Sapphire Perpetual License

Sapphire is the most in demand, unequaled, work-horse plug-in suite for visual effects.

Sapphire plug-ins let you create stunning organic looks unmatched by any host native effect tools. Key features include over 270 effects and 3000+ presets, a powerful Effect and Transition Builder, and integrated tracking and masking with the Academy Award-winning Mocha. Sapphire’s superior image quality, control, and render speed offers massive time-savings — allowing creatives to focus on what matters most, delivering an impact that keeps audiences coming back.

WHAT’S NEW IN SAPPHIRE 2020

New! FreeLens effect: Inspired by the popular lens whacking camera technique
New! OpenColorIO (OCIO) color management support
New! Parameter-driven tracking: Powered by Mocha
New! Mocha Area Brush tool: Quickly paint over track search areas
New! LensFlares: 16 new professionally-designed flares
New! Builder presets: 7 stunning new drag-and-drop presets
New! Faster renders: Up to 3x speed increases on many effects

YOUR NEW FAVORITE SAPPHIRE EFFECT — FREELENS

Meet S_FreeLens. Inspired by the popular photography technique known as free lensing or lens whacking, FreeLens mimics shooting with a lens detached from the camera body. The end result? A dreamy, romantic element featuring a combination of light leaks, lens distortion, tilt shift, and a moving focal point linked together under one easy-to-use master lens manipulation parameter. Perfect for dream sequences, travelogue videos, flashbacks, unsteady POVs, slow-motion footage, motion graphics title treatments or abstract CG renders. S_FreeLens is included in the Blur & Sharpen effects category.

TRACK EVERYTHING WITH THE NEW & IMPROVED MOCHA

Sapphire 2020 features new and improved Mocha tracking. You can now link Mocha tracking to Sapphire positional parameters all within a single effect. This new feature opens up tons of creative possibilities. Easily track S_LensFlare to a headlight, track S_Zap lighting bolts to the tips of your fingers or track a spotlight over a highlighted subject. Mocha parameter tracking is available in ten Sapphire 2020 effects: LensFlare, EdgeRays, Rays, Luna, Grunge, Spotlight, Aurora, Zap, MuzzleFlash, and FreeLens.

The brand new Mocha Area Brush tool is also included. If you don’t like working with splines, this is for you! The Area Brush lets you paint over track search areas for quick mask creation. Paint strokes are automatically converted into splines for an easy new workflow. Includes full support for Wacom tablets.

COLOR MANAGEMENT WITH OCIO SUPPORT

Sapphire 2020 adds support for OpenColorIO (OCIO), the open-source color management solution designed at Sony Picture Imageworks. Sapphire 2020 can apply and read a color profile to provide consistent colors across any of its internal applications such as the Preset Browser, Flare Designer, and Effect & Transition Builder. These applications now feature an OCIO panel with a default library of the most common color profiles. Facilities looking to load a custom OpenColorIO library can do so via an environment variable or by editing the S_Config file to point to a custom location.

Sapphire 2020 also features a new effect in the Adjust category called S_OCIOTransform. The effect allows Sapphire to bring OpenColorIO color management to any of its supported hosts — even if that host hasn’t adopted the OCIO standard yet!

NEW LENS FLARES FOR SAPPHIRE 2020

Sapphire 2020 adds 16 brand new professionally-designed Lens Flares — bringing the grand total to over 200 flares!

NEW COMPARE MODE IN PRESET BROWSER

The Sapphire 2020 Preset Browser adds a built-in Compare Mode feature that allows users to preview the original unfiltered source with the filtered output using either side-by-side or wipe bar options. This new feature is especially useful on color correction or grading where you might want to preview adjacent clips in the timeline while working on the filtered source.

FASTER RENDERS WITH SAPPHIRE 2020

The 2020 release delivers the fastest speed results yet thanks to optimized GPU (NVIDIA only) and CPU performance. Users will experience up to a three times increase in render times on many Sapphire effects including S_EdgeRays and S_BlurMotion. Please note: speed increases may vary based upon individual effect, host application, and choice of CPU or GPU rendering. Click the link below for more detailed information.

Features

Sapphire lets you create stunning organic looks unmatched by any host native effect tools. Its superior image quality, control, and render speed paired with over 270 visual effects and 3000+ presets offers massive time-savings — allowing you to focus on what matters most, delivering the creative impact that keeps audiences coming back.

