Using Red Giant Universe for Video Editors and Mograph Designers

Course details

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.

Topics include:
Leveraging blurs
Making transitions pop
Laying out lots of text
Animating logos without keyframes
Building HUD displays
Saving presets and stacked effects

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Expanding your NLE and MoGraph Universe
02 - Before watching know this
03 - Working with the dashboard in Premiere and After Effects

1. Universe for Video Editors

04 - Getting the most out of blurs
05 - Make my transitions pop
06 - Getting the look you want with stylization, part 1
07 - Getting the look you want with stylization, part 2
08 - Social media friendly effects
09 - Adding backgrounds and overlays with generators
10 - Making that footage glow
11 - Laying out lots of text with ease
12 - Accessing text and number animation effects
13 - Creating damage and distortion effects
14 - Animating logos without keyframes

2. Universe for Motion Graphic Editors

15 - A look at lens flares
16 - An overview of Holomatrix
17 - Texturize me
18 - Expanding your shape collection
19 - Building HUD displays, part 1
20 - Building HUD displays, part 2
21 - Building HUD displays, part 3

3. Collaborative Universe Workflows

22 - Saving a preset
23 - Saving stacked effects

Conclusion

24 - Looking to the future
25 - Next steps