GenArts Inc. is permanently lowering the price of Sapphire Plug-ins for Discreet burn, Autodesks Linux-based background rendering software. Effective immediately, the new price structure allows burn users to purchase a license of Sapphire Plug-ins for just $1,000 per dual processor workstation, reduced from $1,600. Thanks to Sapphire Plug-ins on burn, digital artists using inferno, flame, flint, fire and smoke can process projects faster than ever before, thereby increasing productivity and maximizing creative time.
Sapphire Plug-ins provide digital artists with a collection of more than 175 state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects. They fully and seamlessly integrate into a number of editing and compositing systems, including: Adobe After Effects and Premiere; Apple Final Cut Pro, Shake and Motion; Avid Media Composer Adrenaline, Media Composer, Xpress Pro, Xpress, Xpress DV, Symphony, DS, Nitris and Newscutter; Autodesk Combustion; Discreet flint, flame, inferno, fire, smoke and burn; eyeon Software Digital Fusion; Quantel generationQ; Media 100 844/X; and Sony XPRI.
Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, GenArts Inc. (www.genarts.com) is a premier provider of digital vfx plug-ins for the film and video industry, which have been used extensively to create an array of feature films such as SIN CITY, SPIDER-MAN 1 and 2, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, THE MATRIX trilogy, TERMINATOR 3 and STAR WARS: EPISODE I and II.
Bill Desowitz, former editor of VFXWorld, is currently the Crafts Editor of IndieWire.
