Release Notes
Continuum 2021.5 (v14.5.1) for Apple Final Cut Pro - Release Notes
July 13, 2021
Continuum 2021.5 (v14.5.1) for Apple Final Cut Pro / FxPlug - Release Notes Continuum 2021.5 (v14.5.1) FCP is the first full release of Continuum for FxPlug hosts since Continuum 2020.5 (v13.5.1). There was a public beta of Continuum 14.0.x, but no official version of 14.0.x was released. Continuum 2021.5 was completely re-architected to conform to the latest Apple FxPlug specifications, and due to this restructuring public beta projects that used BCC+ filters will not come forward to Continuum 2021.
Sapphire 2021.5.1 release notes
June 25, 2021
What’s New in Sapphire 2021.5 New Features Support for new After Effects Multi-Frame Rendering pipeline on most Sapphire Effects. Native support for Mac M1 machines in Premiere Beta. Improved Rays and EdgeRays: These effects now have parameters allowing the rays to be blurred before they are combined with the background. Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes in Preset Browser, Sapphire Effect Builder, and Flare Designer.
Continuum 2021.5 (v14.5.0) for Adobe AE/Premiere - Release Notes
June 21, 2021
Continuum 2021.5 (14.5.0) for Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro - Release Notes What’s New in Continuum 2021.5 for Adobe (Summary of major changes since Continuum 2021): 9 New Fully GPU Accelerated BCC+ Effects: BCC+Composite Blend a pair of clips with extensive controls over compositing details such as color correction, blur, film grain, motion blur, edge composite control, and an integrated drop shadow BCC+Film Grunge Hardware accelerated Film Grunge filter to add aged-film effects to video source clips.
Continuum 2021.5 (v14.5.0) for AVX - Avid - Release Notes
June 21, 2021
Continuum 2021.5 (v14.5.0) for Avid AVX - Release Notes What’s New in Continuum 2021.5 for AVX - Avid Media Composer (Summary of major changes since Continuum 2021): 9 New Fully GPU Accelerated BCC+ Effects: BCC+Composite Blend a pair of clips with extensive controls over compositing details such as color correction, blur, film grain, motion blur, edge composite control, and an integrated drop shadow BCC+Film Grunge Hardware accelerated Film Grunge filter to add aged-film effects to video source clips.
Continuum 2021.5 (v14.5.0) for OFX release notes
June 21, 2021
Continuum 2021.5 (v14.5.0) for OFX - Release Notes What’s New in Continuum 2021.5 for OFX - OpenFX (Summary of major changes since Continuum 2021): 9 New Fully GPU Accelerated BCC+ Effects: BCC+Composite Blend a pair of clips with extensive controls over compositing details such as color correction, blur, film grain, motion blur, edge composite control, and an integrated drop shadow BCC+Film Grunge Hardware accelerated Film Grunge filter to add aged-film effects to video source clips.
Continuum 2021 (v14.0.3) for Adobe AE/Premiere - Release Notes
May 5, 2021
Continuum 2021 (14.0.3) for Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere - Release Notes Continuum 2021 (v14.0.3) is a maintenance update to Continuum 2021 (v14.0.0 and v14.0.1) and is free to licensed users of Continuum 2021. It includes several important fixes and enhancements (see below). For a full list of what’s new between Continuum 2021 and the previous Continuum 2020.5 major release please refer to the initial 2021 release notes here:
Continuum 2021 (v14.0.3) for AVX - Avid - Release Notes
May 5, 2021
Continuum 2021 (14.0.3) for Avid AVX - Release Notes Continuum 2021 (v14.0.3) is a maintenance update to Continuum 2021 (v14.0.0 and v14.0.1) and is free to licensed users of Continuum 2021. It includes several important fixes and enhancements (see below). For a full list of what’s new between Continuum 2021 and the previous Continuum 2020.5 major release please refer to the initial 2021 release notes here: Continuum 2021 (v14.0.0) for AVX - Avid - Release Notes
Sapphire 2021 release notes
May 4, 2021
What’s New in Sapphire 2021.5 New Features Support for new After Effects Multi-Frame Rendering pipeline on most Sapphire Effects. Native support for Mac M1 machines in Premiere Beta. Improved Rays and EdgeRays: These effects now have parameters allowing the rays to be blurred before they are combined with the background. Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes in Preset Browser, Sapphire Effect Builder, and Flare Designer.
