The other updates were smaller, with Magic Bullet Suite 15 adding support for After Effects’ experimental multi-frame rendering system, native support for new M1-based Macs, and GPU acceleration for several of its key plugins via Apple’s Metal API. VFX Suite 2 introduced Bang, a new procedural gun muzzle flare generator. In the case of Trapcode Suite 17, that means a more unified workflow between particle effects plugins Particular and Form, and new particle flocking options in Particular. The change means that the latest features in the plugin suites are only available to Maxon subscribers.

New subscriber-only features of Trapcode Suite 17, VFX Suite 2, Magic Bullet Suite 15 and Universe 5 Of the other products acquired by Maxon following last year’s merger with Red Giant, plugin library Universe has been subscription-only since 2016.Īudio sync tool PluralEyes got its most recent major update the same year, so the perpetual licence available in Maxon’s e-store is still for the current version. When we contacted Maxon to ask whether perpetual licences had been discontinued, the firm replied: “Yes, it was decided to not offer a perpetual version of the individual suites.” We only spotted it had happened when we realised that Maxon’s online store isn’t listing perpetual licences of the latest versions of the three plugin collections: only of the previous releases. Unlike with Redshift, Maxon doesn’t seem to have announced the change in advance. The change makes Trapcode Suite, VFX Suite and Magic Bullet Suite the latest Maxon products to go subscrption-only, following the firm’s recent decision to drop perpetual licences of the Redshift renderer.

The latest Maxon products to go subscription-only The decision became clear with this week’s release of the latest versions of the plugin collections, which are available only via the firm’s Red Giant Complete and Maxon One subscriptions. Maxon has discontinued perpetual licences of Trapcode Suite, VFX Suite and Magic Bullet Suite, the collections of effects and colour grading plugins that it acquired in its recent merger with Red Giant.

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