About Sapphire Plug-ins for Apple FxPlug Products
Includes over 200 2D visual effects for the post production, film, broadcast and digital video industries. Sapphire Plug-ins extend the capabilities of editing and compositing workstations including Apple Final Cut Pro (FCP), Final Cut Express and Motion. The Sapphire VFX support the FxPlug API and Mac OS X (Leopard). The plug-ins are resolution independent, supporting HD, 2K & 4K. Sapphire Plug-ins equips digital artists with state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects such as Glows, EdgeRays, LensFlare, Lightning, FilmEffect, FilmDamage, Cartoon, ZDefocus, BleachBypass, SwishPan, Light3D, Deband, Warps, Transitions and Textures. They have been used extensively in an array of televison programs, music videos and feature films, including; Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy, Spider-Man Trilogy, Transformers, Indiana Jones Series, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Matrix Trilogy, X-Men Series, Lost and CSI.

What’s New in this Version
- Native support for Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, and Motion.
- Includes all 200+ Sapphire effects in v2 such as FilmDamage, Cartoon, ZDefocus, BleachBypass, GradientMulti, SwishPan, Light3D, Deband, and many more.
- Convenient drag-on Transition effects for FCP.
- Effects categorized by Generators, Filters, and Transitions.
- Parameter groups can be opened and closed in the UI.
- Angle parameters use dial controls.
- Many more enhancements.