Boris FX Sapphire has all the building blocks you need
to create a gorgeous cinematic look
I'm Ben Brownlee for Boris FX
and in this short tutorial we're going to see
how we can put together a few little Sapphire effects
to create an instant filmic look
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Now we're starting in Adobe Premiere Pro
but pretty much everything that we look at
is going to work the same way
wherever Sapphire is supported
and if we look at our first clip here
it's pretty well balanced
it's a little bit low contrast
but you know there's a lot of diffusion going on in the scene
So let's apply the only effect that we actually need to use
and that is the Sapphire Builder
and we can find that by searching in effects
for S_Effect
and let's bring that over onto our clip
and let's edit this effect
so here we are in Builder
and this is where we can easily put together all
of the Sapphire effects that we can see
on the left hand side
down into the middle workspace
and see what's happening in the viewer above
There are three things
we really want to focus on here
We're going to look at color, grain and vignette
And let's just use the search bar here
to search for color
and I'm going to find the one that I want which is ColorFuseLooks
So if you want to learn more about ColorFuse
we do have videos that are dedicated simply to ColorFuse
but if I load in a preset
we can have a little look here
but it's a way of using different creative Luts
to mix together to form completely unique colors
as a way of finishing off our shot
Now I'm looking for one that's quite flexible
because I want to make this a sort of general purpose
sort of effect
We can always change it but the idea is to make it
more general purpose at the start
I'm going to take one of the mixy ones
like M Heavy Film Color
Let's load that in and over on the the right hand side
in the parameters we can easily you know mix these down
As you can see so we do have a lot of flexibility still here
okay so moving past color
we're going to go on to grain
So if I go back into the search
Type in Grain
From Sapphire 2023 onwards we have this Effect called UltraGrain
and this is a fast and flexible way of doing grain emulation
Again I'll load in the preset here
You can see we've got a lot of different cameras available to us
you know Sony, RED,
what I'm going for is maybe something a little bit more generic
a little bit filmy
So maybe I'll just type in Kodak here
and we've got some of the sort of Color Film ones
that we can see
Let's maybe we're just start taking 35mm 400T Generic
I mean it doesn't get much more generic than that
Excellent all right
and then the final one is a vignette
So I'm going to type in vignette
Oh look. Lo and behold I have a little vignette
I can bring in here and we've got you know lots of
different things we can do with this but we'll come and look at that
in a little bit
Now I'm going to zoom in because I want to talk
just very briefly about effect order or the order of effects
that we have down here
Because at the moment we have our source image
going into the ColorFuse going into UltraGrain
going into Vignette
So vignette is the final one yeah?
This is the way that I often see people chain these things together
but is this the right way of doing it?
Is it the most flexible way of doing it?
Let's take a little look at something that Sapphire Vignette can do
that not all the vignette effects can do
I'm going to take my opacity down so that's not doing any
of the color vignetting
but I'm going to take my blur amount up
and actually I'm just going to zoom in a little bit here
and you can see that as soon as we put blur on at this point
because it's happening after the UltraGrain
it's completely giving the game away
like realistic grain wouldn't work like that
because obviously grain is part of the film structure
that comes at the end
it's part of the medium that we're shooting
So we want to move this around
We want UltraGrain to be at the end
and now if we take a little look here
we have our vignette blurring up
but also being grained out afterwards
Down in the bottom corner I'm going to turn off preview selected node
so we're always going to see the result
That means when I switch into my vignette here
we can much more easily see what's happening if I turn my blur up a lot
You can see the grain still stays over the top of it
giving us that natural look that we want
I'm going to hit OK because I want to show you
a little problem that we've got
I hit okay it brings us back into our host
and we'll take a little look in the effect controls
We can see all of the controls down here
Now this is a lot to handle
This is maybe not quite as involved as putting them all on separately
but it's still pretty involved
It's still doing a lot more work than I want it to
So let's come back up and edit the effect
and what I can do is I can go through each of these effects in Builder
and say which of the parameters that I want to be visible in the host or not
Not every host supports this but all of the Adobe ones do
but your chosen host may vary a little bit
With ColorFuse Looks we want all of the Lut strengths
to be on and available
with the vignette I'll turn everything off
because really all I want is maybe the radius the opacity and the blur amount
so let's take those three
and with the UltraGrain again I'll turn everything off
and the only ones I want to be available in the host
is going to be grain amplitude, grain size, grain blur and grain mono
So now I hit OK on that again come back into our host
You can see we have a much more simplified and easier to manage type of effect
We can come in change up our Lut strength there change that the blur amount in our vignette
and maybe touch in a little bit of darkening into it as well
and control how much grain
we add in there maybe it was a little bit too much last time
Now being very sensible, I'm working on an 8K clip Yeah(!)
Maybe I'll just do a little render and then we can play that back
and so we've got our stylized color our vignette and our grain
all in one
and I can happily save this effect as a preset
so save that there
I'll call this one Ben's Cinelook
Give it any characteristics I want
but we'll leave that there
Save that out and now I can load that preset in directly through S effect
and it doesn't actually matter where I do that
so even if I go into something like Photoshop
if I have Sapphire available I can find my Builder effect
Cinelook. Load it up and there it is available to me
directly within another application
and even change any of the looks up in ColorFuse
and there we go
and it really is as simple as that
and of course you can keep chaining things together
maybe you want to add in a little bit of UltraGlow
before the grain
there's nothing to stop you mixing this together how you want it
I hope you found this trip into Sapphire's Builder useful
and that it inspires you to do something yourself
My name is Ben Brownlee for Boris FX
and I will see you again soon bye for now
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