What's new in Red Giant

Experience unparalleled relighting capabilities. Scene Light introduces AI-powered, depth-aware relighting directly inside your compositor, helping you place lights into footage with natural falloff and scene interaction while keeping results fully in your hands.

Rise above the noise with the legendary procedural patterns of Cinema 4D, now inside Universe. Maxon Noise provides a vast library of GPU-accelerated, fully customizable noise patterns for creating distinctive textures, organic motion, animated maps, transitions, particle drivers, and abstract visual effects all in your favorite host.

Bring the character of real glass into every shot. With the ability to use custom Schmutz textures, you can turn any layer, including animated textures like dust, grime, water drops, or splashes, into realistic lens artifacts that interact naturally with your flare. New light source types expand beyond sunlight to emulate the color and behavior of tungsten, fluorescent, LED, HMI, sodium vapor, fire, arc welders, and more.

Now you can bring beautiful prismatic displacement effects into Autograph. Chromatic Displacement uses one layer to displace the pixels of another, smoothly separating color channels to create organic, light-bending results that go far beyond standard displacement.

Powerful Red Giant tools are now easier to use, customize, and share. With Studio Custom UI Support, Capsules can now include the specialized controls you rely on in plugins like Particular, Colorista, and Universe; from color wheels and gradient controls to curve graphs and text editors.

The new interactive zoom lets your flares evolve with your focal length, adding a new level of realism to moving shots. Unlike the previous static assortment of focal length presets, you can now animate your lens flare over time to adjust to any focal length, allowing for more flexibility and control.

Real Lens Flares can now support more types of lenses than before, making it easier for you to mimic the look of what people are shooting with in the real world.  Numerous new presets allow you to directly match your flare with real-world lenses.

The number of available systems in Particular directly impacts its loading times. With this new option in Particular’s preferences, you can adjust the maximum number of systems Particular loads with to 2, 4, 8, or 16 systems. Find the ideal balance of performance and creative possibilities for your project!