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Boris FX
NAB 2012: Boris FX
Boris FX came to NAB 2012 with new versions, each of which expanded the capabilities of the company's toolset of visual effects, compositing, titling, and workflow tools: Version 8 of its flagship Boris Continuum Complete, Version 2 of Soundbite and Version 6 of Boris Graffiti. The company also announced support for Adobe Creative Suite 6 and Avid DS.
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Debra Kaufman |
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Boris FX
BCC 8: Create Powerful Messaging with Lights and Particles
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In this video tutorial, Kevin P. McAuliffe creates an end page for a commercial focused on tennis rackets. A tennis ball is thrown in the air, and once it is struck by the tennis racket, it turns into a flaming ball with particles shooting out behind it, creating a powerful message for the racket manufacturer. Kevin shows you how it's done with Boris Continuum Complete 8 AE's new Film Glow, Particle Emitter 3D, and Lens Flare 3D filters.
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Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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Boris FX
Create a Realistic 3D End Tag in Adobe After Effects
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In this Boris video tutorial, Kevin P. McAuliffe creates an end tag with Boris Continuum Complete 8 AE's new Stage Light effect. BCC Stage Light lets you create volumetric lighting from any light that you add to your After Effects composition. What would normally take a high-end 3D application to create can now be done in minutes inside of AE!
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Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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Boris FX
Keep Broadcast-Legal Colors with Boris Continuum Complete 8
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Motion graphics designers have traditionally been at the mercy of video editors when it comes to making sure video levels in a shot are broadcast safe. Boris Continuum Complete 8 AE's new Videoscope tool changes the game. In this Boris TV episode, Kevin P. McAuliffe shows you how to ensure broadcast-legal colors of your final output or any individual element of your After Effects project. He then uses Boris Continuum Complete's 3-Way Color Grade and Safe Colors filters to fix a non-legal shot.
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Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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Boris FX
Color Match in Sony Vegas Pro
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If you have ever done a multi-camera shoot where you needed to match camera
colors, or if you have done a single camera shoot where the lighting
conditions changed, then BCC Color Match could save you hours and hours of
time. This Boris Continuum Complete filter quickly matches the color and
luma values from the highlight, midtone, and shadow areas of two separate
clips.
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John Rofrano |
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Boris FX
Type-On Text in Sony Vegas Pro
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John Rofrano takes a look at Boris Continuum Complete's Type-On Text filter in Sony Vegas Pro. 3D extruded text can be animated in true 3D space in a type-on or type-off fashion with each letter precisely interacting with the rest of the text in 3D. All 3D properties of the BCC Extruded Text filter are available in the Type-On effect.
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John Rofrano |
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Boris FX
Extruded Spline and Extruded EPS in Sony Vegas Pro
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John Rofrano takes a look at Boris Continuum Complete's Extruded Spline and Extruded EPS filters in Sony Vegas Pro. BCC Extruded Spline allows you to create 3D extruded objects fully-modeled with bevels and spline-based extrusion profiles. BCC Extruded EPS provides an easy way to import and extrude Adobe Illustrator layered vector logos and graphics inside Vegas Pro.
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John Rofrano |
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Boris FX
Product Manager Overview: BCC 7 AE's Beat Reactor
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BCC Beat Reactor offers easy, precise, and flexible ways to use audio to influence the animation of visual effects parameters in your Adobe After Effects compositions - resulting in dynamic, high-energy effects that feel tightly integrated into the composition. BCC 7 AE includes a BCC Beat Reactor keyframe generator filter which can be used to influence almost any parameter in an AE composition. Beat Reactor is also offered as a parameter group integrated into many BCC filters for convenient use requiring no keyframe generation to drive specific filter parameters. This video focuses on how to isolate a specific portion of an already-mixed track such as a music track.
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Dirk de Jong |
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Boris FX
Using BCC 7 AE's New 3 Way Color Grade Filter: 2
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Kevin P. McAuliffe takes another look at Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE's new 3 Way Color Grade filter. BCC 3 Way Color Grade provides a professional color grading process complete with three custom color wheels for pedestal/gamma/gain adjustment. In part two of this video tutorial series, Kevin demonstrates the filter's built-in masking and keying tools.
