Video Effects Plug-ins for Adobe After Effects
Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE brings nearly 200 filters to Macintosh and Windows versions of Adobe CS3 and CS4. This new release features 15 new filters including Extruded Text, Extruded Spline, Type-On Text, Layer Deformer, Smooth Tone, DV Fixer, and Pixel Fixer. In addition, BCC 6 AE delivers unique workflow enhancements such as support for After Effects’ Camera and Lighting System, the ability to import After Effects mask paths into BCC 6 AE filters, saving and loading of XML-based animated presets, a single-click custom preset navigation tool, and motion tracking data import and export.
| Key Features for After Effects Users |
- New BCC 3D Objects category of 3D OpenGL extruded text generators
- New "digital repair"-style filters such as Smooth Tone, DV Fixer, and Pixel Fixer
- Over 2000 factory-installed animated presets
- Over 1500 factory-installed static presets
- XML preset format means presets can be modified with a standard text editor
- New single-click custom-preset navigation tool eases effect selection
- OpenGL hardware-accelerated vertex and pixel shaders
- Support for After Effects' camera and lighting system
- Generate 3D extruded shapes from imported AE spline path mask shapes
- Localize filter results using imported AE spline path mask shapes or built-in PixelChooser system
- Motion Tracking data import and export
- Volumetric lighting effects and Glows
- Specular lighting special effects such as Glint, Glare, Glitter
- Compositing tools such as Light Wrap and Matte Choker
- Natural effect generators such as Snow, Rain, Fire, Stars
- Motion Key for automated foreground object removal
- Film Look effects such as Bleach Bypass, Damaged Film, and Grain Match
- Optical Flow-based image retiming and motion blur effects
- Automated optical image stabilization without the use of point trackers
- Onscreen controls for easy parameter set-up
- 16-bit deep-color pixel processing
- OpenGL hardware-accelerated rendering
- Multi-core performance
