LumaTouch introduces plugin assist for the primary time in LumaFusion’s historical past, whereas releasing LumaFusion 5.3 with enhanced workflow options.
LumaTouch is introducing a brand new plugin structure that allows third-party builders to create plugins for LumaFusion on iOS for the primary time. With this announcement, the cellular enhancing platform strikes nearer to desktop-level performance. (Try our previous protection of LumaFusion right here.)
First third-party plugin: CoreMelt’s PaintX for LumaFusion
CoreMelt has develop into the primary developer to reap the benefits of this new structure, creating PaintX for LumaFusion solely for iOS customers. The plugin brings professional-level paint and planar monitoring capabilities instantly into the LumaFusion timeline, addressing widespread post-production challenges that cellular editors have lengthy confronted.
PaintX for LumaFusion is designed as a robust paint instrument with built-in monitoring performance, particularly engineered to offer LumaFusion customers with quick-fix capabilities built-in seamlessly into their present workflow. The plugin allows editors to take away pores and skin blemishes, paint out undesirable objects like energy traces or antennas, and carry out different element work that beforehand required desktop functions.
The plugin is on the market as an in-app buy for $19.99 USD, with all proceeds going to CoreMelt (after Apple’s reduce and Google’s reduce, clearly).
LumaFusion 5.3 brings workflow enhancements
Alongside the plugin structure announcement, LumaTouch launched LumaFusion model 5.3 for iOS, incorporating a number of workflow-enhancing options primarily based on consumer suggestions. The replace consists of extremely requested performance resembling the flexibility so as to add transitions to a number of chosen timeline clips by merely double-tapping the transition within the Library.
Different notable enhancements in model 5.3 embrace a reorganized Coloration and Results Editor Presets Library, the place Blurs, Kinds, and Distortions at the moment are consolidated into one button to accommodate third-party plugins. A brand new search function permits editors to seek out presets by title, whereas timeline performance has been expanded to assist including head and tail transitions or cross dissolves between a number of chosen clips.
The replace additionally introduces sensible interface enhancements, together with adjustable observe peak settings and new preview choices for Library clips that may match the Timeline’s match mode.
LumaFusion 5.3 for iPad. Picture credit score: LumaTouch
Creator Go subscribers get new content material
LumaFusion Creator Go subscribers obtain extra advantages with this replace, together with three new transition units: Round Wipes, Mod Traces, and Anchor Slides. The Creator Go, beforehand often known as “Storyblocks for LumaFusion,” maintains its $9.99 month-to-month or $69.99 annual pricing whereas increasing its function set.
The subscription consists of superior options like Velocity Ramping with keyframe management, Enhanced Keyframing with Bézier curve path enhancing, assist for 12 tracks of video and audio, Adjustment Clips, Multicam Studio (iOS solely), and FCPXML Export (iOS solely). For customers preferring one-time purchases, these enhanced options can be found individually for $19.99 every.
Opening the platform to builders
The introduction of third-party plugin assist represents a strategic shift for LumaTouch, bringing LumaFusion 5.3 nearer to the extensibility that skilled desktop enhancing platforms have lengthy provided. The corporate has indicated that different plugin builders desirous about creating functions for LumaFusion can contact the event crew instantly.
This transfer positions LumaFusion to doubtlessly compete extra instantly with desktop enhancing options whereas sustaining its mobile-first method. The success of CoreMelt’s PaintX plugin might function a proof of idea for different builders contemplating LumaFusion plugin improvement.
LumaFusion 5.3 stays obtainable throughout a number of platforms, together with Mac, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS, with a base value of $29.00 USD. The app continues to be developed by LumaTouch’s crew of engineers, designers, and video professionals targeted on serving the creator group.
The mix of latest plugin structure and workflow enhancements in model 5.3 suggests LumaTouch is positioning LumaFusion for continued progress within the more and more aggressive cellular video enhancing market, the place the road between cellular and desktop capabilities continues to blur.
LumaFusion – and cellular enhancing on the iPad – have come a great distance
A video we revealed over six years in the past in regards to the LumaTouch workflow on iPad grew to become extraordinarily widespread with over 217,000 performs – this confirmed me how widespread cellular enhancing actually is.
Within the meantime, Apple has caught up and presents Remaining Reduce Professional for iPad (evaluation of the Stay Multicam function right here), and in addition lastly opens up iPad OS to be extra desktop-like with the upcoming iPad OS 26, which is able to make it simpler to make use of an iPad as an enhancing machine (due to background rendering largely). Certainly LumaFusion will make good use of this functionality sooner or later too.
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