As well as using the RG Universe Library to build new free and premium plugins as months go by, Red Giant say they’ll also be adding new modules to the code library – so new plugins will have access to more advanced GPU code. This development system uses a javascript-like scripting language to access the Red Giant Universe Library a collection of image processing libraries whose code is combined together to make cross-platform Universe plugins. The secret to Red Giant Universe is the ‘Supernova’ tool. Red Giant Universe brings that same power to Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects users on OS X and Windows. GPU Powerįinal Cut Pro X and Apple Motion users are used to the near real-time rendering speed of GPU-based plugins. Their colour, keying and Trapcode plugin suites are still available in the normal way. Red Giant say that most of the plugins they’ve sold up until now aren’t part of Universe. Unlike Adobe’s Creative Cloud, as well as monthly premium ($10) and annual premium ($99) membership options, you can buy Red Giant out with a one-time lifetime subscription fee ($399). What makes Universe a community? Red Giant will use user feedback to determine their development priorities – which of their non-Universe plugins to convert and make available to premium subscribers, and what new features to add to current Universe plugins. Red Giant say that they’ll be regularly adding new free and premium plugins to Red Giant Universe.

Here are samples of Universe Chromatic Glow, Universe Glo Fi and Universe Prism Displacement:

Launch tools include Knoll Light Factory EZ, Holomatrix, Retrograde, and ToonIt:

The initial premium plugins are Universe versions of current Red Giant stand alone products. If you sign up for a Monthly or yearly subscription, you also get access to 19 premium plugins. Today it hosts 31 free plugins in categories including Blur, Distort, Glow and Generators. Red Giant Universe is a new free online community for Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro X and Apple Motion users. Red Giant have announced that they are changing the way editors, motion graphics designers and visual effects artists access their visual effects plugins.

Chromatic displacement plugin