GenArts Releases Sapphire Plug-ins for Apple FxPlug Products
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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Instead of video effects, you can add your own abstract effects using Motion’s Particle Emitter. In this case, simply drag Light Valve onto the playback area. You can find this in Library: Particle Emitters: Abstract. While you’re there, check out the more than 100 particle systems.