Using Red Giant Universe

On November 1, 2020

Release date:2020, September 18

Author:Nick Harauz

Skill level:Intermediate

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

If you’re an editor or motion graphics artist, Red Giant Universe is a massive upgrade to the effects available in your nonlinear editor or motion graphics application. In this course, Nick Harauz reveals the advantage of having this large arsenal of plugins on your side and how Red Giant Universe can simplify and expand your workflow options. Nick reviews his favorite plugins in the suite, including Glitch, Chromatic Aberration, Knoll Light Factory EZ, and Holomatrix. Learn how to use blurs, glows, transitions, generators, and other stylized effects to achieve exactly the look you want and work with large amounts of text with ease. Discover how to animate logos without keyframes, add a realistic grunge texture, and create and manipulate shapes. Plus, learn how to build an FUI display with the Universe HUD components and save your custom presets and stacked effects for sharing with other projects and colleagues.

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001 Expanding your NLE and MoGraph Universe
002 Before watching know this
003 Working with the dashboard in Premiere and After Effects
004 Getting the most out of blurs
005 Make my transitions pop
006 Getting the look you want with stylization, part 1
007 Getting the look you want with stylization, part 2
08 Social media–friendly effects
009 Adding backgrounds and overlays with generators
010 Making that footage glow
011 Laying out lots of text with ease
012 Accessing text and number animation effects
013 Creating damage and distortion effects
014 Animating logos without keyframes
015 A look at lens flares
016 An overview of Holomatrix
017 Texturize me
018 Expanding your shape collection
019 Building HUD displays, part 1
020 Building HUD displays, part 2
021 Building HUD displays, part 3
022 Saving a preset
023 Saving stacked effects
024 Looking to the future
025 Next steps