Significant New Features in FEC 5

FEC 5 takes full advantage of many technologies found in BORIS Continuum Complete. Features such as PixelChooser, Motion Tracker, Preset Loader and Online Documentation - hallmarks of BCC filters - are now included with FEC, too.

Final Effects Complete was the first filter set ever developed for Adobe After Effects in the early 1990s. Version 5 represents a major re-write by the Boris development team, preserving the unique looks of the package while improving performance and modernizing the UI. FEC 5 AE is fully compatible with all previous versions of Final Effects Complete released by Cycore, MetaCreations, and ICE.

New UI

The new modernized native parameter UI sports new control groups, contextual controls, on-screen widgets, custom controls and many other improvements. All parameter options are now readily available as native parameters without a need to open modal dialog windows.

16 Bit Rendering

FEC 5 includes both 8 and 16 bit filters for highest quality image processing.

MP Acceleration

All filters have been optimized from the original version to take full advantage of multi core and multi processor computing platforms. The overall speedup varies from filter to filter. These examples are based on a 3 second DV clip rendered in Adobe CS3:

FEC Mr. Mercury, tested on Power Mac Dual 2 GHz G5, 1 Gig RAM

FEC 4 - 24 sec.
FEC 5 - 18 sec.

FEC Smear, tested on Win XP, Pentium 4, 3.0 GHz, 2 Gig RAM

FEC 4 - 55 sec.
FEC 5 - 38 sec.

PixelChooser Technology

Most FEC 5 filters feature the award-winning Boris PixelChooser where appropriate. PixelChooser is an internal method of selectively applying the image processing to the image based on criteria defined by the user. The criteria may vary from color channel information to simple geometric shapes to spline-based masks available in After Effects. This method is superior to layer duplication and masking because it is more flexible and efficient. The mask can be applied to various stages of pre and post processing. The parts of the image not chosen by the mask remain untouched by the filter.

Multitude Of Standard Presets

As any BORIS product FEC 5 ships with over 800 pre-saved presets for quick new looks. Custom presets can be saved and shared between multiple workstations and even emailed to other users.

Extensive Filter Enhancements

FEC 5 AE adds new features and improvements to every one of the 108 filters in the set.

Highlights include:

Auto-animation in many of the transitions
Extensive new controls in FEC Hair such as the ability to generate curly hair instead of just straight hair as well as the ability to modulate the gravity direction across the image based on a gradient map
New FEC Bubbles controls for drift direction, particle randomness, and source texture mapping pinning. In addition, FEC Bubbles now includes a Deflector point to create regions with no bubbles.
Much better lighting controls in Mr Mercury, Blobblylize, Glue Gun, Glass, and Ball Action
Two new particle types in Particle Systems II - Advanced Sphere and Advanced Lens. These new particle types allow you to generate different looking spheres with more extensive lighting control.
New bend styles added to the FEC Bender menu

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