What’s new in Alvar Suite
Every change to the plugin, newest first.
1.0.5
6 September 2026-
Buy credits without leaving After Effects
Top up now opens inside the panel. Pick an amount, payment opens in your browser, and the credits appear in the panel straight after.
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When you run out, there is a way forward
The message that stops a run for lack of credits now has a button that takes you to more.
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A clearer Account tab
Your full email address is shown, the plugin tells you whether you are on the latest version and links to the download when you are not, and Log out has moved down under Plan and billing.
1.0.4
5 September 2026-
AlvarAI can now make new layers
Ask for a null, a solid, an adjustment layer, a text layer or a shape layer and it adds one to the composition you have open, then leaves it selected so you can carry straight on.
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Face tracking now works on everything you have selected
It used to insist on one clip at a time. Select six shots and it will work through all six. It is charged per clip, and the confirmation box now says how many it is about to do before you agree.
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Better error reports
When something goes wrong the panel now sends the full message rather than a shortened one, so a problem you report can actually be found.
1.0.3
3 September 2026-
Improved how your AlvarAI chat history is stored
It is now kept per account, so each account signed in on a computer sees its own conversations. Chats you already have stay where they are.
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Clearer message when a sign-in code cannot be sent
If your inbox is full, or the address has a typo in it, the panel now says which of those it is instead of just saying it did not work.
1.0.2
3 September 2026-
Sound effects added by a transition stay in your project
They could show up as missing the next time you opened the project. They are now saved in your Documents folder, under Alvar Suite, where they stay put. A project you saved before this update still shows them as missing, and the troubleshooting page has the steps to point it back at the files.
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Your files and tutorials are one click away
The panel's Account tab now links straight to the extra files your plan includes and to the tutorials. Both used to sit on the website with nothing in the panel naming them.
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Saving your own caption style is gone
Styles you already saved still show in the style grid and still work, so you lose nothing you made. After Effects gave the panel no way to tell whether your save had worked, so the button could not tell you when it had not.
1.0.1
1 September 2026-
Fixed a crash in Balance Brightness
Clicking it could fail with an error instead of running. It now works.
1.0.0
30 August 2026-
Alvar Suite is here
The first release, so everything in the plugin is new and there is nothing to compare it against yet. From this point on, every update lists its changes here, and the plugin shows them to you the first time you open it after updating.