November 20, 2019
What’s New in Sapphire 2020 New Effect and Transitions S_FreeLens- Brand new effect for Sapphire 2020, S_FreeLens emulates the look achieved by shooting with a lens detached from the camera body. S_OCIOTransform- New for Sapphire 2020, OCIOTransform brings OpenColorIO support directly into the host. New Features In Sapphire 2020, Mocha point parameter tracking has been added to LensFlare, Rays, EdgeRays, Luna, Grunge, Spotlight, Aurora, Zap, MuzzleFlash, and FreeLens.
November 4, 2019
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.
October 25, 2019
Continuum 2020 for Avid AVX v13.0.0 - Release Notes What’s New in Continuum 2020 for AVX Avid (Summary of major changes since Continuum 2019.5): Four New Effects: Cast Shadow Generates true 3D cast shadows from the source alpha using an integrated point or parallel light source maneuverable in 3D space around the source Corner Pin Studio Next generation corner pinning with improved Mocha integration, advanced filtering quality, improved geometrics, advanced pinning controls, and more built-in extras to reduce filter stacking.
October 25, 2019
Continuum 2020 for Adobe AE/Premiere v13.0.0 - Release Notes What’s New in Continuum 2020 for Adobe (Summary of major changes since Continuum 2019.5): Four New Effects: Cast Shadow Generates true 3D cast shadows from the source alpha using an integrated point or parallel light source maneuverable in 3D space around the source Corner Pin Studio Next generation corner pinning with improved Mocha integration, advanced filtering quality, improved geometrics, advanced pinning controls, and more built-in extras to reduce filter stacking.
October 25, 2019
Continuum 2020 for OFX v13.0.0 - Release Notes Continuum 2020 (v13.0.0) for OFX officially supports DaVinci Resolve and Vegas. The embedded Fusion page in Resolve is not officially supported at this time. Other OFX hosts may work to varying degrees but are not yet officially supported. What’s New in Continuum 2020 for OFX (Summary of major changes since Continuum 2019.5): Four New Effects: Cast Shadow Generates true 3D cast shadows from the source alpha using an integrated point or parallel light source maneuverable in 3D space around the source Corner Pin Studio Next generation corner pinning with improved Mocha integration, advanced filtering quality, improved geometrics, advanced pinning controls, and more built-in extras to reduce filter stacking.
October 25, 2019
Continuum 2020 for Apple Final Cut Pro / FxPlug v13.0.0 - Release Notes What’s New in Continuum 2020 for Apple FxPlug - Final Cut Pro X and Motion (Summary of major changes since Continuum 2019.5): Three New Effects: Cast Shadow Generates true 3D cast shadows from the source alpha using an integrated point or parallel light source maneuverable in 3D space around the source Curl Animated vortex distortions that create looks ranging from heat shimmer or raindrops on a window, to more stylized swirling curly-cues.
October 4, 2019
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.
August 26, 2019
Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.2) for Avid AVX - Release Notes Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.2) is a minor maintenance update to Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.0) and (v12.5.1) and is free to licensed users of Continuum 2019.5. It includes several important feature tweaks and fixes (see below). For a full list of what’s new between Continuum 2019 and Continuum 2019.5 please refer to the initial 2019.5 release notes here: Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.0) Avid AVX Release Notes
August 26, 2019
Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.2) for Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere - Release Notes Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.2) is a minor maintenance update to Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.0) and (v12.5.1) and is free to licensed users of Continuum 2019.5. It includes several important feature tweaks and fixes (see below). For a full list of what’s new between Continuum 2019 and Continuum 2019.5 please refer to the initial 2019.5 release notes here: Continuum 2019.
August 26, 2019
Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.2) for OFX - Release Notes Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.2) for OFX officially supports DaVinci Resolve and Vegas. The embedded Fusion page in Resolve is not officially supported at this time. Other OFX hosts may work to varying degrees but are not yet officially supported. Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.2) is a minor maintenance update to Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.0) and (v12.5.1) and is free to licensed users of Continuum 2019.
August 26, 2019
Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.2) for Apple Final Cut Pro / FxPlug - Release Notes Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.2) is a minor maintenance update to Continuum 2019.5 and is free to licensed users of Continuum 2019.5. It includes several fixes (see below). For a full list of what’s new between Continuum 2019 and Continuum 2019.5 please refer to the initial 2019.5 release notes here: Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.0) for Apple Final Cut Pro Release Notes
August 15, 2019
What’s New In Sapphire 2019.52 Removed a one-pixel wide black border in the preview panes for the Sapphire Preset Browser. What’s New In Sapphire 2019.51 Sapphire Flare Designer: Added an option to the Preview Mode menu to show the lensflare with atmosphere turned on. Added support for bundle licenses. Improved the performance in Sapphire’s Preset Browser when there’s a mocha mask in the host application by ignoring the mocha mask when rendering preset thumbnails.
