![]() Manual control of the projector in an automated house is anathema, but we’ve basically been living with that for a long time now… It’s time to get things truly integrated. The main theater components are tucked in the furnace room, so the Harmony Hub is not impeded when IR blasting that equipment. When we installed the HTC Vive base stations in the basement, this caused interference with the Harmony remote, so IR control of the projector followed. As no one has made a Control4 to SmartThings bridge yet, the Ethernet option went out the window. It features four methods for control: Direct button control, IR Remote, Ethernet (Control 4), or Serial. It had less than 100 hours of use on it, so I was beyond thrilled to haul it home and hang it from the ceiling. I picked up a Vivitek D963HD business projector for cheap through my workplace when it was removed from use during a remodel. One of the pieces that was missing was the ability to control the projector from the SmartThings platform. It’s been a great couple of years, getting plenty of use for everything from Superbowl to Halloween Horror Fests for the neighbors and everything in between. Quite a while back, my wife and I converted our 23x15 basement into a movie theater with a projector and motorized movie screen. The latest versions of the plugin collections are available via Maxon’s Red Giant Complete subscriptions, which cost $79/month or $599/year, or via Maxon One subscriptions, which cost $149/month or $1,199/year.TL:DR I made a thing do another thing with this thing, and it worked! Perpetual licences of Trapcode Suite 16, Magic Bullet Suite 14 and VFX Suite 1.5, the previous versions of the plugin collections, are still available, and all cost $999. ![]() “While there is enough demand will still be offered.” When we asked Maxon whether there were any plans to discontinue perpetual licences of Cinema 4D, the firm told us: “There aren’t any plans to eliminate perpetual licenses yet.” ![]() The remaining Maxon product where perpetual licences are still available for the current release is 3D modeling and animation software Cinema 4D, version R25 of which also shipped this week. No plans to drop perpetual licences of Cinema 4D ‘while there is enough demand’ Universe 5 only added support for multi-frame rendering in After Effects. The other updates were smaller, with Magic Bullet Suite 15 adding support for After Effects’ experimental multi-frame rendering system, native support for new M1-based Macs, and GPU acceleration for several of its key plugins via Apple’s Metal API. VFX Suite 2 introduced Bang, a new procedural gun muzzle flare generator. In the case of Trapcode Suite 17, that means a more unified workflow between particle effects plugins Particular and Form, and new particle flocking options in Particular. The change means that the latest features in the plugin suites are only available to Maxon subscribers. New subscriber-only features of Trapcode Suite 17, VFX Suite 2, Magic Bullet Suite 15 and Universe 5 Of the other products acquired by Maxon following last year’s merger with Red Giant, plugin library Universe has been subscription-only since 2016.Īudio sync tool PluralEyes got its most recent major update the same year, so the perpetual licence available in Maxon’s e-store is still for the current version. When we contacted Maxon to ask whether perpetual licences had been discontinued, the firm replied: “Yes, it was decided to not offer a perpetual version of the individual suites.” We only spotted it had happened when we realised that Maxon’s online store isn’t listing perpetual licences of the latest versions of the three plugin collections: only of the previous releases. ![]() Unlike with Redshift, Maxon doesn’t seem to have announced the change in advance. The change makes Trapcode Suite, VFX Suite and Magic Bullet Suite the latest Maxon products to go subscrption-only, following the firm’s recent decision to drop perpetual licences of the Redshift renderer. The latest Maxon products to go subscription-only The decision became clear with this week’s release of the latest versions of the plugin collections, which are available only via the firm’s Red Giant Complete and Maxon One subscriptions. Maxon has discontinued perpetual licences of Trapcode Suite, VFX Suite and Magic Bullet Suite, the collections of effects and colour grading plugins that it acquired in its recent merger with Red Giant. Posted by Jim Thacker Maxon ends perpetual licences of Red Giant products
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