# RedGiant Effects Suite Reviews **Vendor:** Red Giant **Category:** [Video Effects Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/video-effects) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 16 ## About RedGiant Effects Suite Red Giant Effects Suite is a set of 9 tools that have served the visual effects community for years, delivering the creative freedom to produce professional effects. ## RedGiant Effects Suite Reviews ### 1. Best Group of advance plugins for adobe ecosystem **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arulanandhan S. | Motion Graphic Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2021 **What do you like best about RedGiant Effects Suite?** I like the trapcode plugin, this has the particle simulated in after effects are a whole new level of motion graphics possibility **What do you dislike about RedGiant Effects Suite?** This takes lots of computing power to use, almost all of the plugins in this suite makes harder to use in mid-range computers **Recommendations to others considering RedGiant Effects Suite:** I totally recommend this to advance level of motion designers with good configuration computer **What problems is RedGiant Effects Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm creating a visual stimulation for e-learning videos to explain particle movements and this is the best for colour correction ### 2. Red Giant - No Longer Reliable **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Animation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2020 **What do you like best about RedGiant Effects Suite?** Red Giant was my go-to plug-in for Adobe After Effects. It's broad range of tools and professional quality effects worked hand in hand with a responsive, customer-oriented support team that were available almost all the time as needed. They broke new ground in particle effects, film simulations, and hosted a suite of tools to deal with the emerging digital film-making market. I used them for years in commercial and private film projects to give my work that extra edge. **What do you dislike about RedGiant Effects Suite?** With the recent acquisition by Maxon, I find I can no longer recommend this product. While the technology is still very much cutting edge, the new management has introduced a business model focused on revenue over creativity. Introducing a Software as a Service option earlier in the year, the current round of upgrades has virtually shuttered access by individual users and small shops by setting a Suite price at several hundred dollars a year and pricing perpetual upgrades at nearly 50% of list. Additionally, the previous practice of "upgrade from any version" seems to have been dropped in favor of a "most recent license only". While this is not out of the ordinary in the software industry, the slamming of the door to perpetual upgrades without any hint it was coming is further evidence that the merged company doesn't value the customer as much as the balance sheet. With regard to the upgrade policy I am only guessing, because as yet the sales department I have been routed to for further information has yet to respond to any inquiry made in the last month. I realize my one little account is irrelevant to this corporation, and that my dollars are not likely to be missed. But that was not how I was treated by Red Giant. I hope others have better luck. I will be looking for alternative options. **What problems is RedGiant Effects Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?** For the past 20 years I have been using version of Red Giant software to create complex effects, resolve difficult compositing problems, and generally augment and improve video and still footage for a number of commercial clients and independent film projects. ### 3. Some of the best and easiest effects for Premiere I've ever used **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2020 **What do you like best about RedGiant Effects Suite?** If it were only for Pluraleyes 4 it would be worth the money to buy RedGiant suite. We use the logo effects, type effects, and many many more. **What do you dislike about RedGiant Effects Suite?** Every once in a while you get a crash because these are so GPU intensive. Also Pluraleyes has no way to really shut down without erroring out. **Recommendations to others considering RedGiant Effects Suite:** Look at other effects suites, but this is by far the best if you make videos for your organization. The completion and implementation are fantastic. **What problems is RedGiant Effects Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Pluraleyes to sync audio/video. We use the text effects to bring in lower thirds, and titles. We also use the color correction for videos we shoot and some of the video effects and transitions to bring the quality of our video up to standards. ### 4. Everything you need to push your videos over the top **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Todd F. | Creative Director, Graphic Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2019 **What do you like best about RedGiant Effects Suite?** The effects suite offers so much! Takes your videos well above and beyond what you could hope at just a few clicks. What I love about pretty much all Red Giant products is how much time they've put in to them. The amount of presets that come with this, that need almost no tweaking, is fantastic! **What do you dislike about RedGiant Effects Suite?