Red Giant Universe is a collection of 82 varied video transitions and effects for video editing and motion graphics. Compatible with After Effects, Premiere, FCP X, and a few other applications (see below), Universe includes retro and modern day looks, standard and 3D transitions, text animations, including hacker style dynamic text data, and much more. Universe also features 67 fully customizable preset HUD (Heads Up Display) graphics. HUD components allow you to create looping backgrounds and motion graphics elements that call for attention on screen.
Every filter in Universe includes presets so you can get started right away and they're all customizable. Additionally, all the filters are GPU-accelerated for fast performance. When used with After Effects and Premiere Pro, Universe provides a dockable dashboard that brings all of the filters and tools into one place for efficient access.
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Your download provides you with the latest version of Universe.
Host Applications
- Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro CC 2017 or later
- Apple Final Cut Pro X 10.2.3 or later
- Apple Motion 5.3.2 or later
- Avid Media Composer 8.2 or later*
- MAGIX VEGAS Pro 14 or later
- DaVinci Resolve 14 or later
- HitFilm Pro 6.0 and later
*Prism Displacement, Compound Blur, and Picture in Picture are not supported in Avid Media Composer
GPU Requirement
Red Giant Universe requires a GPU to render. The minimum GPU is an Intel HD 5000 integrated graphics chip. For best performance, please see more GPU info on the Red Giant website.
Array Gun (New)
Generate animated motion graphics based on grids, shapes, and lines.
Progresso (New)
Generate animatable progress bars in many different styles.
Numbers (New)
Render and animate a wide variety of numbers, including currency, percentage, date, and time.
HUD Components (Updated)
Quickly add animated Heads Up Display elements into your motion graphics, interface animations, and visual effects shots. Instantly add one of 67 fully customizable preset HUD components, which include 35 new presets.
VHS
VHS gives your modern footage the classic look, color, and distortion of old video tape.
Glitch
Get the look of compressed, glitched video.
Holomatrix II
Give your footage the look and distortion of a sci-fi hologram, digital display, and more.
Retrograde
Retrograde gives your footage the authentic look and damage of old 16mm and 8mm film.
Hacker Text
Easily create computer hacker-style scrambled text animations.
Screen Text
Fill your screen with scrolling code to create the look of an old-school or modern computer terminal.
Text Tile
Generate multiple columns full of random data for use in motion graphics and computer terminal effects.
Type Cast
Easily animate text properties like color, opacity, size, position, and rotation by the line, word, or character.
Type On
Quickly create computer terminal-style type reveals. Type On includes many options for customization and randomization.
Chromatic Abberation
Realistic lens distortion effect with chromatic separation, blur, texture, and more.
Camera Shake
Add simulated handheld camera motion to your footage.
Logo Motion
Instantly add dynamic animations that bring your text and logos on and off screen.
Finisher
Finisher makes it easy to dramatically improve the image quality of your DSLR footage.
Glitch Transition
Transition between footage or text with the look of compression glitches and compressed data.
Grain 16
Real 16mm film grain to add to your footage.
Retrograde Transition
Uses real scans of 16mm and 8mm film to create an authentic film strip transition.
VHS Transition
Mimics the effect that occurs when a VCR has been used to record over pre-existing footage.
Carousel Transition
Mimics advancing to the next slide in an old slide projector.
Channel Surf
A transition that mimics the distortion you'd get by changing the channel on a cathode ray tube TV.
Flicker Cut
Rapidly cuts between two clips or a solid color. Flicker Cut can also invert the clips or add fades.
Color Mosaic
A transition that overlays a variety of colors in a mosaic pattern as it transitions between two clips.
Shape Wipe
A transition that uses an ellipse, rectangle, or star shape to move between two pieces of footage. Includes control over points, size, stroke, and fill.
Linear Wipe
A classic linear wipe with the addition of wipe mirroring as well as an inner/outer stroke with glow on the wipe border.
Clock Wipe
A classic radial wipe transition with feathering and the option for a dual-clock wipe.
Channel Blur
A transition that blurs each of the RGB channels separately for a unique chromatic effect.
Camera Shake Transition
Mimics camera shake while it transitions between clips.
ECTO
Create haunting, evolving titles with this glowing fractal-based effect, inspired by Ghostbusters and Stranger Things.
Glow Fi II
A self-animating, fractal-based glow effect for text. Add a unique, organic glow with presets and advanced controls.
Line
Create an animated straight or curved line between two points, with elements that move along that path for flights, tours, maps, and more.
Long Shadow
Apply a colored, long shadow to your text, logo, or shape.
Knoll Light Factory EZ
A set lens flare tools from Industrial Light and Magic's John Knoll. Add color, depth, and excitement to live-action or motion graphics.
Luster
Give your text a slick 1980's retro look. Luster applies a metal sheen to text layers to get that glassy simulated 3D vibe.
OverLight
OverLight is a lens flare and light leak texture plug-in that makes it easy to apply washed-out glows and lens flares to your footage.
Carousel
Captures the classic look of vintage color cross-processing, film fading, and vignettes.
AV Club
Mimic the lo-fi, noisy text you find on ancient video tapes, old infomercials, and public access shows.
