Red Giant offers the most powerful set of tools for editors and compositors to easily add everything from titles to visual effects directly in the tools they love, like Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, and Resolve. This release delivers powerful new features, a smoother user experience, and the foundation for the next generation of Red Giant workflows.
Maxon Studio Asset Support
Save and reuse your Capsules across projects. Build once, drag anywhere. Reusable assets let you work faster, stay consistent, and scale your style.
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Effects Capsules in Maxon Studio
Create a new type of Capsule, built for modular, click-and-apply visual effects. Create stunning looks in seconds without touching the timeline.
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DaVinci Resolve & Fusion Gizmo
Enjoy a revved up boost to your workflow with all new on-screen position controls across the Red Giant toolset. This update greases the wheels of productivity.
For fans of retro aesthetics, Red Giant & Universe now includes six new pixel dither and pixel art plugins, giving you the tools to effortlessly recreate classic 8-bit and 16-bit video game visuals.
Maxon Studio, our After Effects template engine, also sees improvements, with the ability to replace footage directly from the dashboard. This streamlines your workflow, allowing you to stay focused on creativity within the unified Red Giant ecosystem.
Pixel Dither
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Trapcode
Trapcode brings the power of 3D particle systems right into After Effects. Use particle emitters to create fire, water, smoke, snow and other organic visual effects, or create technological marvels and user interfaces with immortal particle grids and 3D forms. With a subscription to Red Giant, get even more 3D geometry input options thanks to Cineware .c4d file import. Use Cinema 4D files (including animation) in particle systems or as 3D models in After Effects.
Red Giant 2026 Changelog
Asset Capsules in Maxon Studio: Maxon Studio Capsules now support Capsules that use Assets such as video files, images, and other asset types that are supported in After Effects. You can choose to include or exclude any assets that are part of the composition you are creating a capsule from. Then when the Capsule is created you can export that capsule and all of the associated assets are packaged up with your export. Import is just as easy and the needed asset files for your capsule are nicely bundled with the capsule.
Effect Capsules in Maxon Studio: Now in Studio you can create capsules that target all effects on a specific layer in After Effects. You can publish the desired controls for any effects on that layer like a normal capsule. Then use the capsule later you just apply the effect capsule to a layer in After Effects!
On-screen gizmos for DaVinci Resolve: On-screen position controls have been added across the entire Red Giant toolset supported in DaVinci Resolve for much faster and easier placement of anything with a position coordinate.
Bug fixes
Fixed a Bug in studio where refreshing a control dropped caused jumps in scrollbar
Fixed a Bug in studio where capsules would fail to create keyframe on hidden parameters
Fixed a Bug in studio where dividers were not saving in capsule
Fixed a Bug in studio where properties panel Drag and Drop Linked parameters box was overlapping with other UI elements.
Fixed a Bug in studio where capsule save wasn’t saving/applying shape positions or anchor points in the right spot
Fixed a Bug in studio on windows for not saving capsule thumbnail in it’s directory
Fixed a Bug in studio where a super long capsule name can break ui on create page
Fixed a Bug in studio where the Apply Options menu was buggy on Discover page
Fixed a Bug in studio where creating a second comp while in capsules creation causes it to be removed from live capsules list
Fixed a Bug in Resolve where only one Magic Bullet Looks is initialized and the other crashed
Supported Applications
After Effects CC 2024, CC 2025: All Red Giant Tools
Premiere Pro CC 2024, CC 2025: All Color Tools, 3D Stroke, Shine, Starglow, Optical Glow, Primatte Keyer, Chromatic Displacement, Real Lens Flares
Apple Final Cut Pro X 10.5, 10.6: All Magic Bullet Tools – except Parametric Curve
Apple Motion 5.5, 5.6: All Magic Bullet Tools – except Parametric Curve
Avid Media Composer 2023.x, 2024.x: Magic Bullet Looks, Cosmo, Mojo, Film, Renoiser
DaVinci Resolve 19, 20: Magic Bullet Looks, Cosmo, Mojo, Film, Renoiser, Optical Glow, Real Lens Flares
Cinema 4D R26 and later: Magic Bullet Looks
Unreal 4.27, Unreal 5 (Except 5.5): Magic Bullet Looks
Note: There is currently no support for VM environments and multi-GPU setups.
VFXMED NOTE: RED GIANT HAS MADE A NEW INSTALLER THAT PUTS ALL PLUGINS INTO 1 EXCEPT UNIVERSE SO YOU JUST NEED 1 INSTALLER TO INSTALL ALL OTHER RED GIANT TOOLS I.E TRAPCODE ETC
LINK HAS BEEN REMOVED,
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