Under the previous naming convention, the releases would have been Magic Bullet Suite 17.0, Trapcode Suite 19.0, Universe 7.0 and VFX Suite 5.0. Some of the individual products within the Red Giant collection also have new official names, with Magic Bullet Suite becoming Magic Bullet, Trapcode Suite becoming Trapcode, and VFX Suite becoming plain VFX. One of the most obvious changes in the release is the version numbering, Maxon having just switched to annual versioning across all of its products, with the exception of the Redshift renderer. The was announced as part of Maxon’s Fall 2022 product releases, which include Cinema 4D 2023, and new versions of the firm’s mobile apps, Forger 2023 and Moves by Maxon 2023. The changes are largely workflow improvements and bugfixes, with Trapcode also getting 75 new animated sprites, and Universe getting 100 new presets for Generators. Maxon has released Red Giant 2023, the latest version of its collection of effects plugins, along with new versions of four of its individual products: Magic Bullet 2023, Trapcode 2023, Universe 2023 and VFX 2023.

The section on Red Giant 2023 starts at 14:40. Maxon’s launch video for its Fall 2022 product updates.

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