What's New
in Spotlight FX

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.

The "Select Same" action now works in After Effects, just like in Premiere. Select any Spotlight layer and instantly grab every other layer that came from the same item. Useful when you want to copy and paste settings across all of them.

Downloading a template will now drop it straight into your project's timeline the moment it's ready, one less click. You can toggle it off anytime in Settings.

We reworked download limits so normal use never trips them. Download steadily through a session and you won't see the "downloading will resume shortly" message anymore.

There's now a dedicated home for tutorials, organized by category for Premiere Pro, After Effects, and the app itself. It also includes everything that might help you learn, including video and text-based tutorials.

Brand new design everywhere you look, easier to read, nicer to work with. The blog has a fresh look too, with a featured post, a cleaner reading layout, and easier browsing by category.

You can now browse all templates, plugins, collections, and scripts on the website. Our new semantic search is also there to help you find what you need quickly.

We polished the blog, tutorials, pricing, and product pages on phones, so prices, comparison tables, and long reads all behave the way they should on a smaller screen. The mobile menu was redesigned to match.