This release marks a major step forward in creative flexibility, with the introduction of powerful new effects and transitions designed to elevate your visual storytelling. From the bold stylization of Mosaic and RGB Split FX to the precision of Channel Mix and Clone FX, these additions open new doors for artistic control.
We’ve also enhanced many existing plugins with advanced parameters and improved behaviors, giving users more ways to fine-tune their work. Below, you’ll find a full overview of the latest features, refinements, and key fixes included in this update.
New Effects and Transitions:
- Mosaic FX & Mosaic Impacts: A fresh take on the classic mosaic look with square or hexagon tiles, rotation options, lighting effects, and organic warping. Available both as a visual effect and as a transition
- Glint FX: Adds dynamic sparkle and shine with focus masking, directional glints, and chromatic aberration controls
- RGB Split FX: Offers stylized RGB displacement with per-channel control, falloff masking, and motion options
- Channel Mix FX: Enables custom color channel mapping in RGB, HSV, or YUV space—suitable for correction or creative use
- Clone FX: Lets users duplicate and animate any object with offset timing and randomized or targeted movement
Enhancements to Existing Plugins:
- Glow Impacts: Added parameters for temperature, desaturation, and chromatic aberration
- Chaos Impacts: Now includes strobe intensity, contrast, exposure, and desaturation controls
- Grow FX & Shrink FX: Introduced a target overlay to focus viewer attention with visual guidance
- Panel Impacts: Expanded color control for more expressive transitions
- Plateau Wipe, Page Peel & Slice Impacts: Now supports randomized section variations for added visual energy
- Auto Align FX: Supports external layer referencing for aligning and tracking elements
- Rays Impacts: New options for ambient color, softness, chromatic aberration, and blend modes
- Push Impacts & Roll Impacts: Added support for rolling shutter effects
- Dissolve & Luma Fade Impacts: Now feature a focal point system to localize transition behavior
Key Dot Releases:
25.2.7:
- Hotfix: Data synchronisation timeout
25.2.6:
- Fixed: UI-rendering causing stack overflows with specific Nvidia drivers.
- Chroma Leaks: Fixed transition alignment issue at 0% and 100%.
- Internal optimizations
25.2.5:
- Dissolve and Luma Fade: Improved focal point size and shape.
- Error reporter allows for adding custom data
- Several internal improvements
25.2.4:
- First official public release
25.2.1-3:
- Internal releases for alpha- and beta-testing
