[Gary Oberbrunner]

Hi Richie; check the Fields param down near the end. The default in S_FilmEffect should be “As Is” but if you’ve set it to one of the Stutter values, you’ll get stuttery motion.

Hope that helps;

— Gary Oberbrunner

[Gary Oberbrunner]

(I was going to reply but I see Todd already did.)
— Gary

[Gary Oberbrunner]

Hi Simon — just email your info to support@genarts.com and we’ll take care of you.

— Gary Oberbrunner (from GenArts)

[Gary Oberbrunner]

Hi Tripill. Is this on Avid, Flame, AE, FCP, Shake? I’m guessing since you cross-posted to the Avid forum, you’re on Avid, and I’ll assume you’re using Sapphire v2. In that case, you make a black & white mask for the area you’re interested in glinting, put that on a track below the track with the car. Then apply S2_Glint as usual, and pick Mask: 1 Track Below to use that track as the mask.

If it’s the brightest thing in the frame, you don’t need a mask at all; just turn up the threshold until that’s the only thing glinting/glowing.

Hope that helps!

— Gary

[Gary Oberbrunner]

Hi John, yes we hope to support Motion 3 in the future, but Apple has discontinued support for AE plug-ins as of version 3, so it won’t be until we support Apple’s new FXplug API.

— Gary Oberbrunner

[Gary Oberbrunner]

Hi Alex. Yep, I’m still here 🙂

Our support page here https://www.genarts.com/sapphire-avx-support.html#titles has some info on using transitions with titles, which should also apply to your situation here. (Basically you want the individual tracks you’re transitioning NOT to include the background, just themselves and their alpha; then you transition the RGBA, then layer that over the bg.)

If that doesn’t resolve it, please email me (garyo at genarts dot com) instructions to reproduce your setup, or better yet send me a bin, and I’ll help you get the look you want.

— Gary

[Gary Oberbrunner]

PNG is a lossless compression format. You can go from TIFF (or uncompressed QT) -> PNG and back and it’ll be bit-for-bit identical with the original. But as you can see it does a good job keeping the size down.

— Gary

[Gary Oberbrunner]

It was 1.081 I believe, but in any case 1.10 is a free upgrade from your current version. Just download and install over the existing plug-ins. To transfer to a different Mac, first uninstall from the old Mac and register the uninstall with the activation server, then install 1.10 on the new Mac and enter your serial number.

— Gary Oberbrunner

[Gary Oberbrunner]

Hi, Alex. Sounds like you’ve got a pretty complex comp there.
I’m not sure how it exactly works, but here’s something I worked
up that maybe you could try, just to get an idea of how Sapphire
can be used to do picture-in-picture and layering/compositing:

I put three video tracks on V1, V2, and V3. My goal was to fly
them all around while glowing the top one and blurring the bottom one.

On V1, I just put the S2_Blur. Now it needs to be scaled and
positioned. I assume you’re using the AVX2 version of Sapphire2 here
(those all have a “Help” button as the first parameter); if so,
there’s a set of widget enable buttons on the right side of the effect
editor. Click the one whose tooltip says “Show Transform Widgets”,
and put the image where you want it. (Add keyframes if you like.)

Now on V2, all you need is S2_Layer to layer it over V1. Again show
the transform widgets and move the layer where you want it. (Note
that it defaults to Background: 1 Track Below, which is what you want.)

Then for V3, you want to glow it and comp over the other two layers,
so use S2_Glow. Select Background: 1 Track Below so your background
will show through behind the glowed fg track, and again transform the
layer where you want it. (Notice the glow only affects the V3 video.)

Now you have 3 tracks with independent effects, each moving around
independently. If there were transitions on the tracks, you could
submaster them or use various other techniques.

Does that help a bit? Let me know…

— Gary

[Gary Oberbrunner]

Hi Alex — I’ll be glad to help you figure it out. Can you give me some more detail about what your situation is and what you’re trying to do? Sometimes you can just use Sapphire to do the PiP for instance; depends on the situation. If you just tell me what you’ve got on each layer, I’ll set it up here and see if we can’t come up with something.

— Gary Oberbrunner