GenArts 发布 Sapphire 9 蓝宝石9

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基本延续了蓝宝石8的特性，新增了一些特效、转场、光流之类的，有些还是Monsters里的。

GenArts has released Sapphire 9, the latest update to its industry-standard collection of preset effects, transitions and looks for editing, compositing and finishing software.

The release adds four new transitions, a couple of new utility tools, and further extends Builder, the node-based system for authoring custom effects introduced in Sapphire 8.

New effects include Bokeh lights and astronomical backgroundsNew effects introduced in the release include the self-explanatory BokehLights, which generates classic Bokeh patterns of defocused lights. The effect may be animated.

There are also two astronomical effects: NightSky, which generatates accurate star fields based on date, time and location; and Aurora, which produces Northern Lights-type effects.

In addition, there is a good-looking InfiniteZoom effect, which creates a “hypnotic, spiral effect similar to infinite regression”, and which can be seen at 00:30 in the video above.

New optical flow-based utility toolsSapphire 9 also introduces two new utility tools, including CutToDissolve, which replaces straight cuts between clips for which no video handles exist by generating the missing frames via optical flow.

A second optical flow-based tool, RepairFrames, regenerates dropouts or damaged frames automatically.

In addition, there is a new StripSlide transition, which moves from one clip to the next by sliding the foreground offscreen in a series of parallel strips.

Support for animation curves in BuilderFinally, the Builder toolset has been extended: most notably by the addition of animation curves for all parameters, along with a set of “advanced compositing tools”. You can see them briefly in this demo video.

S_transition, the part of the toolset for authoring new transitions, now supports multiple transition nodes; and transitions are also now supported in s_effect, the part of the toolset for authoring new effects.


官网地址：http://www.genarts.com/sapphire/whats-new