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GenArts, Inc., a leading provider of visual effects plug-ins for the film, broadcast and video industries, today announced the immediate availability of Sapphire Plug-ins for Apple FxPlug products, including Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express and Motion. Sapphire Plug-ins for FxPlug products contains over 200 image processing and synthesis effects, including the latest effects in the Sapphire suite such as FilmDamage, ZDefocus, Cartoon, BleachBypass, GradientMulti, SwishPan, Deband and Vignette. GenArts is offering the new FxPlug version at no additional charge to customers with Sapphire v2 for After Effects and compatible products. »

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You can also animate the edge setting on CC Light Sweep to simulate a light source moving over or near your talent. Just set up three Edge Intensity keyframes, where the stop and the start keyframes are the same. At the point where the light source would be "over" or "near" the green screen actor, increase the Edge Intensity. This will brighten the edges of the actor just as the virtual light source passes by. You can also heighten the illusion by adding in a glow and adjust its intensity along with the CC Light Sweep intensity.