Red Giant and Universe User Guides

Maxon Red Giant in a nutshell

Red Giant is a comprehensive toolkit designed for video post-production, motion graphics, and visual effects. It offers rich color grading, smooth transitions, realistic visual effects, motion design templates and tools to create and edit your visuals.
The components of Maxon Universe are only a part of the effects and features provided by Red Giant.

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 host apps they love, like Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Resolve and of course Maxon Autograph.

Maxon Universe in a nutshell

Maxon Universe is a suite of GPU-accelerated effects and transitions designed to add creative, dynamic excitement to video and motion graphics projects. Apply these tools in seconds with handy presets or delve deeper to customize granular details.

The effects and components of Universe are also fully included in Red Giant, which is why both products can be covered in this documentation. For this reason, the table of contents on the left and its categories also include many effect descriptions that are relevant only to the more comprehensive Red Giant.


The image tiles below represent just a fraction of the available features. You can access descriptions of all effects via the table of contents on the left.