The latest update to FxFactory is now compatible with Adobe After Effects CS3 in addition to Final Cut Pro, Motion and Final Cut Express. Run more than 300 plug-ins on the best compositing and editing applications on the market.

Version 2.0.4 requires Mac OS X Leopard, and brings two new plug-ins to existing FxFactory Pro 2 customers.

This is great news as a user of FxFactory since its start now I can make or tweak plugins I have or want to make and have the same effects in After Effects as I would in Motion or FCP.

Be on the look out for a full review of the update coming.

Last tuesday RED build 16 finally went from beta to release. Many improvements and wonderful changes. Learn more here.

I’m fairly bummed that my RED has still not arrived. When I ordered my delivery date was estimated at the end of June. We’re now into August and they are still about 1000 cams away from shipping mine. It wouldn’t be so bad if they hadn’t only shipped 2000 in the last 18 months!

The guys at RED are doing a great job either way. I’m finally getting around to sitting down with the director to color correct short I shot several months ago with a wed we rented fromCurran Giddens. I’ll post more on that as well as the film once it’s finished.

San Francisco, CA, August 4, 2008 – Red Giant Software, with popular products Magic Bullet, Knoll Light Factory, and Trapcode, today announced that it has agreed to acquire the video plug-in portfolio of Digital Anarchy, a San Francisco-based plug-in developer. Digital Anarchy is known for its high-quality creative software for broadcast designers and 2D animators. The acquisition will add six new products to Red Giant Software’s roster, which will be repackaged under Red Giant Software’s own product names.www.digitalanarchy.com

These new products make Red Giant Software a one-stop shop for plug-ins, with over 30 plug-in packages for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Avid. Users can now turn to Red Giant to create a wide variety of effects, including particles, keying, color correction, lighting, cartoon effects, look creation, animated titles, and ultra-realistic water. Several of Digital Anarchy’s former products will distributed free of charge, including PlasmaFX, Color Theory, and Microcosm Codec. These free products will be introduced later in 2008.

The six new tools include PlaneSpace (formerly 3D Assistant Lite/Pro), a 3D layer animation tool; Datamator (formerly Data Animator), which creates and animates charts and graphs in 3D space; Psunami (formerly Psunami Water), a photorealistic water and wave generator; ToonIt (formerly Toon It!), which creates cartoon-style art from video footage; and Knoll Light Factory Spark, a version of the popular lens flare generation tool especially for advanced Autodesk platforms.

Jim Tierney, president of Digital Anarchy, said, “As I looked to exit the video plug-in business to fully concentrate on our photography/Photoshop products, I approached Red Giant Software to help ease the transition for our users. Red Giant Software is recognized in the industry for taking care of its customers with a solid record for support and marketing. It was important to find Digital Anarchy’s film/video users a good new home — Red Giant Software fits that bill.”

Sean Safreed, owner of Red Giant Software, said, “This is an exciting milestone for our company. We entered the plug-in market nearly six years ago, and we are now are one of the largest providers of tools to production professionals. We are dedicated to providing innovative tools for broadcasters, film designers, and independent filmmakers, and Digital Anarchy’s video toolset expands our palette. We look forward to providing Digital Anarchy film/video users and future customers with the best support and on-going updates to these new tools, and we’re already working on updates and compatibility enhancements.”

Digital Anarchy will continue to publish plug-ins and filters for Adobe Photoshop. For more information, visit www.digitalanarchy.com.

Frequently Asked Questions: For more product information, visit:www.redgiantsoftware.com/featured-news/da-faq/

Pricing and Availability

• Red Giant PlaneSpace (formerly 3D Assistant Lite/Pro) is available for $199 USD
• Red Giant Datamator (formerly Data Animator) is available for $99 USD
• Red Giant Psunami (formerly Psunami Water) is available for $199 USD
• Red Giant Text Anarchy (formerly Text Anarchy, now includes Geomancy and Anarchy Toolbox) is available for $199 USD
• Red Giant Toon It (formerly ToonIt!) is available for $399 USD
• Knoll Light Factory Spark is available for $1,299 USD

About Red Giant Software

Red Giant Software LLC, is a San Francisco-based company that develops professional tools for digital video production. Products are available as plug-ins for popular video editing and effects applications, including After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro, and Avid. All tools are based on production-proven technology developed by visual effects veterans.

About Digital Anarchy

Digital Anarchy is a privately owned company in San Francisco that creates high-quality creative software for professional photographers, Photoshop artists and graphic designers. Since 2001, our tools have solved a wide range of design issues, from masking out bluescreens for commercial still photography to generating custom lighting effects. Digital Anarchy products work in conjunction with Adobe Photoshop, PS Elements, and related design applications. For more information, please see the company’s website at www.digitalanarchy.com or call 415-586-8434.

All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Great news , since Red Giant is a great company focused on providing quality plugins at a great price.Red Giant has now become Mega Man in the plug in world if it wasn’t already.

This an update on the post I did about a week or so back on VFX artists working for Meteor Studios not getting paid for alot of work they did on Journey to the Center of Earth .

Well it looks like the New York Post has talked to Dave Rand who is leading the fight on getting the artists paid.

Here is the link NYP Story on A Journey in Search of Pay

well…. the new and improved parts are coming…. but we are now iPhone friendly courtesy of the iPhone wordpress plugin.

So tap those fingers and log on to check it out.

Jim Jannard from RED says well see it very soon(about a week or so )and I knew it was coming just did not think it was this fast . Looks like eager Adobe has got one up on Apple this time with getting native support for After Effects and Premiere(both Mac and Win , WOW) before FCP Studio Applications.

For all the jokers who thought RED was something to joke about who is laughing now!!!

Awesome job to both teams.

REDUSER POST by Jim

I love this music video and I’m surprised I’ve never posted about it before. I was reminded of it this morning and thought I should share.

THE FASHION “Solo Impala” from jakob printzlau on Vimeo.

Little Airplane Productions fires musicians via the Wall Street Journal . This brings up a good point in knowing what your getting into as an artist wether you are a editor,visual effects,musician or writer . If you have a union find out about it ,see what it has to offer you in your field and why you should know your state laws on workers rights . Remember never let anyone bully you its against the law pulling intimidation on workers.I hope the musicians and artists at Little Airplane get what is deserved and not to be treated like they have been.

My good friend from Australia John Dickinson is a motion graphics designer and Sr Broadcast Designer for Foxtel . John has a great site full of tutorials and one of the recent posts I thought I would share with everyone about some broadcast terminology you may or may not know Motionworks Broadcast Terminology

John also has a killer series of training DVD’S called Making it Look Great .

My buddy Harry J. Frank has done a DVD as well for the series and all of them are really helpful if you are doing broadcast design work with Zaxwerks,Red Giant and Trapcode Plugins.

Here are some more links that would be helpful.

Harry Franks site

Zaxwerks site

Red Giant and Trapcode site