August 12, 2019
This is a minor maintenance release containing several defect fixes. Release notes cover Mocha Pro, for both standalone and Plug-in versions of the product.
July 28, 2019
What’s New In Sapphire 2019.05: Fixed crop in S_PanAndZoom. Improved the stability of nodelocked licenses. Fixed a slowdown in the first frame on some offline machines.
July 28, 2019
What’s New In Sapphire 2019.51 Sapphire Flare Designer: Added an option to the Preview Mode menu to show the lensflare with atmosphere turned on. Added support for bundle licenses. Improved the performance in Sapphire’s Preset Browser when there’s a mocha mask in the host application by ignoring the mocha mask when rendering preset thumbnails. Improved interlaced video preview in external apps. Fixed loading of large still images in external apps.
June 28, 2019
Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.1) for Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere - Release Notes Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.1) is a minor maintenance update to Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.0) and is free to licensed users of Continuum 2019.5. It includes several important feature tweaks and fixes (see below). For a full list of what’s new between Continuum 2019 and Continuum 2019.5 please refer to the initial 2019.5 release notes here: Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.0) Adobe AE/Premiere Release Notes
June 28, 2019
Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.1) for Avid AVX - Release Notes Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.1) is a minor maintenance update to Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.0) and is free to licensed users of Continuum 2019.5. It includes several important feature tweaks and fixes (see below). For a full list of what’s new between Continuum 2019 and Continuum 2019.5 please refer to the initial 2019.5 release notes here: Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.0) Avid AVX Release Notes
June 28, 2019
Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.1) for OFX - Release Notes Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.1) for OFX officially supports DaVinci Resolve and Vegas. The embedded Fusion page in Resolve is not officially supported at this time. Other OFX hosts may work to varying degrees but are not yet officially supported. Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.1) is a minor maintenance update to Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.0) and is free to licensed users of Continuum 2019.5. It includes several important feature tweaks and fixes (see below).
June 28, 2019
Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.1) for Apple Final Cut Pro / FxPlug - Release Notes Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.1) is a minor maintenance update to Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.0) and is free to licensed users of Continuum 2019.5. It includes several fixes (see below). For a full list of what’s new between Continuum 2019 and Continuum 2019.5 please refer to the initial 2019.5 release notes here: Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.0) for Apple Final Cut Pro Release Notes
June 24, 2019
This is a minor maintenance release containing several defect fixes. Release notes cover Mocha Pro, for both standalone and Plug-in versions of the product.
June 19, 2019
What’s New in Sapphire 2019.5 New Effect and Transitions S_ParallaxStrips- Brand new for Sapphire 2019.5 effect, S_ParallaxStrips takes any image and divides into strips separated apart in z space. The floating strips can seamlessly strip apart or seamless form a complete image. Angle, size, speed, z-depth, and many more parameters can be adjusted for original and interesting looks. S_ParallaxStripsTransition- New for Sapphire 2019.5, S_ParallaxStripsTransition is a new transition using ParallaxStrips to animate between the input and output clips.
June 12, 2019
Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.0) for Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere - Release Notes What’s New in Continuum 2019.5 for Adobe (Summary of major changes since Continuum 2019.0): Particle Illusion Enhancements Forces - Create force fields to influence the animation of particles. Deflectors - Define shapes which reflect particles to simulate interaction with objects in your scene. Sprite Customization - Replace particle sprites with any other sprite in the same emitter library or upload your own new particle shape images.
June 12, 2019
Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.0) for Avid AVX - Release Notes What’s New in Continuum 2019.5 for Avid AVX (Summary of major changes since Continuum 2019.0): Particle Illusion Enhancements Forces - Create force fields to influence the animation of particles. Deflectors - Define shapes which reflect particles to simulate interaction with objects in your scene. Sprite Customization - Replace particle sprites with any other sprite in the same emitter library or upload your own new particle shape images.
June 12, 2019
Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.0) for OFX - Release Notes Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.0) for OFX officially supports DaVinci Resolve and Vegas. The embedded Fusion page in Resolve is not officially supported at this time. Other OFX hosts may work to varying degrees but are not yet officially supported. What’s New in Continuum 2019.5 for OFX (Summary of major changes since Continuum 2019.0): Particle Illusion Enhancements Forces - Create force fields to influence the animation of particles.
June 12, 2019
Continuum 2019.5 (v12.5.0) for Apple Final Cut Pro / FxPlug - Release Notes What’s New in Continuum 2019.5 for OFX (Summary of major changes since Continuum 2019.0): Spill Remover - New Filter Spill Remover is a new simple and robust way to remove spill from your key along with a new light wrap approach based on the spill map. Light Wrap from Solid Color Light Wrap (in all filters where it occurs) has a new option to take the light wrap colors from a Solid Color instead of from a background layer which is a handy shortcut for simple scenes.
June 5, 2019
This is a major point release containing several new features and defect fixes. Release notes cover Mocha Pro, for both standalone and Plug-in versions of the product.
