Follow along with John Dickinson as you create a look from scratch through experimentation in Sapphire Effect Builder.
Boris FX Sapphire is the essential visual effects plugin suite favored by top VFX and motion graphics artists. Work at your creative best while saving yourself tons of time.
Featuring:
270+ powerful effects and transitions
3000+ presets designed by leading artists
Build anything in a nodal based effect compositor with the one of a kind Sapphire Builder
Hollywood’s must-have lighting effects
140+ fully customizable lens flares with Sapphire Flare Designer
Organic and natural-looking photorealistic results
Integrated Academy Award-winning Mocha tracking & masking
HDR ready with full floating point color support
OpenColorIO (OCIO) color management support
CUDA GPU acceleration for Windows and Linux
Metal GPU acceleration for macOS, along with native M1/M2 support
Identical CPU fallback for seamless background farm rendering
Multi-host or individual plugin options (Adobe, Avid + OFX)
Supports: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Blackmagic Resolve and Fusion, Autodesk Flame, The Foundry Nuke, VEGAS Pro, and many more.
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