Boris FX releases Sapphire 2025

Boris FX has updated Sapphire, its set of effects plugins for compositing and editing software.

Sapphire 2025 adds two new effects for mimicking the look of analog film, recreating the look of 1980s VHS tapes, and adding light leaks to transitions.

Sapphire 2025: new VHSDamage and DissolveLightLeak effects
Sapphire 2025 adds two new effects for recreating the look of analog film.

S_VHSDamage the visual artifacts that occur in 1980s videotapes, while S_DissolveLightLeak adds light leaks to transitions between video clips.

The existing S_PixelSort and S_TVDamage effects get new controls for downsampled stylization, and S_TVDamage also now runs on the GPU.

There are also 50 new presets for existing effects, and 8 new and updated lens flares.

In addition, changes under the hood mean that Sapphire effects should now render identically across all host applications. You can find more details of the changes in the online release notes.

Pricing and system requirements
Sapphire 2025 is available for a range of compositing and editing software, including After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Flame and Nuke, on Windows, Linux and macOS.

Perpetual licenses cost $1,695 for the Avid and Adobe/OFX editions, or $2,795 for a multi-host licence.

Subscriptions cost $62/month or $495/year for the Avid and Adobe/OFX editions, and $112/month or $895/year for a multi-host subscription.

Read an overview of the new features in Sapphire 2025 on Boris FX’s website

Read a full list of new features in Sapphire 2025 in the online release notes

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