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Review By Jeff McIntosh
Product Overview
GenArts Sapphire’s 200+ visual effects plug-ins dramatically enhance the quality of Final Cut Pro and Motion. Genarts have been carefully crafting some of the world’s finest visual effects for over 13 years, and that excellence has made Sapphire one of the industry standard plug-ins for the most discerning artists and editors. Maybe you need the perfect lighting effect such as a glow, a lens flare or lightning, or perhaps you need to find a seamless transition? Sapphire adds greater control and higher quality to what’s in Final Cut Pro, freeing you to focus on perfecting your work while saving you hours of time.
Sapphire is packed with over 220 state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects, including: Glows, EdgeRays, LensFlare, Lightning, FilmEffect, Warps and Transitions. It features unrivaled image quality, a unique organic look, and easy usability.
Product Features
Time Saving Transitions
Sapphire 5 provides over 40 high-quality transition effects that feature convenient drag-on controls for Final Cut Pro, making building transitions easy (includes new transitions that use LensFlare, EdgeRays, and Glint to dissolve between layers).
Greater Creativity
Sapphire 5 offers all of the must have effects like glows and lens flares plus a host of film effects, warps color correction, and stylize plug-ins to enable a level of creativity that sets your work apart from your competitor’s.
Enhanced Productivity
Sapphire 5 provides GPU acceleration for lightning-fast render speeds and full interactivity at HD resolutions.
* Over 220 must-have effects, each with many options and parameters that can be adjusted and animated for an unlimited range of effects.
* The Sapphire 5 upgrade includes 16 new effects such as TVDamage, TVChannelChange, Technicolor and many new transitions.
* GPU enabled for lightning fast render speeds. NVidia GeForce 200 or 400 series or Quadro 5800 graphics card required for maximum performance.
Product Requirements
- Host Applications :
- Apple Final Cut Express
- Apple Final Cut Pro
- Apple Motion
- Operating Systems :
- Mac
- Windows
- System Requirements :
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Final Cut Pro 6.0 or greater
Final Cut Express 4.0 or greater
Motion 3.0.2 or greater
Mac OS X 10.4 or greater is also required. Both Mac Intel and Mac PPC hardware are supported.
