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Sapphire Visual Effects

Which Version of Sapphire is Right for Me?

Sapphire for Nuke

Sapphire 7 is now available! See What's New

Sapphire visual effects plug-ins for Nuke precisely addresses the specific needs of compositors and ensures you get the essential visual effects to problem-solve, layer, finesse, adjust, create, and perform other specific technical compositing actions.

 

Sapphire for Nuke Image

Sapphire for Nuke Image

Sapphire for Nuke streamlines your workflow, increases your productivity, and inspires creative ideas. Sapphire is platform-agnostic so work can be moved easily across artist, studio, or systems while preserving quality and saving valuable time and money. Blending the best of both worlds, the Sapphire for Nuke plugin offers the acceleration speed and superior image quality you, as a compositor, demand. Sapphire's range of controls to organically create the final touches film and broadcast projects require is a desirable feature and the Sapphire's performance and ease of use help you maximize your time to produce flawless photorealistic looks that deliver superior results and wow audiences.

Experience what's new in Sapphire 7

  • Beauty - A new effect that leverages the new EdgeAware technology to beautify talking heads by softening and color correcting skin tones.
  • EdgeAwareBlur - Powered by our new EdgeAware technology, this effect allows you to blur while preserving detail.
  • Advanced Sharpen - The Sharpen tool has been updated with the ability to sharpen features of different amounts and sizes for increased flexibility and control.
  • LensFlare - Now enhanced with faster rendering, animation options, atmospheric noise, and presets to duplicate popular real-world lenses.
  • Zap - Updated to include 3D rotation and the option to follow a path, giving you the option to control the shape it takes.
  • MotionBlur - Has been added to many effects, giving them a more realistic look.
  • New Transitions - FilmRoll and CardFlip are two new dynamic transitions with multiple controls to diversify the output. FlutterCut has been enhanced with more options including new controls and color options.
  • Faster - Added GPU support for more plug-ins and an optimized GPU code to provide up to a 20% speed increase per effect
  • More presets - Over 2,500 presets
  • Preset sharing - Now you can share presets across host platforms (for Autodesk conversion, please contact us directly)
Features Benefits
  • Over 250 effects
  • Resolution-independent
  • GPU-accelerated for Nvidia CUDA cards
  • Multiprocessor support
  • 32-bit float support for .exr and HDRI images
  • Intuitive user interface
  • On-screen UI widgets for many effects
  • Offline HTML and PDF documentation included
  • Support for render nodes
  • Create photorealistic lighting with the Zap effect
  • Nearly 20 different lens flare types with numerous detailed controls
  • Create unique natural and organic lighting using rays, glare, glint, and glow effects
  • Create natural-looking depth of field lens blurs using RackDefocus, Convolve, ZDefocus, and ZConvolve
  • Perform quick relighting of CG images using Light3D
  • Endless creative possibilities
  • Wide variety and quantity of effects allows for countless effect-blending options
  • Blazing fast performance maximizes productivity
  • Quick reference for all effect parameters
  • Organic and natural-looking, brilliantly photoreal
  • Quickly and easily iterate on effect looks – very beneficial time-saver for both the compositor and customers
  • Visual control of looks creation

 

  • GPU Acceleration - Most effects are Nvidia CUDA GPU-accelerated to provide performance enhancements. All NVIDIA CUDA GPUs with compute capability 1.3 or later (see https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus) are supported.  This should include all NVIDIA GPUs produced after 2010.  Newer cards with more compute cores and memory will in general give better 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

 

  Non-floating License Non-floating
Upgrade v6 to v7		 Floating Floating
Upgrade v6 to v7		 Render only Rental (per month)
for Nuke $1,699 $499 $2,499* $499* $295* $169

*Render licenses are floating unless otherwise requested, and are per machine with any number of CPUs. Render license upgrades are available at no charge, however an order processing fee may apply.

Please contact us for special pricing on large quantities.

Licenses can be shared on the same machine between OFX host products whose plugin prices are the same or lower.

All prices in USD

Host Platform OS
  • The Foundry Nuke 5.0 or greater
  • Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" or greater
  • Linux (32/64-bit)
  • Windows XP w/SP2 or greater (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 Premiere Pro
Final Cut Pro
Sony Vegas Pro
Price Starting at $1,699 $299
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  • Full product functionality

"There’s a reason I’ve been using Sapphire all these years: It simply makes my job easier. Lots of tools don’t exist in packages like Nuke, so having Sapphire’s extra suite of tools at my disposal provides a tremendous level of comfort as I go about my day. I’ve really come to rely on them."

Carey Villegas, VFX Supervisor
Alice in Wonderland

"With Sapphire, you can design something, hit the play button in Nuke, and adjust sliders and such while you watch it. It’s outstanding – and it really makes our lives easier."

Florian Gellinger, Visual Effects Supervisor
Rise FX

"We know that if Nuke doesn’t have something, Sapphire will. There’s simply no need to buy more packages."

Adam Stern, President
Artifex Studios