Revive the vintage allure of the 1980s using Boris FX Sapphire 2025 for enhanced visual effects.
**Boris FX Sapphire 2025: A New Era of Visual Effects**
Boris FX, a leading name in the visual effects industry, has announced the release of its latest offering, Sapphire 2025. This comprehensive update brings several key features and improvements, focusing on enhanced visual effects capabilities, GPU acceleration, integration with Mocha planar tracking, and updated presets for modern workflows.
One of the standout additions in Sapphire 2025 is the S_VHS Damage effect. Boris Yamnitsky, president and founder of Boris FX, revealed that the new effect is designed to transport audiences back to the simple pleasure of rewatching VHS tapes, recreating the look of 1980s analog video with its simulated wear and tear, including tracking errors, interlaced combing, color downsampling, and tape distortions.
Another notable addition is the Dissolve Light Leak Transition, designed to create smooth and colorful transitions between clips. This transition benefits from the revamped LensFlare and Flare Designer improvements, offering more dynamic and customizable light-based transitions.
The new release also features over 300 new curated presets optimized for today's artists, with many older presets replaced. This update results in faster rendering speeds, especially in Adobe After Effects with multi-frame rendering, improving efficiency by approximately 20% on average.
Artists can also look forward to the S_ColorFuse Effect, a new cinematic color grading tool that allows the combination of up to three LUTs with customizable opacities, including 50 presets. This tool supports OCIO color space standards and is fully GPU accelerated with CUDA, Metal, and Apple M1 native rendering, improving performance and color accuracy.
In addition, Sapphire 2025 introduces built-in planar tracking and spline tools through integration with Mocha. This allows users to create tracked splines inside Sapphire’s interface or import from Mocha Pro/AE projects. Effects like S_UltraZap can now leverage advanced Mocha features across all host applications, enhancing animation and VFX control.
The media contact for Boris FX is Jessie Electa Petrov, Director of Marketing, who can be reached at jessiep@pur socials.com or 617-451-9900. Boris FX Sapphire 2025 is available with subscriptions, upgrade & support plans, and perpetual licenses.
Customers on current Sapphire subscriptions or upgrade & support plans receive the 2025 release as a free update. Host support for Sapphire 2025 includes Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, and OFX hosts like Autodesk Flame, Foundry Nuke, Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve, and VEGAS Pro.
The 2025 release expands upon the Sapphire's famed lens flares collection, providing eight new lens flares and enhancing the existing ones. The Dissolve Light Leak Transition mimics the natural flares and bursts of light often seen in analog film, adding a nostalgic touch to modern productions.
Jon Anderson, an award-winning freelance editor, expressed his excitement about the new S_VHS Damage effect for its ability to recreate nostalgic video looks and its level of customization. With Sapphire 2025, artists now have a powerful toolkit to bring their creative visions to life.
Subscriptions for Sapphire start at $495/year or $62/month. For more information, visit the Boris FX website or contact Jessie Electa Petrov.
With the Sapphire 2025 release, technology and entertainment intertwine as artists have access to the S_VHS Damage effect, which brings the aesthetics of 1980s analog video back to modern productions. This tool, designed by Boris FX, offers a high level of customization for fostering a unique lifestyle in their work. As for smooth and colorful transitions, the Dissolve Light Leak Transition, benefiting from advanced LensFlare and Flare Designer improvements, adds a nostalgic touch that complements the enhanced visual effects capabilities of the software.
