Since the new subscription-based software business model (established by Adobe - 'Anywhere') started, more companies have follow suit. And today Red Giant, a company who develops digital video and VFX plug-ins for compositing software and NLEs, has just signed on to do their version of a subscription-based software business model. It's called Red Giant Universe. What is Red Giant Universe? Click and watch the the video above. And if you need more info. check out Pro Video Coalition's article on it.
Sign up for a free Red Giant Universe account today at http://redgiant.com/universe.
Red Giant Universe is available free starting today, with Premium membership available for purchase in the next few weeks.
Basic Membership: Free
Premium Monthly: $10
Premium Yearly: $99
Premium Lifetime: $399
Red Giant Universe is a community with access to an ever-expanding library of new free tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Universe includes:
Tons of New GPU-Accelerated effects and transitions.
Regularly updated (using our dev tool, Supernova)
Porting of some existing Red Giant products to Universe (Premium)
Voting on new tools to decide what gets made next
Invitations to private betas for new tools (Premium)
Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5
Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.0 and later
Windows 7 with Service Pack 1
Adobe After Effects CS5.5, CS6, CC
Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, CC
A GPU-accelerated graphics card."