Chromatic Glow
Add colorful, rainbow-like glows around titles and bright areas in any shot. Creates multichromatic diffuse glows or sharp-edged highlights.
Title Motion
Create text and shapes and then instantly add dynamic animations that bring it on and off screen. Great for titles, lower thirds, callouts, and more.
Halflight
A library of optically captured, highly customizable light leak transitions that give your footage a moody and filmic look.
Texturize
Give your footage and text a Walking Dead-style grungy textured treatment. Seamlessly tiling textures make it easy to bring depth to your video.
Heatwave
Heatwave is a rippling heat distortion effect, with controls for intensity, direction, speed, and more.
Exposure Blur Transition
A transition that blurs footage while bumping up the exposure to create a dynamic blend.
Spectralicious
A six-color gradient effect with controls blending options, exposure, and saturation. Spectralicious includes 12 presets that simulate sky color tones and more.
Fractal Background
Quickly create complex and colorful looping fractal-based backgrounds for your motion graphics work.
Knoll Light Transition
A transition that uses animated Knoll Light Factory flares with 31 unique presets to quickly move you from shot to shot.
Film Transition
A transition featuring retro film, countdown-style film leaders, and test strips, scanned from archival film stock.
Soft Gradient Background
A looping gradient background generator with fractal noise, textures, and more. Choose from noise types for various moving gradients.
Unmult
Create an alpha channel for any image or video shot on a black background. Useful for compositing fire, smoke, water, and more.
Point Zoom
Zoom blur with added glow to create a holographic projection look when applied to text or images. Create the illusion it's coming from a light source.
Glimmer
Create colorful glints and animated twinkling effects at the bright areas of your image for beauty shots, titles, music videos, and more.
Swish Pan
Mimic a fast camera "swish pan" movement while blending from one layer to another. Choose from directional options and control the exposure.
RGB Separation
Separates and offsets the RGB channels in an image. Controls adjust the radius, scale, and angle of the channel separation as well as distortion.
Spectralicious Transition
Creates a six-point color map from your A and B footage and uses the colors to transition between the two with 23 animation style options.
Edge Flow
Create a glowing effect on the edges and outlines of images, with controls for glow, brightness, saturation, and tint, perfect for titles and logos.
Glow
A diffused glow that softens the bright parts of the image. Isolate a specific color within your footage and apply a glow to just that color.
ShrinkRay
ShrinkRay is a fast and easy way to make big things look tiny by simulating a tilt-shift effect.
Turbulence Transition
A luminance-based transition effect, with a dissolve driven by an adjustable fractal gradient.
Blur
A simple, high-quality blur effect that can work in linear gamma space.
Prism Displacement
Distort and displace the pixels in your image with a prism-like, chromatic effect based on the luminance values of another layer.
Diamond Wave
A 3D transition that divides the layers into diamond-shaped segments, which rotate in an offset fashion, revealing vertically or horizontally.
Blinds
A 3D transition that divides the layer into sections which rotate in an offset fashion vertically or horizontally, revealing the second layer of footage.
Fisheye Fixer
Fisheye Fixer for GoPro corrects GoPro fisheye lens distortion with four custom settings: wide, medium, narrow, or superview.
Color Stripe
A transition that uses layered blocks of color wiping across the screen to reveal a second layer.
Cube
A 3D transition that places the layers onto the sides of a cube which rotate right, left, upwards, or downwards, revealing the second layer of footage.
Turbulence Noise
Create fractal noise with nine patterns, interpolations, appearance options, animations, transform, opacity controls, and turbulence.
Unfold
A 3D transition that moves the top layer out of the frame in a chosen direction while the second layer unfolds itself out moving right, left, up, or down.
Soft Edge Wipe
A linear wipe transition with an adjustable feathered or stroked edge. Used for transitioning between two layers of footage using a subtle blend.
Inside Cube
A 3D transition that places the layers onto the sides of an inverse cube that rotates right, left, upwards, or downwards, revealing the second layer.
Triangle Wave
A 3D transition that divides the layers into triangular segments that rotate in offset vertically or horizontally, revealing the second layer.
Rubix Cube
A 3D transition that places the layers onto the sides of a 3D cube which rotates segments of the cube right, left, upwards, or downwards.
Picture in Picture
Easily composite and frame one layer of footage over a larger layer. Includes the ability to add and customize a colored border and drop shadow.
MisFire
Adds scratches, dust, flicker, noise, and more, giving your footage a stylized, aged look.
Noir Moderne
Create dramatic noir lighting effects, with saturation controls, optically captured vignettes, flickering, venetian patterns, and more.
Gradient Ramp
Creates an RGB gradient with two or three colors and gives control over color position, alpha, interpolation, aspect, noise, and compositing modes.
Compound Blur
A tool that blurs pixels based on the luminance values of another layer.
Dolly Fade
A 3D transition that moves the second layer in z-space while fading in the opacity of the layer over the first layer.
Spot Blur
Blurs the area of the frame inside or outside a rectangle, ellipse, and other shape presets or from your own custom shape.
Fold
A 3D transition that folds the top layer in half onto itself while unfolding the second layer out, moving right, left, upwards, or downwards.
Slide
A 3D transition that slides the layer away right, left, upwards, or downwards, revealing the second layer of footage.