Boris FX releases Sapphire 2024.5
Initially posted on 3 November 2023. Scroll down for information of the Sapphire 2024.5 replace.
Boris FX has up to date Sapphire, its set of results plugins for compositing and modifying software program.
Sapphire 2024 provides a brand new Mud impact, for including atmospheric mud to video, and PixelMosh, for creating glitchy video playback results.
The replace additionally provides 10 new preset lens flares, and 65 new presets for Sapphire Builder.
Sapphire 2024: new Mud and PixelMosh results
Sapphire 2024 provides two new results: S_Dust, for including atmospheric mud to photographs with out particle simulation, and S_PixelMosh, for mimicking glitchy video playback.
It’s a flexible datamoshing impact, and fairly a troublesome as soon as to explain, however you possibly can see the vary of prospects within the video above. It’s additionally obtainable as a transition.
Sapphire 2024: updates to current options
The replace additionally provides 10 new presets to Sapphire’s Lens Flare results, and 65 new presets in Builder (S_Effect and S_Builder), Sapphire’s toolset for constructing customized results and transitions.
As well as, time-based results at the moment are obtainable in S_Effect and S_Builder, and could be rendered within the Preset Browser.
Up to date 17 April 2024: Boris FX has launched Sapphire 2024.5.
The replace improves efficiency of 11 resource-hungry nodes, together with blur and defocus results, including Steel assist on macOS, and enhancing reminiscence utilization on Home windows and Linux.
There are additionally 5 new lens flares.
Pricing and system necessities
Sapphire 2024.5 is offered for a range of compositing and editing software, together with After Results, DaVinci Resolve, Flame and Nuke, on Home windows, Linux and macOS.
It prices $1,695 for the Avid and Adobe/OFX editions, or $2,795 for a multi-host licence. Sapphire can also be obtainable through month-to-month and annual subscriptions.
Read an overview of the new features in Sapphire on Boris FX’s website
Read a full list of new features in Sapphire in the online release notes
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