What's new in Sapphire Plug-ins 8.01
Feb 13, 2015
- After updating to this release, S_Effect instances containing Beauty, LightLeak, Grunge, or others may have a color parameter reset.
- Fixed a bug in S_Effect that could corrupt AE projects on some machines.
- Reduced intensity of some Swish3D presets to speed up renders and avoid Windows GPU driver issues.
- Builder: fixed a bug where saved presets sometimes did not show up in the Preset Browser.
- Fixed license activation problems on Mac.
- VintageColor2Strip: improved results when Red Filter or Bluegreen Filter is set to black.
- Fixed a memory leak in Builder.
- FlickerMchMatteColor: fixed Set Hold Level button for certain types of match inputs.
- GradientMulti now handles pixel aspect ratio correctly.
- BleachBypass: Fixed incorrect renders when GrainAmpRed was set to zero.
- Caustics: fixed artifacts at the edge of the image when using a custom Bumps pattern.
New in Sapphire Plug-ins 7.02 (Jun 4, 2013)
- In this version, we renamed two effects, and related presets. The effects formerly known as Technicolor2Strip and Technicolor3Strip are now called VintageColor2Strip and 3Strip, respectively. After updating to this version, sequences and projects containing the old effects will still open, but will show up with missing plug-ins. You can replace the missing effects with the corresponding VintageColor ones and re-save. The parameters have not changed, so you can copy old parameters to the new effects. Custom presets you have saved will continue to work.
- Updated the Sapphire installers to support 64 bit Quantel.
- Fixed a bug in Retime that caused CPU renders to not match GPU renders.
- Improved mask handling in EdgeAwareBlur, Sharpen Best, and Beauty, particularly in black and near black regions of the mask.
- Fixed a rare render error in EdgeAwareBlur and Beauty on small images.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the first Sapphire Plug-in application to hang for 2-3 seconds.
- Removed the "disable_rlm_broadcast" setting from s_config.text.
New in Sapphire Plug-ins 7.01 (May 28, 2013)
- Improvements to Sharpen Best algorithm to improve visual quality and ease of use.
- LaserBeam: fixed rendering artifacts with certain Perspective settings.
- Fixed a bug where the Preset Browser would generate an error if the cache directory isn't writeable, even if the Preset Browser cache already exists.
- Glare: fixed a bug that caused some glares to be cropped.
- Fixed the atmosphere on Zap3D and ZapFollowPath.
- Lens Flare: fixed a bug where certain texture images could cause a crash during rendering.
- Fixed a bug in EdgeAwareBlur that made the last pixel of a mask ineffective.
- Added additional known issues regarding Sapphire and After Effects.
- ZConvolve: fixed a bug where GPU would render all black when Kernel layer is not specified.
- GradientMulti: fixed a bug where output would be all black if two points had the same position.
- Fixed a crash when importing Premiere Pro projects containing Sapphire LensFlares into After Effects.
- Fixed a crash importing Premiere Pro projects using Sapphire Plug-ins with Mattes into After Effects.
New in Sapphire Plug-ins 6.04 (Mar 9, 2012)
- Fixed a minor rendering artifact with warps on the GPU.
- Lensflare: texture elements now render at the original image aspect ratio, instead of stretching to become square.
New in Sapphire Plug-ins 5.04 (Jul 23, 2011)
- 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.
New in Sapphire Plug-ins 2.0.9 (Sep 11, 2009)
- Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard is supported.
- Floating licenses are supported.
- Fixed a problem with Glare on HD footage.
New in Sapphire Plug-ins 2.0.8 (Jul 7, 2009)
- Support for rental licenses.
- Improved support for Premiere Pro.
New in Sapphire Plug-ins 2.0.7 (Apr 23, 2009)
- A problem with thresholds in Glow, Glint, Glare and Convolve is fixed. This gives improved but slightly different results from 2.06, and it makes the results compatible with Sapphire v1.
- An issue with rendering on fields in AE CS4 is fixed.
- An issue with WarpBubble in AE CS4 is fixed.
New in Sapphire Plug-ins 2.0.6 (Jan 16, 2009)
- An issue with image corruption when rendering on fields in AE is fixed.
New in Sapphire Plug-ins 2.0.41 (May 8, 2008)
- In 2.041 additional issues with temporal effects are fixed, and an EdgeRays issue with masked clips in AE is fixed.
New in Sapphire Plug-ins 2.0.4 (May 5, 2008)
- Issues with rendering on fields in AE and Premiere Pro are fixed. These include FieldRemove, other temporal effects, and FilmEffect with certain Fields parameter settings.
- A TimeDisplace issue with large time shifts is fixed.
- A problem with effects in adjustment layers when the base layer is removed is fixed.
- Handling of super-white inputs in ZGlow is improved.
- A LensFlare issue with multi-core rendering is fixed.
- Pixel aspect ratio handling in FCP is improved.
New in Sapphire Plug-ins 2.0.3 (Mar 11, 2008)
- Some problems with Distort effects and Drop Shadow on text layers in AE 7 and CS3 (SmartFX) are fixed.