The Auto Paint filter from the Stylize box gave me a fine array of controls in type of style and paint stroke. It will take some time before I can settle on a total favorite but many struck my fancy. At no time did I experience any crashes or spinning wheels of death, no hang ups of any kind. I have no doubts about the stability of working with the Sapphire collection. While I have not used all 175 filters in the complete set, each filter that I tested worked just fine in Final Cut Pro 5 in a 2GHz DP G5. I would hope that more of these tutorial manuals will be forthcoming. It is an excellent and free resource which should be invaluable to the Sapphire user. The graphics were done in Adobe After Effects but the information is just as easy to transfer over to Final Cut Pro users. While there are no tutorials on the GenArts website, they have just come out with an excellent pdf file, totaling 92 pages with a thorough review and how to use tips for 30 of the filters from an assortment of their packages. Never the less, most of these plug ins are fairly intuitive and easy to use. This, I found to be most useful when facing a filter loaded with more controls than I could imagine. When applying any of the effects an 'About' button is connected to an online explanation of each of the parameters and options applicable to that particular effect.
Sapphire supports 16 bit resolution frequently required of After Effects users. The most important thing is that we are seeing real quality here. There are several things to get excited about with the Sapphire plug ins.
Once again, it is better to have and not need than to need and not have. There are far too many FX to demonstrate here but from perusing the lists of packages you can see that there is most everything you will ever need to find in these collections as well as many you may never need to use. They don't come cheap but there is real quality in this package and you get all that you hope to. The entire package comes with over 175 plug-ins separated into 4 'boxes' which can be purchased separately or bought as a full bundle. Sapphire plugs, previously available to the Adobe AfterEffects and Avid community is now here for the Final Cut Pro user as well.
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