW Includes 65 presets that mimic popular TV and film "looks"
-Includes looks inspired by The Matrix, Traffic, & Three Kings
-NEW Compression Correction?engine removes DV & HDV artifacts for a smoother results
-Create and save your own unique looks
-Soften the harsh edges and over saturated colors of video
-Provides 14 filters that accurately mimic damage of old film
-Film damage includes grain, splotches, scratches and projection artifacts
-NEW Uses proprietary DeepColor?RT technology delivering the highest quality output in up to real-time
-Optimized for Power Mac G5 and Intel Pentium 4

Uses

-Create and save your own unique looks.
-Add grain and scratches to mimic the look of old film with powerful film damage controls.
-Apply proprietary DeepColor?technology to deliver professional quality output.
-Easy to use and install ?drop preset on timeline ?render ?done.
-Used by NBC, ABC, Disney, and Time Warner, on thousands of professional projects from Vanilla Sky to Nike commercials.

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MAGIC BULLET SUITE V2.1

Supports Adobe After Effects 6.0 or later.

Overview

Includes 18 After Effects plug-ins that deliver a complete production pipeline for processing digital video footage for output to DVD, TV, or film. Magic Bullet was developed at The Orphanage, by former Industrial Light & Magic visual effects artist Stu Maschwitz, to provide digital video professionals the tools to transform the harsh look of video to the softer, more organic look of film.
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-Add 24p motion effects True 24p conversion tools, deinterlacing and frame rate converting 60i or 50i material
-DV compression correction - remove DV compression artifacts
-Library of 65 film treatments including looks inspired by The Matrix, Traffic, Three Kings, -Amelie, and Saving Private Ryan
-Customize and save your own unique Looks
-Film damage effects - 13 filters to accurately mimic film grain, splotches, scratches, and projection artifacts
-Create film-like dissolves, fades to black or burns to white
-Letterboxer - crop footage to any standard format, from TV safe to Ben Hur wide
-Test and fix your video colors to ensure they meet the broadcast specification parameters
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Instant HD

Supports After Effects, Final Cut Pro & Premiere Pro

Crystal Clear HD with One Click. NEW!

recently up-rezzed a feature length film from SD to HD in a Quantel EQ suite. Because we missed a few clips I chose to try InstantHD rather than go back into the suite. Amazingly, the shots I up-rezzed myself with InstantHD were indistinguishable from those run through the very high end Quantel.

Read Review "It does an amazing job..." www.outside-hollywood.com

Overview

Instant HD up-converts DV video into a variety of HD video formats. You can choose from a list of preset resolutions to make it easy to integrate DV video into your next High Definition production. When scaling from standard definition (SD) to high definition (HD), the missing pixels must be generated in an intelligent way. Instant HD provides a high-quality method for converting SD sources to HD within your favorite video application.

IMPORTANT NOTE The product is specifically designed to work with progressive (non-interlaced) images. That means that if you are starting with interlaced video such as a standard Sony PD150 DVCAM capture, you will need to convert the image to progressive in the host application before applying Instant HD.

Features
Professional level results with easy to use options
Includes five simple controls: Output Size, Filter Type, Sharpness, Quality settings, and Antialiasing
Output resolution presets lets you quickly choose the right HD output resolution
Improve the final appearance with integrated sharpening
Antialiasing smoothes the rough edges of DV video

Uses
Integrate SD video into your next HD project
Up-convert NTSC or PAL Standard Definition to High Definition
Up-convert NTSC or PAL Standard Definition to High Definition
Convert web cam and cellphone source material to Standard Definition video
Scale SD video for pan and scan adjustments
Use Instant HD output with Magic Bullet to deliver professional "film look" HD masters
Scale still images to HD
Conform standard defintion motion graphics for high definition broadcast
Compatibility & System requirements

Instant HD is a plug-in and requires a host application to operate.

Instant HD requires one of the following
Final Cut Pro v4.1 (or later, including 5.0)
Premiere Pro v1.5 (or later, including v2.0)
Adobe After Effects 6.0 (or later)

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Film Fix v1.0

Supports Adobe After Effects 6.0 and later

Automated Film Restoration...on your Deskop!

Overview

Film Fix is designed for documentary filmmakers and post production studios that need film and video restoration tools. Using Film Fix, After Effects users can restore tears, remove dust and dirt particles, and stabilize footage originated on film and video resolution material transferred from film. The processing is nearly automatic and provides high-quality output.
FAME (Fast Accurate Motion Estimation)rocesses pixel-accurate image data at different scales similar to the way the human eye views the world.
Powerful, intelligent algorithms allow it to identify problems such as dust, dirt, and tearing despite complex motion in the footage.

