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.

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