Download Sapphire Plug-ins 5.01 for AE compatible products on Mac

FREE TRIAL - You can download and use a fully functional copy of Sapphire Plug-ins. After a 2-week trial period, the plug-ins will output a watermark unless you purchase and enter a serial number.

The installer below is for use with all AE compatible products including After Effects , Premiere Pro, and Combustion. 

For Final Cut Pro or Motion, please use the FxPlug version instead.

Last updated: July 8, 2010

To Download and install:

  1. Make sure you have one or more AE plug-in compatible applications on Mac OS 10.3.9 or greater.
    If you have an older version of Sapphire Plug-ins, the new installation will replace it, and you do not need to un-install it first.
  2. Quit AE or other host applications that may be running.
  3. Download the 5.01 Mac installer for 10.5 and above (34 Mb) OR Download the 5.01 Mac installer for 10.4 (20 Mb). These include both CFM and Universal binaries for PPC or Mac Intel hardware.
  4. Run the installer. When it asks for your passphrase, enter your Mac user login password, and follow the instructions given by the installer.
  5. Restart your host product, and the new plug-ins should appear in your effects menu.

To view on-line documentation after you install the software, go to the /Applications/GenArtsSapphireAE folder and double click on Online Help.html or Online Help.pdf. You can also click on the "About" box while using any plug-in.

In general, you can load projects saved with Sapphire v1 or v2 effects and they should automatically convert to use Sapphire v5. On FCP, most effects will convert, but not all. Please visit the support page for more info on this.

If you require Sapphire v1 you can use the version 1.10 installer. If you require Sapphire v2 you can use the version 2.093 installer. If you already installed Sapphire v5 and want to go back to v1 or v2 you should first uninstall v5.