By Elina Shatkin, January 28, 2004
GenArts, Inc., a provider of digital visual effects plug-ins, announced the immediate availability of their industry-renowned Sapphire Plug-ins for a growing number of Adobe After Effects plug-in compatible products. This new release brings the superior quality and breadth of Sapphire Plug-ins to a vast new community of digital artists and editors.
Now users of Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Apple Final Cut Pro, Discreet combustion, eyeon Software Digital Fusion, Quantel generationQ, and Media 100 844/X have access to more than 175 stunning image processing and synthesis effects included in the Sapphire package. A free, three-week trial from http://web.genarts.com can be downloaded at any time to experience how quickly and easily Sapphire Plug-ins can enhance their work.
Sapphire Plug-ins run on both Windows and Mac OS X systems. Fully integrated with the host program's user interface, they are very intuitive and easy to use
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* Dual-processor support for faster rendering
* Free network rendering on After Effects and Combustion
* Multiple options and parameters for creating an unlimited range of effects
* Resolution independent, anti-aliased, high quality images
* Online hyper-linked documentation for all plug-ins
* On-screen user interface widgets for visual control of parameters in After Effects and Premiere Pro
* Support for 8 bit and 16 bit image formats
Sapphire Plug-ins for After Effects and compatible products are available immediately via download from the GenArts web site. They can be purchased either as a complete package for $1699 or as four separate boxes for $599 each.
Box 1: Lighting – Glows, Lens Flares, Glints, Glares, Light Beams, DropShadow, SpotLight, and others.
Box 2: Stylize – Film Effect, Grain, Edge Effects, Emboss, Kaleidoscopes, AutoPaint, HalfTone, and more.
Box 3: Adjust, Blur, Composite, and Distort – includes Rack Defocus, MatteOps, Warps, Shake, and others.
Box 4: Render, Time, and Transitions – includes Lightning Zaps, Textures, Flicker Tools, Dissolves, and Wipes.
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