Professional tools for filmmakers, YouTubers, broadcast teams, and video creators.
Red Giant consolidates cinematic color grading, particle effects, intelligent transitions, and more into a single plugin ecosystem that lives inside the software you already use. Whether you edit in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut Pro, and add effects in Autograph or After Effects, Red Giant plugs directly into your timeline. Create stunning videos, faster.
Video editing software is a type of application used to arrange and manipulate video footage and audio after it has been recorded. It allows users to cut, trim, and combine clips, add effects, transitions, and titles, adjust color and audio, and export finished videos in various formats for different platforms. Video editing software can range from beginner-friendly tools to professional-grade solutions and is used for projects like movies, TV shows, commercials, and social media content.
Spice up your video editing with the help of Maxon Red Giant’s comprehensive toolkit featuring advanced color grading capabilities, smooth transitions, 3D particle simulations, blurs and glows, distortions, tools to stylize your footage, and more.
Benefits
Streamline your entire video editing workflow with a unified toolkit designed for speed and creativity. With Red Giant, Universe, and Maxon Studio working together, you can move seamlessly from rough cuts to final polish, adding effects, motion graphics, and finishing touches without switching tools or slowing down your process.
Red Giant gives you a complete set of tools for professional color work and finishing. Magic Bullet Looks and Colorista provide precise grading control, while Film adds authentic film emulation. Denoiser cleans up noise, Mojo creates fast stylized grades, and Cosmo enhances natural skin tones. Together, they make it easy to shape polished, cinematic color inside your editing workflow.
Maxon Studio templates make it easy to create polished motion graphics without starting from scratch. Built for speed and consistency, they let artists quickly customize titles, transitions, and graphic elements directly inside the project timeline. With a flexible, modular design system, Maxon Studio helps streamline production, reduce repetitive work, and keep projects moving from concept to final delivery faster.
Our Users
Capabilities
Magic Bullet Looks combines film emulation, LUT application, and intuitive color grading into a single panel. It ships with dozens of pre-built looks inspired by classic films, noir, documentary, indie, and lets you customize them intuitively. Red Giant also includes core tools like Mojo for fast cinematic grading, Cosmo for skin retouching, Denoiser for cleaning up noisy footage, Film for authentic film-style response, and Renoiser for adding controlled grain and texture.
Red Giant Universe includes a growing library of over 100 GPU-accelerated tools designed for fast, modern video editing workflows. Tools like Glitch, Blur, VHS, Texturize, Holomatrix, Chromatic Aberration, Retrograde, Edge Glow, Unmult, and Heatwave, let editors quickly build stylized transitions, motion graphics, and effects directly in the timeline. By leveraging GPU performance, these tools deliver real-time feedback and smooth playback, making it easy to experiment, iterate, and finish high-quality visuals without slowing down production.
Red Giant provides a powerful set of VFX tools including Supercomp, Real Lens Flares, Spot Clone Tracker, King Pin Tracker, Chromatic Displacement, Depth Generator and more that are designed for film, broadcast, and motion graphics, helping artists create high-end visual effects directly in the editing timeline.
Maxon Studio is a template-driven motion graphics tool for video editing that helps creators build professional titles, transitions, and broadcast-ready graphics quickly using pre-built, fully customizable design systems. It streamlines motion design by removing complex setup while still allowing deep creative control over style, layout, and animation.
For more detailed work, Autograph provides free compositing and motion design tools that make enhancing footage simpler than ever. Access dozens of animation presets, explore native GPU-optimized Modifiers (effects), and even create responsive design compositions to render in multiple formats. Add your favorite effects and transitions with native support for Universe and Red Giant OFX tools as well as support for third-party OpenFX plugins, including those from RE:Vision Effects, BorisFX, and Digital Anarchy.
Our Solutions
Modern video editing demands speed, flexibility, and high-end visual polish under tight deadlines. Tools from Red Giant bring cinematic color and effects directly into your timeline, while Universe adds fast transitions and motion graphics elements without slowing performance. For more advanced workflows, Autograph enables procedural compositing and design, and Maxon Studio streamlines the creation of polished, reusable graphics. Together, these tools help editors move quickly from rough cut to final delivery while maintaining a professional, cinematic finish.
Red Giant enables video editors to achieve cinematic color grading, stylized film looks, and high-end visual effects that elevate raw footage into polished, professional-quality shots with speed and precision across demanding production workflows.
Universe provides fast, GPU-accelerated transitions, effects, and motion graphics tools that work directly in the editing timeline, allowing creators to build dynamic visuals, animated titles, and engaging sequences without slowing down production.
Autograph delivers a powerful workflow for motion design and compositing, giving editors and artists deep control over layered visuals, procedural animation, and complex scene building for advanced creative storytelling.
Maxon One brings together industry-leading tools into a unified ecosystem, combining color, effects, motion graphics, and compositing so editors can move seamlessly from concept to final delivery within a single integrated workflow.
