
Don't get us wrong, we've used Sapphire on hundreds of productions, but this is a bit steep when placed alongside other plugin products in the FCP ecosystem.


Now for the eye watering bit, the version of Sapphire to run with FCP7 sells for $1,699.00 Ouch! If you want a floating licence then that will set you back $2,499.00. Enjoy expanded creative options with 240+ effects and transitions.Get new presets monthly via an included one-year subscription to FX Central (currently in beta).Visually browse 1,100+ customizable presets on your media, or create and save your own.Design flares from scratch and control individual elements.Then again we can remember having to add page turns to everybody's productions not that long ago, look how naff they look now. The new flare editor is the most interesting to us as lightleaks and lens flares seem to be the 'must have' effect of the moment. Your average FCP editor only ended up using a handful of the plugins, the excellent glow, film look, lens flare and vignette maybe. With the ever expanding range of inexpensive NLE's on the market including FCP7, Sapphire now comes with new plugins aimed directly at the one click eye candy brigade. When Sapphire was first compatible with Final Cut, most of the plugins were inherited from the top end compositing systems such as Flame. They seem to be moving away from compositing tools and going for the eye candy.
GENARTS SAPPHIRE 7 PRO
GenArts have released Version 6 of their popular plugin pack Sapphire for Final Cut Pro 7.
