Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite (20 Tutorials)
Make your Footage Look Cinematic | Red Giant Short Cuts
March 19, 2019
Red Giant is back with another episode of Shortcuts. In this tutorial, Premiere Gal gives you some great tips on how to quickly make your videos or vlogs look cinematic with Red Giant Magic Bullet’s Looks and Colorista, and also, Universe Finisher.
Fresh Prince of Arabia, Cheap Tricks | Red Giant
March 5, 2019
In this episode, Fresh Prince of Arabia, Hashi from Action Movie Kid takes you on a magical journey into the uncanny valley as he shows you how to recreate Will Smith’s Genie from the new Aladdin trailer. With the help of some special guests along the way, you’ll learn about working with and animating 3D…
Premiere Pro: A Color Correction Session with Stu Maschwitz – Colorista IV
October 2, 2018
In this tutorial from Stu Maschwitz tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Colorista IV to balance footage, to relight your foreground elements, to match footage across a timeline, and much more.
Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite: Stu Maschwitz’s Color Grading Pipeline
August 14, 2018
Director Stu Maschwitz walks you through his color grading pipeline – a process that includes video denoising, color correction, and renoising with film grain using products from the Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite.
Wakanda Form-ever! by Action Movie Dad | Red Giant Cheap Tricks
June 6, 2018
The second episode of Cheap Tricks is up at Red Giant! Hashi from Action Movie Kid dives into creating the Vibranium sand effects from the end title sequence of Marvel’s Black Panther, created originally by the team at Perception. He uses Trapcode tools including Form, Particular, and Shine, as well as Red Giant Universe and Magic Bullet Looks. Check it out!
Cheap Tricks – It’s Wrinklin’ Time (VFX tutorial)
April 30, 2018
Daniel Hashimoto (creator of Action Movie Kid) walks through how to re-create some of the VFX and motion graphics from “A Wrinkle In Time, with special guest Lyric Wilson, who played Young Meg in the film.
Burning Question: How Do I Make a Hologram Effect in After Effects?
January 30, 2018
Holograms have been a popular implement in science fiction films for years, from Princess Leia in Star Wars to Joi in Blade Runner 2049.
Tutorials: Stranger Things Titles and VFX – Recreating the Open, Upside Down Look
October 31, 2017
In honor of Halloween and the recent release of season 2 of the popular Netflix Series “Stranger Things,” we thought you might like another look at these tutorials. Learn how to recreate the 80’s-styled opening sequence in After Effects, and the “Upside Down” world Look – from Red Giant’s Seth Worley.
In Depth: Color Grading is a LUT Easier with LUTs!
October 17, 2017
A LUT, or Look Up Table, is used in the film industry as an easy method of color grading. It’s an array of numbers to control the color of an image, by mapping one color space to another. Simple enough at the surface, but here’s more than you probably want to know about LUTs.
Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite Tutorial Roundup
July 18, 2017
Get up and running quickly with all the products in the Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite, when you watch this batch of Quickstart Guides from director Stu Maschwitz.
Earthquake VFX in Adobe After Effects + Earthquake VFX Samples
July 11, 2017
Make an earthquake in After Effects! Make the earth shake with some shockwaves and heat distortion waves. Graded with Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks.
Magic Bullet Suite 13 Tutorials
November 22, 2016
Stu Maschwitz, Creative Director for Red Giant’s Magic Bullet line, has made many walkthrough tutorials on the new Magic Bullet Suite 13. Here he goes a bit more in depth on several different features.
Create Ghostbusters Style Visual Effects
October 11, 2016
Director Seth Worley takes you behind the scenes and shows you how he created the visual effects in “Busted,” his Red Giant Film Team Experiment. Watch “Busted” here and follow the link to the tutorial.
Michele Learns Cinema 4D Ep. 6: Toolfarm’s NAB Survival Video Open
April 15, 2016
If you’ve had a chance to check out our NAB Survival Video, you should! It’s lots of fun. I dove back into Cinema 4D to create the NAB Survival Video Open.
Red Giant Colorista III in FCPX
June 25, 2015
Red Giant worked hard to get Colorista III to work seemlessly with Final Cut Pro X. Here Stu Maschwitz shows you just how beautifully they work together.