What's New
in Spotlight FX

The website and app have a new design, with a few familiar controls in new places. In the app, search stays at the top, your account menu is in the top-right corner, and you can open your favourite plugins from Home.

You asked for GIFs, and they’re here! Find the perfect reaction, add a little humour or make your point with a GIF, all without leaving your editor. Search for what you need or explore categories, then import straight into your project. Works in both Premiere Pro and After Effects.

• Save favourites and revisit recent imports for your next edit.
• Adjust framing, crop and background in the Editor.
• Control looping and add intro and outro animations.

Select footage clips in Premiere Pro and let Clips to Sequences create a separate sequence for each one, with its source clip already inside.

• Preview sequence names and destinations before creating anything.
• Choose the output folder, resolution and starting timecode.
• Review which existing sequences will be replaced when names overlap.

Changed your mind about a text or colour edit? Use the undo and redo buttons beside the field to step through your previous values while Spotlight stays open.

Add favourite plugins from the searchable picker on Home, then open them directly from your My Plugins row. Your liked templates are also grouped by collection so you can return to the ones you use.

Ask a question on the pricing page to get help with purchase options, compatibility or what Spotlight offers for your work. Answers can point you to relevant plugins, collections and tools, with links to explore them.

Zoomy gives you more flexibility to create the zoom you want and choose where it’s applied.

• Zoom out below 1× or push in up to 5×.
• Apply your zoom to a Zoomy adjustment layer or add the animation directly to your selected clip. Zoomy creates an adjustment layer automatically when needed.
• Jump between zoom animations with the new previous and next arrows.

September is always busy, and this one was no exception. This month, we focused on callouts, counters, and countdowns, along with polished screen mockups inspired by the presentations you see from companies like Figma. They’re all now available in Spotlight FX, ready for your next project.

You can now change fonts directly in Spotlight FX. The new font picker makes it easier to explore all installed fonts without breaking your flow. Refresh for a new random font when you want a fresh direction.

• Importing into Premiere now works even when no timeline is open
• Support, feedback, issue reports, and item requests now open the website contact chat with your message ready

You can now open any Toolbox tool in its own detached panel straight from the Toolbox menu. Choose Open Detached, and Spotlight opens the separate Toolbox window with that tool already expanded and scrolled into view.

• Works from the Toolbox inside the main Spotlight panel.
• Opening a tool from Spotlight now scrolls to the selected tool after expanding it.
• Thanks Begum for reporting the black screen bug - it is fixed now!

Spotlight now has a Tools section that gathers every tool into one browsable grid, so you can see what's available at a glance and open any of them with a click. Filter by app, with whichever one you're working in shown first.

• Click a tool to open it in the Toolbox, ready to use.
• Filter to all tools, Premiere Pro, or After Effects; your current app comes first.
• Free tools also show up on the Free page.
• Tell us which tools you'd like us to add, right from the panel.

When you import an item you've already used in a project, Spotlight now reuses the copy it keeps next to your project instead of re-collecting everything, so re-imports are quicker and your existing files stay put. If the item has a newer version and you've updated it, your next import brings that version in automatically.

• Re-importing an item you already added reuses the assets collected alongside your project.
• Updated items pull their latest version into the project on your next import.
• In Premiere Pro, re-importing the same item now adds a fresh, separate copy each time.
• If a collected file ever goes missing or breaks, it's re-collected automatically.

We've fixed a few bugs in the Editor:

• Text fields no longer revert to an old value after you reopen a group or the panel.
• Edits keep applying correctly right after you toggle a group off and on.

Search got a major upgrade. Flip on AI mode and describe what you want in plain language, or use the faster keyword search that now spans your whole library at once.

• AI mode: describe what you're after, like "moody slow transitions" or "a bold sports intro," instead of guessing keywords
• One search across templates, plugins, scripts, and collections
• Quick suggestion pills, recent searches, and a filter for items you've liked
• Better handling of names with symbols, like "Buttons & Icons"
• When nothing matches, a one-tap "Try AI Search" or "Request item"

We now add fresh templates, collections, plugins, and scripts every single week, and both the app and the site make it easy to see what just landed.

• New templates, collections, plugins, and scripts added weekly
• The app's Home feed shows each week's drop at a glance
• Catalogs are grouped by release date, so new items are easy to spot

The copy and paste settings flow has come to both Premiere and After Effects. Tweak one clip exactly how you like it, then paste those settings onto another, with blending modes and per-group enable toggles carried along.