Continuum 2021 (v14.0.3) for OFX - Release Notes
April 18, 2021
Continuum 2021 (v14.0.3) for OFX - Release Notes Continuum 2021 (v14.0.3) is a maintenance update to Continuum 2021 (v14.0.0 and v14.0.1) and is free to licensed users of Continuum 2021. It includes several important fixes and enhancements (see below). For a full list of what’s new between Continuum 2021 and the previous Continuum 2020.5 major release please refer to the initial 2021 release notes here: Continuum 2021 (v14.0.0) for OFX - Release Notes
Particle Illusion Standalone 2021 (v14.0.3) - Release Notes
March 29, 2021
Particle Illusion Standalone 2021 (14.0.3) - Release Notes Particle Illusion Standalone 2021 (v14.0.3) is a maintenance update to Particle Illusion Standalone 2021 (v14.0.2). It includes important fixes (see below), and is recommended for all users. For a full list of what’s new between PI 2021 and the previous PI 2020.5 major release please refer to the initial 2021 release notes here: Particle Illusion Standalone 2021 (v14.0.2) Fixes and Polish in Particle Illusion Standalone 2021 (v14.
Sapphire 2021.02 release notes
March 29, 2021
What’s New in Sapphire 2021.02 New in 2021.02: Performance Improvement: Fixed a bug where Sapphire checked certain kinds of licenses too frequently. Flame on Linux: Fix an issue where Sapphire will fall back from GPU to CPU and sometimes cause frame corruption as a result. S_Effect on MacOS: Fixed a crash in the preset browser when rendering certain presets. Eg. Mirage Heatwave. Preset Browser, Flare Designer, Effect Builder: Miscellaneous improvements with identifying the process and visible icons.
Mocha Pro 2021 v8.0.3 Release Notes
March 17, 2021
This is a new version containing many new features and defect fixes. Release notes cover Mocha Pro, for both standalone and plugin versions of the product.
Mocha Pro 2021 v8.0.2 Release Notes
February 23, 2021
This is a new version containing many new features and defect fixes. Release notes cover Mocha Pro, for both standalone and plugin versions of the product.
Particle Illusion Standalone 2021 (v14.0.2) - Release Notes
January 26, 2021
Particle Illusion Standalone 2021 (14.0.2) - Release Notes What’s New in Particle Illusion Standalone 2021 (Summary of major changes since Particle Illusion Standalone 2020.5): Enhancements: 3D Emit particles in a 3D environment Turbulence Add organically evolving randomized variation to particle Size and Position based on a noise map field. Lines Add Lines connecting particles to each other, to their emitter location, or to their birth position for a wide range of new looks.
Continuum 2021 (v14.0.1) for OFX - Release Notes
December 16, 2020
Continuum 2021 (v14.0.1) for OFX - Release Notes Continuum 2021 (v14.0.1) is a maintenance update to Continuum 2021 (v14.0.0) and is free to licensed users of Continuum 2021. It includes several important fixes and enhancements (see below). For a full list of what’s new between Continuum 2021 and the previous Continuum 2020.5 major release please refer to the initial 2021 release notes here: Continuum 2021 (v14.0.0) for OFX - Release Notes
Continuum 2021 (v14.0.1) for AVX - Avid - Release Notes
December 16, 2020
Continuum 2021 (14.0.1) for Avid AVX - Release Notes Continuum 2021 (v14.0.1) is a maintenance update to Continuum 2021 (v14.0.0) and is free to licensed users of Continuum 2021. It includes several important fixes and enhancements (see below). For a full list of what’s new between Continuum 2021 and the previous Continuum 2020.5 major release please refer to the initial 2021 release notes here: Continuum 2021 (v14.0.0) for AVX - Avid - Release Notes
Continuum 2021 (v14.0.1) for Adobe AE/Premiere - Release Notes
December 16, 2020
Continuum 2021 (14.0.1) for Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere - Release Notes Continuum 2021 (v14.0.1) is a maintenance update to Continuum 2021 (v14.0.0) and is free to licensed users of Continuum 2021. It includes several important fixes and enhancements (see below). For a full list of what’s new between Continuum 2021 and the previous Continuum 2020.5 major release please refer to the initial 2021 release notes here: Continuum 2021 (v14.
Sapphire 2021.01 release notes
December 12, 2020
What’s New in Sapphire 2021.01 New Effects S_UltraGlow - Brand new effect for Sapphire 2021, S_UltraGlow total revamp of the classic S_Glow with control over the hotspot of the glow as well as the falloff. S_UltraZap - Brand new effect for Sapphire 2021, S_UltraZap improves upon the classic S_Zap with the ability to animate Zap along a spline and looping behavior as well as improved color controls and a new workflow.
