Overview of Red Giant Universe

Using this program, you can give your footage authentic retro and modern-day looks using VHS, Retrograde Carousel, Glitch, Holomatrix II, and more. You can also create beautiful looping backgrounds and motion graphics elements with tools like HUD components, Line, Knoll Light Factory EZ, Fractal Background, and more.

Build fast, unique transitions with little or no work. Add glows and other effects that give you better results and more shortcuts, options, and control than anything in your host app. Quickly generate animations that bring your text to life or fill your screen with dynamic data for user interfaces. Go retro with old-school computer type-on effects, or easily create hacker-style reveals for modern titles.

Every tool in Universe includes presets to help get you started and give instant professional results. The Universe 3.0 release introduces our new Universe Dashboard for browsing and applying effects and presets, five brand-new text generation tools, and presets for every plugin to help get you started.

Furthermore, Working with Universe in Premiere Pro and After Effects has never been easier. The new dockable Universe Dashboard brings all the Universe tools into one place, making exploring and applying the entire library of effects and presets simply. The Universe is a collection of 79 GPU-accelerated plugins for editors and motion graphics artists.

Host Applications

Adobe After Effects CC 2017 or later

Adobe 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

Features of Red Giant Universe 

VHS gives your modern footage the classic look, color, and distortion of old videotape.

Get the look of the compressed, glitched video.

Give your footage the look and distortion of a sci-fi hologram, digital display, and more.

Retrograde gives your footage the authentic look and damage of old 16MM and 8MM film.

Easily create computer hacker-style scrambled text animations.

Realistic lens distortion effect with chromatic separation, blur, texture, and more.

Add simulated handheld camera motion to your footage.

Instantly add dynamic animations that bring your text and logos on and off-screen.

Natural 16MM film grain to add to your footage.

A transition that mimics advancing to the next slide in an old slide projector.

A classic radial wipe transition with feathering and a dual clock wipe option.

Technical Details and System Requirements

Supported OS: Windows 11 / Windows 10 / Windows 8.1 / Windows 7

Processor: Multi-core Intel Series or above, Xeon or AMD equivalent

RAM: 4GB (8GB or more recommended)

Free Hard Disk Space: 4GB or more recommended