Maxon Red Giant updates provide fast, beautiful shot and realistic lens halos

Maxon began enhancing support for the Unreal Engine in Magic Bullet Looks and Maxon Cloud Capsule in Trapcode in 2024.

Highlights include two new fast rendering Universe scatter tools for creating beautiful blurs, depth of field, and transitions; For Real Lens Flares and users who urgently need shading, the projection of the photosphere core; Rebuild the color management integration of Magic Bullet Looks; Maxon Cloud Capsule support in Trapcode; And the new Tracker Only mode of Spot Clone Tracker.

This version provides new and higher-level image enhancement features and tools for all types of editors, filmmakers, synthesizers, and content creators, which will further enhance their choices in a wide range of creative applications.

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UNIVERSE

The new shot plugin allows artists to quickly create beautiful shots and mimic camera focus without the need for complex camera lens settings.

Bokeh Transition is a variant of the Bokeh plugin that helps artists seamlessly transition between two clips using dazzling defocus effects.

The enhancement of the Universe underlying framework provides a real-time experience for Maxon products for non-linear editors and synthesizers. These two new plugins add uni Blur is built on new performance frameworks.

MAGIC BULLET

The updates include a more user-friendly color management experience and an integration update for the Unreal Engine.

The brand new and simplified Magic Bullet Looks color management enables artists to achieve their goals faster.

Enhanced support for the integration of Unreal Engine (UE), enabling users to fully utilize Looks with the latest version of UE.

VFX REAL LENS FLARES

Now there are options for masking and photosphere core projection.

Masking is as groundbreaking as Real Lens Flares themselves. When light passes through complex shapes, observe changes in flare and reflection shapes and beautiful deformations.

Art guides sunlight through new light ball core projection options, making streetlights lifelike and giving flares a realistic presence in the scene.

VFX SPOT CLONE TRACKER

Make your tracking game more powerful with the new Tracker Only feature.

Process multiple tracks on a clip while using the new Create null and Clear Track buttons to remove empty tracks.

Use Spot Clone Tracker to gain more features and quickly clone shapes suitable for difficult to reach positions.

The tracker only feature is particularly useful for After Effects users, as it allows artists to hide all non tracking related parameters and only expose necessary controls. Process multiple tracks on a clip while using the new Create Empty Track and Clear Track buttons to eliminate empty tracks.

The roundness of the shape is a new independent parameter used to determine the roundness of tracked and cloned shapes. Get more features from Spot Clone Tracker and quickly clone shapes that are difficult to fit.

TRAPCODE

Trapcode updates include optimized multi frame rendering across multiple threads, new cloud service support, and new sprites.

Preferred has now been optimized for multi-threaded and multi frame rendering.

The new asset browser refresh enables Maxon to provide assets to all Trapcode asset browsers except for Form through the cloud. Artists can now find perfect sprites, models, curves, or gradients in the constantly expanding Maxon Cloud Capsule service.

Maxon emphasized Trapcode's new cloud service support, adding two new categories for sprites: emoticons and pixel art.