Sapphire Visual Effects

Which Version of Sapphire is Right for Me?

Sapphire Plug-ins

Sapphire 7 is now available - check out what's new!

Sapphire is available for After Effects, Autodesk, Avid, Final Cut, Nuke, and other OFX platforms!

Sapphire streamlines your workflow, increases the productivity of your team, and frees up your time to be more innovative. To see for yourself, download a Free Trial of our plugin for your video editing or compositing software; Adobe After Effects, Avid, Final Cut Pro, Sony Vegas and more.

Platform-agnostic to meet your evolving workflow needs
Used by the largest network of leading video creators
- Accessibility to a larger talent pool
- Greater ability to outsource or freelance
- Easier to work across multiple companies
Taught at leading film schools
Trusted by the video editing and compositing experts for the past 15+ years due to the premium quality, elegance, and constant innovation

Sapphire is used by the world’s best content creators to create the looks that engage viewers, grow audiences, and increase the value of content.

When you and your clients demand the highest production values possible in the most efficient manner, GenArts Sapphire is the must-have, most-requested, and unsurpassed choice for visual effects software.

Details:

Platform-agnostic – works on a wide range of host platforms
Supports key industry standards such as AVX, AE, and OFX
High degree of design control
Unlimited design potential
Intuitive user interface
Realistic effects
Efficient
Looks created using Sapphire have been nominated or won Academy Awards^®

Includes FXCentral

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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"Sapphire plug-ins are the core of our tool-set for finishing every shot at Hydraulx. Their speed and effectiveness were paramount to us finalizing our complex shots on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

Colin Strause, Owner, VFX Supervisor & Director

Hydraulx

"Sapphire's ease of use helped us to quickly generate multiple versions of our tests, which is exactly what studio directors want."

Erik Liles, VFX Supervisor

Hydraulx

"Full AVX2 support makes it easier than ever to conform projects using the latest GenArts plug-ins with Avid DS. We no longer have to worry about AVX version issues between our offline and online editors."

Derek Herr, Lead Compositing Editor

The Post Group

"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

"These are the most addictive plug-ins on the planet! They have a wonderful organic quality, which can give ordinary footage a very glossy and high-end look. It’s very exciting to have them in Final Cut Pro."

Martin Baker

Digital Heaven, London

"Sapphire is simply one of the best designed and well-executed products on the market for digital compositing. It's so fundamental to our workflow – we used them on almost every single composite."

David DiNisco

Viewpoint Creative

"We couldn't have done District 9 without the Sapphire plug-ins."

Stephen Pepper, Visual Effects Supervisor

The Embassy

"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

"These effects have changed my creative life. I can come up with new designs and create looks I could never do before. My clients are immensely impressed."

Rick Giannelli, Senior Editor

SoundBYTE Studios

"Nobody produces film resolution plug-ins that are as reliable as the software written for Sapphire."

Sheena Duggal, VFX Supervisor

"The Sapphire series of plug-ins will take your work to the next level and beyond."

Post Magazine

"A very intuitive package!"

Pablo Helman, Visual Effects Supervisor

Industrial Light & Magic

"Sapphire is an excellent package that helped us make The Lord of the Rings."

Julian Bryant, Senior Compositor

Weta Digital

"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 has allowed me the creative freedom to achieve a truly professional look of multi-layered treated video, which was previously unattainable on the Media Composer."

Brian Fox, Editor

Viewpoint Creative

"I have never experienced anything even close to Sapphire on the desktop platform. It is nothing less than breathtaking."

Ned Soltz

NY Mopictive

"I can single-handedly get things done that would take numerous operators to finish without Sapphire."

Lane Jolly, Compositor

Zoic Studios

"Sapphire really are one of the most amazing visual effect tools available today and we rely on them heavily for our day-to-day work."

Markus Wernig, Senior Editor

MOJO, Hollywood

"Every time I've started at a new company, Sapphire has been my first request for plug-ins to add to a system. It is my 'go-to' set of plug-ins. It's the first set I scan through whenever I'm looking to achieve a particular effect and, more often than not, the Sapphire folder is where my search ends."

Chris Staves, Director, head of VFX

PostPanic

"Using industry standard software and plug-ins like Sapphire not only allows us to communicate better across various platforms in our pipeline, but it simplifies our collaboration/communication with other award-winning studios into a seamless, integrated solution."

Brandon White, Multimedia Manager

Aniden Creative

"As a creative tool, Sapphire is second to none."

Daniel Leduc

Hybride

"We used Sapphire extensively on X-Men: The Last Stand. I couldn't imagine having an effects system without it."

Greg Strause, Owner, VFX Supervisor & Director

Hydraulx

"We used Sapphire to create many looks for Spider-Man that would have been nearly impossible to achieve otherwise."

Christian Boudman

Sony Imageworks

"While working on Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Crystal Skull, the Sapphire plug-ins from GenArts once again proved essential in enabling us to achieve the vast variety of effects needed for the film. From the photoreal to the supernatural...the speed, flexibility, and interactivity of the Sapphire package gave us exactly what we needed every time."

Chad Taylor, Lead Digital Artist

Industrial Light and Magic

"The quality and speed I get from using Sapphire sets me apart from other small shops. And the fact that I can do it all alone and get these results translates into a bigger profit for me. I don't have to hire other artists to create these effects."

Rob Birnholz, Owner

Absolute Motion Graphics

"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

"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

"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

"They have polished look, which will appeal to a wide range of motion graphic designers."

Trish & Chris Meyer

Crish Design

"The ultimate professional suite of visual effects...The best plug-ins money can buy."

Computer Arts Magazine

"Sapphire has so many different options and parameters that each look you create has a sense of being totally unique. It’s the best set of plug-ins for After Effects I know."

Brian Higgins

Sol Design FX

"We chose Sapphire because they have truly become an industry standard. They are easy to learn and easy to use."

Mark Thomasson

Savannah College of Art and Design

"Sapphire is a very robust and varied toolset that we draw on in many different ways and often use them in combination with each other. And because the product is so flexible and so powerful, and the controls are so intuitive, we're able to empower our artists to make the visual effects as realistic as possible."

Mark Casey, Digital Artist and sequence supervisor

Industrial Light & Magic