Update: Film Impact v4.7 – New Features and Additions

Great news everyone! With the 4.7 update, the entire framework has been fortified and new features are added to Motion Camera, Slice Impacts, Louvre Impacts, Page Peel Impacts, Wave Impacts, and many more!

Here is what’s new in version 4.7:

• Every plugin support native CUDA, OpenCL, and Apple Metal (We support Apple M1 ever since version 4.5.3)
• Point control parameter controls now give visual feedback
• Motion Camera: Vertigo feature and presets
• Slice Impacts: Position Control, Variation controls, and Edge Behavior selection
• Louvre Impacts: Variation and center controls + Improved Dolly behavior
• Block Motion, Flip Motion: Added Dolly Feature
• Chaos Impacts: Master Slider — One control that raises or lowers the chaotic impact
• Improved rendering and speed on the following plugins:
  • Motion Camera
  • 3D Roll Impacts
  • Louvre Impacts
  • Slice Impacts
  • Page Peel Impacts
  • Stretch Wipe Impacts
  • Kaleido Impacts

Future-Proofing Film Impacts Technology

With version 4.7 we’ve moved away from OpenGL entirely. From now on, all Film Impacts plugins are native CUDA, OpenCL, and Apple Metal plugins.

The new update perfectly integrates with the Adobe Mercury GPU render engine and as a result, our plugins got an improvement in speed and rendering.

And if you are not into the technicalities of things, let me try to explain in plain English what this means for you – the professional video editor using our Film Impacts technology.

OpenGL was once the industry standard for High-Performance Graphics. It used to be loved by every self-respecting developer.

It enabled fast rendering of 2D and 3D graphic vectors by communicating directly with the GPU (the graphics processor) via an API (application programming interface) and many of the best-known video games and programs used to run on OpenGL.

Some of the popular games running on OpenGL were Doom and Minecraft and some of the popular programs were AutoCAD, 3D Studio Max, and of course Premiere Pro itself!

Yes! Premiere Pro used to rely heavily on OpenGL at the time and for good reason. But times changed and new, better alternatives to OpenGL popped up…

The Fall of OpenGL And The Rise of CUDA, OpenCL, And Apple Metal

As time went on it seemed like technology was evolving faster than OpenGL could handle. Soon OpenGL was slower than it used to be. The functionalities it had were no longer enough for many of the new applications.

We needed a new GPU empowering platform to free us from the limitations OpenGL had, to express our full creativity as creators.

And speaking of freedom for our creativity, isn’t exactly this that you want? To express yourself deep from within? To show the world what you’re made of? We get it, we are creators too.

And for us, creators, is important to have the tools needed to express our creativity fully, uninterrupted and unchained by any limitations or blocks.

This is exactly what our new Film Impacts update is all about at its core – Freedom.

And freedom is exactly the reason why many professional companies slowly started moving away from OpenGL into the so-called Compute Unified Device Architecture or CUDA.

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