Creativity isn’t static—it’s a living, breathing force. At Film Impact, we believe that even the sharpest tools deserve to be honed. That’s why we’re thrilled to introduce 2025.1: The Refinement Update, a major leap forward for our Transition plugins, packed with features designed to amplify your storytelling.
What’s in the Update?
We didn’t just patch things up—we reimagined them. Every adjustment is rooted in real-world feedback from artists like you, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in post-production. Now, what did we do?
- Revamped Essentials Collection: We’ve re-examined many plugins, enhancing both usability and creative flexibility.
- Natural Dissolve Mode: A game-changer in Dissolve Impacts, offering smoother transitions that mirror natural human perception.
- Chaos Impacts: Now with a distinct shake, wiggle, and dissolve controls—because chaos should be controlled when you need it to be.
- Distortion Plugins have been Reworked. From Earthquake Impacts’ vibrance slider to Glitch Impacts’ master dissolve control, distortion has never been this precise.
- Chroma Leaks & Light Leak Impacts: Enhanced with new color temperature, focus controls, and diffraction options for breathtaking visuals.
👉 Check the complete list of updates at the bottom of this blog post!
Future-proof, backward-compatible
Your existing projects are sacred. We’ve ensured that all updates are nonintrusive, so your current timelines will stay exactly as you left them—unless you decide to unleash the new features.
Why this matters
This isn’t just an update; it’s a statement. A commitment to continuous evolution, to making sure that every transition you apply isn’t just functional—it’s cinematic.
Ready to dive in?
Discover the Update and let your creativity flow without limits. While you’re at it, please leave a review. Thanks!
Check the entire list of updated plugins!
- Improved UI and Surprise Me! behavior for all Essential Transitions
- Chaos Impacts: Added shake and Dissolve Time controls
- Luma fade: New dissolve sample mode
- Copy Machine is now Neon Wipe: Beam Intensity slider added
- Burn Alpha: Dissolve Time
- Linear/Star/Clock Wipe: Edge Softness is now named Repeat Feather
- Burn Chroma, Burn Alpha, Flash - The master slider is now called the "intensity slider."
- Dissolve: Added Natural Dissolve mode
- Neon Wipe: Preserve Alpha, Alpha Blend, and Blend Mode features added
- Frame: added Reveal Mode dropdown to simulate single-sided behavior
- Blur Dissolve: Blur Duration and Dissolve time now via Curves
- Blur to Color: Blur Duration and Dissolve time now via Curves
- Glass Impacts: Softness and Chromatic Aberration features
- Glitch Impacts: Vertical Line feature + master now also controls dissolve time to help tone down the glitching
- Flicker Impacts: Strobe intensity + Master controls
- Earthquake - Added vibrance feature + fixed screen-blending issue
- Phosphore: Added Combined sampling type
- Chroma Leaks: Color temperature, desaturation, blend modes
- Glow Impacts: Added blend modes (Screen and Add)
- Transformers: Page Peel - Backside softness + Surprise me! Tweaks on dolly and backside opacity
- Motion - Grow/Shrink FX: improved sampling
- Motion Camera: Improved user UI, Defaults + Arrow overlay
