Red Giant 2027.0.0 - October 14, 2026

What’s New

• Scene Light 
  Relight any shot inside After Effects. Scene Light uses AI-generated depth and normal maps so light falls behind foreground objects and wraps around surfaces as it would on set. It works with your comp lights, and you can also use depth and normal passes from Cinema 4D, Redshift, or other renderers. All AI processing runs locally on your machine.
• Maxon Noise in Universe! 
  The procedural noise patterns of Cinema 4D are now in Universe. Maxon Noise gives a library of GPU-accelerated, customizable noise patterns for textures, organic motion, animated maps, transitions, particle drivers, and abstract effects. Controls for scale, complexity, color, animation speed, looping, and blending let you move from subtle surface detail to bold procedural visuals in your favorite host.
• Custom Schmutz Textures and New Light Sources in Real Lens Flares
  Turn any layer into a custom Schmutz texture, including animated layers like dust, water drops, or grime, and it will interact naturally with your flare. New light source types emulate tungsten, fluorescent, LED, HMI, sodium vapor, fire, and more.
• Chromatic Displacement Now in Autograph!
  Chromatic Displacement uses one layer to displace another while separating color channels, producing organic, prismatic, light-bending results. Use it for force fields, heat ripples, refractions, transitions, and logo reveals, now inside Autograph.
• Custom UI Support for Red Giant Plugins in Maxon Studio
  Capsules in Maxon Studio can now include specialized controls from plugins like Particular, Colorista, and Universe: color wheels, gradient controls, curve graphs, and text editors. Complex effect setups can be packaged into focused interfaces that show only the controls you need, without exposing every parameter. That makes Capsules easier to use, reuse, and adapt across projects.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue in 3D Stroke to allow negative values for Transform > Bend
• Fixed an issue in Horizon, Shine, and Starglow to better display Japanese characters
• Fixed an issue in Particular where migrating projects with precomps produced an error
• Fixed an issue in Studio where selecting Controls in Edit mode was not working
• Fixed an issue in Universe Bokeh that could cause playback errors in Premiere Pro
• Fixed an issue in Universe Modes where some presets were not applying as expected

Known Issues

• Sometimes a custom preset in Maxon Studio will be missing a preview thumbnail after saving.
• The Edge Smoothing parameter in Scene Light is currently broken.
• When using scene light, the place a spot or point light buttons can cause AE to freeze in non English languages.
• On some machines Depth Generator’s Render to Comp feature will crash AE when it completes.

System Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• Windows with NVIDIA GPU: GPU must be of the Maxwell generation or newer and have at least 4GB of VRAM
• Windows with Intel or AMD GPU: Discrete GPU with at least 4GB VRAM and support for OpenCL

Supported Hosts

• Autograph 2026, 2027
• After Effects CC 2025, CC 2026
• Premiere Pro CC 2025, CC 2026
• DaVinci Resolve 20, 21
• Apple Final Cut Pro 11.x, 12.x
• Apple Motion 5.x, 6.x
• Avid Media Composer 2025.x, 2026.x
• Cinema 4D R26 and later
• Unreal 4.27, Unreal 5 (Except 5.5+)

For a more detailed compatibility overview, visit the Red Giant compatibility table.