Sapphire 2021.5.1 release notes

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.
New LensFlares.
LensFlare: Improved flare consistency between thumbnails and the Flare Designer.
Improved Mocha: Improved Dope Sheet.

Builder: Fix a bug in S_Transition where the preset browser only displayed a single frame when launched from within the Transition Builder UI.
Builder and LensFlare: Show presets from 2021 and 2021.5 in the “New” tab.
Fixed a bug that prevented certain subscription licenses from updating.
Added an environment variable to control the subscription license check. By default, subscription checks happen on GUI nodes and do not happen on render nodes.
Adobe and OFX: Render Node: To turn on subscription license checks for render nodes, set the environment variable SAPPHIRE_SUBSCRIPTION_CHECK to 1.
Adobe and OFX: GUI Node: To turn off the subscription license check for GUI nodes, either set the environment variable SAPPHIRE_SUBSCRIPTION_CHECK to 0 or set enable_subscription_checks to 0 in s_config.text.
Added GPU status to the LensFlare Designer About Dialog.

Adobe and OFX:

S_DissolveLensFlare: Fixed a crash with certain parameter combinations when blur-motion was enabled.
Fixed a bug where the installer opened twice on Mac M1 machines.
Fixed a performance issue in noise generation within effects on Mac M1 machines. Eg. S_Clouds, S_DissolveBubble, and others.

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