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Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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Boris FX
Using BCC 7 AE's New 3 Way Color Grade Filter: 1
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In this video tutorial, Kevin P. McAuliffe takes a look at Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE's new 3 Way Color Grade filter. BCC 3 Way Color Grade provides a professional color grading process complete with three custom color wheels for pedestal/gamma/gain adjustment. In part one of this video tutorial series, Kevin focuses on the basics of the filter. In part two, he will demonstrate the filter's built-in masking and keying tools.
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Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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Boris FX
Audio-driven Effects with BCC 7 AE's Beat Reactor Technology
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In this video tutorial, Kevin P. McAuliffe takes a look at Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE's new Beat Reactor technology. Beat Reactor is a new BCC 7 AE filter that lets you sample specific bands of audio from a clip and uses the sampled audio levels to drive effect parameters. In addition to being available as a standalone BCC 7 AE filter, the new Beat Reactor technology has been added as a built-in feature for many other BCC 7 AE filters. Beat Reactor makes it easier to generate audio-driven effects such as adding a pulsing light, a glow, or even an image wipe that follows along with the beat of an audio track.
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Kevin P McAuliffe |
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Boris FX
Using Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE's Noise Reduction Filter
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In this video tutorial, Kevin P. McAuliffe takes a look at Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE's new Noise Reduction filter and Compare Mode feature. BCC Noise Reduction safely removes unwanted video noise and artifacts from image clips while preserving all of the detail contrast in the original image. BCC 7 AE's new Compare Mode feature allows you to compare the filtered result with the unfiltered source via either a side-by-side view or a live split-screen view.
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Kevin P McAuliffe |
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Boris FX
Introducing Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE
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Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE brings over 200 filters to Macintosh and Windows versions of Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro CS5, CS4, and CS3. The new release features 11 new filters including a 3-way color grade filter with built-in keying and masking tools, a new video noise reduction tool, a spline-based warp filter, an audio-driven keyframe generator, a new OpenGL particle engine, and still and video morph technology. Each Boris Continuum Complete filter has been re-engineered to take advantage of 64-bit processing and OpenGL acceleration.
Watch this new video to learn more!
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Paul Ezzy |
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Boris FX
Save the Shot by Removing Unwanted Objects
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You have a perfect clip for the project. The scene is right, the weather is perfect, the camera move is nice, but there is a clearly-recognizable person walking across the street. And you do not have a release from that person or time to ask for one. Not to fear: you can still save the shot with Boris Continuum Complete's Motion Key tool.
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Kevin P McAuliffe |
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Boris FX
Extrude Adobe Illustrator Logos and Graphics in Adobe After Effects
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Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE's Extruded EPS filter provides an easy way to import and extrude Adobe Illustrator layered vector logos and graphics in Adobe After Effects. The filter includes full integration with the After Effects 3D camera and lighting system and incorporates the same 3D material presets and free-form deformation properties of other BCC 6 AE 3D Objects filters. The filter is capable of tracking an EPS file using a Watch Folder, making the EPS file live should it be edited in Adobe Illustrator. A handy Keep EPS Color feature lets you preserve the original fill colors for each element as a diffuse color option of the material.
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Dirk de Jong |
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Boris FX
Flicker
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Flicker and Shake is an auto-animating filter which uses bursts of synchronized Exposure, Glow, Blur, X or Y displacement, and RGB channel offset to create a flicker effect for video or graphics elements. The flicker effect has been made popular by recent television commercials and film trailers.
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Dirk de Jong |
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Boris FX
Boris Continuum Complete's Witness Protection Filter
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In this video tutorial, we use the BCC Witness Protection filter in Apple Final Cut Pro to obscure the face of a surfer who is surfing a wave at great speed, moving across the frame from the center to exit on the right. We will use BCC Witness Protection's built-in motion tracker to automate this process.
