Friday, April 4th, 2025Posted by Jim ThackerMaxon releases Red Giant 2024.4 and Universe 2025.3html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"Maxons promo for its Spring 2025 product updates. The section on Red Giant starts at 02:10.Maxon has released Red Giant 2025.4 and Universe 2025.3, the latest updates to its suite of effects plugins for compositing and editing apps and its online library of effects and transitions.The updates extend support for DaVinci Resolve inside both sets of plugins, making two new Red Giant tools available within the software and streamlining loading of Universe plugins.In related news, Maxon has now discontinued support for Vegas Pro in the Red Giant tools, with the previous release being the last one to include active updates for Vegas Pro users.Red Giant 2025.4: DaVinci Resolve support extended, but Vegas Pro support endedRed Giant 2025.4 adds support for DaVinci Resolve, Blackmagic Designs compositing, editing and effects software, to two more of its key plugins.Real Lens Flares and Optical Glow now support Resolve, alongside Magic Bullet Looks, Cosmo, Mojo, Film, and Renoiser.However, Maxon has ended support for editing app Vegas Pro in the Red Giant tools.The final feature update was for Vegas Pro users was the previous release, Red Giant 2025.3, which will continue to receive technical support and critical bug fixes until 18 March 2026.Universe 2025.3: better loading in DaVinci ResolveUniverse 2025.3 features an improved loading process in DaVinci Resolve.In addition, effects in both Red Giant and Universe are now grouped in the menus of their host applications by effect type and purpose, making them easier to navigate.Price and system requirementsRed Giant is compatible with After Effects 2024+ on Windows 10+ and macOS 12.0+. 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 Maxons websiteHave your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we dont post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects.Latest NewsMaxon releases Red Giant 2024.4 and Universe 2025.3Updates to the effects plugins for compositing and video editing apps extend support for DaVinci Resolve, but end support for Vegas Pro.Friday, April 4th, 2025Nekki releases Cascadeur 2025.1 with AI-based InbetweeningInnovative animation app gets new AI system for generating realistic motion connecting two poses. Check out the other new features.Thursday, April 3rd, 2025Maxon releases Redshift 2025.4Big update to the renderer adds OpenPBR support. See the other new features for 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya users.Thursday, April 3rd, 2025Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2025.23D animation and motion graphics app gets integrated Spline Modifiers and updates to particle simulation. Liquid simulation 'coming soon'.Thursday, April 3rd, 2025Maxon releases ZBrush 2025.2Check out the changes to the digital sculpting tool, including updates to poly modeling system ZModeler and new Redshift materials.Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025Maxon adds ZModeler and UV Master to ZBrush for iPad 2025.3Significant update to the new iPad edition of the digital sculpting app adds long-awaited poly modeling and UV unwrapping toolsets.Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025More NewsAdobe releases After Effects 25.2Autodesk releases Mudbox 2026Otoy releases OctaneRender 2025.1Poly Hammer releases Meta-Human DNA add-on for BlenderCheck out virtual cinematography tool Radical VCamChaos launches Chaos ArenaLumion unveils Lumion ViewMaster the art of Virtual Makeup Design with Neville PageAutodesk releases Arnold 7.4.13DGS Render 3.0 lets you paint 3D Gaussian Splats in BlenderAdobe releases Photoshop 26.5Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 2026Older Posts