Benefits:
- Endless creative possibilities
- The quantity of visual effects allows for countless effect-blending options
- Ease and speed of use is a cost-effective time-saver
- More time available for creativity and high-quality end results
- Blazing fast performance maximizes productivity
- Remarkably organic and natural-looking photoreal results
- Quickly and easily iterate on effect looks
- Visual control of look creation
- Quick reference for all effect parameters
- Convenience of multiple platform options
- Highly reliable engine
Features:
- Over 250 visual effects
- Resolution-independent
- GPU-accelerated for Nvidia CUDA cards
- Multiprocessor support
- 32-bit float support
- Intuitive user interface
- On-screen UI widgets for many video effects
- Offline HTML and PDF documentation included
- Create unique natural and organic lighting using rays, lens flare, zap, glare, glint, and glow effects
- Create backgrounds and organic displacement maps using a large selection of texture generators
- Choose from a wide variety of fast-processing color channel, directional, and defocus blurs
- Stylize and color-correct your footage with a selection of effects including FilmEffect, HalfTone, Vignette, BleachBypass, and Cartoon
- Free unlimited render licenses
- Same license works on Adobe Premiere Pro, and also Apple Final Cut Pro (if used on the same machine)
New in Sapphire Plug-ins v8:
The latest version of the high-end VFX plugin suite has been updated with effects and features that are essential to producing modern, creative looks. This includes the biggest addition to Sapphire in its history: a new feature called “Builder” that lets users create their own effects and transitions.
New and Updated Effects: Sapphire 8 includes these new and updated effects, available on all host applications:
- Grunge: Add a variety of natural-looking elements to dirty up a shot, add sophisticated vignettes, or create complex textures. Choose from a variety of categories: cracks, stains, frost, and more, which can be combined and animated.
- LightLeak: Simulate light leaking into the frame for an organic lighting effect more subtle than a lens flare. Control the color and movement of the lights to add nostalgic warmth and energy to your work.
- DigitalDamage: The modern equivalent of FilmDamage, DigitalDamage simulates digital playback errors and noise, compression errors, and glitches, with seven different damage types that can be combined for additional customization.
- Shake: Updated with two additional modes that result in twitchy and jumpy motion, and new channel parameters allowing for color channel separation as the shaking occurs.
- Crosshatch: Apply a pattern of crossing lines in pencil or chalk to give footage a sketched look. Crosshatch compliments Sapphire's other artistic effects, such as AutoPaint, Sketch, and Cartoon.
New Features - Builder with Enhanced Preset Browser:
Builder gives users the ability to create their own effects and transitions in a node-based workspace for unprecedented creativity and efficiency, thus unleashing the full power of Sapphire. In Builder, users 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. This flexibility can be especially helpful for editors. Since Builder allows effects to be combined, results that would have taken multiple steps can now be achieved with a single effect.
Compatibility matrix:
OS: Windows 7 - 8 (64-bit)
Host Platform:
- Adobe After Effects CS6, CC, CC 2014 (v8.1 is not supported)
- Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, CC, CC 2014
Changes in GenArts Sapphire AE v8.1:
- Builder Improvements
- When launched from S_Transition, Builder now has two frames of lead-in and lead-out on either side of the transition.
- The preview area in Builder now supports pan and zoom.
- Effect nodes in Builder now have a Save Preset button.
- The search box in Chooser now knows how to search over the plugins, in addition to the presets.
- Builder has a new menu option, Node->Insert Node from Preset.
- Builder has a new menu option, Node->Insert S_Effect.
- Builder has a new menu option, Node->Add Sticky Notes.
- Builder now has the ability to save sticky notes within Builder Effects.
- Builder now has two options in the View menu that affect the way alpha is handled in the preview.
- The Transition Node in Builder now has a custom dialog for choosing the transition.
- Fixed a rare bug on Windows that would cause the After Effects's and Premiere Pro's window to close when exiting the Preset Browser.
- Fixed a bug that caused some Builder effects to lose settings when edited.
- Fixed a bug in S_Effect where dragging a parameter could set it to a large negative value.
- Fixed an error in ZapFrom when Show: Edges is used with motion blur.
- Fixed a bug that caused Preset Browser handshake errors on some non-English Windows installations.
- Fixed a bug in LightLeak where element positions were flipped vertically.
- Flare Designer: fixed a crash when creating Texture elements.
- LensFlare 3D: Fixed a bug that prevented the occlusion layer parameters from showing in After Effects.
- Fixed an erroneous warning about missing directories on machines running a free trial or floating license.
- OSX: Fixed a bug that prevented Sapphire 7 and Sapphire 8 from using the same license.
- Added new S_Effects, S_Transitions, Lensflare, and single effect presets.
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