Structure preservation

When packing and unpacking objects in and out of multi-track chapter objects and Flexi-Collages, existing track arrangements and distances are now taken into account in the best possible way. This means that when adding or removing containers, the arrangement of your objects and their already coordinated timing is always retained. The additional option of converting chapter objects into Flexi-Collages also enables faster, more intuitive working.

• Combine selection into chapter, Flexi-Collage, 3D scene (Stages) while preserving structure
• Unpack chapters, flexi-collages, 3D scenes while preserving structure
• Convert chapters into Flexi-Collages and vice versa

New effects: "Knitting patterns"

The new live effect "Kniting patterns", which primarily transforms photos, text and backgrounds into woolly stitch patterns, conveys warmth and coziness. Without having to reach for knitting needles and balls of wool yourself, you can create great surface effects with up to four colors. Slight distortions and irregularities give you small imperfections that make the effect look even more realistic. So you can say for your next project: Handmade with love!

• your image motif as a knitting pattern, also for animations and videos
• up to four individual colors can be selected or original colors retained
• from fine knit to chunky knit: pattern thickness adjustable

New effects: "Glitch"

The live effect "Glitch" creates random image distortion effects on your photos, videos and texts. Pixelated color shifts in the RGB range, noise and brightness fluctuations add up to an eye-catching, animated effect.

• Adjust fineness and thickness horizontally/vertically
• influence fluctuation duration and distance
• can be animated with keyframes

Smarties

Smarties - a new type of template building blocks - help with quick design. Originally created to allow users to customize their results in AquaSoft Transcriptor they now also offer Stages users a way to reach their goal faster. Instead of an image, a color area or a color gradient, you now use the background smartie and choose from a gallery of all background options and quickly switch between the variants and settings in search of the best background for your project.

• Backgrounds Smartie for static, dynamic and effect backgrounds
• place symbols or your own logo with the Logo object
• more Smarties for content, effects and texts
• save Smarties with your own settings as a Mini-template
• Smarties for optimum compatibility with AquaSoft Transcriptor

Text-to-speech

Let your PC speak. The new Text-to-speech object speaks your entered text in several voices and languages.

• several voices to choose from
• selectable output languages
• convert texts of any length into sound (text-to-speech)
• fast generation directly from your PC without the cloud

Subtitles for videos / text with timing

The new version provides you with powerful tools for creating subtitles for videos or designing karaoke videos. Control the insertion of text down to the individual letters. Texts can be divided into blocks and these can be further divided into segments and precisely timed and animated.

• Split texts into any number of blocks that are displayed one after the other
• Dividing texts into segments (within a block), which enables the temporal representation of individual words, word groups or even letters
• Text animation for blocks or segments
• Perfect for displaying subtitles for videos to match the speaker
• also ideal for karaoke videos
• Texts with timing directly visible in Timeline and timing editable
• Line breaks within a paragraph possible (Shift + Enter)

Text animations

Create animations for your titles and captions even more harmoniously and with new control options.

• selectable timing curve for text animation for smooth movements (smooth start and stop)
• Text can be faded in backwards
• Alignment during animation can be set horizontally and vertically.
• new animation start position can be set: relative to the letter position
• Zoom and rotation based on text and segment center (word, line, paragraph, etc.) possible

Video output in even better quality

Even better quality is possible thanks to supersampling and two-pass encoding.

• Video export possible using two-pass encoding
• Video rendering with supersampling for even better quality. The image is calculated with higher details and then scaled down to the target resolution.

Route animation / Decorated path

The objects around the decorated path offer completely new design possibilities:

• 77 new path styles
• Path can be animated by moving its content (Marching Ants)
• Path width adjustable via a curve
• Path can be shortened back to a point at the end of its animation
• existing path styles optimized for higher resolutions

Color gradient with patterns

Color gradients as elements for effects and backgrounds with their shapes can now do more - by using less. If you reduce colors, various patterns stylize the color transition. The same new patterns are also available for the gradient conversion effect.

• 15 different methods and patterns of color transition (for Gradient and Gradient Mapping)
• adjustable pattern size
• Pattern reversible
• additional blend modes (multiplication, subtraction)

Camera flight in 3D and 2D

To pan across a large number of subjects distributed in 2D or 3D space, you can either create paths yourself or use the new 2D camera pan and 3D camera pan objects, which automatically calculate the camera movement.

• 2D camera pan flies from image to image on one layer.
• adjustable panning duration
• Return to the starting point or uninterrupted flight possible
• Background scene can be defined (e.g. a map).
• 3D camera pan flies to object in space.
• New menu item "Action / Distribute images in 3D space" places all selected objects randomly in 3D space - ideal for 3D camera panning

Intelligently adjust duration

Is an animation too short or too long? Whether an object or an entire collage, you can use the "Intelligently change duration" function to easily adjust the duration, taking into account all curves and much more.