Tutorials
Get up to speed with professional video editing and motion graphics workflows using step-by-step tutorials for Red Giant, Universe, Maxon Studio, and Autograph. Whether you are creating cinematic looks, building transitions, working with templates, or compositing 2D and 3D motion graphics, these resources are designed to help you learn by doing.
How our tools are used
From our users
Use Cases
Agencies produce spots with cinematic finishes and tight revisions cycles. Visual polish directly impacts perceived client value. Tools like Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks and Universe transitions and effects deliver premium color and effects in minutes, enabling fast exploration without timeline bloat.
Content creators publish content frequently. Consistency and speed are critical. Red Giant and Universe tool presets give creators a signature look that builds audience recognition, while GPU accelerated effects keep render times under control.
Visual polish directly shapes audience perception and storytelling impact. Tools like Red Giant are used for color grading and effects, Universe for fast transitions and stylization, Autograph for procedural compositing, and Maxon Studio for broadcast graphics enable efficient workflows, supporting rapid creative exploration without slowing down the edit.
Indie filmmakers shoot on tight budgets but want feature-quality visuals. Tools like Red Giant s Magic Bullet Looks bring broadcast-grade color grading and cinematic finishes without requiring weeks of node-based color work.
How it works
Maxon’s video editing tools work together to let you create a simple, connected workflow that combines effects, motion design, presets and scalable templates. With Red Giant, Universe, and Maxon Studio working together, you can quickly add professional-grade visuals, experiment with creative looks, and build reusable motion graphics systems inside your existing editing environment.
Download the Maxon App and run the Red Giant installer. One installer covers all Red Giant and Universe plugins across your NLEs. No separate downloads per suite.
After installation, open your editor's Effects panel. Red Giant plugins now appear alongside native effects. Add tools like Universe transitions and effects into your timeline, or access Magic Bullet Looks or Denoiser from your color correction panel. The plugins behave exactly like native effects.
Getting started with Red Giant presets and Maxon Studio templates is a fast way to elevate your edits without building from scratch. Apply cinematic looks, effects, and ready-made motion graphics, then customize them to fit your style while delivering polished results quickly.
If you re working with Cinema 4D for designing motion graphics, Redshift for GPU rendering, Autograph for compositing, or ZBrush for character design, Maxon One bundles all of them with Red Giant. One subscription covers your entire creative toolkit.
Start with your workflow: Do you cut documentaries, commercials, social media, or feature films? Each has different demands. A professional editor needs three things: a powerful NLE to organize and arrange footage, real-time performance to stay in rhythm with your edit, and professional effects to distinguish your work. Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and DaVinci Resolve are the industry leaders because they handle massive timelines. But what separates a good edit from a great one is the finishing work: color grading, effects, and transitions. That s where Red Giant comes in. You pick your NLE based on your hardware and preferences (Mac users often choose Final Cut Pro; cross-platform teams choose Premiere). Use Red Giant plugins to add cinematic finishes without leaving your timeline.
Red Giant is built for professional-grade NLEs that support plugin standards. DaVinci Resolve offers a free tier and supports OFX-based Red Giant tools like Magic Bullet Looks, making it a strong entry point for high-end editing and color work. Hollywood colorists widely use Resolve across professional productions. If you are starting with a fully free option, Resolve is a smart choice for compatibility and creative control.
In addition, Autograph is a free tool in the Maxon lineup that expands access to motion graphics and compositing workflows. It is designed to work as a modern hub for 2D and 3D motion graphics, giving you another powerful option for creating and refining visuals without upfront cost.
Other free or prosumer editors like CapCut, iMovie, and Windows Photos are not supported by Red Giant tools.
Faster turnaround and better visual results directly translate into more billable work, more output, or higher client satisfaction. A freelance editor who can apply effects and preview changes in real time instead of waiting for long exports can finish projects sooner and take on more work. A YouTube creator who applies cinematic color grading in seconds instead of minutes can publish more frequently and stay consistent. For B2B work such as corporate video, commercials, and broadcast, higher visual quality also helps elevate perceived production value and client confidence.
Red Giant are built to go deeper in specific creative areas such as stylized looks, transitions, and motion design. Instead of spending time stacking multiple native effects to achieve a single result, you can use purpose-built tools that deliver polished visuals faster and with more control. Plugins are also optimized for creative iteration, giving you faster previews, higher-quality presets, and more advanced controls for tasks like color grading, film looks, particles, and motion-based effects. This means less time troubleshooting setups and more time refining the creative direction. In professional pipelines, tools like Red Giant are used to extend what an NLE can do, filling gaps in native toolsets while maintaining consistency across projects and teams.
Bring your edits, motion graphics, and finishing together with Red Giant, Autograph, and Maxon Studio.
Add high-quality effects, streamline compositing, and scale your content with templates built for modern workflows.
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