Boris FX Sapphire is an all-in-one plugin package that enables you to create stunning, organic visuals unmatched by other effect tools. With over 270 effects and 3,000+ presets, Sapphire offers exceptional control and image quality, helping you craft visuals that captivate your audience. It includes a powerful Effect and Transition Builder and integrates tracking and masking with the Academy Award-winning Mocha for added convenience. With Sapphire, you can save time and effort on creative projects, allowing you to focus on delivering impactful visuals that truly engage.

Boris FX Hub

Meet the Boris FX Hub. It’s your home for downloading, installing, and licensing Boris FX tools. Get ready for a seamless, user-friendly experience.

• Dive into free trials for any of our products
• Easily install and license the Boris FX Suite or select software
• Activate or deactivate licenses without the fuss
• Stay up-to-date on the latest versions of our products
• Direct connections to dedicated training and support

Sapphire Perpetual License

The Emmy Award-winning plugin collection adds 2 new creative effects, 10 new lens flares, and 65 new curated presets for Adobe, Avid, and OFX hosts.

• Effect & Transition: Unleash digital chaos with Sapphire PixelMosh.
• Effect: Add atmospheric realism and cinematic aura to any image with Sapphire Dust.
• Retooled Time Effects: The Sapphire time category is updated for better behaviour and integrated into the Effect and Transition Builder.
• 10 More Flares: New and updated Sapphire Lens Flares.
• 65+ Effect Presets: Includes 18 advanced Builder presets.

Sapphire PixelMosh

Glitch your art with beautifully precise imperfections using the new Sapphire PixelMosh plugin. Smear and drag pixels from one group of frames to another. Add bursting blobs of colour that bloom and pulsate or digital decay with corrupted, stuck frames. Combines seamlessly with other Sapphire damage effects inside S_Effect and S_Transition.

Sapphire Dust

• Breathe life into every frame with the new Sapphire Dust Effect. S_Dust is blazing-fast, replicates the look of a simple particle simulation without the complexity, and includes rich, user-friendly controls.
• It’s perfect for adding a touch of photorealism to CG renders, creating a cinematic atmosphere, and enhancing motion graphics. Set the mood with a few shimmering specks or unleash a turbulent sandstorm.
• Create more stunning results by pairing it with other classic Sapphire effects inside S_Effect and S_Transition.

Improved Time Effects

Every effect in the Sapphire Time category is re-engineered with better behavior and refined functionality. The collection features 30 effects focused on time manipulation. Each effect now renders quickly and accurately, and you can now use them within S_Effect and S_Transition.

Parameter Linking in Builder

• The new parameter linking feature in S_Effect and S_Transition allows editors and artists to create dynamic and complex effects by connecting parameters and values across different Sapphire effects. Users can set a “driver” parameter and then link other parameters to it, including adding offsets and multipliers.
• Parameter linking gives users control over an entire effect’s animation with a single slider. This makes it easier to create advanced animations and effects without having to manually adjust multiple parameters!

Quick Access and Favourites

The new Quick Access feature provides users with a fast option to find and add effects to Builder. Simply add effects directly into the node graph with just a few clicks rather than navigating Sapphire’s expansive list of effects. Users can also star frequently used effects and add them to the new Favorites category, making them easily accessible.

Custom Parameter Naming

The 2023.5 update to Sapphire introduces a highly-requested feature: the ability to customize effect parameter names in Builder. Users can now create their names for any parameter inside any Sapphire effect. By choosing more intuitive and user-friendly parameter names, Builder artists can quickly identify key parameters in an effect and adjust accordingly.

New and Improved Presets

Artists can hit the ground running with stunning looks and professionally-curated transitions thanks to 15 new S_Effect presets and 12 new S_Transition presets — all built out with custom expressions. Plus, 130+ existing S_Effect and S_Transition presets are updated and improved, giving users even more options and refined looks.

New and Improved Sapphire Lens Flares

Sapphire’s award-winning Lens Flare, renowned across the film & TV industry for gorgeous and natural-looking results, now includes 12 more reasons to love it with the addition of new and improved flares for Sapphire 2023.5. Use the integrated Academy Award-winning Mocha technology to do fast and accurate motion tracking directly in the plugin. Perfect flares, wherever you need them.

Sapphire PrismLens

Created to replicate shooting through a physical prism, S_PrismLens reflects and refracts light to create cinematic and dreamy looks. It has a feature-rich parameter set, allowing editors and artists unparalleled freedom and control to create single, linear, and circular reflections. Great for music videos, travelogues, cinematic opens, social media, or even stills — anywhere you wish to create stunning images.

Sapphire UltraGrain

Created for the modern VFX artist, editor, and colorist. S_UltraGrain accurately recreates the qualities and aesthetics of film and camera grain with the needed flexibility of a digital toolset. S_UltraGrain makes the art of grain management completely natural and blazing fast thanks to native CUDA and Metal GPU acceleration.

Light And Flares

Shot missing something?  Add lighting effects and beautiful lens flares. Lens flares, rays, glows, glints, bokeh effects, streaks, light leaks, flashbulbs, and more.

Blur And Distort

High-quality lens distortions and photorealistic blurs. Camera shakes, rack defocuses, lens whacking, z-blurs, edge-aware blurs, beauty effects, and more.

Render And Composite

Deep & fast tools to adjust your shots and build better comps by adding new textures and elements.  Zaps, textures, caustics, starfields, gradients, sparkles, grunge, auroras, and more.

Stylize

A wide variety of ways to add high production value to any project. Film effects, glitches, pixel sorts, vignettes, film grains, retro TV and film looks, Kaleido, auto-paints, and more.

Transition And Time

Auto-animating transitions from classic to modern and mind-bending time effects. Many custom dissolves and wipes, film rolls, hyper pulls, swish pans, feedback effects, time-averaging, trails, and more.

Do Virtually Anything

Create cross-platform stacks of effects that apply as a single effect, or make entirely new effects and transitions with Sapphire Builder. Endless possibilities!