If you have anything to do with After Effects and animation, the chances are that you own or have used at least one part of the powerhouse Red Giant Trapcode suite. Version 14 gives even more reasons to do so
With over a decade of development, Trapcode is now a very mature piece of software, and now Red Giant has released a major update to it in the form of version 14. The entire suite, consisting of Particular, Form, Tao, Mir, Shine, Lux, 3D Stroke, Echospace, Starglow, Sound Keys, and Horizon, with Particular, Form, and Tao being the main focus of the new update.
Efforts have been made to make the interfaces more intuitive and easier to use. Particular has been given GPU acceleration, which Red Giant claims gives a four times increase in speed over previous versions, depending on your hardware. 3D objects and animated OBJ files can now be used as emitters, as well as being able to assign any image composition to a sprite or polygon. Further complexity to animations can be created with the ability to combine multiple particle systems within the same space. To top it all off, Particular now comes with an additional 210 new presets, which take advantage of the new features.
Trapcode Form now shares the same interface as Particular, which should help with consistency. A new designer features, as well as the ability to use 3D models and OBJ files as particle grids. Tao also now includes depth of field effects.
The full Trapcode 14 suite retails at $999, while to upgrade from a previous version costs $199. Alternatively, if you do not have a need for all the effects, each of the component parts of the suite can be purchased separately.
All-new versions of Trapcode Particular and Form. 11 tools in total to power motion graphics and visual effects in Adobe After Effects. Red Giant delivers GPU Acceleration, 3D Objects as emitters, and multiple emitters in the same 3D space.
"Trapcode has been a mainstay for the motion graphics and VFX industry for over a decade," said Chad Bechert, Red Giant CEO. We wanted this update to live up to the high expectations of our community of users, and to help propel them into their next level of creativity. We're proud of what's in this release and incredibly excited to see what our customers do with these upgraded tools."
Organic 3D particle effects, complex motion graphics elements and more. Trapcode Particular 3.0 features GPU acceleration for massive speed boosts, multiple particle systems in the same 3D space, the ability to use 3D models as particle emitters, and a new overhauled Designer that makes the building and previewing of effects an intuitive and creative experience, amongst other new features in high-demand. Experience the new Trapcode Particular 3.0.
With a library of over 60 3D objects/models, an expanded library of more than 270 sprites, and 210 new presets (over 300 in total), Trapcode Particular continues to offer motion graphics artists the most robust set of options for particle effects.
Immortal Particle Grids and 3D Objects. Trapcode Form 3 now features the same Designer found in Particular, which gives instant visual feedback and makes the process of building and previewing effects both intuitive and creative. Form offers users an expansive set of tools to work with, including over 60 3D Objects/Models, 270 New Sprites and Polygons, and over 70 Presets for fast motion graphics creation. Experience the new Trapcode Form 3.0.
Create 3D geometries animated along a path. A new depth-of-field effect makes it easy to create camera-realistic blurs for your Tao objects, based on their distance from the After Effects 3D camera. This is a free update for Trapcode Tao users.
Trapcode Suite 14 is available today and can be purchased for $999 ($199 upgrade) through the Red Giant online store. Customers can purchase individual products or the entire Trapcode Suite 14. Complete pricing info available at -suite/.
Single-phase multiferroic materials are usually considered useless because of the weak magnetoelectric effects, low operating temperature, and small electric polarization induced by magnetic orders. As a result, current studies on applications of the magnetoelectric effects are mainly focusing on multiferroic heterostructures and composites. Here we report a room-temperature giant effect in response to external magnetic fields in single-phase multiferroics. A low magnetic field of 1000 Oe applied on the spin-driven multiferroic hexaferrites BaSrCo2Fe11AlO22 and Ba0.9Sr1.1Co2Fe11AlO22 is able to cause a huge change in the linear magnetoelectric coefficient (αE = dE/dH) by several orders, leading to a giant magnetotranstance (GMT) effect at room temperature. The GMT effect is comparable to the well-known giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect in magnetic multilayers, and thus opens up a door toward practical applications for single-phase multiferroics.