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Paul Ezzy |
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Boris FX
Using Boris Continuum Complete's Cartoon Look Filter
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Boris Continuum Complete's Cartoon Look filter lets you easily convert images and clips into cartoon-style roto animations. The result is a look that has been popularized in films such as Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly. The look can also be seen in broadcast TV commercials for The Charles Schwab Corporation.
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Paul Ezzy |
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Boris FX
Stabilize Shaky Video Footage with BCC's Optical Stabilizer Filter
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The BCC Optical Stabilizer filter enables you to stabilize shaky video footage. The filter uses optical flow technology to determine the movement of the camera and then adjusts the clip's position to compensate. Depending upon filter parameter settings, the motion in the clip will either be smoothed or completely locked down. Unlike many other image stabilization tools, the BCC Optical Stabilizer does not require you to set user-defined tracking points. This is useful for images where tracking data is unreliable.
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Paul Ezzy |
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Adobe After Effects
Using BCC6 Text Jitter in AE
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This video tutorial from Dirk de Jong gives you an in-depth look at the Jitter feature of Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE's Extruded Text filter. Basic functionality of the Jitter feature is explained and demonstrated. Then, the Jitter feature is shown in the context of a more developed effect involving audio and After Effects Camera and Lights.
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Dirk de Jong |
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Boris FX
Using BCC6 Animated Presets
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Boris Continuum Complete 6's new Custom Animated Presets feature lets you save and re-use every parameter animation in every BCC filter - even across host applications and platforms. For the first time, you can animate BCC filters in Adobe After Effects and transfer the animation to the Avid timeline while preserving After Effects keyframes. BCC 6 AVX includes hundreds of factory-installed animated presets. Animated presets are now saved in industry-standard XML format and can be edited by any XML-compliant text editor. Watch this video tutorial and learn more.
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Dirk de Jong |
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Boris FX
Creating Transitions with BCC 6 AE's Swish Pan Filter
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Editors use transitions as a way to cut between scenes, typically creating an animated effect such as a dissolve or blur at the end of the outgoing clip and the beginning of the incoming clip. While most modern NLE systems ship with standard wipe transitions, there are some transition styles that are more of an in-camera effect rather than a synthesized gradient wipe or block dissolve. One of these effects, known as a Swish Pan, is created by panning the camera very quickly in a 180 degree arc, creating the look of a fast blur between the outgoing and incoming clips. Continuing in the tradition of making visual effects easy to create, Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE now includes a Swish Pan transition filter which is available free for registered BCC 6 AE users. In this video tutorial, we'll use the new BCC 6 Swish Pan filter to transition between a pair of clips.
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Paul Ezzy |
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Boris FX
Create Extruded Text with Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE
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This new video tutorial shows you the basics of using BCC Extruded Text in Adobe After Effects. BCC Extruded Text belongs to the 3D Objects category of filters which is new to Boris Continuum Complete 6. These stunning OpenGL-based filters use vertex and pixel shaders that enable the generation of animated 3D shatter, bulge, bend, taper, twist, ripple, and wave effects. You can also create reflection or texture maps for the generated 3D text - from any image or video clip in the AE timeline.
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Paul Ezzy |
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Boris FX | Boris Continuum Complete AVX 5: Unleash Your Avid!
Emmy Award-winning editor Vivek Narayan takes a closer look at the latest version of Boris Continuum Complete, a comprehensive set of filters and effects for leading NLEs as well as After Effects. Although it works largely the same in all hosts, Vik digs deepest into BCC operating inside Avid. He finds that the 180 filters here more than give others a run for their money: it beats out some of the industry's favorites. See why he calls buying BCC AVX 5 a no-brainer.
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Vivek Narayan |
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Boris FX
Class on Demand: Complete Training for Boris Continuum Complete 4
Over the years, some of the most-used After Effects plug-ins on my computer have come from Boris. Recently, Boris Continuum Complete 4.0 came out. Hot on its heels was Class on Demand's latest training on Boris: "Complete Training for Boris Continuum Complete 4," --designed specifically to get people up to speed on those filters. In this article, CreativeCOW's Tim Johnson takes a look at the training and concludes that this training from Class on Demand is a solid training DVD with a couple of nice extras.
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Tim Johnson |
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