

Sapphire’s product contains more than 250 of these plugins, which can add lens flares, alter pixel color, or introduce screen blurring. That’s because Supnik is a lead software engineer on Boris FX’s Sapphire product, and her team developed the special effects plugin that makes the lightning happen.įor the past 20 years, Sapphire has been developing a suite of plugins that help video editors manipulate pixels in post-production through film editing software like Adobe After Effects and Avid Media Composer.

While her show-stopping habit can sometimes annoy her partner, who prefers his TV shows uninterrupted like the rest of us, Supnik can’t help but get a closer look at the fine details. Every time a bolt of lightning cracks across Larissa Supnik’s TV screen, she likes to pause the video.
