


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.New! Metal GPU-acceleration: The fastest render speeds on MacsNew! S_UltraGlow: The world’s best glow just got betterNew! S_UltraZap: The most electrifying results everNew! LensFlare Designer: More customization = More photorealistic flaresNew! 45+ presets designed by artists & 10 new lens flaresNew! OpenColorIO color management supportNew! Easier Tracking: Improved integrated Mocha tracking and masking with parameter tracking & new Area Brush for quick maskingNew! Presets: 16 new LensFlares and 7 new Builder PresetsNew! Functionality: Compare mode for the Sapphire Preset BrowserNew! Faster Renders: Up to three times faster renders with specific effectsLicensing: Improve subscription license handling.LensFlare: Shadow working correctly with the undo stack in the Sapphire Lens Flare Designer.Effect Builder: Change Color node default to “Color Only”Resolve Fixed occasional black frames when returning from Builder and the Preset Browser.Linux: Fixed libglade error when installing the Sapphire RPM on Centos 7.2-3 Centos 8.X, and Ubuntu 18.04.Linux: Fixed libglade error when running the Sapphire Preset Browser, Sapphire Lens Flare Designer, and Sapphire Effect Builder on Centos 7.2-3 Centos 8.X, and Ubuntu 18.04.Transitions: Remove the erroneous “Amount” parameter on many transitions (Eg. HyperPull) when in transition mode.Nuke and Fusion: Fixed the offset and wrap for CardFlip and HyperPush transitions.Fusion: Enable S_Effect and S_Transition.Premiere on Windows: Improved behavior when Premiere fails to load the Sapphire plugins on the first attempt.

Featuring a nice soft bounce stop, a smooth finish or a snapback ending. The powerful new transition blends multiple copies of an image together in order to digitally recreate the illusion of traveling a great amount of distance in a short time. Pair it with integrated Mocha tracking and masking or combine it with other effects inside Sapphire Effect and Transition Builder for slick, highly-stylized results.SWISH PAN ON STEROIDS: WHIPLASH TRANSITIONS_WhipLash is a sister effect to one of the most popular Sapphire transitions — S_SwishPan. PixelSort’s deep parameter set gives you total control over your desired result. New professionally designed presets, lens objects, flare components, and itergrated preset browser showcase the complexity and flexibility behind the legendary powerful Sapphire flare engine.S_PixelSort is a fun modern way to add digital glitchy distortion to your image — and it’s great for music videos or preset looks. BRAND NEW LENS FLARES FOR 2019New to Sapphire 2019 is the reboot of S_LensFlare, with a redesigned and reimagined Flare Designer tool.
Add subtle lighting with Glow or dramatically change the mood with LensFlare. The popular versatile effects always live up to the hype. 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.The Sapphire Light Unit has been a favorite among professional visual effects and motion graphics artists for decades. Blackmagic Resolve colorists and Adobe Premiere Pro CC editors will see the greatest benefit from this across the board performance increase.Sapphire lets you create stunning organic looks unmatched by any host native effect tools.
Highlighted effects include Distort, DistortBlur, Shake, WarpChroma, WarpFishEye, WarpDrops, ZBlur, Infinite Zoom, and more.The Sapphire Blur Unit features the industry’s fastest photorealistic in-camera blurring tools. Create photorealistic lens distortion effects, in-camera shake effects or chromatic aberrations. Highlight effects include FilmEffect, PixelSort, DigitalDamage, FilmDamage, ScanLines, Cartoon, Kaleidoscope, EdgeDetect, Vignette, FlysEyesHex, and more.The Sapphire Distort Unit lets you warp your footage in every which way. Add color grades, create psychedelic looks or add glitchy video damage effects.
Add lightning with Zap, liven up a sky with Clouds and NightSky or create procedurally generated animated backgrounds with texture generators. Highlighted effects include Blur, ZBlur, RackDefocus, Sharpen, Deband, Convolve, BlurMotion, Beauty, and more.The Sapphire Render Unit helps you create imagery from scratch. Retouch skin and apply beauty work. Conquer out of focus images or nasty compression artifacts with high-grade sharpen and debanding tools. Import a z-depth matte into Z_Blur and blur with depth.
Quickly launch Mocha to create and track a mask directly from within your favorite Sapphire effects.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. The Academy Award-winning technology makes effects isolation to full-blown rotoscoping easy. Start using Builder right out of the box with over 150 presets for creative and correctional purposes.Sapphire proudly features integrated Mocha planar tracking and masking tools. Slow down or speed up footage with the Sapphire Optical Flow retimer or choose from Retime, FlickerRemove, Flicker, Feedback, TimeSlice, RandomEdits, RepairFrames, and more.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. Highlighted transitions include SwishPan, Whiplash, GlowDissolve, LensFlareDissolve, and WarpWipe.The Sapphire Time Unit lets you bend time with just a few clicks. Simply drag and drop one of the countless presets onto your cut just like a dissolve.
Choose from the full suite, individually-priced Sapphire Units, annual subscriptions or RLM server-based floating licenses.SUPPORTED ON MEDIA COMPOSER V8 AND HIGHERGPU ACCELERATION AVAILABLE FOR NVIDIA CARDS ONLYSPARKS SUPPORTED ON FLAME / FLARE/ FLAME ASSIST 2017 AND HIGHERCENTOS/RED HAT LINUX 6 OR 7 (64 BIT ONLY)MOCHA TRACKING ONLY SUPPORTED IN RESOLVE STUDIO PROEFFECT AND TRANSITION BUILDER NOT SUPPORTEDCENT OS/RED HAT LINUX 6 OR 7 (64 BIT ONLY)GPU ACCELERATION AVAILABLE FOR NVIDIA CARDS ONLY Boris FX Sapphire 2019.