Uses
Repair seams with the only automated tear-repair tool on the market.
Stabilize footage with a software-based 2D translation that is near real-time.
Automatically eliminate severe non-linear inter-frame brightness fluctuations.
Remove dust and sparkle defects using motion detection information.
Remove hair on single frames using motion detection information.
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Primatte Keyer

Supports Adobe After Effects, Avid, and Combustion.
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Overview

A green-screen tool enabling artists to extract keys from any color background by simply sampling the background color and clicking. Primatte Keyer overcomes matte extraction challenges including DV & HDV material, uneven lighting, subtle shadows, and edge light contamination (spill) even prior to compositing.
Simple user interface for generating mattes.
Pulls keys after a few clicks of the mouse ?no sliders are necessary.
Easily extracts transparent objects such as water, smoke, and hair.
Deartifacting input correction for all formats including DV and HDV
Split screen View modes for more efficient keying
Alpha channel adjustment integrated into the keyer
Integrated secondary spill removal, simple and accurate Color Matching, and Light wrap built in to the keying interface
16 Bit Support (16-bit mode is only available to Production Bundle customers)
Uses
Half the price with all the performance of comparable chroma key tools.
Automatically adjust a clip color to match the composite environment by blending its tonal and exposure ranges.
Create the illusion that light from the background layer is being reflected onto the foreground layer, as if they were photographed in the same environment.

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Key Correct Pro

Supports Adobe After Effects


The Ultimate Greenscreen Companion Utility!

"When compositing visual effects shots in After Effects, the core After Effects tools do not cut it. Red Giant Key Correct provides a suite of invaluable tools designed specifically for dealing with mattes, alpha channels, and compositing operations. We use Key Correct to soften foreground edges and remove holes and specks in mattes on every keying shot. I wish we had this kind of control in our Flame." Matt Silverman, Creative Director, Phoenix Edit, Effects & Design

Key Correct Pro rocks!!! Much better than Composite Wizard." David Vinson, The Weather Channel

Overview

Key Correct Pro is a set of 15 plug-ins designed to help After Effects users create better composites with built-in keying tools. The plug-ins can be in used in combination with any keyer to better enhance the final result, like Primatte Keyer, Keylight, Ultimatte & Ultra.
Easily softens and feathers alpha channels for accurate blending from any keyer
Automatically color match foreground objects with any background image
Lighten and outline edges of objects to create realistic edge lighting and edge outlines
Quickly clean up noisy images and mattes
All plug-ins work with 8-bit or 16-bit projects for DV, HD and Film output
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Uses
Even the best keying technology sometimes needs help creating a natural professional quality matte
With Matte Feather and Edge Blur, you can quickly and accurately soften the edges of matte hiding uneven and chattering edges caused by noise, grain or DV artifacts. Improved alpha channels can be output for integration in web elements using Flash 8
Improve the color match between color key elements and any background using the automatic capabilities of Color Matcher and Zone HLS color correction tools
Generate colored highlights and edges for motion graphic effects to outline an individual or objects in your images
Wire and rig removal is quick and easy using Wire and Rig Removals blending tools and tracking in After Effects Professional
Use the simple Denoiser and Alpha Cleaner tools to fix low-light noise problems in poorly lit footage

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Image Lounge

Supports Adobe After Effects 5.0 or later.

Add Professional Style!

Overview

Image Lounge contains a set of over 20 stylistic filters to make dynamic images or motion text. Replicate natural elements like fire, smoke, and water. Add realistic touches using shadows, displacement, color mapping, and accurate camera blurs based on lens artifacts to replicate out-of-focus images shot with a 35mm-film camera.
Over 20 filters for making dynamic images or motion text.
Dozens of parameters for controlling particle size, color, velocity, and direction.
Numerous text effects for simulating an animated typewriter text and credit rolls.

Uses
Simulate the most realistic fire and cloud formations.
Add grunge to text, simulate mirage effects, or outline moving images.
Accurately project an object shadow onto a surface.
Generate rolling credits from a text file.
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eLin

Supports Adobe After Effects 6.5 Pro Bundle or later.

Overview

Developed by The Orphanage, eLin is ideal for 3D compositingddressing challenges such as motion blur, depth of field, glows, and basic transformations that appear when you combine 2D and 3D imagery. eLin technology takes the built-in After Effects features to the next level, creating more photographic results from a familiar tool set.
Scripts and plug-ins for converting source material into eLin space, and back to either video or film color spaces.
Color space redistributors to accommodate some overbright values.
Third-party plug-in support.

Uses
Emulate real-world lighting, motion blurring, and perception in 3D composites.
Color correct according to lab specifications (points and stops).
Make even basic compositing operations have a photographic quality.
Works with Industrial Light + Magic OpenEXR file format.

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Composite Wizard

Supports After Effects

When considering Composite Wizard we recommend you compare features with Key Correct Pro.

Overview

Composite Wizard helps integrate After Effects composites. Tattered edges, poor matte extractions, improper focal depth cues, and unbalanced color schemes are common compositing challenges. Composite Wizard tools automate color correction effects, blur or feather edge borders, and clean up unwanted artifacts.
Over 20 filters for automating color correction, blurring and feathering edges, and removing unwanted artifacts.
Miracle AlphaCleaner and Denoiserliminate unwanted elements such as dirt, film grain, and other chatter.
Wire/Rig Zapper rases wires, boom mics, and other on-set elements.
Spill Killer emoves bounced light or color spill.

Uses
Complements keying solutions such as Primatte Keyer.
Adjust a clip color automatically to match the composite environment.
Generate graphics that make animations and text look more organic and photo-realistic.
Create the illusion that light from the background layer is being reflected onto the foreground layer, as if they were photographed in the same environment.
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