** Sometimes some of the templates get you locked into a specific look and it can become incredibly difficult to figure out what parameters you need to either edit or shut off to fine tune the look to where you want it. Even then, sometimes it may not do exactly what was hoped. I find this though to be a rarity. **Recommendations to others considering RedGiant Effects Suite:** Great for adding a polish to your videos. Just don't go overboard and make it the substance of whatever it is your doing. Be tasteful with the effects and don't go crazy, that way it will keep it looking professional and not obnoxious and amateurish. **What problems is RedGiant Effects Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving videos an extra polish to really look like there was a lot of concept and creative thought put into the construction. ### 5. Solid plugin for After Effects and Premiere, expands functionality greatly **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Relations and Communications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2018 **What do you like best about RedGiant Effects Suite?** Red giant make some of the best plugins around for Adobe multimedia and in some ways it's impossible not to have them. Red Giant's trapcode particular alone is a industry standard for particle generation in After Effects and is miles better than the built in particle systems. I've also used other plugins like trap code form for projects and they work equally as well. **What do you dislike about RedGiant Effects Suite?** There is definitely a bit of a learning curve to each of the plugins, since their are so many options. Particular is extremely powerful but can be daunting at first. **Recommendations to others considering RedGiant Effects Suite:** If you like Red Giant, definitely check out other scripts and plugins on aescripts.com (for after effects) or the plugins offered by videocopilot.net. **What problems is RedGiant Effects Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a creative professional, the suite allows me to create and visualize graphics in ways that I could not before. It's a greater set of tools to create visuals that are really going to wow the audience. ### 6. Beautiful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2018 **What do you like best about RedGiant Effects Suite?** the Effect suite from Red giant is a pack of nine plugins that give your great effects to your footage and a lot of creative options. the plugins work with several softwares. in my case, I used it with after effects and I've to say I'm addicted to it. the planetspace plugin is one of them which helps you animate 3d layers easily and save a lot of time for you. it helps you manage a lot of layers, say a 100+ at a single time which could take a tedious amount of time if done without it. basically it's just a set of keyframe managers similar to that of in after effects but build in such a way to manage them easily. Image Lounge is another plugin that's pretty impressive, it help you build natural elements like fire and water into the footage which can be heavy work if done without it. Toon it is one of the best plugins in this package. as you can see from the name it helps you convert your footage into a cartoon with the click of a button. there are several build in options to get the look that you desire. Tsunami is also a great plugin to mimic ocean currents and waves, the quality of the plugin is just amazing and absolutely worth the price. they also offer a free trial in case you need to try them. **What do you dislike about RedGiant Effects Suite?** the plugin isn't cheap and most of the small companies wont be able to afford them. **Recommendations to others considering RedGiant Effects Suite:** this is a great set of plugins for anyone who's doing VFX. i highly recommend this if you got the budget. **What problems is RedGiant Effects Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?** build Virtual effects into your video footages. ### 7. Affordable **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cristian P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2018 **What do you like best about RedGiant Effects Suite?** the redgiant effects suite is a great addon for any VFX software, I used it along with the adobe after effects. there are lots of effects and possibilities are limitless, especially I found the tsunami, toonit and the Knoll light factory really useful for my projects. I have tried to color grade my films and other projects a lot of times and nothing even comes close to using the composite Wizard within the Redgiant effects suite and its one of the most popular when coming to editing films in Hollywood. it supports multiple platforms including windows and mac. the support is also really helpful with well-documented videos on the site teaches you how to make the maximum out of their products. the most important thing about the product is that it isn't that costly and anybody in VFX can afford it, they even provide a free trial to test their product prior to purchase. **What do you dislike about RedGiant Effects Suite?** the speed of rendering found to be really slow after using the software, especially tsunami. some effects control are really hard to work with at least in after effects and the effects eat up your memory. **Recommendations to others considering RedGiant Effects Suite:** there are lots of effects and they are way better than most of the software out on the market, give them a try and find out for yourself. **What problems is RedGiant Effects Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating VFX and additional graphics effects to your VFX software. ### 8. Worth It! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shelby R. | Video Producer, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2018 **What do you like best about RedGiant Effects Suite?