Sapphire Visual Effects

Which Version of Sapphire is Right for Me?

Sapphire for Autodesk Systems Products

Version 6 Now Available! See What's New

Sapphire plugins for Autodesk are available for Flame, Inferno, Smoke, Smoke for Mac, Flint, Flare, and Burn

Sapphire increases your productivity, streamlines your workflow, and inspires innovation. In addition, Sapphire is platform-agnostic so you, as an Autodesk user, can move work across artists, systems, or studios without compromising the consistency or quality of the look – saving you valuable time and money. Sapphire for Autodesk creates a unique organic look with superior photorealistic images and, in addition, features intuitive controls and endless freedom to finesse the looks. The abundance, breadth, and depth of over 200 visual effects, along with the speed and ease of use offered by Sapphire for Autodesk plug-ins, not only allows time to create the perfect look every time but also delivers results that impact and engage audiences.

What's new?:

Universal licensing & floating licensing - Float your Sapphire licenses across your Autodesk seats as well as your other host platforms (not available for Flare or Smoke for Mac)
Redesigned LensFlare Effect and Flare Designer - Control the size, spacing, thickness, intensity, and color of each flare element. Add additional elements from the included library or add your own imagery to create new elements, add texture or simulate imperfections
Enhanced Effects - Achieve more photorealistic effects with enhancements to RackDefocus, EdgeRays, Rays, EdgeFlash, and Clouds
6 New Effects - Including Flashbulbs, Caustics, LaserBeam, and MuzzleFlash
StretchFrameEdges Corrective Effect - Incorporate 4x3 SD content into 16x9 aspect ratio HD projects without having to distort or soften the image
Preset capabilities - Create and save your favorite presets or edit from hundreds of included pre-built looks.
Visual Preset Browser - Browse and preview pre-built looks on your own media presets on your media in order to see the results of the effect without having to rely on trial and error to get the right look
FX Central Subscription - new presets every month through a one-year subscription to FX Central, included with purchases of Sapphire v6
9 New Transition Effects - Including FlutterCut and DissolveFlashbulbs

Details:

Features	Benefits
Floating and universal licensing to use Sapphire across platforms Over 130 sparks Over 1,100 preset looks included; or create and save your own Resolution-independent GPU-accelerated for Nvidia CUDA cards Multiprocessor support Full floating point image processing/support Intuitive user interface Batch support On-screen UI widgets for many effects Offline HTML and PDF documentation included Support for Burn render nodes Create organic-looking lighting effects with LensFlare, Glow, Glint, and Glare Numerous texture and image generators allow you to create noise and displacement maps Effects for fine-tuning your composites including MatteOps, EdgeFlash, and Layer Choose from a wide variety of fast-processing color channel, directional, and defocus blurs Distortion and warping effects for image manipulation	Seamless host platform integrations allows artists to share across systems, saving production time and money Endless creative possibilities Blazing fast performance maximizes productivity Quickly and easily iterate on effect looks, which frees up time in editing process for quality creative time Visual control of look creation Quick reference for all effect parameters Exceptionally organic and natural-looking photorealistic results

Features

Benefits

Floating and universal licensing to use Sapphire across platforms
Over 130 sparks
Over 1,100 preset looks included; or create and save your own
Resolution-independent
GPU-accelerated for Nvidia CUDA cards
Multiprocessor support
Full floating point image processing/support
Intuitive user interface
Batch support
On-screen UI widgets for many effects
Offline HTML and PDF documentation included
Support for Burn render nodes
Create organic-looking lighting effects with LensFlare, Glow, Glint, and Glare
Numerous texture and image generators allow you to create noise and displacement maps
Effects for fine-tuning your composites including MatteOps, EdgeFlash, and Layer
Choose from a wide variety of fast-processing color channel, directional, and defocus blurs
Distortion and warping effects for image manipulation

Seamless host platform integrations allows artists to share across systems, saving production time and money
Endless creative possibilities
Blazing fast performance maximizes productivity
Quickly and easily iterate on effect looks, which frees up time in editing process for quality creative time
Visual control of look creation
Quick reference for all effect parameters
Exceptionally organic and natural-looking photorealistic results

Technical Specifications:

GPU Acceleration - Most effects are Nvidia CUDA GPU-accelerated to provide performance enhancements. Nvidia GeForce GTX 400 or 500 series or QuadroFX Fermi (4000, 5000, 6000) graphics card required for maximum performance.

64-Bit Enabled - Expanded memory capabilities

Floating Point Processing - All effects use full floating point processing for improved image quality and full 32 bit HDR support

Multiprocessor Support

Resolution-Independent

Pricing:

	Non-floating License	Non-floating Upgrade v5 to v6	Floating	Upgrade v5 to v6 (all upgrades are floating)	Rental (per month)
for Flame, Inferno, Flint and Smoke	N/A	N/A	$8,499	$3,499	N/A
for Inferno with 8 render nodes (Japan)	$10,499	$3,499	$15,750	$3,499	N/A
for Smoke on Mac	$3,999	$1,199	N/A	N/A	$399
for Flare	$1,699	$499	$2,499	$499	$169
for Burn	$499	Free with purchase*	$499	Free with purchase*

*Burn licenses are free with purchase per Linux workstation (with any number of CPUs) but may require an order processing fee.

For pricing on 2-core to 4+ core upgrades or IRIX licensing, please contact us or call +1 617-492-2888.

To purchase for Combustion, please visit our Sapphire for After Effects plugins page instead.

All prices in USD

Compatibility matrix:

Host Platform	OS
Smoke for Mac 2010 or greater	Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" 64-bit or greater (Intel Only)
Autodesk Burn 2007 or greater Autodesk Flame 2007 or greater Autodesk Flare 2007 or greater Autodesk Flint 2007 or greater Autodesk Inferno 2007 or greater Autodesk Smoke 2007 or greater	Linux 32/64-bit

Which Version of Sapphire is Right for Me?

	Sapphire	Sapphire Edge
User Goal	Creative Freedom Maximum Productivity High-Quality Results	Preset Looks Maximum Speed High-Quality Results
Design Freedom	High Design Control Maximum Flexibility	Simplified Control Set Extensive Preset Library
VFX Role	Ideal for: Film Compositors Broadcast Editors Motion Graphic Artists	Ideal for: Professional Videographers Video Editors
Industry	TV, Film, Broadcast Advertising	Wedding, Events, Online Advertising
Platform	All Host Platforms	Final Cut Pro Sony Vegas
Price	Starting at $1,699	$299

"Sapphire is our must-have spark set. It’s the one set of plug-ins that has to be loaded from the get-go when we install a Flame."

Angus Kneale, Creative Director

The Mill, NY

"We use GenArts Sapphire for absolutely everything. Honestly, I wouldn’t be able to use Flame if I didn’t have Sapphire – it’s just indispensable."

Erik Liles, VFX Supervisor

Hydraulx

"Smoke for Mac OSX has been a great innovation, but it has really come to life with the addition of GenArts Sparks."

Roy Trosh, Group Technical Director

The Mill

Sapphire Visual Effects

Sapphire for Autodesk Systems Products

*Includes a 1-year subscription to FX Central!

*Includes a 1-year subscription to FX Central!

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