Lights

The Sapphire Light Unit has been a favorite among professional visual effects and motion graphics artists for decades. The popular versatile effects always live up to the hype. Add subtle lighting with Glow or dramatically change the mood with LensFlare. Highlighted effects include Glint, Glare, Glow, ZGlow, Spotlight, Streaks, EdgeRays, Flashbulbs, BokehLights, LensFlare, and more.

LOOKS

Looking to add that extra something to music videos or show opens? The Sapphire Stylize Unit has got you covered. Add color grades, create psychedelic looks or add glitchy video damage effects. Highlight effects include FilmEffect, PixelSort, DigitalDamage, FilmDamage, ScanLines, Cartoon, Kaleidoscope, EdgeDetect, Vignette, FlysEyesHex, and more.

DISTORTIONS

The Sapphire Distort Unit lets you warp your footage in every which way. Create photorealistic lens distortion effects, in-camera shake effects or chromatic aberrations. Highlighted effects include ParallaxStrips, Distort, DistortBlur, Shake, WarpChroma, WarpFishEye, WarpDrops, ZBlur, Infinite Zoom, and more.

BLURS

The Sapphire Blur Unit features the industry’s fastest photorealistic in-camera blurring tools. Use RackDefocus to create in-camera defocuses. Import a z-depth matte into Z_Blur and blur with depth. Conquer out of focus images or nasty compression artifacts with high-grade sharpen and debanding tools. Retouch skin and apply beauty work. Highlighted effects include Blur, ZBlur, RackDefocus, Sharpen, Deband, Convolve, BlurMotion, Beauty, and more.

RENDERS

The Sapphire Render Unit helps you create imagery from scratch. Add lightning with Zap, liven up a sky with Clouds and NightSky or create procedurally generated animated backgrounds with texture generators. Highlighted effects include Aurora, Zap, CloudsPerspective, MuzzleFlash, Grunge, NightSky, Luna, Grid, and many more.

TRANSITIONS

Never white-flash again! The Sapphire Transitions Unit gives you access to over 50 of the industry’s best transitions. Simply drag and drop one of the countless presets onto your cut just like a dissolve. Highlighted transitions include ParallaxStrips, DissolvePixelSort, DissolveDigitalDamage, SwishPan, Whiplash, GlowDissolve, LensFlareDissolve, and WarpWipe.

TIME

The Sapphire Time Unit lets you bend time with just a few clicks. Slow down or speed up footage with the Sapphire Optical Flow retimer or choose from Retime, FlickerRemove, Flicker, Feedback, TimeSlice, RandomEdits, RepairFrames, and more.

LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES WITH BUILDER

Sapphire’s Effect and Transition Builder gives users the ability to browse and try out Sapphire effects with ease, enabling artists and editors to create their own custom effects and transitions. Start using Builder right out of the box with over 150 presets for creative and correctional purposes.

INTEGRATED MOCHA TRACKING AND MASKING

Sapphire proudly features integrated Mocha planar tracking and masking tools. The Academy Award-winning technology makes effects isolation to full-blown rotoscoping easy. Quickly launch Mocha to create and track a mask directly from within your favorite Sapphire effects.

Gorgeous Presets

There’s nothing harder than starting from a blank slate which is why Sapphire features over 3000 presets crafted by top-notch artists and editors. Every release includes brand new presets so there’s always something fresh to play with.

Flexible Pricing and Licensing Options

Sapphire offers a wide variety of convenient licensing options to fit any budget. Choose from the full suite, individually-priced Sapphire Units, annual subscriptions or RLM server-based floating licenses.

Important Sapphire Pricing Notes

Payment – Yearly payments must be paid in full upon the start of the contract. Customer will receive permanent licenses upon full payment.

Get Current Fee – Existing Sapphire customers on version 8 or lower must pay an additional fee to catch up to the latest version of Sapphire.

Reactivation Fee – There is no penalty for canceling Upgrade and Support, however, failing to renew your yearly contract will result in a prorated fee that would be applied upon rejoining.

Automatic Renewal – Upgrade and Support contracts are set to automatically renew each year. You can opt out by contacting the Toolfarm sales team.

Terms and Conditions – Upgrade and Support Terms and Conditions can be found here (pops)

Rental Licenses – Rental Licenses do not auto-renew.

