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Getting Started with Colorista II

Getting Started with Magic Bullet Colorista II from Red Giant Software. Colorista II is available now from Red Giant Software for Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro (see update below), and Adobe After Effects. It’s what I used to grade these befo...

Countdown to Colorista II

Watch Red Giant’s front page today for exclusive info on Colorista II!

Couple Things

After my Fetishists post, I was invited by Mike Seymour to join he and Jason on Red Centre to discuss in greater detail the points I raised. It was a welcome opportunity both to drill down on each of the specific issues, and to clarify a few things tha...

Not All is Crap in the World

I was having a bit of fun today combining the 3D Camera iPhone app (Alex Lindsay’s pick of the week on MacBreak Weekly yesterday) with Plastic Bullet (his pick a few weeks ago). After brunch at the amazing Brown Sugar Kitchen, I stopped by one o...

Seven Fetishists And Why They Should Relax

Mike Seymour: Bit Depth Fetishist Mike Seymour of fxguide and fxphd loves his Canon 7D, but on the splendid Red Centre podcast he bemoans one shortcoming of its video mode more than all others combined: 8-bit files. Line-skipping, heavy compression, w...

The State of Screenwriting Software

Every day, those of us involved in film and video post-production use some truly amazing software. Applications that transcode video, present complex changes in real time, and allow us to transform our images from footage into filmmaking. We manage ter...

Magic Bullet Grinder

OK, another blog post to pimp a Red Giant product. To those who wish for a little more balance between these kinds of posts and my more philosophical rants, I hear you. But Red Giant’s been busy, and I think a lot of you are going to like this. ...

Plastic Bullet

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Plastic Bullet is now live in the iTunes app store! Red Giant’s first iPhone app, my first iPhone app. I’m kinda excited about this. If you’ve ever shot with a Lomo, a Holga, a Diana, or an...

CS5 Is Alive, And Red Giant is There on Day One

Adobe Creative Suite 5 is out today, and Red Giant Software has several of their most popular plug-ins available for upgrade to 64-bit today. Check Red Giant’s 64-bit FAQ here, and a compatibility chart here.

The day-one upgrades are: 

  • Magic Bullet Colorista 1.1
  • Magic Bullet Mojo 1.2
  • Trapcode 3D Stroke 2.6
  • Trapcode EchoSpace 1.1
  • Trapcode...

Adobe CS5

If you stopped me on the street and asked me what I find compelling about Adobe Creative Suite 5, here’s what I’d say:

64-bit is a big deal for After Effects users. It may well be the end of those show-stopping “could not create image buffer”

Best Monday Ever

I’m not at NAB this year, because Las Vegas murders my soul and trade shows stomp on the remains—but there are some cool things happening at and around the show already.

First a small but important thing: Red Giant Software is having a big sale between now and April...

iPad for Filmmaking, Day Six Report

I’ve had my iPad for six days now, as anyone following me on Twitter knows. I realize that some of my Twitter followers find the iPad chatter to be a divergence from my usual filmmaking tweets seasoned with occasional missives about coffee and photography (both of which are, for me, filmmaking...