New Features

• AI Super Resolution – Upscale videos to 4K using AI Super-Resolution. Whether you’re restoring old footage, working with mixed-quality sources, or zooming in for that perfect shot, this intelligent upscaling technology enhances clarity without sacrificing quality. By analyzing your video and intelligently filling in details, the AI can give you sharper, cleaner, and more consistent footage. Effortlessly push the boundaries of your video and keep your story looking its best, no matter where it began.
• AI Motion Tracking – Keep the focus where it matters with AI-powered Motion Tracking. Lock text, effects, and graphics onto moving subjects with precision, ensuring they stay in perfect sync with the action. No need to manually set keyframes, the AI does all the tracking for you. Whether you’re highlighting a key moment, adding dynamic callouts, or unleashing stellar effects, Motion Tracking makes it effortless.
• Marker Panel – Easily keep markers organized in the new Marker Panel. Add specified color markers directly to the timeline, as well as apply new duration markers to help keep an even tighter eye on clip lengths.
• Nest Sequences – Save multiple video clips or edits into one Nest Sequence, allowing you to re-use the entire sequence elsewhere in your project without manually editing each clip again. It’s like a mini-timeline inside your main timeline!
• Nest Presets – Nest Sequences can be saved into Nest Presets, which are saved to a local directory allowing them to be used on any project, not just the one they were created in. Perfect for maintaining a consistent style or brand across video content.
• Adjustment Layers – Efficiently apply effects and color corrections across multiple clips simultaneously using a single, transparent Adjustment Layer. The tracks beneath the Adjustment Layer are enhanced without altering any original footage.
• Dynamic Preview – Get an instant feel for your edit with Dynamic Preview. Simply hover your mouse over the timeline and watch real-time previews spring to life—no clicks, no scrubbing, just effortless, frame-accurate feedback exactly where your cursor lands.
• Quick Split Mode – Effortlessly separate clips on the timeline using Quick Split Mode. When enabled, left-click any clip on your timeline to split it exactly where you click.
• Audio Auto Normalization – Balance your audio effortlessly with Audio Auto Normalization, ensuring consistent volume levels across your entire project without manual adjustments.
• Mute and Solo Tracks – Intuitively mute a single track using Mute Track or automatically mute all tracks but one with Solo Track.
• Flip Video – Easily flip clips in the Timeline horizontally and vertically with one click.
• Auto-migration – On first launch, LUXEA Pro 8 automatically migrates your custom Text, Masks, Keyboard Shortcuts, Shared Media, and installed Content Packs from LUXEA Pro 7.
• Multi-Audio Track Support – Added support for video files with multiple audio tracks/streams allows you to select which audio track is heard during playback.
• Real-Time Annotations – Add annotations to your video while recording with pen and brush tools. The annotations are visible to your audience while recording and during video playback.
• Flip Webcam – Mirror your webcam horizontally before recording so gestures and text appear natural to your viewers.
• Custom Mouse Trail – Display a customizable mouse trail while recording video so your audience can follow along.
• Video Recorder Snapshot – Take a screenshot of your current video frame while recording with the Snapshot button.
• Improved File Format Support – Added support for importing MKV Video Format and VP9 Video Codec files ensures compatibility when importing media, and added support for importing and exporting VP8 and AV1 Video Codec (AV1) files to achieve better compression rates and seamless integration with next-gen platforms.
• HDR to SDR Conversion – Transform HDR footage into beautiful SDR video with preserved color, contrast, and detail.

Improvements

• Improved Hardware Acceleration – Improved support for NVIDIA and AMD GPUs and Intel integrated GPUs. Smoother playback, especially of 4k videos and complex timelines. Significantly faster export times.
• Customizable Workspace Presets – Quickly select one of six preset layouts to customize your video editing workspace, letting you shift between common layouts and have the tools you need instantly at hand.
• Improved Color Picker – A modernized Color Picker lets you select colors in your media using the eye dropper tool, as well as select from recently picked colors.
• Batch Edit Text Properties – Select multiple text assets on your Timeline and modify their properties in a single edit.
• Animation Options – Efficiently add movement to your text using animations found under the Animation Tab of the Text Properties.
• Text Templates – Enhanced font support and eye-catching gradient colors give you incredible Text Template options for adding fun callouts, polished titles, or creative flair to your videos faster.
• Color Gradient Options – Set text gradient colors using RGB, HEX, and transparency options.
• Text Effects – Added a new Background effect, and improved the appearance of the Blur property in several other text effects.
• Improved Timeline – Take full control of your timeline with an exciting suite of new tools! Enable/disable clips directly on the timeline, swap out existing clips in a flash, dive into Quick Split mode for seamless editing, and experience a host of other game-changing quality-of-life improvements for super smooth editing.
• Improved Exporting – You can now select specific clips or a range in the Timeline to be exported, pause an export in progress, and disable the preview.
• Relink Media – Specify a folder to relink all media in that folder, instead of relinking each file one at a time.
• New Filters – 25 new creative filters have been added, including Binoculars, Chalk Edge, and Light Scan, to save you time and help tell your story.
• New Transitions – 14 new transitions have been added, including Blink Eyes, Shutters, and Teleport, to help you go from scene to scene with style.
• Fixed cases where video playback in the Program panel could be slower than audio playback, causing desynchronization while previewing the project.
• Improved the design of the Transitions display in the Properties panel.