Must Have Effects

Glow

A favorite of the Hollywood crowd for decades, Sapphire Glow is one of the all-time legendary and most versatile effects. Whether you are looking to slightly alter the mood of a shot or dramatically change the lighting, the silky smooth subtleness of Sapphire Glow will always live up to the hype.

Film Effect

Sapphire film effect began as a way to accurately emulate 35mm film for video, but fast-forward to the post production world of today and it’s now used as a multi-faceted color grading tool and plug-in. Packed with tons of amazing presets, editors and artists can quickly achieve dozens of different popular color treatments with Sapphire Film Effect.

Shake

Shake holds it’s place amongst the most popular Sapphire effects because it’s versatility and ease of use. Whether used to emulate a documentary style hand-held camera shake or the magnitude of an earthquake-like effect, Shake’s deep parameter set allows it to adapt to any situation.

Lens Flare

Sapphire LensFlare gives you the ability to add photorealistic lens flares from a huge amount of presets or create them from scratch with the Sapphire Flare Designer, our own application for building feature film quality lens flares. Never adjust your F-stops or shine a light into your camera again!

Vignette

Vignette is a great example of a classic Sapphire effect. It helps you take a repetitive multi-click task and turn it into one step with increased flexibility and new functionality.

Create custom effects and transistions with Sapphire Builder

Builder gives you the ability to create your own effects and transitions in a node-based workspace for unprecedented creativity and efficiency, unleashing the full power of the Sapphire effects. In Builder, you have the flexibility to stack and connect Sapphire effects in ways that were not previously possible in Adobe and Avid hosts. All new effects and transitions developed in the workspace are saved as cross-host presets, and are loaded as a single plugin onto a timeline.

Builder allows you to create your own effects and transitions by combining existing Sapphire effects! See S_Effect and S_Transition in action below:

S_Effect

S_Transition

Effects

Adjust

ClampChroma
TriTone
Tint
Threshold
ShowBadColors
Quadtone
Monochrome
Invert
HueSatBright
HotSpots
Gamma
DuoTone
ChannelSwitcher

Blur and Sharpen

SoftFocus
RackDefocus
GrainRemove
Deband
BlurMotion
Beauty
Median
EdgeAwareBlur
DefocusPrism
BlurMoCurves
BlurDirectional
BlurChroma
BlurChannels
Blur

Distort

WarpMagnify
WarpPolar
WarpVortex
WarpWaves
WarpWaves2
WarpFishEye
WarpChroma
Shake
DistortBlur
Distort
WarpRepeat
WarpPuff
WarpBubble

Lighting

BokehLights
Streaks
LightLeak
ZGlow
SpotLight
LensFlare
GlowRings
GlowRainbow
Glare
GlowEdges
GlowDarks
GlowAura
EdgeRays
GlowOrthicon
GlowDist
Glow
GlintRainbow
Glint
Flashbulbs
GlowNoise

Render

TestureSpots
TextureWeave
TextureMoire
TextureNeurons
TextureNoiseEmboss
TextureNoisePaint
TexturePlasma
Aurora
Luna
NightSky
Zap
TextureTiles
TextureFlux
Grunge
Grid
GradientMulti
TextureMicro
TextureFolded
TextureChromaSpiral
Shape
MuzzleFlash

Stylize

AutoPaint
Bush
Kaleido
KaleidoPolar
KaleidoRadial
ZebrafyColor
Zebrafy
VintageColor3Strip
VintageColor2Strip
Vignette
TileScramble
ScanLinesMono
PsykoStripes
PsykoBlobs
PseudoColor
Posterize
Mosaic
JPEGDamage
HalfToneRings
HalfToneColor
HalfTone
GrainStatic
FlysEyeRect
FlysEyeHex
FlysEyeCircles
FilmDamage
Etching
EmbossShiny
EmbossGlass
EmbossDistort
Emboss
EdgesInDirection
EdgeDetectDouble
EdgeDetect
EdgeColorize
DogVision
DigitalDamage
Diffuse
CartoonPaint
Cartoon
BleachBypass
BandPass
TVDamage
Solarize
Sketch
ScanLines
Grain
FilmEffect
Crosshatch

