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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 offer massive time-savings — allowing creatives to focus on what matters most, delivering an impact that keeps audiences coming back.
Quick Look: Ben Brownlee gives an overview of the new features and effects you’ll go gaga over.
What’s new in Boris FX Sapphire 2021
- Metal GPU-acceleration: The fastest render speeds on Macs
- S_UltraGlow: The world’s best glow just got better
- S_UltraZap: The most electrifying results ever
- LensFlare Designer: More customization = More photorealistic flares
- 45+ presets designed by artists & 10 new lens flares
Metal GPU Acceleration
Faster renders and speedier interactivity for all Mac users
Mac users with Sapphire 2021 will rejoice with the introduction of Metal GPU acceleration for over 60 Sapphire effects. Dramatic speed gains can be achieved with Metal acceleration in Sapphire; S_Rays renders over 4x faster with Metal than CPU only. Performance can vary depending on GPU specs, host application, OS version, and individual Sapphire effects, but on average Sapphire 2021 with Metal acceleration renders 20% faster than CPU only. Click here for a full list of which Sapphire effects feature Metal acceleration in the 2021 release.
UltraGlow – The world’s best glow just got better
UltraGlow is the latest evolution of Sapphire’s legendary Glow, the most popular and loved glow effect in all of post-production. Sapphire 2021’s UltraGlow brings with it all the beauty, speed, and ease of use of S_Glow, but adds many new and unique parameters which create both impressive photorealism and countless dramatic looks. Warning — once you try out Sapphire UltraGlow, you may never go back to using S_Glow again!
Beautiful diffusion with AfterGlow
UltraGlow emulates a real-world optical-based glow and features a massive amount of controls for customization. Create a primary glow first and then add a secondary “afterglow” for an extra level of photorealism. Control brightness, threshold, falloff, bias, width, primary and secondary colors, streaking, and more.
Smoky atmospheres and crisp highlights
Brand new Atmosphere and Highlights features make a more dynamic glow possible. Highlights introduce auto-animating user-defined sparkles of light sweeps across your image. Atmosphere adds a smoky or misty look to your glow, giving a more diffused or realistic look to the effect.
Easy to use parameter layout
UltraGlow features an organized parameter layout structured in an order of operations. Spend less time hunting and more time creating.
Optimized for speed
UltraGlow features GPU acceleration for both Metal and CUDA enabled cards. Mac and PC users experience faster speeds and shorter render times.
UltraZap
Create electrifying effects with ease
Prepare to be shocked at the new addition to 2021— Sapphire UltraZap! A sister effect to S_Zap, used in countless films, TV shows, and commercials, UltraZap blows it out with new parameters and functionality. Featuring a secondary bolt system that wraps around the main bolt, creating photoreal electric bolts, fields, arcs, and currents have never been easier.
Built for visual effects and perfect for motion graphics
UltraZap is perfect for photorealistic lightning and electricity effects. But that is just the beginning. Create gorgeously smooth stroke effects on modern text treatments and stylistic animations that auto loop with no keyframing.
Use on custom splines, masks, or type
UltraZap can stand on its own with a custom animatable spline structure or it can wrap around a native AE path or type. Easily create custom neon effects or any electrifying motion graphics look.
Secondary bolt system
UltraZap features an independently controllable secondary bolt system with a custom position, animation, and color controls. Loop differently constructed bolts on top of the primary bolts for endless looks and custom effects.
Integrated UltraGlow
Sapphire’s UltraGlow is included as part of UltraZap. Having this new effect inside of UltraZap allows artists to create stunningly realistic glow effects directly inside of UltraZap.
Track with Mocha
UltraZap features the Academy Award-winning Mocha planar tracking system directly inside the effect. Artists can use Mocha to track the positional data of UltraZap native splines, allowing for the creation of complex animations without a single keyframe.
Stunning Presets
Art directed presets perfect for text
Starting from a blank slate can always be difficult, that’s why UltraGlow and UItra Zap arrives with more than 40 new presets to get you up and running quickly. Perfect for full-screen video treatments and designed for typography. Many fully animate with no need for keyframing. Work smarter, work faster, work better.
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Sapphire LensFlare 2021
Adding flare for 2021
Killer lens flares depend on the details— the small things alone don’t impress, but combined make you say “wow!” The 2021 release of Sapphire LensFlare adds two of those small things: the ability to move elements off-axis and adjust their relative speeds.
This release also includes an impressive collection of 10 new flares that showcase these new and recently added features like element shading. The end result is you can now create LensFlares with brand new sophistication and elegance. Sapphire 2021 features our best collection of LensFlares to date!
Sapphire 2021 Host Support
See System Requirements for details.
Why Use Sapphire Plugins?
- Adjust – Easy color correction. All the tools you need for advanced color correction. Includes 10+ effects.
- Lights – Hollywood’s secret weapon. A favorite among the pros featuring the wildly popular S_LensFlare and S_Glow effects. Includes 20+ effects.
- Stylize – Made for TV. Must-have effects for promo and music video work. Includes 50+ effects like S_DigitalDamage and S_FilmEffect.
- Distort – Warp footage fast. Add high-quality photorealistic lens distortion, in-camera shake, and chromatic aberration. Includes 20+ effects.
- Blurs The most photorealistic blurs. The industry’s fastest in-camera blurring tools include over 20+ effects like S_Blur, S_RackDefocus and S_FreeLens.
- Renders – Start from scratch. Add lightning, clouds, textures, and even a starfield generator accurately down to date, time, and location. Includes 35+ effects like S_Zap, S_Grunge, and S_NightSky.
- Transitions – Never white flash again. An editor’s dream. Includes 50+ of the industry’s best transitions.
- Time – Bend time with one click. Instantly create trippy feedback and trails or go slo-mo. Includes 25+ effects
Description
Boris FX Sapphire Filter List
System Requirements
Product | Sapphire 2021 |
Requirements | macOS: 10.14 or higher Windows: Windows 10 Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, CentOS 7 |
Hardware | ecommended 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 | Node-locked, 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 For a full list of supported hosts and OS, please click here |
Reviews & Comments
Customer Reviews
Review: Boris FX Continuum 2020.5 and Sapphire 2020.
BorisFX has created THE toolbox for editors. From fixing lighting shifts using Continuum Flicker Fixer, Continuum Gaussian Blur with Mocha Tracking, to even Sapphire's S_Glow - Continuum 2020.5 and Sapphire 2020 are must have plugins for Avid Media Composer, Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere and After Effects, and many more apps.
Read the full review by Brady Betzel at Post Perspective
Would you recommend this product to a colleague? Yes
By: Brady Betzel
Date: May 15, 2020
Change Log
What’s new in Sapphire 2020.5
- New! Improved LensFlare Designer
- New! 12 professionally-designed flares and improved Sapphire Lens Flares
- New! Transitions add S_HyperPull and S_HyperPush
- New! Added support for Blackmagic Fusion Studio 16 and the integrated Fusion inside of Blackmagic Davinci Resolve 16
- New! More OFX hosts now support Sapphire Builder
- New! Improved Mocha tracking
- New! Faster render times for many effects
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.
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.
Tutorials
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