Red Giant Universe 2023 - Subscription

Video transition and effects plugins for editors and motion graphics artists Red Giant Universe is a collection of GPU-accelerated effects and transitions plugins for editors and motion graphics artists. With Red Giant Universe you can 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.

What's New

Universe 2023 provides improved support for alpha layers in Avid Media Composer and over 100 new presets for the Generators category. Universe has not only expanded on the selection of beautiful background imagery available, but also aims to highlight further capabilities of these tools you may not have realized were possible such as overlays, light leaks, lower thirds, and text strips.

Color Mosaic A Transition that overlays a variety of colors in a mosaic pattern as it transitions between 2 clips.	OverLight A lens flare and light leak texture plugin that makes it easy to apply washed-out glows and lens flares to your footage.
Title Motion Create text and shapes and instantly add dynamic animations that bring it on and off screen. Great for titles, lower thirds, callouts and more.	Film Transition A transition tool featuring retro film countdown-style film leaders and test strips, scanned from archival film stock.

 Highlights

	UNIVERSE GENERATORS Universe generators are a fantastic content resource for any video project. They can provide visual filler between your clips, animated backgrounds behind your titles, or even be overlaid atop your videos to create cool effects: Array Gun Progresso Logo Motion HUD Components Line Reframe
UNIVERSE EFFECTS Give your footage authentic retro and modern day looks using tools like VHS, Retrograde Carousel, Glitch, Holomatrix II, and more. VHS Glitch Holomatrix II Retrograde Finisher Grain16 Ecto Long Shadow
	UNIVERSE TEXT Effortlessly create beautiful text treatments right inside your NLE. Hack Text Typographic Numbers Screen Text Text Tile Type Cast Type On Title Motion
UNIVERSE TRANSITIONS Instantly create seamless transitions between your clips! Warp Glitch Transition Retrograde Transition VHS Transition Carousel Transition Channel Surf Flicker Cut Color Mosaic
	UNIVERSE UTILITIES View all our utilities including tools for adding blending modes and camera shake. Modes Camera Shake Socialize Unmult Fisheye Fixer Picture in Picture
UNIVERSE DASHBOARD Working with Universe in Premiere Pro and After Effects has never been easier. The dockable Universe Dashboard brings all of the Universe tools into one place, making it simple to explore and apply the entire library of effects and presets.
	UNIVERSE PRESETS Every tool in Universe includes presets to help get you started and give instant professional results.

Tools

Universe is a collection of plugins for editors and motion graphics artists.

Generators

• Reframe - Create picture-in-picture compositions, with control over animation, image borders and more.
• Array Gun - Design animated motion graphics backgrounds and screen elements based on grids of shapes and lines.
  
• Progresso - Generate different types of animated progress bars and charts for motion graphics, heads up displays, infographics, and more.
  
• Logo Motion - Instantly add dynamic animations that bring your text and logos on and off screen.
  
• Line - Create an animated straight or curved line between two points, with elements that move along that path.
  
• HUD Components - Quickly add animated Heads Up Display elements into your motion graphics, interface animations, and visual effects shots.
  
• Spectralicious - A 6-color gradient effect with controls blending options, exposure, and saturation. 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.
  
• Soft Gradient Background - A looping gradient background generator with fractal noise, textures and more. Choose from noise types for various moving gradients.
  
• Turbulence Noise - Create fractal noise with 9 patterns, interpolations, appearance options, animations, transform, opacity controls, and turbulence.
  
• Gradient Ramp - Creates an RGB gradient with two or three colors and gives control over color position, alpha, interpolation, aspect, noise, and compositing modes.
  

Effects

• Sketchify (NEW) - Add a sketchy toon-like effect to your footage.
• ChromaTown (NEW) - Create chromatic streaks and blurs for warpy looks and transitions.
• Box Bokeh (NEW) - Create a square or diamond shaped lens bokeh effect.
• Electrify - Give your footage animated electrical effects.
  
• Analog - Give your footage the look of analog video.
  
• Texturize Motion - Add animated textures to your footage for a sketchy, stop motion look.
  
• Chromatic Aberration - Realistic lens distortion effects with chromatic separation, blur, texture and more.
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Quantum - Create the illusion of an animated light trail in front or behind a layer, ideal for text and motion graphics.
• Glimmer - Create colorful glints and animated twinkling effects at the bright areas of your image for beauty shots, titles, music videos and more.
• Retrograde - Retrograde is a set of tools for creating the truly realistic look and damage of old 16MM and 8MM film.
• Finisher - Finisher makes it easy to dramatically improve the image quality of your footage.
  
• Multitone - Stylize your image by using a colorful duotone or tritone effect.
• Grain16 - Real 16mm film grain to add to your footage.
  