** It's so so easy! I absolutely love the simplicity of this product. Drag and drop and you're done. The effects are seamless and look so professional. You can certainly take the time to make these type of effects from scratch yourself, but there's no need when you have Red GIant. The adjustability is fantastic. Everything you need to customize the effects are right there in the effects panel and easy to change little things here and there to make it more personalized. I also love that you can use the effects in both Premiere Pro and After Effects. There is a creative consistency when it comes to using the effects between multiple platforms. **What do you dislike about RedGiant Effects Suite?** I wish there were more! I'm sure what is offered is fair for the price but I do wish they offer some sort of expansion pack to the original. Honestly, there's nothing really that I dislike about this product. **Recommendations to others considering RedGiant Effects Suite:** Buying the Red Giant Suite is worth the money. It will save you so much time! The effects are very polished and it is a high-quality product. **What problems is RedGiant Effects Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem we are solving has to do with time. We are saving so much time by applying the functions of Red Giant Suite. creating a transition or any creative effect takes time and with Red Giant, it's already built for you, all you need to do is tweak it a bit to make it customized. ### 9. Great software! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt S. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about RedGiant Effects Suite?** I enjoy the ease in which I can use the product! **What do you dislike about RedGiant Effects Suite?** I wish they had more effects and more training on how to use them with FCPX. **Recommendations to others considering RedGiant Effects Suite:** make sure you talk with support and check out the tutorials first! **What problems is RedGiant Effects Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Video Production. Helps me to create the most professional video as possible! I see that by using red giant software and effects, I am able to take my videos to another professional level. One that helps set me apart from my competition. ### 10. One of the must have addons **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2018 **What do you like best about RedGiant Effects Suite?** The simplicity of the effects is amazing. You can get proffesional effects at an amazin rate and speed. I have bought all of the effects with ease, being able to retouch your movies, to edit them professionally is just great. It does not use to many resources and its a great addon. I have seen this effects in action in movies and tons of video uploaders. **What do you dislike about RedGiant Effects Suite?** The pricing is a litle high, but the work you can with them can easily get your money back. You can be a professional editorin no time **What problems is RedGiant Effects Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?** After effects addons that works really fast, with great tools ### 11. Love red Giant software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert G. | Commercial Producer, Editor, Videographer, GFX artist, Promotions Producer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2018 **What do you like best about RedGiant Effects Suite?** what can i say about Red Giant, I love the programs, we use trapcode particular, and magic bullet here at work, but I have the entire suite at home, i Like that it stands out from the rest of the programs with its stand alone applications. **What do you dislike about RedGiant Effects Suite?** I wish there was more tutorials on how to use all the programs. sometimes it can be a little complicated **Recommendations to others considering RedGiant Effects Suite:** Learn from tutorials, it can look hard at first but it gets easier with time **What problems is RedGiant Effects Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?** it helps me create projects that stand out from the rest of the crowd, I would like to learn universe a little better, ### 12. Great for amateur editors or motion graphic editors. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about RedGiant Effects Suite?** There’s so many different plugins and effects, it’s insane! User interface is clean and precise, and the learning curve isn’t too bad. **What do you dislike about RedGiant Effects Suite?** Just like with other pro effects software, it’ll take a while to get adjusted. Especially if you’re coming from the adobe suite. **What problems is RedGiant Effects Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?** I’ve used some of their motion graphics plugins as well as their Looks package for color grading. My only issue would be the price, since I’m just starting out my venture into motion graphics. ### 13. Must Have Plugins **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2017 **What do you like best about RedGiant Effects Suite?** Their effects suite covers everything from motion graphics effects to color grading presets to A/V syncing. My favorite of theirs is the Trapcode Particular plugins. I tend to use at least one version of their particles for almost every motion graphic I create. All of their plugins can be super simple to use with their presets they supply for you, or you can go even further and customize everything you could want to. You could even start with a preset and then customize that to fit your needs. **What do you dislike about RedGiant Effects Suite?