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Find hundreds of presets and templates at Red Giant People.

Save time and money with hundreds of free presets for your Red Giant Plug-ins. Use the Cell Shading preset with Trapcode Particular or get the Sepia Comic Misprint to use with Magic Bullet Looks, or maybe you want to watch Ink Bleed using Trapcode Particular and Magic Bullet Looks. Get all these and hundreds more free presets for Trapcode, Magic Bullet and Knoll Light Factory online.

Did you know that Red Giant has over 190 tutorials coming in at over 46 hours of FREE video training?

Red Giant TV – Offers full length real world project-based episodes
Quick Tips – Watch short useful tips to help you work faster and more creatively
Video Tutorials – Download getting started guides for all of our products from industry leaders such as Stu Maschwitz, Harry Frank, Simon Walker,just to name a few

Don’t need the FREE training, but would like the FREE software?

Red Giant offers free plug-ins for color correction and compositing.

Magic Bullet Colorista Free – uses advanced color wheels so you can color correct like a pro
Magic Bullet LUT Buddy – allows your to share your color correction ideas or import others
Knoll Unmult – removes the black background from footage you want to composite. Great for fire, rain and more.

So how good can free stuff be? Well, we think pretty darn good!

Be the MVP with these game-winning motion graphics

Create stunning High Definition sports motion graphics in seconds with 25 unique templates spread across 5 action-packed broadcast quality themes. Sports Graphics pack brings the fidelity and immersion of 3D motion graphics to your own sports broadcasts. You can easily insert your own logos, pictures, videos and text. Change the color scheme and tweak the Trapcode Suite effects to complement the rest of your package.

• Learn about Sports Graphics for Trapcode Suite
• See examples of Sports Graphics presets
• Buy now from our online store
• Learn about Trapcode Suite

Grand slam & slam-dunk features

This package contains 25 unique templates that were designed to appeal to a wide variety of sports broadcasters. The After Effects projects feature Trapcode Suite effects that are fully editable.

• Quickly insert your own text, logos, color scheme, photos and videos for instant animation.
• Each template was created in 1080p at 30FPS, and have alpha channel transparency during transitions for easy compositing.
• Cinema 4D was heavily utilized for premade elements, giving this pack a high fidelity edge which rivals current professional sports graphics.
• The templates also feature Knoll Light Factory lighting effects, and ship with both live and rendered versions of the effects.
• BONUS: Includes 20 Magic Bullet Looks presets for sports film color treatments. (Requires Magic Bullet Looks, Quick Looks or PhotoLooks.)

With the new year, Final Cut Fridays are back!

Red Giant QuickTip #27: Quick Custom Flares in Final Cut Pro

In this tutorial, Apple Certified Master Trainer, Simon Walker, shows you how to access and modify the existing Knoll lens flare presets to quickly create beautiful custom flares for your projects in Final Cut Pro.

The mega-talented Mattias Peresini has added 4 new presets to Red Giant People that use Trapcode Form and Trapcode Particular:

An experiment with Trapcode Form and After Effects, with an abstract 3D Shape looking like an hourglass, ‘Sablier’ in french. I’ve been playing with a lot of Depth of Field and typos too. You can download the project file for free HERE.

An experiment with Trapcode Form and After Effects, playing with a colorful and abstract shape in 3D space.You can download the project file for free HERE.

An experimen with Trapcode Particular based on the random grid expression by Dan Ebberts. You can download the project file for free HERE.

An experiment with the new Shading options of Trapcode Particular 2.
A simple setup with 2 null object and 8 light emitter in a pseudo cube for a 3D look render! You can download the project file for free HERE.

Don’t forget to check out his tutorials Trapcode tutorials if you want to learn some of his techniques.

Hey folks – in a moment of perfect calm, I managed to crank out 2 presets that are variations on the same theme. Holographic text. One version has sharp text, the other uses soft edged text to create more of a rounded 3D effect. These presets use Trapcode Form and Holomatrix.

Get the free preset here: http://redgiantpeople.com/Explore/PresetDetail.aspx?PresetId=1524

Get the free preset here: http://redgiantpeople.com/Explore/PresetDetail.aspx?PresetId=1523

If you want to learn more about how I created the look of these presets, check out this tutorial:

In this Quicktip, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how using Depth Maps to displace Trapcode Form particles can be used to create a 3D Point Cloud Representation of a city.

This tutorial was inspired by the brilliant Trapcode Form work of Jeremy Cox at Imaginary Forces, for the film “Terminator: Salvation.”

Mattias Peresini (AKA Mattrunks) has posted 4 really cool FREE Trapcode Presets up on Red Giant People – Our community site for sharing presets and templates. Thanks for Sharing Mattias!

Get the Orgasphere Preset HERE.

Get the Nebula Preset HERE.

Get the Falling Text Preset HERE.

Get the Dynamic Pulsation Preset HERE.

If you haven’t watched our newest getting started tutorials (like the ones for Grinder, Photolooks, and many of our FCP intro tutorials) you may not be familiar with our British team member, Simon Walker,  but he’s kind of a Renaissance man. Aside from working on animation and visual effects, he’s a talented musician, photographer, father, and vigilante crime fighter (though he denies that last one vehemently).

Simon just uploaded  these 5 free Looks for Magic Bullet Looks and Photolooks, which you can find at Red Giant People, our community site for sharing presets and templates. Here are 2 images of those presets in use.

A new sister site to Red Giant Software is debuting at the end of April—Red Giant People. This is a place to browse, share, download and buy presets related to a number of Red Giant Software plug-ins. The site is at www.redgiantpeople.com.

We built this site in response to user requests that we have heard for awhile. First, Magic Bullet Looks users wanted a way to share looks (.ls3) files with others. Second, we wanted to revive a sharing site called Trapcode People that had some great content for Trapcode products. So we combined these into a bigger vision to allow you to share content for all Trapcode products, Magic Bullet Looks, Knoll Light Factory, ToonIt, and more.

When we launch there will be several dozen free presets for 3D stroke, ToonIt, Particular and more. All the presets have video previews for the site. To get any of these free presets, you must sign up and get an account. Please use your real name and a valid email address. Once you validate you account, you can get all the content on the site, and even start sharing presets and projects on your own.

In addition to the free content, you will be able to browse the hundreds of presets that our site leaders—our Gurus—have built. These collections of presets are all professionally designed by broadcast designers. You can browse the paid presets individually, or see related content in a product in the Guru Store. If you like what you see, click the buy button and you will be taken to Red Giant Software to purchase the package.

We will have a video tour, help and other assets on the site to help you get the most from Red Giant People. But to really make this site work, we need your help and hopefully your generosity to share projects and preset files with other Red Giant users so that everyone benefits from the assets that the community creates.

I hope you will join Red Giant People.