I was excited to get my hands on Red Giant's Shooter Suite, which is essentially a bundle of many of their stand-alone products and plug-ins (at a discounted price in this package) that mostly pertain to the ingest of footage and preparing yourself, or someone else, for the edit.
Earlier this year, Red Giant, the makers of popular plugins like “Looks” and “Trapcode,” unveiled “Universe,” a subscription based platform that could totally revolutionize the way plugins are delivered in this more rapidly changing landscape of NLE workflows.
A few years back I was pleasantly surprised to review Corel Video Studio X5 and was taken aback by the amount of features packed into such a low cost editing software. Since then, it's been my recommendation to all budding video editors out there – or just anyone who wants to turn some of their GoPro skateboarding videos into a YouTube epic with a Dead Kennedy's soundtrack.
The latest version of After Effects has arrived: After Effects CC, as it is now known. It is available exclusively through Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscription program, where users essentially rent the software on a monthly or yearly basis rather than owning it.
As a longtime Premiere Pro user, the first thing I noticed is that there’s been somewhat of an overhaul to the look of your timeline, which goes well beyond what you’d typically see in a “.5” upgrade, although the timing of this release is just a little over one year past when we first saw Premiere Pro CS6. Ultimately a couple of the new features immediately make the program easier to use, while a few left me scratching...