Sapphire Plug-ins version 2 for After Effects and compatible products including Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Autodesk Combustion, and Eyeon Fusion.

This new release features over 30 new effects, plus many new parameters and improvements to existing effects in the package.

Here are some key features of "Sapphire Plug-ins":

· FilmDamage simulates aged film by adding scratches, dust, stains, grain, shake, flicker, etc.
· ZDefocus defocuses areas of the source clip by different amounts using depth values from a z-buffer input.
· Cartoon gives cartoon-like looks with exaggerated edges and flat areas of color.
· Light3D performs 3D relighting of a clip using an input clip describing the surface normals.
· Vignette darkens the outer edges of a clip with various shape options.
· BleachBypass generates a stylized version of the source clip by simulating a bleach bypass process.
· Other new effects include: BlurDirectional, CartoonPaint, Posterize, Deband, DogVision, TileScramble, WarpMagnify, WarpCornerPin, GradientMulti, Shape, TextureTiles, TextureNeurons, TextureLoops, TextureFlux, SwishPan, DissolveGlow, DissolveFilm, FeedbackDistort, Convolve, ConvolveComp, ZConvolve, ZGlow, TriTone, QuadTone, Invert, ShowBadColors and ChannelSwitcher.
· LensFlare has 14 new flare types, new parameters to adjust the look of the flares and an optional Matte input which allows selective blocking or colorizing of flares.
· LensFlareAutoTrack can track and render flares at multiple hotspots.
· RackDefocus has new shape options and improved performance.
· Glare includes 4 new glare types and improved performance.
· Adobe's "Smart FX" API is supported for AE7 and CS3 with more efficient processing and reading of 32bit image formats.
· Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista are supported.

Requirements:

· All AE compatible products including After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and Combustion.

Limitations:

· After a 3-week trial period, the plug-ins will output a watermark unless you purchase and enter a serial number.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· A problem with images shifting when using Sapphire Time effects on Premiere is fixed.
· Added Wrap parameters to WipeBubble and WipeDiffuse.
· Improved speed of plug-in initialization on Macs with Fermi GPUs.
· A crash with RackDefocus when rendering on the CPU is fixed.
· A crash with Sapphire Distort effects when rendering on the GPU is fixed.