Time

FeedbackBubble

Transitions

WipeWedge
WipeWeave
WipeTiles
WipeStar
WipeStripes
WipeRings
WipeRectangle
WipePointalize
WipePlasma
WipePixelate
WipeMoire
WipeLine
StripSlideTransition
FlutterCut
FilmRoll
CardFlip
WipeFourWedges
WipeFlux
WipeDoubleWedge
WipeDots
WipeDiffuse
WipeClouds
WipeClock
WipeChecker
WipeCells
WipeBubble
WipeBlobs
TVChannelChange
SwishPan
Swish3D
DissolveZap
DissolveWaves
DissolveVortex
DissolveTiles
DissolveStatic
DissolveSpeckle
DissolveShake
DissolveRays
DissolvePuddle
DissolveLuma
DissolveLensFlare
DissolveGlow
DissolveGlintRainbow
DissolveGlint
DissolveGlare
DissolveFlashblulbs
DissolveFilm
DissolveEdgeRays
DissolveDistort
DissolveDiffuse
DissolveDefocus
DissolveBubble
DissolveBlur
WipeCircle
Swish3DBat

Requirements:

macOS:10.10 or higher
Windows: Windows 7 or higher on x64
Linux:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, CentOS 6

Hardware:

Recommended Hardware:

Processor: 64-bit Intel or AMD CPU with four or more cores
Memory: 8 GB or more
Disk: High-speed disk array or SSD storage
Graphics Card: High-end NVIDIA Quadro, TITAN or GeForce Pascal, e.g. Quadro P5000 or GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Monitor: 1920×1080 or higher, including high dpi 4k monitors
GPU Acceleration: NVIDIA cards only. The latest NVIDIA CUDA card and driver is recommended.

Licensing options:

Nodelocked, Subscription or floating license.
For floating and render license options, contact us.

Supported Hosts:

Adobe After Effects & Premiere Pro
Avid Media Composer
Autodesk Flame
FOUNDRY Nuke
Blackmagic Resolve and Fusion
SGO Mistika
Grassvalley Edius and Rio
ToonBoom Harmony
VEGAS Pro
HitFilm Pro

Sapphire Works With:

Adobe After Effects CC 2013+

Supported On After Effects Cc 2013 and higher
MacOs 10.9 and higher
Windows 7 and higher
GPU acceleration Available for any NVIDIA card with CUDA only

Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015+

Supported On After Effects Cc 2015 and higher
MacOs 10.9 and Higher
Windows 7 and Higher
GPU acceleration available for NVIDIA Cards with CUDA only

Avid Media Composer

Supported On Media Composer V8 and higher
MacOs 10.9 and higher
Windows 7 and higher
GPU acceleration Available for NVIDIA Cards with CUDA only

OFX: Autodesk Flame

Supported on Autodesk Flame 2017 or higher
MacOs 10.9 or higher
Linux CentOS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 or higher
GPU acceleration Available for NVIDIA Cards with CUDA only

A Note About Sapphire Sparks

As of the Sapphire 2020 release, Sapphire no longer supports Autodesk Flame Sparks. Sapphire 2020 is available as an OFX plugin for Autodesk Flame.

Customers who purchased either Sapphire 2019 (or 2019.5) for Autodesk Sparks are entitled to a free upgrade to the next version of Sapphire.
In lieu of a Sparks upgrade, eligible customers will be issued a complimentary license for Sapphire 2020 OFX. This complimentary Sapphire 2020 OFX license will not extend existing Upgrade and Support contracts. The original termination date will still apply.
Customers on legacy versions of Autodesk Flame that do not support OFX should continue to use their current Sapphire Sparks plugins.

OFX: Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve

Supported On Resolve 11 and higher
Mocha Tracking Only Supported In Resolve Studio Pro v 14 or higher
Centos/Red Hat Linux 6 Or 7 (64 bit only)
Mac Os 10.9 and higher
Windows 7 and higher
GPU acceleration available for NVIDIA Cards with CUDA only

OFX: Blackmagic Fusion

Supported On Fusion 8 and higher
Centos/Red Hat Linux 6 Or 7 (64 bit only)
Mac Os 10.10 and higher
Windows 7 and higher
GPU acceleration available for NVIDIA Cards with CUDA only

OFX: The Foundry NUKE

Supported On Nuke 10 and higher
Centos/Red Hat Linux 6 or 7 (64 Bit Only)
MacOs 10.8, 10.9 or 10.10
Windows 7 or 8
GPU acceleration available for NVIDIA Cards only

OFX: Vegas Pro Studio

Supported On Vegas 15 and higher
Windows 7 And Higher
GPU acceleration available for NVIDIA Cards with CUDA only