May 1, 2019
Continuum 2019.0.4 for Adobe AE/Premiere v12.0.4 - Release Notes Fixes in Continuum (BCC) 12.0.4 for Adobe AE/Premiere: Sporadic stalls in performance on systems with certain closed network configurations. Sporadic errors in some hosts when scrubbing parameters or current timeline indicator in host UI with Particle Illusion applied. Continuum 2019.0.4 v12.0.4 (BCC 12.0.4) for Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro was released on 5/1/2019. Continuum 2019.0.4 v12.
May 1, 2019
Continuum 2019.0.4 for Apple Final Cut Pro / FxPlug v12.0.4 - Release Notes Fixes in Continuum (BCC) 12.0.4 for FxPlug: Sporadic stalls in performance on systems with certain closed network configurations. Continuum 2019.0.4 v12.0.4 (BCC 12.0.4) for FxPlug was released on 5/1/2019. Continuum 2019.0.4 v12.0.4 for Apple FxPlug officially supports the following host applications: macOS 10.10, 10.11, 10.12, 10.13, 10.14 (as appropriate for the host version in use):
May 1, 2019
Continuum 2019.0.4 for Avid AVX v12.0.4 - Release Notes Fixes in Continuum (BCC) 12.0.4 for Avid AVX: Sporadic stalls in performance on systems with certain closed network configurations. Sporadic errors in some hosts when scrubbing parameters or current timeline indicator in host UI with Particle Illusion applied. Continuum 2019.0.4 v12.0.4 (BCC 12.0.4) for Avid AVX was released on 5/1/2019. Continuum 2019.0.4 v12.0.4 for Avid AVX supports the following host applications:
May 1, 2019
Continuum 2019.0.4 for OFX v12.0.4 - Release Notes Continuum 2019.0.4 (v12.0.4) for OFX officially supports DaVinci Resolve and Vegas. The embedded Fusion page in Resolve is not officially supported at this time. Other OFX hosts may work to varying degrees but are not yet officially supported. Fixes in Continuum (BCC) 12.0.4 for OFX: Sporadic stalls in performance on systems with certain closed network configurations. Sporadic errors in some hosts when scrubbing parameters or current timeline indicator in host UI with Particle Illusion applied.
April 12, 2019
What’s New In Sapphire 2019.4: Improved stability of Sapphire when using the GPU Fixed S_Effect and S_Transition in Burn, Flare, and Flame Assist
March 22, 2019
Continuum 2019.0.3 for Adobe AE/Premiere v12.0.3 - Release Notes Fixes in Continuum (BCC) 12.0.3 for Adobe AE/Premiere: Tritone generated incorrect results in 8 and 16bit projects on mac. Trails generated errors when Scale set to exactly 100. FX Browser in Title Studio sporadically generated errors upon exiting via the “X” icon Continuum 2019.0.3 v12.0.3 (BCC 12.0.3) for Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro was released on 3/22/2019.
March 22, 2019
Continuum 2019.0.3 for Apple Final Cut Pro / FxPlug v12.0.3 - Release Notes Fixes in Continuum (BCC) 12.0.3 for FxPlug: Trails generated errors when Scale set to exactly 100. Tweaks to Several Text templates. Continuum 2019.0.3 v12.0.3 (BCC 12.0.3) for FxPlug was released on 3/22/2019. Continuum 2019.0.3 v12.0.3 for Apple FxPlug officially supports the following host applications: macOS 10.10, 10.11, 10.12, 10.13, 10.14 (as appropriate for the host version in use):
March 22, 2019
Continuum 2019.0.3 for Avid AVX v12.0.3 - Release Notes Fixes in Continuum (BCC) 12.0.3 for Avid AVX: Tritone generated incorrect results in 8 and 16bit projects on mac. Trails generated errors when Scale set to exactly 100. FX Browser in Title Studio sporadically generated errors upon exiting via the “X” icon Continuum 2019.0.3 v12.0.3 (BCC 12.0.3) for Avid AVX was released on 3/22/2019. Continuum 2019.0.3 v12.
March 22, 2019
Continuum 2019.0.3 for OFX v12.0.3 - Release Notes Continuum 2019.0.3 (v12.0.3) for OFX officially supports DaVinci Resolve and Vegas. The embedded Fusion page in Resolve is not officially supported at this time. Other OFX hosts may work to varying degrees but are not yet officially supported. Fixes in Continuum (BCC) 12.0.3 for OFX: Tritone generated incorrect results in 8 and 16bit projects on mac. Trails generated errors when Scale set to exactly 100.
March 20, 2019
What’s New In Sapphire 2019.3 Fixed a slowdown when Sapphire is first applied on some offline systems using activation-keys
February 28, 2019
This is a maintenance release containing several improvements and defect fixes. Release notes cover Mocha Pro, for both standalone and Plug-in versions of the product.
