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Boris Continuum Complete 5 - Native Filters and Transitions

Boris Continuum Complete extends the capabilities of NLE and compositing applications with over 180 filters for professional visual effects creation. With an intuitive native host interface and support for multi-processor and OpenGL acceleration, users can quickly create multi-layer composites with robust tools for keying, lighting, color, and even temporal effects.

Powerful integration features include built-in motion tracking and unique PixelChooser technology that creates region or channel-based masks. Thousands of presets provide precise effects creation with minimal learning curve.

Use BCC to Tint, Tone, Blur, Glow, Distort, and Transform video images. Add Light Rays, Film Grain and Scratches, Lens Flares, Rain, or Snow. Remove unwanted Noise, Grain, or Scratches; precisely adjust Light and Color levels, and smoothly Deinterlace video and simulate the motion of film. Image filtering effects can be selectively applied using PixelChooser masking and Apply Modes.

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Boris Continuum Complete 5 has been getting rave reviews from end users and industry publications. What set Continuum apart from other NLE plug-ins is that Boris supplies the filters, your NLE app. supplies the interface. When you use Continuum Complete with your Avid, Apple or Adobe video editing software, the interface looks and feels just like the host application. The quality of the filter are top-notch professional, with all the tools you need to tweak them to perfection. Even better, many of them are GPU accelerated so they tap into your graphics card OpenGL for faster rendering.

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Here are some of the new filters included in BCC 5

BCC UpRez provides an answer to a common problem facing today's editors, which is what to do about situations where SD clips need to be reused in an HD project. Designed to facilitate the resizing of image clips while minimizing the data loss that is usually associated with media transforms, the BCC UpRez filter employs very sophisticated image sampling techniques with edge detection, providing a final result that cannot be achieved by the host application's scaling and standard post processing methods.

Pan and Zoom Filter

The BCC Pan and Zoom filter was designed to automate the work of documentary style pan and zoom effects, where a large still image file is moved along the x and y axis (pan) and scaled up or down (zoom) in a composite, in effect, adding animation to a still image. The BCC Pan and Zoom filter includes on-screen HUD widgets (heads-up display) to achieve this end result with precision and ease and also includes state-of-the-art algorithms that generate a razor sharp image result even when the image has been subject to a large transform scale. The filter can be run in full automatic, semi automatic or full manual animation modes, but any way you choose, it's easy to use and generates smooth animation and a sharp image result.

With the BCC Matchmove filter, we have added to the compositing style filters in the BCC set. Use the BCC Matchmove filter to lock the movement of one image clip to another image clip using the built-in motion tracking function. One of the great advantages of using the BCC Matchmove filter to composite is that it includes full DVE functions such as tumble, spin, and rotate along with interesting lighting and light wrap compositing features that are normally found only in full compositing applications.

LED Filter

The BCC LED filter was designed to make an image, clip or text element with alpha appear as though it was constructed out of an array of blinking or solid LED lights similar to the display boards that we see in today's sports stadiums. By default, the lights take their color from the clip to which it was applied and can be set to either square or round diodes or "bulbs". Alternately the filter can apply a tint of color over the media element to which it was applied. This filter is a part of the new OpenGL category of filters in BCC which benefit from hardware acceleration as all of the processing is done by the GPU of the graphics card instead of the CPU. OpenGL acceleration greatly improves performance and significantly reduces render times.

Prism Filter

The BCC Prism filter can be used to simulate the photographic effect of chromatic aberration, where a bad lens can create prismatic color fringing along edges of contrast within the image. The filter can also be used as an interesting wipe or blur effect and includes controls for image rotation along two points of one axis within the image, which with some settings leads to a pleasant twisting blurred effect. The Prism filter also benefits from the super fast image processing of OpenGL acceleration.

Click here for a full gallery of the new BCC 5 filters

Classic BCC Filters

Motion Key

The Motion Key filter is based on proprietary optical flow technology first introduced in BCC's Optical Flow and Motion Blur filters. Motion Key isolates and removes moving foreground objects from a clip without the need for complex masking or cloning.

3D Extruded Image Shatter

The OpenGL-based 3D Extruded Image Shatter filter shatters a clip into three-dimensional particles with adjustable extrusions. The filter provides a variety of explosion, velocity and gravity and auto-animates by default, but you can manually animate it for precise control.

Halftone Filter

The Halftone filter simulates the look of traditional offset printed material by converting the image to simulated halftone dots.

Optical Stabilizer

The Optical Stabilizer uses optical flow technology to analyze a shaky clip then adjusts the track's position to compensate. Unlike many stabilizing tools, the BCC Optical Stabilizer does not require you to set user-defined tracking points. This allows users to stabilize images where tracking data is unreliable. You can also stabilize just a portion of a track to correct isolated camera bumps. Unlike many stabilize effects which only take horizontal and vertical movement into consideration, the BCC Optical Stabilizer takes motion, rotation and scaling into account when stabilizing.

Color Match Filter

The Color Match filter quickly matches the color and luma values from the highlight, midtone and shadow areas of two separate clips.

Click here to view the Continuum Complete 5 Filter Gallery

BCC Key Features

PixelChooser
The PixelChooser is a unique masking tool integrated into most BCC filters. Region controls define the area of the image to affect, while Matte controls let you use the image's chroma and luma to control the intensity of the effect. PixelChooser allows you to define a region by drawing a vector shape onscreen with bezier handles for more precise control.



Presets
BCC includes over 1500 presets so that you can begin creating effects immediately. Each preset can be rendered as is or used as a starting point for a custom effect. Easily save any effect you create as a custom preset with any filter or transition.



Integrated Motion Tracking
Motion Tracking is integrated into all appropriate BCC effects. For example, track a logo on a t-shirt, then obscure the logo with a blur.



Motion Tracking applied to the light source of a Lens Flare effect.

Advanced High Quality Keying
Precisely key with spill suppression, Chroma, Luma and Two Way Key, Matte Choker, Light Wrap and Wire Remover.



Stack Multiple Filters on Keyed Elements or Titles
The new Multi-filter feature enables more precise keying and expands the range of effects by providing an easy workflow for applying multiple filters that only affect a foreground element rather than the entire video frame.

Filters for Sophisticated Blending of Layers
Composite, RGB Blend, and Boost Blend enable a wide variety of image blending effects based on Apply Modes. You can easily combine Apply Modes, animate between them, and mix back to the original image to create a wide variety of looks.



Time Based Effects
The Time filters include Motion Key, which is based on proprietary optical flow technology first introduced in BCC's Optical Flow and Motion Blur filters. The Motion Key isolates and removes moving foreground objects from a clip without the need for complex masking or cloning. State-of-the-art Time filters also include Temporal Blur, Velocity Remap, Jitter, Looper and Optical Flow.





Original image (upper left) with 7 variations of the Lens Flare effect

Additional BCC Features Include

• Advanced image processing algorithms which enhance image quality while transform scaling a clip.
• EZ parameter display mode and ability to display only modified or animated filter parameters.
• New OpenGL category includes hardware accelerated filters such as Glint, Lens Flare, LED, Prism, and Damaged TV.
• Volumetric lighting filters including Rays Cartooner, Rays Texture, Rays Streaky, and Light Zoom.
• Auto-animating wipes use a unique influence parameter to create custom shapes based on channel information.
• Primary and secondary color correction filters. 35 real-time processing filters and 16 real-time static texture generators.
• Create 3D geometric shapes such as spheres and cylinders, which intersect in Z-space with soft cast shadows and 3D spotlights.
• Deep color support with 16-bit image processing. Support for Intel Mac platform.

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