New Boris Continuum Complete 8 AE Features

Better Particles

BCC 8 AE includes several new filters based on a new, modernized BCC particle engine: Particle Emitter, Organic Strands, and Wild Cards. Targeted toward broadcast design and graphics creation, these filters significantly improve upon previously available particle filters.

The new BCC particle engine offers:

• Full 3D camera and lights
• Integration with AE's camera and lights
• Particle Emitter motion that follows an AE mask
• OpenGL rendering and lighting of real 3D objects
• Interaction with an AE 3D layer and particle generation from a 3D layer
• Complex color gradient controls and graph maps for size and opacity
• The ability to Spawn particles
• Image collection files
• The ability to mix and match various custom particle textures
• Various special effects, such as mirror mode and dispersion
• Wind, Sphere Warps, and Sink Points
• Fractal Noise field

Better Lens Flares

BCC Lens Flare 3D is BCC's next-generation lens flare tool featuring enhanced looks and integration with After Effects. Thanks to GPU optimization, the filter is blazingly fast while providing highly sought-after functionality.

Improvements include:

• Support for AE-native camera and lighting rigs
• Built-in 3D camera and lighting rigs for Adobe Premiere Pro
• Ability to automatically apply lens flares to user-defined AE native lights in the composition
• Ability to auto-generate lens flares based on luma values
• Ability to auto-generate lens flares that follow the contour of AE native masks
• Automated flicker feature for lens flare light source, using AE native or built-in lights
• Automated randomize feature to flicker light intensity values across multiple AE lights
• Automated shimmer feature for shimmering light rays
• Edge-trigger feature for boosting light intensity as it approaches and crosses the edge
• Sub-beam feature that generates Star Trek-style photon sci-fi flares
• Colored ring option
• Chroma hoop option
• Chroma fan option
• Lens caustics option
• Customizable lens surface textures with built-in looks
• Chromatic aberration option

Better Glows

The new BCC Film Glow effect includes a unique Crosstalk feature that blends the color of the glow with the image in a variety of ways, giving you the ability to generate looks that are not possible with other glow filters - a real game-changer for designers searching for new looks!

Better Lights

BCC's arsenal of lighting options has grown to include a new Stage Light filter that tightly integrates with AE's camera and lights and nicely complements AE's built-in lighting, providing a much-needed volumetric feel.

Unprecedented AE Integration

BCC 8 AE sets a new standard for AE integration, offering fast workflow and reducing your learning curve to virtually zero. BCC filters take full advantage of the excellent native 3D camera and light system that AE users depend on in their daily work. For path animations and image isolation tasks, BCC 8 filters import vector masks directly from AE layers. And for automated parameter animation, many BCC filters are now able to take advantage of audio data directly from AE audio tracks.

Better Image Restoration

Undesirable light flicker sometimes plagues irreplaceable camera shots. What can you do about it? BCC 8 AE comes to the rescue with a new Flicker Fixer tool that automatically solves the most challenging flickering light problems. Now footage so critical to your project becomes usable again!

New Videoscope Tool for AE

Full-featured and easy to use, the new BCC Videoscope filter means you no longer need to switch to a custom UI and deal with work-arounds to check color levels; the scopes are built right in to your Composite window! With vector scope and waveform monitors at your fingertips, you can be sure that you will never exceed legal color limits - while maintaining the overall integrity of your effects. A must-have for AE users!

8 New Filters

BCC 8 AE's eight new filters include enhanced lens flares, particles, glows, and lights as well as new flicker reduction and videoscope tools. Read an in-depth description on each new filter »