There are nine plug-ins in the suite. You can learn about all of them at Red Giant’ but here I’ll focus on the five I created tutorials for.
Supercomp
Supercomp is possibly the most ambitious effect Red Giant has ever created. It’s a complete compositing engine that runs in a panel in After Effects. It makes realistic, integrated composites easier and more intuitive to create, thanks to its unique render engine that understands how layers need to interact in a VFX composite. Light Wraps react to every layer below them, glows wrap around the layers in front of them. Everything is gamma-managed and works in 32-bit linear light, and grain is handled automatically.
This is basically every trick I’ve learned in my 24 years (sweet lord) of visual effects work, packed up in a gorgeous user interface and a lightning-fast GPU render engine.
Set aside a brisk 52 minutes to watch my tutorial:
King Pin Tracker
Corner pinning is an essential part of any VFX workflow, but the tools in After Effects are missing some important features. Years ago I helped design Red Giant’s Corner Pin effect to allow more flexible corner pinning, with “from” pins, perspective transforms, and tons of professional control. King Pin Tracker builds on this foundation and adds amazing new render quality and a blazing-fast, super-accurate planar tracker.
Spot Clone Tracker
Spot Clone Tracker is like a clone brush for video. It has its own amazing tracker built-in, making it super easy to remove small and large blemishes, or even entire objects, from your video. Lighting and texture are matched automatically, with tons of control.
Optical Glow
This is another one that I’ve been dreaming about forever. Why is it so hard to make a beautiful glow that glows like a glow should? We dug deep into the physics of light and created a glow that is gorgeous and realistic, but also offers a ton of artistic control.
Chromatic Displacement
A displacement effect with a beautiful prismatic light-refraction look. Easy to use, blazing fast, tons of control. Detecting a theme here?
Literally So Much More
There’s also a killer new update to Primatte Keyer, a GPU-accelerated Knoll Light Factory with stunning new lens flare presets, and updates to Reflection and Shadow, the embarrassingly useful duo.
VFX Suite is available now at Red Giant.