

Trapcode Starglow version 1.5 brings text and titles to life with glows and glints. Users can also create sunrays from clouds or other objects, which are great for animating backgrounds for DVD projects. Shine is used frequently for movie titling effects. Trapcode Shine version 1.5 is a plug-in for simulating a bright spotlight behind text or logos. * 3D Stroke now features a series of 40 preset shapes for generating outlines or swirling strokes to captivate your audience.

* Added support for full 32-bit floating-point rendering for generating light rays, glows, and animated lines with the highest quality output. New features:* Shine 1.5, Starglow 1.5, and 3D Stroke 2.5 now work for the first time in Final Cut Pro, Motion, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Avid AVX. In 2006, Red Giant Software and Trapcode formed a partnership in 2006, giving Red Giant Software exclusive publishing rights to all seven Trapcode products worldwide. All very odd.Red Giant Software, publisher of a line of professional digital video tools, including Magic Bullet and Knoll Light Factory, just released new versions of the popular Trapcode motion graphics products Shine, Starglow and 3D Stroke. Maybe there is some legacy nonsense that corrupts the shine cache over time? Maybe it's something unrelated, I don't know.

The only thing I can think of that is different with the problematic project file is that it is an import-re-save of an 11 year old project file. Seems to be a workaround, but I have no idea what is causing it (especially since it had no issues before this suddenly reared its head). I then made a brand new project file, applied shine successfully, closed it, opened up the problematic file and it was working again. The next day I had to do another adjustment, and the crash started all over again with the original project. Immediately, I opened up the original project and it didn't crash! Was able to to re-render what I needed and saved it.

Testing it, I applied shine to a layer and it worked fine. It looks like it may be project file specific.Īnother project came up where I had to kick out some graphics and realized after I did, that that project used shine in it and it didn't crash.