OFX: Mistika Ultima / Boutique

Supported on Mistika 7 and higher
Effect and Transition Builder not supported
Cent Os/Red Hat Linux 6 or 7 (64 Bit Only)
Windows 7
GPU acceleration available for NVIDIA Cards only

OFX: Grass Valley Edius and Rio

Supported on Edius 8 and higher
Supported on Rio 3 and higher
Windows 7 (Rio) Windows 7 or 8 (Edius)
GPU acceleration available for NVIDIA Cards with CUDA only

OFX: Toon Boom Harmony

Supported on Harmony 12 and higher
Effect and Transition Builder not supported
MacOs 10.9 and higher
Windows 7 or 8
GPU acceleration available for NVIDIA Cards with CUDA only

Silhouette

Supported on version 6 or higher
MacOs 10.9 and higher
Windows 7 and higher
Linux Cent Os/Red Hat Linux 5 or 6 (64 Bit Only)
GPU acceleration available for NVIDIA Cards with CUDA only

OS

macOS:10.10 or higher
Windows: Windows 7 or higher on x64
Linux:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, CentOS 6

Hardware

Recommended Hardware:

Processor: 64-bit Intel or AMD CPU with four or more cores
Memory: 8 GB or more
Disk: High-speed disk array or SSD storage
Graphics Card: High-end NVIDIA Quadro, TITAN or GeForce Pascal, e.g. Quadro P5000 or GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Monitor: 1920×1080 or higher, including high dpi 4k monitors
GPU Acceleration: NVIDIA cards only. The latest NVIDIA CUDA card and driver is recommended.
For compatibility with specific versions and operating systems, please see our Sapphire Compatibility Matrix. (pops)

Tech Specifications

Resolution independent – HD, 2K, Ultra HD, 4K, 8K, etc.
Floating point processing – All effects use full floating point processing for improved image quality and full 32-bit HDR support
64-bit enabled – expanded memory capabilities
Multiprocessor support
GPU acceleration is available for NVIDIA cards with CUDA only. The latest NVIDIA CUDA card and driver is recommended.

What’s new in Sapphire 2020

New! FreeLens effect: Inspired by the popular lens whacking camera technique
New! OpenColorIO (OCIO) color management support
New! Parameter-driven tracking: Powered by Mocha
New! Mocha Area Brush tool: Quickly paint over track search areas
New! LensFlares: 16 new professionally-designed flares
New! Builder presets: 7 stunning new drag-and-drop presets
New! Faster renders: Up to 3x speed increases on many effects

What’s new in Sapphire 2019.5:

Released 19 June 2019.

New Effect and Transitions

S_ParallaxStrips- Brand new for Sapphire 2019.5 effect, S_ParallaxStrips takes any image and divides into strips separated apart in z space. The floating strips can seamlessly strip apart or seamless form a complete image. Angle, size, speed, z-depth, and many more parameters can be adjusted for original and interesting looks.
S_ParallaxStripsTransition- New for Sapphire 2019.5, S_ParallaxStripsTransition is a new transition using ParallaxStrips to animate between the input and output clips. S_ParallaxStripsTransition breaks the image up into a collection of 3d refracting strips. The strips slowly fade on, then off again.
S_DissolvePixelSort- New for Sapphire 2019.5, is a new transition based on the S_PixelSort effect. S_DissolvePixelSort is a damage transition that sorts the pixels the dissolve along with different patterns of lines. There are three modes: Linear sorts along parallel lines, Radial sorts along lines radiating from a controllable center point, and Circular sorts along concentric circles. S_DissolvePixelSort sorts the pixels based on the relative values of the pixels. Use “Max Percentage” to control how much of the image is sorted at the peak of the transition.
S_DissolveDigitalDamage- S_DissolveDigitalDamage is a transition version of DigitalDamage simulating bad digital TV transmission with a dissolve between the incoming and outgoing clips.

New Functionality

Clip Access for Builder, Flare Designer, and the Preset Browser- All Sapphire 2019.5 external applications, such as the Effect and Transition Builder, Flare Designer, and Preset Browser, now can live preview on any resolution clip.
New Look and Feel for Builder, Flare Designer, and the Preset Browser- All Sapphire 2019.5 external applications, such as the Effect and Transition Builder, Flare Designer, and Preset Browser, now feature an updated look and feel, complete with modern UI optimized for 4K HDPI monitors.
Broadcast Monitor Support- The Sapphire Effect and Transition Builder and Flare now support output to a third party broadcast monitor via a Blackmagic or AJA card.

