PROFESSIONAL VFX MADE EASY
The
world’s top content creators use Sapphire to create looks that engage
viewers, grow audiences, and increase content value. When you and your
clients demand the highest production value in the most efficient
manner, Boris FX Sapphire is the unsurpassed choice for high-end visual
effects plug-ins.
WHY USE SAPPHIRE PLUG-INS?
THE BEST EFFECTS. PERIOD.
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 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 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
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.
WHAT’S NEW IN SAPPHIRE 2019
NEW EFFECTS. IMPROVED FUNCTIONALITY. FASTER SPEEDS.
Sapphire
2019 is the latest major upgrade for the legendary suite of VFX
plug-ins. Key features include a totally revamped and enhanced LensFlare
and Flare Designer, new PixelSort digital glitch art effect, new
WhipLash transition, new animating shape tool for Effect and Transition
Builder, new Mocha Essentials workspace with new spline tools like
magnetic edge snapping, and it’s optimized for maximum CPU and GPU
performance.
BRAND NEW LENS FLARES FOR 2019
New
to Sapphire 2019 is the reboot of S_LensFlare, with a redesigned and
reimagined Flare Designer tool. New professionally designed presets,
lens objects, flare components, and itergrated preset browser showcase
the complexity and flexibility behind the legendary powerful Sapphire
flare engine.
GLITCH IT UP WITH PIXELSORT
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. PixelSort’s deep
parameter set gives you total control over your desired result. 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 TRANSITION
S_WhipLash
is a sister effect to one of the most popular Sapphire transitions —
S_SwishPan. 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. Featuring a nice soft bounce
stop, a smooth finish or a snapback ending. Seeing is believing.
ENHANCED MOCHA TRACKING AND MASKING
The
integrated Mocha tracking and masking inside of Sapphire 2019 features
some major improvements including a brand new Essentials interface, a
new magnetic spline tool, new preset vector shapes for circular and
rectangular masks, and new High DPI support for Retina and 4K monitors.
FASTEST 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.

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