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# Improve your Videos with RED Giant software on Sale
- URL: https://jimmakos.com/red-giant-sale/
- Published: 2014-12-10T10:47:56.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-22T17:35:04.000Z
- Description: Perfect time to start out in videography with RED Giant software, during their year end sale. Grab Color Suite and PluralEyes or other products at 40% OFF.
- Author: Jim Makos
- Tags: Filmmaking

RED Giant is running a year end sale till Christmas. Yet, only for 24 hours, we can buy any RED Giant product with 40% discount! I will be using RED Giant software, such as Colorista II for my future videos that I publish at [**YouTube** ](https://www.youtube.com/c/JimMakosCom)and [**Vimeo**](https://vimeo.com/jimmakos).

I first bumped into RED Giant when **I purchased a RODE mic**, in order to improve the sound of my videos. In particular, my voice recording. Until then, I used to record my videos with my smartphone (a Samsung Note 2) with the built-in microphone. That resulted to mediocre video quality and crappy sound quality, despite recording in 1080p.

Upon deciding to invest in a DSLR in 2014 (a Canon 70D), I opted for a RODE Smartlav mic.

![canon-70d-rode-smartlav-mic](https://storage.ghost.io/c/44/8d/448d9c80-c34d-4d74-8a89-3db10bee06f2/content/images/2020/12/canon-70d-rode-smartlav-mic-1.jpg)

The RODE Smartlav microphone connects to my smartphone, which now records only my voice with almost no background noise. A perfect and affordable solution for any amateur videographer. However, given the sound is recorded separately, I need to sync video and sound in post production.

Enter *RED Giant software*.

When purchasing a microphone, RODE offers RED Giant audio/video sync software, PluralEyes, **for free**. At least that was the case when I bought the Smartlav for $60\. And when I found out that PluralEyes went for no less than $199, my surprise was obvious.

I’ve been using PluralEyes for months now and you can notice the difference in my **latest videos on online poker**.

Lately, I’ve been researching about *videography*, as I’m interested to get back on track with writing online and video blogging. During that research, I learnt a lot from photography and cinematography experts, such as [**Philip Bloom**](http://philipbloom.net/).

Almost everyone seems to be using RED Giant software, **Colorista II** specifically for color correction. Other popular software include *FilmConvert* for introducing a film look to your video and *Neat Video* for noise reduction, if you shoot at high ISOs (in the dark). I have those apps in my wishlist, but haven’t yet pulled the trigger, since I purchased RED Giant Color Suite only yesterday night and have been an Adobe Creative Cloud user for less than a month, still finding my way around LightRoom and Premiere Pro.

RED Giant PluralEyes normal price is $199 but for previous customers, it drops to $79\. At the same time, significant discount is also offered to RED Giant customers for other products, such as Color Suite that costs a whopping $599! As shown in the image, the subtotal of my order came down to $378 from $798! Thank you RODE!

At the same time, the 40% sale saved me $151 more and for about two hundred bucks, I upgraded PluralEyes and got RED Giant Color Suite that professional videographers use! Thank you RED Giant.

![red-giant-color-suite-order](https://storage.ghost.io/c/44/8d/448d9c80-c34d-4d74-8a89-3db10bee06f2/content/images/2020/12/red-giant-color-suite-order.png)

If you are into videography, hurry up as the [**RED Giant**](http://www.redgiant.com/) 40% coupon savings only last for 24 hours! Or, you can wait and watch my next video, where I hope I’ll be making good use of RED Giant’s Colorista, PluralEyes, Looks and Denoiser among others.