Improved Mocha

Mask Rendering Performance – Mask rendering with Mocha in Sapphire is now much faster – especially for complex and multi-layered masks. Edge-Snapping – Edge-Snapping on Splines to speed up Masking. Select one or more points and press “ALT+S” to snap points to the nearest edge, or hold “S” to drag-snap.
Layout Manager – Save, modify, and order custom layouts from the View menu. New layouts will appear in the workspace drop down.
Autosave Backups – Autosaves now include iterated history to prevent data loss and Autosaves are no longer removed on exit to the host. You can define the location and the number of backups in the Mocha preferences.
Numerous Bug Fixes and UI Tweaks including foreground mattes now correctly occluding when GPU tracking a background layer.

New Host:

Sapphire 2019.5 OFX is now happy to support Autodesk Flame, Flame Assist, Flare v2020 or higher. In addition to new effects and transitions, Flame artists will now have access to the Sapphire Effect and Transition Builder inside of Flame with the 2019.5 release.

Compatibility Issues:

In v19, LensFlares using MutliSpot and MultiStreak elements would look different inside the Flare Designer across operating systems. In v19.5 this was fixed, but as a result Lens Flares may look different from v19 when loaded through the Flare Designer. Old projects will continue to look the same as they did in v19 when loaded into the host or rendered but may look different after loading in the Flare Designer.

Known Issues:

Preset Browser does not display Feedback or Temporal presets correctly.
(Sparks) Flame may crash on close when a Mocha mask was used in Sapphire.
(Sparks) upate_setups has a bug when upgrading Caustics from v2019->2019.5.
If you have an animated Mocha mask in your plugin when you enter the Preset Browser, the Mocha mask will not animate.
(OFX – Resolve) Sometimes the Preset Browser, Flare Designer, or Builder will start behind the host.
Sometimes the preview in the Preset Browser, Flare Designer or Builder doesn’t render with the correct frame.
The Preset Browser, Flare Designer, or Builder may be slow on the first launch.
The current time marker in the Preset Browser, Flare Designer or Builder doesn’t always match the current time in the host application.
(OFX – Resolve) The second input isn’t showing in the Preset Browser or Builder in Sapphire Transitions.
(not Sparks) “Show Checkerboard” isn’t working inside of Builder.
(Premiere) The Preset Browser and Effect Builder may not respect clip scaling applied in Premiere.
(OFX, Linux) The License Tool that runs while running the RPM doesn’t advance after entering the activation key and clicking next. The license installs correctly. After clicking next, you can click cancel to close the tool. Running the License Tool directly from the start menu advances correctly.
(OFX, Nuke) The Preset Browser and Lensflare Designer may not open if a still is hooked up as an input.
(OFX, Resolve 16, Mac OS) On older Macs, Mocha may generate an error the first time you try to track. If you close Mocha and re-open it, tracking should work as expected.
Atmosphere may not look the same between the LensFlare designer and the plugin.

What’s New In Sapphire 2019.4:

Improved stability of Sapphire when using the GPU Fixed S_Effect and S_Transition in Burn, Flare, and Flame Assist

What’s New In Sapphire 2019.3

Fixed a slowdown when Sapphire is first applied on some offline systems using activation-keys

What’s New In Sapphire 2019.2

Minor installer improvements
Improved proxy server support for installing and removing licenses
Mocha Improvements:
- Stability improvements
- Memory usage improvements
- Fixed a crash when the Mocha cache directory is missing
- Fixed a crash opening certain old sapphire v11 mocha projects
Minor speed improvements in the Preset Browser, Builder and Flare Editor
Minor preset improvements

What’s New in Sapphire 2019.02 for Autodesk

Fixed mocha tracking on fields

What’s New in Sapphire 2019.02 for Baselight

Baselight 5 support
Fixed a bug where the Preset Browser and Flare Editor sometimes failed to launch
Fixed thumbnails in the Preset Browser
Fixed saving presets on Baselight. User saved presets will now be saved inside: /usr/fl/sapphire/

