What's new

The latest version is 2.8.0. The editor tells you when an update is ready, or download it here.

2.8 Bending surfaces, flowing particles and shape grids

Mesh tracking that bends. The mesh now bends and folds with moving surfaces like flags, cloth and faces, and stays steady when something passes in front. A Stiffness setting decides how freely it bends.
Swirling particle flow. Curl flow carries particles along a smooth swirl, for smoke, ink in water and flowing dust.
Fine dust. Draw hundreds of thousands of small particles for dense smoke, sand and star fields.
Ribbons along a path. Particles flowing along a drawn path can be held close to it, so they form a tight ribbon with a spray around it.
New particle presets. Flowing ribbon, Ink ribbon, Smoke ring, Dust stream, Gold bloom and Rain dripping from a layer.
Shape grid. Rows and columns of circles, squares, diamonds, crosses and more, rippling with a wave that grows, turns, fades and highlights them. It loops by itself.
Dashed lines. Dashes, dots and dash-dot strokes on shapes and paths, with dashes that march along the line.
Text on a path. Draw a path on a text layer and the letters follow it, and can keep flowing along it.
Faster. Quicker exports, tracking, roto brush and particles.

Faster everywhere. Exports read video straight from your files with the graphics card, and tracking, the roto brush and particles run several times faster.
Bigger meshes. Mesh tracking grids of up to 24 by 24 points.
Clipping masks. With Show inside, the shape or text can now stay visible with the other layer showing on top of it, inside its shape.
Gradient shapes. Rectangles, ellipses and pen paths can be filled with linear or radial gradients.
More particle shapes. Triangle, diamond, hexagon and heart.

Text is never cut off. Long lines and wide paragraph boxes show in full, even past the frame.
Hover previews. Titles, text animations and templates play when you move the mouse over them.
News scroll. Text that scrolls right to left, left to right, up like credits or down, and a ready-made News ticker title.
Animated shape size. Keyframe the width, height, corners and stroke of rectangles and ellipses.
Several keyframes at once. Drag a box around keyframes, or Shift + click them, then move or delete them together.
Bins. Right-click the empty part of the Media tab to make a bin, and drag files onto it.

Planar tracking. Track a screen, sign or wall as a whole surface. It ignores things passing in front and does not drift, and the corners may even be hidden.
Mesh tracking. A grid that follows surfaces which are not flat, and warps your layer onto them.
Templates library. Templates are kept in their own library, so every project can use them. Save the selected layers or a whole composition.
Paragraph text. Text that wraps inside a box. Drag the sides of the box in the viewer to change its width.
Gradient color mattes. Solid, linear in any direction, or radial.
Viewer zoom and pan. Scroll to zoom and drag with the middle mouse button to see paths and masks outside the frame.
Move a whole mask. Alt + click a mask to move, resize and rotate it at once.
Delete media from the keyboard. Select files in the Media tab and press Delete or Backspace.

Roto brush. Paint a few strokes over a person or object and the cut-out follows it from frame to frame.
3D keyer. Draw over the green or blue screen to key every shade of it, and draw over anything of the subject that went missing to keep it.
Start-up screen. A small window shows what is loading while the editor starts.