by Boris FX·VFX
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Sapphire earns its place in the toolfarm library for a broad set of transitions and effects, from shape-based wipes to lens flares and glares, all available across After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, and Premiere Pro.
Sapphire is a collection of visual effects and transitions from Boris FX for After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, and Premiere Pro. Its wipe transitions blend two input clips using shapes and patterns such as wedges, stars, rectangles, concentric rings, stripes, plasma tendrils, woven strands, moiré, and tiles of hexagons, triangles, diamonds, or stars. The Wipe Percent parameter is animated to control transition speed, and increasing Border Width draws a border at the wipe transition edges.
Beyond transitions, Sapphire includes effects like Glare, Advanced Defocus, and Texture Ridges, which creates flowing ridges and organic fractal textures from procedural noise. An Effect and Transition Builder lets you design custom effects and transitions, and the package adds Pro Lens Flares with five cinematic flares spanning anamorphic and vintage-lens designs.
On toolfarm it ranks 10 in the library. Recent releases have added new effects, Flare Designer and Builder tools, and more than 100 new effect and transition presets.
Boris FX Sapphire Perpetual License is best for editors and VFX artists using After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, or Premiere Pro who want shape-based wipe transitions, lens flares, glares, defocus, and procedural texture effects.
Boris FX Sapphire Perpetual License is completely free to download and use.
Boris FX Sapphire is listed for use with After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, and Premiere Pro. Its wipe transitions blend two input clips using shapes and patterns, controlled by animating the Wipe Percent parameter, and it adds effects such as Glare, Advanced Defocus, and Texture Ridges across those hosts. Compatibility here references Sapphire 2025, so check the developer's page to confirm support for your exact host version before installing.
Boris FX Sapphire runs on macOS 10.15 or higher, Windows 10 and 11, and Linux, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to 9 or a compatible distribution such as Rocky Linux. The ML-based tracking and masking tools in the integrated Mocha require macOS Monterey 12.0 or higher. If you plan to use those Mocha features on a Mac, make sure your system meets the higher macOS requirement rather than the base one.
Boris FX Sapphire lists recommended hardware of an Apple M-series processor, an Intel processor, or a 64-bit Intel or AMD CPU with four or more cores. For memory, 8 GB is the minimum and 16 GB or more is preferred. A high-speed disk array or SSD storage is recommended, along with a 1920×1080 monitor. Meeting or exceeding these recommendations is the safest way to run the plugin as intended.
Boris FX Sapphire is listed as free in this catalog. The product itself is offered as a perpetual license, and licensing terms can change, so check the developer's page for the current details before you commit. This listing points to Boris FX for the authoritative information on how the license is provided and any conditions that apply.
Boris FX Sapphire is at version 2.1.1, last updated on 2026-05-21. The 2026.5 release added the TextureRidges and AdvancedDefocus effects, Flare Designer improvements including per-element trigger controls and new offset modes, and new Builder tools such as Dots, Noise, and ClampRange nodes plus node notes. It also brought new lens flares, glares, and presets. The earlier 2026 release added FilmBurn, FilmBurnTransition, and MochaWhip, along with Builder parameter links and Mocha improvements.
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