Mocha Pro 2020.5 v7.5.2 Release Notes
December 10, 2020
This is a new version containing many new features and defect fixes. Release notes cover Mocha Pro, for both standalone and plugin versions of the product.
Sapphire 2020.5.3 release notes
December 10, 2020
What’s New In Sapphire 2020.53 Resolve: Fixed a crash when Sapphire is used on a Resolve with multiple GPUs. Sapphire on VMs: Prevent Sapphire from using virtual GPU RAM and crashing the VM. Preset Browser and Builder: Improved preview behavior with certain presets and Effects. Windows Licensing: Performance improvement when using activation keys on Windows. This particularly affects thumbnail render speed in the Sapphire Preset Browser. Mocha: Adds AE timecode to Mocha timeline.
Mocha Pro 2021 v8.0.1 Release Notes
December 8, 2020
This is a new version containing many new features and defect fixes. Release notes cover Mocha Pro, for both standalone and plugin versions of the product.
Sapphire 2021 release notes
November 22, 2020
What’s New in Sapphire 2021 New Effects S_UltraGlow - Brand new effect for Sapphire 2021, S_UltraGlow total revamp of the classic S_Glow with control over the hotspot of the glow as well as the falloff. S_UltraZap - Brand new effect for Sapphire 2021, S_UltraZap improves upon the classic S_Zap with the ability to animate Zap along a spline and looping behavior as well as improved color controls and a new workflow.
Mocha Pro 2021 v8.0.0 Release Notes
November 10, 2020
This is a new version containing many new features and defect fixes. Release notes cover Mocha Pro, for both standalone and plugin versions of the product.
Continuum 2021 (v14.0.0) for OFX - Release Notes
October 27, 2020
Continuum 2021 (v14.0.0) for OFX - Release Notes What’s New in Continuum 2021 for OFX - OpenFX (Summary of major changes since Continuum 2020.5): 81 New Fully GPU Accelerated “BCC+” Cinematographer’s Toolkit Effects: Eighty-one new 100% OpenCL accelerated cinematic filters for coloring, lighting, camera lens, film stock emulation, and more. These augment existing Continuum categories (Units) as well as adding three new categories of filters. All of the new filters are fully HDR compliant and include a new FX Editor preset browser and custom preset generator with 1,000+ presets, OCIO color management tools, metadata tagging, and the ability to edit parameters from directly inside the browser.
Continuum 2021 (v14.0.0) for AVX - Avid - Release Notes
October 27, 2020
Continuum 2021 (v14.0.0) for Avid AVX - Release Notes What’s New in Continuum 2021 for AVX - Avid Media Composer (Summary of major changes since Continuum 2020.5): 81 New Fully GPU Accelerated “BCC+” Cinematographer’s Toolkit Effects: Eighty-one new 100% OpenCL accelerated cinematic filters for coloring, lighting, camera lens, film stock emulation, and more. These augment existing Continuum categories (Units) as well as adding three new categories of filters. All of the new filters are fully HDR compliant and include a new FX Editor preset browser and custom preset generator with 1,000+ presets, OCIO color management tools, metadata tagging, and the ability to edit parameters from directly inside the browser.
Continuum 2021 (v14.0.0) for Adobe AE/Premiere - Release Notes
October 27, 2020
Continuum 2021 (14.0.0) for Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere - Release Notes What’s New in Continuum 2021 for Adobe (Summary of major changes since Continuum 2020.5): 81 New Fully GPU Accelerated “BCC+” Cinematographer’s Toolkit Effects: Eighty-one new 100% OpenCL accelerated cinematic filters for coloring, lighting, camera lens, film stock emulation, and more. These augment existing Continuum categories (Units) as well as adding three new categories of filters. All of the new filters are fully HDR compliant and include a new FX Editor preset browser and custom preset generator with 1,000+ presets, OCIO color management tools, metadata tagging, and the ability to edit parameters from directly inside the browser.
Sapphire 2020.5.2 release notes
August 12, 2020
What’s New In Sapphire 2020.52 Sapphire Effect Builder: Fixed an error where opening old projects with S_Zap or S_WarpDrops inside an instance of S_Effect would result in a blank project inside Builder. Note: This is a partial fix. When first opening an old project with S_Effect, you may still see a “Parsing failed” error. The workaround when this error happens is as follows: Inside the S_Effect generating the error, click on “Edit Effect”.
Sapphire 2020.5.1 release notes
June 26, 2020
What’s New In Sapphire 2020.51 Licensing: 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.