Today, Red Giant Software released the latest addition to their already impressive collection of effects and grading suites. The Red Giant VFX Suite offers 9 freshly coded effects for immediate use in Adobe After Effects. Four of the nine also work in Premiere Pro. And all these effects can be tweaked and tailored to your specific needs, of course.
In order to conveniently control the vast amount of possible effects and tools within Supercomp, Red Giant build a context-aware rotary picker tool which is really handy to use instead of drop-down menus.
Primatte Keyer is a tool for fast and pretty much automatic chroma-keying and both, green and blue screens can be used for it to work. Red Giant have updated the UI for cleaner looks and improved usability. On first click, Primatte tries to pull an automatic key in order to separate your subject from the background. While this first pass might be ok already you can tweak and refine the matte to your liking of course. Several tools assist you on the way, a brand new one is called Core Matte: It keeps the inside of your key solid while preserving fine semi-transparent details on the edges. in the above image you can see Core Matte in action controlling the fine details hair while preserving the inside of the key.
Since the whole Red Giant VFX Suite is GPU optimized, users can expect a speedy Primatte 6, with previews and renders up to 3x faster than in previous versions, according to Red Giant. Primatte Keyer can also be used in Adobe Premiere Pro.
This tool of the Red Giant VFX Suite does exactly what you think it does: It tracks moving objects within your footage and replaces them with a defined target. Think clone stamp tool in Adobe Photoshop.
Easily fix blemishes or remove small, unwanted items. Spot Clone Tracker tries to match your lighting automatically, with options for how it clones light, color and texture. You also can add transparency to blend your target in smoothly.
Optical Glow offers lots of control for making lightsabers, starship engines, police lights, neon signs and more with beautiful, photo-realistic results. Again, if you ever have used a Red Giant tool before, you will find yourself right at home.
Chromatic Displacement uses one layer to displace the pixels of another, while smoothly separating out the colors. The displacement image is being used as a height map here, which gives you nice looking, organic results.
The above effect looks really cool and I think without this plugin is pretty hard to build from scratch. The tools of the Red Giant VFX Suite makes things a bit easier as they try to achieve realistic results with a few clicks while still maintaining a vast list of options for variation. Furthermore, since the whole suite is fully integrated with Adobe After Effects you can deploy any tool/command/effect you want on top of the Red Giant VFX, of course. Chromatic Displacement can also be used in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Knoll Light Factory is a tool for creating photo-realistic lens flares. Thanks to the aforementioned GPU acceleration you get these flares and light effects in less time and since these effects try to mimic real-life lens designs it all blends together nicely.
With the build-in lens editor, you can create your very own flares from scratch, or customize one of the (many) included presets which are clearly inspired by quite a few blockbusters of past years. Knoll Light Factory 3.1 can also be used in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Last but not least, Reflection is a plugin for After Effects that makes it easy to add a reflection to your layers. Bundled with it, controls for softness, distance fade, length and more are available.
All nine tools of the Red Giant VFX Suite run on both Windows and MacOS machines and require Adobe After Effects CC 2018 and later as a host application. Knoll Light Factory, Primatte Keyer, Optical Glow and Chromatic Displacement also work in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018 and later.
You can unsubscribe at any time via an unsubscribe link included in every newsletter. The data provided and the newsletter opening statistics will be stored on a personal data basis until you unsubscribe. For further details, see our Privacy Policy
While lens flares can definitely be overused, Knoll can be used to create very subtle effects that can help an edit hide an effect, or to go all out for an over the top self-conscious lens flare, all with tremendous ease. With more than 200 presets inspired by iconic films and lens types, this is a popular plugin for a reason.
Supercomp takes the toolset available natively in After Effects a step further, adding 15 separate GPU accelerated tools to help your composites feel more realistic. With tools like LightWrap, which helps create the sensation that the lighting of a scene is naturally "wrapping" around the composited element, Supercomp should help you get to a realistic looking composite faster and with less time spent waiting.
b37509886e