** There isn't much I don't like about this suite. I guess the main drag would have to be cost. To purchase everyone of their products can be pricey, so i would pick and choose the one that most suites you and your everyday work. **Recommendations to others considering RedGiant Effects Suite:** Their products cost can definitely add up. I would look at the plugins that will best help your workflow for post production. I recommend Magic Bullet if you want quick easy to use color correction effects. Trapcode Particular if you are doing motion graphics. Universe is an annual fee, but it definitely has it's uses as well. **What problems is RedGiant Effects Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have all of their products. I've used their Magic Bullet plug in to do really quick color grades for projects, especially with the presets they offer, which can be all customized. Their version of particles in trapcode, in my opinion, is better than the native particles in AE. Red Giant just makes things better and in a lot of cases can save time when trying to do some awesome effects. ### 14. Affordable, intuitive option **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2018 **What do you like best about RedGiant Effects Suite?** Easily integrates with both Premiere and After Effects **What do you dislike about RedGiant Effects Suite?** Some of the effects/transitions seem a little dated. **Recommendations to others considering RedGiant Effects Suite:** Start with a smaller suite like 'Universe' to try out before investing in a larger one. **What problems is RedGiant Effects Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're able to incorporate professional level effects and transitions without having to spend a tremendous amount of time or money. ### 15. Great product that speeds up workflow **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brandon P. | Director of Marketing, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2017 **What do you like best about RedGiant Effects Suite?** I love PluralEyes and got it for its ability to quickly sync video and audio (especially from a multi-cam shoot) and it can even compensate for audio drift. This makes it so that audio that would otherwise be unusable becomes useable. **What do you dislike about RedGiant Effects Suite?** I don't like how often the program prompts me to update it. I'm also asked to update programs I don't have. I think it's a lure to buy more of their products so I just ignore the updates that aren't directly for the product I've purchased. **Recommendations to others considering RedGiant Effects Suite:** It's expensive but it saves you a lot of time and money in the long run. **What problems is RedGiant Effects Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Correcting audio drift and syncing audio and video from a multi-cam shoot. ### 16. Red Giant - De-Noiser II - Way useful plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sean M. | Sr Multimedia Graphic Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2016 **What do you like best about RedGiant Effects Suite?** Red Giant has a huge assortment of visual editing effects and plug-ins. I use the De-noiser II within Adobe Premiere Pro. It has a really easy to use interface and the results are top quality. **What do you dislike about RedGiant Effects Suite?** There is a learning curve with the De-Noiser II, so incorporating an interactive walk-thru would be very beneficial for beginners. **Recommendations to others considering RedGiant Effects Suite:** If you're in the video production/editing business, it's crucial to have the right plug-ins for your software. Red Giant has everything you might need to bring your video production to the next level. Read the guides and watch tutorials to get a good grasp on the functionality and, in the end, you'll be happy you did. **What problems is RedGiant Effects Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?** De-Noiser helps to increase production quality where the risk of low light video footage may be prominent. We've had several videos that were shot in low light, with inadequate camera settings so the De-Noiser allowed us to compensate and correct those issues. ## RedGiant Effects Suite Discussions - [What does red giant complete include?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-red-giant-complete-include) - [What does Trapcode Suite do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-trapcode-suite-do) - [What does red giant software do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-red-giant-software-do) - [What is Red Giant effects suite?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-red-giant-effects-suite) - [View RedGiant Effects Suite pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/redgiant-effects-suite/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-04+08%3A20%3A38+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=8d7fff8c-d160-4f91-b2e3-8144a99dde2f&secure%5Btoken%5D=9acc8657b8b1abeeb90756cbebf7085f0bc762a3b2d278b6626772fd375c8449&format=llm_user) ## RedGiant Effects Suite Features **Compatibility** - Integrations - Operating System - Format Compatibility **Functionality** - Text Animation - Rotoscoping - Visual Effects - Motion Tracking **Project Management** - Content Library - Team Review **Generative AI** - AI Text-to-Image - AI Text-to-Video - AI Text-to-3D **Agentic AI - Video Effects** - Multi-step Planning ## Top RedGiant Effects Suite Alternatives - [Adobe After Effects](https://www.g2.com/products/adobe-after-effects/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,067 reviews) - [Nuke](https://www.g2.com/products/nuke/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (62 reviews) - [Blender](https://www.g2.com/products/blender/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (307 reviews)