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Documentation for Sapphire is installed on your machine with the software and is available in HTML and PDF formats. * On Windows, go to: Start > All Programs > GenArts SapphireAVX. Select Sapphire AVX Online Help (HTML) or AVX Online Help (PDF). * O...
The directories below are the default locations for where the presets are saved -- if you have moved the preset to a custom location, go there and then follow the instructions below. To delete a preset: * On Windows, go to: C:ProgramDataGenArtsSapphi...
Navigate to the effects panel, click and drag an effect on to your footage, and click "Load Preset" to view the Preset Browser.
You need to ensure that your current time indicator is on a frame that contains the Sapphire transition in order to properly display a transition preview.
Yes, you can create your own presets, create customer or project-specific tags for them, and mark favorites.
The default presets (.gp, .effect, and .transition files) are located in the following location: * On Windows: ProgramDataGenArtsSapphirePresetsGenArts * On Mac: /Library/Application Support/GenArts/Sapphire/Presets The presets that you saved yours...
Drop a Sapphire plugin onto a title or key and then select the "Apply To Title/Key" checkbox in the Effect Editor. This causes the plugin to process the fill and matte of the title together. Any animation curves in the title will be removed, and only the...
To delete precomputed clips: * On your Avid, go to Tools -> Media Tool * Select all the precompute clips that have the watermark on them. Be careful NOT to select any title or key media. Normally the clips to delete will be called something like seq...
With recent Avid versions you can automatically promote all older Sapphire versions to Sapphire v9 AVX2. In some cases you can instead leave older Sapphire versions installed on your Avid so they will continue to be used when sequences with those versions...
Current Avid versions auto-conform effects used in sequences, but do not conform effects stored in bins. Until Avid supports this properly, use the following workaround: before upgrading to v9, first make a temporary sequence with black on v1, and put eac...