• Ecto - Create haunting, evolving titles with this glowing fractal-based effect, inspired by Ghostbusters and Stranger Things.
  
• Glo Fi II - Glow Fi II is a self-animating, fractal-based glow effect for text. Add a unique, organic glow with presets and advanced controls.
  
• Long Shadow - Apply a colored, long shadow to your text, logo, or shape.
  
• Knoll Light Factory EZ - A set of quick setup lens flares for use in motion graphics and visual effects.
  
• Luster - Give your text a slick 1980’s retro look. Luster applies a metal sheen to text layers, and includes a refraction-based bevel for a glassy 3D look.
  
• OverLight - OverLight is a lens flare and light leak texture plugin that makes it easy to apply washed-out glows and lens flares to your footage.
  
• Carousel - 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 local access cable channel shows.
  
• Chromatic Glow - Add colorful, rainbow like glows around titles and bright areas in any shot. Creates multi-chromatic diffuse glows or sharp-edged highlights.
  
• Texturize - Quickly give your footage a Walking Dead-style grungy textured treatment.
  
• Heatwave - Heatwave is a realistic rippling heat distortion effect, with controls for intensity, direction, speed, amount 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Edge Glow - Create a glowing effect on the edges and outlines of images – perfect for titles and logos with controls for glow, brightness, saturation, and tint.
  
• ShrinkRay - ShrinkRay is a fast and easy way to make big things look tiny by simulating a tilt shift effect.
  
• 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.
  
• Misfire - 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.
  
• Compound Blur - A tool that blurs pixels based on the luminance values of another 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.
  

Text

• Hacker Text - Easily create computer hacker-style scrambled text animations.
• Typographic - Design intricate shape and text animations for broadcast, social media and more.
• Numbers - Render and animate a wide variety of numbers, including currency, percentage, date and time.
• 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. Includes tons of options for customization and randomization.
• 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.

Transitions

• Warp - Instantly build a slick beautiful transition with distortion, aberration and more.
• Glitch Transition - Transition between footage or text with the look of compression glitches and compressed data.
• Retrograde Transition - A transition that uses real scans of 16mm and 8mm film to create an authentic film strip transition.
• VHS Transition - A transition that mimics the effect that occurs when a VCR has been used to record over pre-existing footage.
• Carousel Transition - A transition that 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 - A transition that rapidly cuts between two clips or a solid color, and which can invert the clips or add fades.
• Color Mosaic - A Transition that overlays a variety of colors in a mosaic pattern as it transitions between 2 clips.
• Shape Wipe - A transition that uses an ellipse, rectangle or star shape to move between 2 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 - A transition that mimics camera shake while it transitions between clips.
  
• HalfLight - HalfLight creates customizable light leak transitions that give your footage a moody and filmic look.
  
• Exposure Blur Transition - A transition that blurs footage while bumping up the exposure to create a dynamic blend.
  
• 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 tool featuring retro film countdown-style film leaders and test strips, scanned from archival film stock.
  
• Swish Pan - Mimic a fast camera “swish pan” movement while blending from one layer to another. Choose from directional options and control the exposure.
  
• Spectralicious Transition - Creates a 6 point color map from your A and B footage and uses the colors to transition between the two with 23 animation style options.
  
• Turbulence Transition - A luminance-based transition effect, with a dissolve driven by an adjustable fractal gradient.
  
• 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 2nd layer of footage.
  
• 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 2nd layer of footage.
  
• Unfold - A 3D Transition that moves the top layer out of the frame in a chosen direction while the 2nd 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 which rotates right, left, upwards or downwards revealing the 2nd 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Fold - A 3D Transition that folds the top layer in half onto itself while unfolding the 2nd layer out moving right, left, upwards or downwards.
  
• Slide - A 3D Transition that slides the layer away right, left, upwards or downwards revealing the 2nd layer of footage.
  

Utilities

• Modes - Combine layers in entirely new ways using powerful features that go beyond the native blend modes found on your editing timeline.
• Camera Shake - Add simulated handheld camera motion to your footage.
• Socialize - Reference common aspect ratios for social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram with this simple yet useful utility.
• Unmult - Create an alpha channel for any image or video shot on a black background. Useful for compositing fire, smoke, water and more.
• Fisheye Fixer - Fisheye Fixer for GoPro® corrects GoPro® fisheye lens distortion, with four custom settings: wide, medium, narrow or superview.
• 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.

Specs

Installation Requirements

In order to work properly, your copy of Red Giant Universe — 1-Year Subscription requires Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, Magix VEGAS Pro, Davinci Resolve, HitFilm Pro and/or

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