What’s New in Sapphire 2019.02 for Fusion

Fixed a crash in S_PixelSort on Fusion

What’s New in Sapphire 2019.02 for Premiere

Fixed a crash that occurred when ctrl-z was pressed on machines with certain hardware configurations
Fixed Premiere GPU suite integration on MacOS

What’s new in Sapphire 2019

SAPPHIRE LENSFLARE 2019

LensFlare and the Flare Designer have been re-designed and re-imagined for Sapphire 2019. The Flare Designer has been greatly improved and enhanced to increase the ease of use and expand its functionality. The preset browser is now integrated directly inside the Flare Designer, which makes accessing and modifying lens flare presets a breeze. A new lens flare “Component” workflow has been created, which allows artists to easily and intuitively build a complex flare from scratch and helps reveal the power and flexibility of Sapphire’s flare engine. Finally, 27 new professionally designed presets have been added in Sapphire 2019. Watch this introductory video to get up to speed on how to use this amazing new tool.

SAPPHIRE PIXELSORT

PixelSort is a fantastic new Sapphire effect that grew up in the modern digital “glitch art” movement. It’s a fun new way to distort your image in a multitude of different ways and has many deep parameters which can produce some stunning results. PixelSort is also available inside Sapphire Effect and Transition builder. Combine it with other Sapphire effects for a truly original effect, and use it as a transition to up production value in any edit. Watch this short video to learn more about Sapphire PixelSort.

SAPPHIRE WHIPLASH TRANSITION

Sapphire WhipLash is a “sister effect” to one of the most popular Sapphire transitions, S_SwishPan, and it features some amazing new functionality and features that will undoubtedly make it the Sapphire transition of choice. At it’s core, S_Whiplash is a brand new transition that mimics a lighting quick camera pan, blending multiple copies of an image together so it appears as if a great distance is travelled in a short amount of time. S_WhipLash also features a nice soft bounce stop, a smooth finish, or a snapback at the end of the transition. RGB separation blurs can be added for a different look and S_Whiplash can travel in any direction or angle as well as scaling up or down as well. Watch this short video to see what this new and extremely powerful Sapphire transition can accomplish.

ENHANCED MOCHA TRACKING AND MASKING

Sapphire 2019 features major improvements to the integrated Mocha tracking and masking, available within each Sapphire effects and separately as the S_Mocha spark (Autodesk only). For further information on the differences between the integrated Mocha tracking and masking in Sapphire 2019 and Mocha Pro 2019, please click here.

NEW SPLINE TOOLS FOR ROTO & MASKING
Sapphire 2019 features 4 new Mochas spline tools for masking and rotoscoping, all created to speed up shape creation and to save time. They include the new Magnetic Spline Tool with edge snapping, the new Freehand Spline Tool for fluid drawing, and new preset circular and rectangular shape tools.
NEW LOOK AND FEEL
Editors and artists will rejoice at the completely redesigned Mocha interface. The updated interface makes Mocha easier to learn than ever before and looks great on hi-res and retina enabled monitors! The Mocha Essentials Workspace brings the power of Mocha to novice level users with a simplified, elegant, and easy-to-learn interface. Tracking & masking is now faster by reducing complexity and focusing the Mocha interface on the most essential icons and tools. Switch to Classic for advanced modules and customize workspaces for flexibility.
RETINA & HIGH DPI MONITOR SUPPORT
The new Mocha interface and tools look fantastic on modern high DPI monitors.

IMPROVED EFFECT AND TRANSITION BUILDER

The Effect and Transition Builder has some complimentary new improvements in Sapphire 2019 release. A new animating shape effect has been added, which allows for cool new presets, like multi-color shape wipes and organic transitions with a hand-drawn look. PixelSort and Whiplash have been added as well, which can be used to create original new effects. Watch this short video for an overview of the new Builder presets in Sapphire 2019.
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Learn more about Sapphire Builder on the Details Page

GPU SPEED IMPROVEMENTS

Boris FX is proud to say Sapphire 2019 is the fastest version of Sapphire ever! Optimized for peak GPU acceleration for CUDA enabled NVIDIA cards, Blackmagic Resolve colorists and Adobe Premiere Pro CC editors will see the greatest benefit from this across the board performance increase.

Sapphire 2020: Introduction to New Features for Avid Media Composer

Kevin P. McAuliffe shows Avid Media Composer editor's new features in Sapphire 2020. For example, S_FreeLens, Mocha parameter tracking for effects, more.