Maxon releases Red Giant 2026.0 and Universe 2026.0
Maxon’s promo for its Fall 2025 product updates. The section on Red Giant starts at 13:55.
Maxon has released Red Giant 2026.0 and Universe 2026.0, the latest updates to its suite of effects plugins for compositing and editing apps and its online library of effects and transitions.
The updates make it possible to include more types of content inside the Capsules used by Red Giant’s Maxon Studio toolset, and add new on-screen control gizmos for DaVinci Resolve users.
Both Red Giant and Universe also get new logos as part of a unified product logo system rolled out with Maxon’s Fall 2025 product releases.
Red Giant 2026.0: updates to Maxon Studio, and new on-screen gizmos for DaVinci Resolve
Red Giant 2026.0 updates Maxon Studio, Maxon’s After Effects ‘template engine’ for creating video content and motion graphics by customizing readymade Capsules.
When using the new Create page to create and export their own Capsules, users can now include supporting assets like video files and images.
It is also now possible to create Capsules that target all of the effects on a specific layer in After Effects, “capturing whole effects stacks in a single layer”.
The resulting ‘effects Capsule’ can then be applied to a layer in a new composition.
In addition, users of DaVinci Resolve and Fusion Studio get new on-screen gizmos to make it easier to position effects and masks, available in all of the Red Giant tools.
The previous update, Red Giant 2025.6, also added support for light ray generator Shine and glow generator StarGlow inside DaVinci Resolve.
Universe 2026.0: new tools and on-screen gizmos for DaVinci Resolve
DaVinci Resolve users also get updates in Universe 2026.0.
As well as the new on-screen gizmos, it is now possible to use Fractal Background as a Filter as well as a Generator, making it possible to apply the effect directly to footage inside Resolve.
Price and system requirements
Red Giant is compatible with After Effects 2024+ on Windows 10+ and macOS 14.0+. Some individual tools are compatible with other host applications, including DaVinci Resolve.
Complete Red Giant subscriptions, which include Universe, cost $85/month or $639/year. Individual Universe subscriptions cost $32/month or $214/year.
Read more about the Red Giant plugins on Maxon’s website
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