Introducing Seven Preset Packs Designed by Industry Experts

San Francisco, CA, April 21, 2010 – Red Giant Software today announced Guru Presets, a new product line created by hand-picked industry experts. Guru Presets allow users to jump into a project and get it done faster by having access to pre-designed templates and effects presets that work with plug-ins from Red Giant. These presets and templates are ready to go as-is, but can also be easily modified by the user to fit almost any project. Each package offers unique preset animations, graphical elements, or design templates ready for use in After Effects and unique film looks that work in the many hosts supported by Magic Bullet Looks and Magic Bullet Quick Looks. Guru Presets currently include seven preset packs, with additions planned for the near future. To learn more about Guru Presets, please visit http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/addons/.

The Guru Presets line includes the following titles. Full descriptions follow below.

• Cassidy Bisher's Text Effects for Trapcode Suite

• David Vinson’s Particles Vol 1 for Trapcode Particular

• David Vinson's Super Rays for Trapcode Shine

• Eric Escobar’s Indie Looks for Magic Bullet Looks

• Harry Frank's Holidays for Trapcode Particular

• Harry Frank's Video Rock for Trapcode Particular

• Nando Costa's Elements for Trapcode 3S Bundle

Cassidy Bisher's Text Effects for Trapcode Suite
Drop your text or logo into two light-filled, pulsing animations. In Orb Wiper, an organic orb sweeps across the screen in HD. Your logo fluidly transitions from this orb and is revealed within a burst of light flares and texture. In Logo Wiper, a flash of light reveals your logo, light sparkles run along the logo, and then the logo disappears in another bright flash. Sound FX are included and already synced to each animation.

Cassidy 'Cass' Bisher is a motion designer for clients including Verizon and AT&T; an Apple Certified Pro; and owner of DropDrop.com, which creates high quality After Effects templates for sale.

David Vinson's Particles Vol 1 for Trapcode Particular
Where there's smoke, there's fire — and rain, clouds, bubbles, sandstorms, swimming tadpoles, and more! They're all in this new package of 55 After Effects animation presets for Trapcode Particular. Use them immediately, or customize them easily with objects or colors that fit your project. Designed by broadcast designer David Vinson, these presets will add snap, crackle and pop to any design.

A classically trained artist, David Vinson is currently a partner at the Emmy award-winning post facility Outpost Pictures. His freelance clients include ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, TNT, The Weather Channel, and the Atlanta Hawks.

David Vinson's Super Rays for Trapcode Shine
Let David's work make your creativity shine. This new collection of 50 presets for Trapcode Shine has light ray effects for earth, sky, water, and fire, plus a range of everyday expression. Your text characters will Blaze, your logos will crackle with Electricity, and your titles will reach an Awakening. Use the effects immediately or customize them easily to your project.

A classically trained artist, David Vinson is currently a partner at the Emmy award-winning post facility Outpost Pictures. His freelance clients include ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, TNT, The Weather Channel, and the Atlanta Hawks.

Eric Escobar’s Indie Looks for Magic Bullet Looks
Inspired by classic American independent films, independent film director Eric Escobar designed a collection of 20 original preset Looks. The Looks are divided into Exterior Day looks, with selections such as Ironic Sunshine, Los Angeles and Mumblefish; and Interior Day looks such as Apartment in the Valley, Actor’s Friend and Cheap Drinks.

Eric Escobar is a San Francisco-based digital filmmaker whose films have screened in the US and internationally. In 2005 his short film, One Weekend A Month, won an honorable mention in short filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival.

Harry Frank's Holidays for Trapcode Particular
Perfect for the holiday season, this collection features a collection of elegant and useful compositions using a mix of festive colors. Get seasonal elements like snow, stars, ice, light and ornaments. Includes Particular-based After Effects compositions featuring backgrounds, reveals, and sample type animations composed at 720p and 1080i. Mix and match to create hundreds of combinations that will save time and add value to your production, all before Santa arrives and the eggnog disappears.

Harry Frank is a motion designer whose clients include NBC, Blur Studio and Digital Kitchen, and a community leader who runs the popular motion design portal graymachine.com and the social networking site The Motion Exchange.

Harry Frank's Video Rock for Trapcode Particular
Great motion graphics often begin with the designer's asset library of design elements. The challenge is finding good libraries. Video Rock is focused around a retro theme that includes primitives, doodles, and wireframes. It's a terrific collection of pre-rendered design and particle elements that will finesse projects and enhance a design library.

Harry Frank is a motion designer whose clients include NBC, Blur Studio and Digital Kitchen, and a community leader who runs the popular motion design portal graymachine.com and the social networking site The Motion Exchange.

Nando Costa's Elements for Trapcode 3S Bundle
Create rich transitions or add flavor to graphic scenes. This eye-catching package reproduces various kinds of light effects and light aberrations. Most of the presets are customized light flares that can be used when compositing live-action shots. Each preset was built with in/out transitions for ultimate convenience, yet their colors, timing and placement onscreen can be easily adjusted.

Nando Costa has crafted a wide range of animations for brands such as Apple, Nike and Microsoft, and most recently designed and directed an epic multimedia music video for Modest Mouse.

Pricing and Availability

• Cassidy Bisher's Text Effects for Trapcode Suite is available now for $99 USD.

• David Vinson’s Particles Vol 1 for Trapcode Particular is available now for $69 USD.

• David Vinson's Super Rays for Trapcode Shine is available now for $69 USD.

• Eric Escobar’s Indie Looks for Magic Bullet Looks is available now for $69 USD.

• Harry Frank's Holidays for Trapcode Particular is available now for $99 USD.

• Harry Frank's Video Rock for Trapcode Particular is available now for $99 USD.

• Nando Costa's Elements for Trapcode 3S Bundle is available now for $99 USD.

About Red Giant Software
Red Giant Software LLC offers a vast range of visual effects plug-ins, with over 30 packages designed for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Avid. The product line features industry-leading effects for designing realistic fire, rain, and water; adding popular looks; and creating perfect keys. Red Giant effects have enhanced feature films such as Angels & Demons, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and The Mummy 3, and added sparkle to cable and broadcast content from NBC Universal, Food Network, ESPN, Disney, CNN, Comedy Central, MTV, and TNT.

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