
The product was renamed Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) in 2001 and was most recently rebranded as Continuum. The initial “Boris FX” DVE plug-in created in 1995 has continued to be developed over the years. The plug-in won Best of Show at Apple Macworld in Boston, MA the same year. The former Media 100 engineer (a member of the original Media 100 launch team in 1993) released “Boris FX,” the first plug-in based digital video effects (DVE) for Adobe Premiere and Media 100, in 1995. New licences cost $1,695 for the Avid and Adobe/OFX editions, or $2,795 for a multi-host licence.Team photo in front of the Boris FX booth at NAB 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada.īoris FX was founded in 1995 by Boris Yamnitsky.

Sapphire 2023.5 is available for a range of compositing and editing software, including After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Flame and Nuke, on Windows 10+, CentOS/RHEL 7+ Linux and/or macOS 10.14+. The LensFlare plugin gets a further 12 presets, bringing the total to 145. It is also now possible to save custom effects as presets that can be shared across host applications. Updated 14 April 2023: Boris FX has released Sapphire 2023.5.īuilder, Sapphire’s node-based framework for creating custom effects and transitions, gets a number of workflow improvements, including the option to set the value of one parameter to drive that of others.

The update also adds 100 new presets for existing effects, including 18 for the LensFlare effect. There is one new transition, DissolveUltraGlow, based on the existing UltraGlow effect. S_UltraGrain replicates film grain, and comes with 79 presets mimicking analogue film stocks and the grain generated by digital cameras from manufacturers including Arri, Alexa, Red, Canon and Sony. S_PrismLens replicates the effect of shooting through a physical glass prism, including options to replicate part of the frame – trackable using the integrated Mocha planar tracker – into linear or radial arrays. Two new effects, one new transition, and 18 new preset lens flaresīoris FX 2023 adds two new effects: PrismLens and UltraGrain. Sapphire 2023.0 adds new PrismLens and UltraGrain effects, and a new DissolveUltraGlow transition.


Scroll down for news of the Sapphire 2023.5 update.īoris FX has updated Sapphire, its suite of effects plugins for compositing and editing software.
