Read a full list of changes in Universe 2023 in the online release notes Universe, Maxon’s online library of effects and transitions for editing and compositing software, gets 100 new presets in the Generators category, and better support for alpha layers in Media Composer. Read a full list of changes in Trapcode 2023 in the online release notes Trapcode, Maxon’s motion graphics and VFX plugins for After Effects, gets 75 mew animated sprites for 2D shapes and bursts in Particular, and load times for Particular Designer have been reduced. Read a full list of changes in Magic Bullet 2023 in the online release notes OCIO integration and support for the Looks plugin in Unreal Engine 5 have been improved, although the release notes don’t give more details, and Denoiser now works with Apple’s FxPlug plugin architecture.Īccording to Maxon’s blog post, the Halation and Diffusion tools added to Looks in Magic Bullet Suite 16.0 are also now compatible with Cinema 4D. Magic Bullet, Maxon’s colour correction tools for compositing and editing software, gets workflow improvements and support for new host apps. Under the previous naming convention, the releases would have been Magic Bullet Suite 17.0, Trapcode Suite 19.0, Universe 7.0 and VFX Suite 5.0. Some of the individual products within the Red Giant collection also have new official names, with Magic Bullet Suite becoming Magic Bullet, Trapcode Suite becoming Trapcode, and VFX Suite becoming plain VFX.

One of the most obvious changes in the release is the version numbering, Maxon having just switched to annual versioning across all of its products, with the exception of the Redshift renderer. The was announced as part of Maxon’s Fall 2022 product releases, which include Cinema 4D 2023, and new versions of the firm’s mobile apps, Forger 2023 and Moves by Maxon 2023. The changes are largely workflow improvements and bugfixes, with Trapcode also getting 75 new animated sprites, and Universe getting 100 new presets for Generators. Maxon has released Red Giant 2023, the latest version of its collection of effects plugins, along with new versions of four of its individual products: Magic Bullet 2023, Trapcode 2023, Universe 2023 and VFX 2023. The section on Red Giant 2023 starts at 14:40. Maxon’s launch video for its Fall 2022 product updates.

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