Universe 2024.1 delivers powerful new tools— and Bokeh Transition —and a major backend refactoring to improve rendering speed, making it an essential update for creators working in Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve. New Tools in Universe 2024.1 1. Bokeh Plugin: Dreamy Depth of Field
Beyond new visual tools, this release rebuilds the underlying engine of Universe. The are the first to utilize a brand-new performance framework. This new architecture provides editors and compositors with a significantly more responsive, real-time experience when using Maxon products.
Use and the new Symbol Capsules to build informational graphics quickly. This keeps viewers engaged without requiring hours of custom animation in After Effects. For Music Video and Film Colorists Red Giant Universe 2024.1
Red Giant Universe 2024.1 offers a range of benefits for astrophotographers, from beginners to professionals. Some of the key advantages include:
What do you primary create? (Social media, film, corporate, music videos) Universe 2024
: Built natively on the updated rendering core, it renders blurred areas swiftly, eliminating long pre-render wait times. 2. The Bokeh Transition
In VFX and motion graphics, you often build a beautiful lens flare or glow inside Universe, but when you render out passes (for color grading or compositing in another software), the UI elements (lens dirt, prism artifacts, glow spread) are baked into the beauty pass. You lose control. The are the first to utilize a brand-new
Connects with Maxon's cloud asset library for easy access to new materials and presets.
Leveraging Maxon’s continued investment in hardware optimization, Universe 2024.1 delivers up to 40% faster renders on Apple M2/M3 chips (Metal) and NVIDIA RTX series cards (CUDA). Key plugins including Glow , Finisher , and Chromatic Displacement now process 4K footage in real time, even on multi-layered timelines.
The "story" of Red Giant Universe 2024.1 , released by January 17, 2024 , is defined by