Give your footage authentic retro and modern day looks using tools like VHS, Retrograde Carousel, Glitch, Holomatrix II, and more.
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, 5 brand-new text generation tools, and presets for every plug-in, to help get you started.
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Red Giant Universe requires a GPU to render. The minimum GPU is an Intel HD 5000 integrated graphics chip. For best Universe performance, please read the FAQ for recommendations on GPU cards.
Get up to speed with the following resources.
Watch our getting started videos to get up to speed with Universe or browse our other tutorials.
This user guide has been designed to help you get comfortable with all of the tools and features of Universe.
Browse our FAQ section for Universe to find quick answers to the most common questions.
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Video transition and effects plugins for editors and motion graphics artists
| Services | Individuals / Students & Teachers |
Businesses / Schools & Universities |
|---|---|---|
| Floating licenses | x | ✓ |
| Easy deployment and management for IT | x | ✓ |
| Dedicated and advanced support | x | ✓ |
| 1:1 sessions with product experts | x | ✓ |
| Product and workflow training | x | ✓ |
| Dedicated account manager | x | ✓ |
| Purchase orders and consolidated billing | x | ✓ |
| Onboarding assistance | x | ✓ |
| Unlimited render only licenses | x | ✓ |
Our volume program is available to customers ordering 5 or more suite licenses. Prices listed are per individual seat. Individual products do not qualify.
| Services | Individuals / Students & Teachers |
Businesses / Schools & Universities |
|---|---|---|
| Floating licenses | x | ✓ |
| Easy deployment and management for IT | x | ✓ |
| Dedicated and advanced support | x | ✓ |
| 1:1 sessions with product experts | x | ✓ |
| Product and workflow training | x | ✓ |
| Dedicated account manager | x | ✓ |
| Purchase orders and consolidated billing | x | ✓ |
| Onboarding assistance | x | ✓ |
| Unlimited render only licenses | x | ✓ |
Red Giant Complete includes every tool from each of our suites. The annual subscription price is fully inclusive of all upgrades, support, maintenance, server software and render nodes. There are no hidden fees. Our volume program is available to customers ordering 5 or more licenses of Red Giant Complete (Volume).
Students and teachers are eligible for the 50% discount shown above. If you are a university or school looking to buy our software for labs or classrooms, please visit our Volume Program page to learn more about our flexible volume licensing deals.