• The duration of each object can be "intelligently adjusted" via a button next to the object duration in the properties.
• Entire Flexi-Collages or chapters including all child elements can also be edited.
• Scaling of playback speed possible
• adjusts curves of effects

New mask effect "Static mask"

Apply a mask to videos and photos with just one click. Conveniently change the mask image from a gallery or choose your own.

• New object "Static mask" for videos and photos
• Easy application by dragging and dropping from the Toolbox onto a video or image
• Over 100 new masks (usable in the new mask effect or image effects)

Modern design

The user interface has become much more modern.

• A total of 8 different designs available - four in elegant blue tone and four neutral gray designs
• User interface completely redesigned for more clarity and better readability due to adjusted contrasts
• Use of modern fonts

Integration with Adobe Premiere Pro and OpenFX plugin

If you use other programs for video editing, you can now create animations with AquaSoft Vision and directly include them in other applications - without waiting, conversion or quality loss. For example, you can create a title animation or lower third in Vision and use it with transparency and in high quality in other applications. If you modify your Vision project, the changes will be immediately visible in the other program.

Use Vision projects within Adobe Premiere Pro

• Including transparencies
• High precision (up to 32 bit color depth per channel)
• Custom import resolution
• Sound is also imported

OpenFX plug-in for programs like DaVinci Resolve, Vegas, Natron etc.

• Vision projects can be integrated directly into the third-party program via plug-in.
• Filter function: Vision can accept an input image from a third-party program and use and modify it as desired in the Timeline using the "External contents" object - even multiple times.

Optimized Timeline

• Crisp display in each of the three Timeline styles
• Distinct colors in the Timeline ensure good distinction of the elements
• Improved drag and drop from Toolbox and file browser

New extension packages available

Version 13 extends its capabilities which are used by the three new extension packages:

• 3D elements
• Particle Magic
• Audio+

3D - your photos in a new dimension

With Photo Vision, Video Vision and Stages, your animations will reach a new level. You can arrange and animate photos, videos and graphics in all three dimensions.

• Create parallax effects that add a sense of wonder and excitement to your presentation.
• The new effect "3D cube" can show 6 photos simultaneously and animate them as a rotating cube.
• Create a virtual photo wall with the new "3D strip" effect.
• "3D scene" object with real 3D editor enables the animation of photos, videos and texts in space, including correct depth sorting and transparencies.

Movements as smooth as butter with Motion Blur

Razor sharp or naturally smooth - decide whether animations and camera pans appear with motion blur or hyper-realistic. No more moiré effects on zooms and pans across detailed or complex shapes.

• Export entire projects with motion blur
• Moiré effects during zooms are a thing of the past
• Even when panning, individual images or videos blend into each other so smoothly that the viewer's eye can fully engage with the actual content.
• You determine the strength of the Motion Blur yourself.

Adjust and change colors -
for photos and videos

Camera model or lighting conditions are different, skin tones look unnatural, a cinematic look is missing? Color grading can change the color tones of a photo or video. This creates a completely new visual impression.

• Easily apply color effects to a single or multiple objects at once via live effect.
• 15 ready-made styles are included.
• Load other color tables into the LUT effect (images, cube files, ICC profiles)
• Create your own variants with the integrated editor

Layout effect -
fits together perfectly

Bring your images and videos together in the new layout effect. Create dynamic galleries and collages with fixed or automatically created arrangements, where images can also swap places.

• Multiple photos or even videos combine to form one unified impression.
• Layouts can be nested within each other as desired.
• Directed or random arrangement
• Determine margins, internal spacing, rows, columns and animation
• The automatic image swap function is an eye-catcher!
• Aspect ratio for the contained elements selectively or automatically adjustable

More color and image effects

In version 13, you will find many new image effects in the Toolbox as well as a new dynamic rectangle shape that allows you to design countless color backgrounds and Lower thirds yourself.

• 61 new image effects in the Toolbox (51 color gradients, 2 frames, 7 masks and one color)
• New Dynamic shape "Color gradient" with any number of colors in the gradient shapes Linear, Bi-Linear, Spiral and Circle
• Own image effect can be applied and edited to tile graphics in the Live effect "Texture tiles".
• Save image including applied effects from Image editor
• BitmapFX effect "Color gradient" with any number of colors, in different shapes: Linear, Bi-Linear, Spiral, Circle

More export options

Get the most out of your project: still images, collages, teasers and individual video parts from long shows.

• Single frame export at the Playhead position by right-clicking
• Partial export of individual project sections by entering the time in the Video Wizard
• Export WebM videos and image sequences with transparency
• Video generation from Playhead position
• Video generation between split Playhead