The new Tools are:
- Quantum: a tool that creates the illusion of an animated light trail in front of or behind a layer. Great for text and motion graphics
- Modes: a tool that makes it easy to combine layers in entirely new ways using powerful features that go beyond the native blend modes found on your editing timeline.
And the Updates are:
- Glow: Now offers Inverse-square glow falloff, multi-pass chromatic aberration and the ability to glow a single color channel.
- Glimmer: This update gives you 6 mono or bi-directional glow streaks with variable intensity and color mapping, an animatable shimmer, variable rotation control, and Color maps aligned with Trapcode’s Starglow.
- Chromatic Aberration: This tool now includes control over the focus area, the ability to split the aberration into multiple passes, and chromatic rotation.
- Hacker Text: The addition of customizable random characters and the ability to auto-animate the encryption and decryption.
Always excited for new Universe tools as I have a lifetime on them, and they are always very fast with GPU support.
Have to play with Modes, though Modes themselves exist in Premiere, so it will be much more amazing in AVID which doesn’t have layer modes for compositing.