LiquidGlass Pro 2.0 lets you place the glass right in the viewer, adds an output made for titles and logos, and gives every shape its own shadow. Most of the rendering has been reworked as well, so the glass holds its look at every resolution and in every host.

New

• Move, size and rotate shapes in the viewer. In DaVinci Resolve, turn on the viewer’s Open FX overlay: drag a shape to move it, a square handle to resize it, the round handle to rotate it, and click another shape to switch to it. In Final Cut Pro and Motion, select the effect and drag a shape in the viewer. Each drag is one undo step.
• Glass + Shadow output. The glass, its outline and its drop shadow on a transparent background, ready to sit over any layer. This is the one to use on titles and logos.
• A shadow for every shape. With Combine set to None, each shape casts its own shadow from its own position, size and tilt.

Better glass

• Glass Colour and legibility look the same at every resolution, in proxies and previews as at full size.
• Shapes merge more naturally: a small shape keeps its rounded edge against a larger one, and overlapping shapes no longer leave a thin gap.
• Opacity fades the glass and its shadow together, and shadows stay smooth as a card tilts.
• Bright highlights roll off smoothly, and Highlight Streak no longer leaves white lines on text or steep edges.
• Reflections and the edges of a thick card look the same at every frame size, and steeply tilted cards no longer show stray pixels.

Animation

• Wobble moves each shape around its own centre.
• Ripple From Press Point works with every Ripple Type.
• Entrance Stagger lands the last shape exactly as Materialize reaches 1.
• Surface Relief moves with its shape.

Output

• Glass Only now includes the outline.
• Everything outside the glass passes through untouched, HDR highlights included.
• Controls that do nothing in the current setup are greyed out.

After Effects and Premiere Pro

• The Backdrop (AE) layer now works in GPU-accelerated projects.
• Glass Only composites correctly. Soft edges and faded elements no longer darken.
• Region of Interest, masked layers and layers larger than the composition render correctly, and 32-bit projects keep values above white.
• In Premiere Pro, animated looks render the same with and without GPU acceleration and carry on smoothly across a cut.

DaVinci Resolve

• Applying a preset is a single undo step.

Final Cut Pro and Motion

• Center, Ripple Origin and Press Point can go outside the frame, so an element can start or finish off screen.
• A new thumbnail in the Effects browser.

macOS

• The first frame after installing or updating is ready sooner, and Premiere Pro memory use stays steady during playback.

The first release of Nx LiquidGlass Pro, a physically based liquid glass plugin for DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut Pro and Motion, on macOS and Windows.

What is in 1.0.0

• Real refraction. Glass is built from a true thickness field and light is traced through it: Snell refraction, wavelength dispersion, Beer–Lambert absorption, Fresnel reflection, GGX specular highlights and caustics.
• Liquid behaviour. Drops reach for each other and merge with surface tension, ripples bend the light instead of wobbling the outline, and every entrance rides a spring with per-shape stagger for title work.
• Liquid text and logos. Feed any title, logo or matte through the source alpha and it becomes letterform glass with a real dome of thickness on every stroke.
• Light and shadow. See-through shadows with a bright core, cast caustics split by dispersion, and Light Sweep to move highlight, rim and shadow together over time.
• True 3D card. A tiltable slab with real foreshortening, cut edges, and a shadow that softens with the gap.
• Eleven materials in one preset menu, plus your own saved per project. A preset changes the material and leaves your shapes, camera and light alone.
• Legibility system that keeps what is behind the glass readable on any plate.
• One engine on every host: Metal, CUDA, OpenCL and CPU paths render the same frame.

Licensing: one perpetual license, two machines, all hosts included. The free download renders with a watermark until a key is entered.