Friday, January 9, 2009
In this new podcast, we use Boris Continuum Complete's Rays Cartoon filter to generate a volumetric lighting effect on an animated text element. The BCC Rays Cartoon filter will also give the text the appearance of being made of neon lights. We'll complete the effect by using the BCC Light Sweep to add a light sweep across the face of the text element and then we'll use the BCC Colorize Glow filter to provide a soft glowing look.
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Labels: BCC-5, Boris-Podcast
Thursday, November 6, 2008
With more than 25 years of editing experience, the Dallas-based video post-production company, db Editorial, has cut every project - from commercials and music videos to feature films and episodic TV. db Editorial has two Avid Media Composer systems and relies heavily on Adobe After Effects for graphics compositing. The team selected this set-up after evaluating which tools could efficiently handle complex workflows. Being able to use the same graphic filter set in editing and compositing tools is a smart investment that makes the finishing process efficient and saves hours on each customer project...
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Labels: BCC-5, Boris-User-Story
Thursday, October 2, 2008
In this new tutorial, we will use Boris Continuum Complete's Lens Flare filter to generate a point light source and a lens flare effect that we will automatically track to the camera motion in the clip.
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Labels: BCC-5, BCC-Lens-Flare, Boris-Tutorial
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
We are pleased to roll out the Boris Continuum Complete "How Did They Do That?" tips and techniques contest. Participation in the contest is simple. Submit your favorite Boris Continuum Complete work with a short brief on how you used the BCC 5 filters to realize your project.
Submissions are judged based on your application of the BCC 5 filters and the style and final result of your piece. Contest winners receive great prizes including an iPod and Boris Gift Certificates. Entrees will be posted on www.borisfx.com where thousands of industry professionals visit daily.
Submission Dates and Deadlines
• We are now accepting submissions!
• Submission Deadline: October 17, 2008
• Winners will be announced in November 2008
• Go here to review the submission format brief
Prizes
• First Prize: iPod + $1,000 Boris Gift Certificate
• Second Prize: $500 Boris Gift Certificate
• Third Prize: $250 Boris Gift Certificate
Labels: BCC-5, Boris-Contest
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Quickly design and animate your own unique video backgrounds by combining Boris Continuum Complete 5's Prism filter with your favorite Apple Final Cut Pro Generator.
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Labels: BCC-5, BCC-Prism, Boris-Podcast
Monday, June 30, 2008
I have thought of myself as an artist (photographer, electronic musician, videographer, VJ, etc.) since I left graduate school (Ph. D, in Physics) in 1970. I have (like most artists) supported myself with day jobs. Since 1984, these jobs have involved making tools for artists to use - first as the founder and chief engineer of Doctor T's Music Software, a pioneering MIDI software company, and, more recently, with Boris FX. I've been a software engineer and visual effects designer with Boris since 1997.
I purchased Final Effects (directly from Sweden) when it first came out in 1995. I've been using Boris Continuum Complete (and its predecessors) since we started developing them during my first year with Boris. It has been a pleasure to work with both products as both artist and developer, and a special pleasure to add some new twists to old favorites such as FEC Kaledia and FEC Radial Scale Wipe...
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Labels: BCC-5, Boris-User-Story, FEC-5
Friday, June 20, 2008
In this tutorial, we will use BCC Rays Cartoon to generate a volumetric lighting effect on an animated text element; BCC Rays Cartoon will also give the text the appearance of being made of neon lights. Then, we will use BCC Light Sweep to add a light sweep across the face of the text. Finally, to complete the effect, we will use BCC Colorize Glow to provide a soft glowing look.
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Labels: BCC-5, Boris-Tutorial
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
There are several BCC 5 filters that were designed to produce the glow effect that is very popular for sports broadcast and commercial spots. In this new tutorial, we will use BCC 5 AE in Adobe After Effects CS3 to give you an overview of the BCC Glow, BCC Colorize Glow, and BCC Glow Alpha Edges filters. These same filters are available for Avid and Apple Final Cut Pro editors with a similar workflow using BCC 5 AVX and BCC 5 FxPlug. In addition, the glow filters are included with RED 4.2, Boris FX 9.2, and Graffiti 5.2.
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Labels: BCC-5, Boris-Tutorial
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Boris Continuum Complete 5 gives you four filters that when applied to video source clips can create the illusion that the clips originated on film as opposed to tape. Check out this new tutorial for an overview of using BCC Deinterlace, BCC Match Grain, BCC Film Process, and BCC Film Damage in Apple Final Cut Pro.
Labels: BCC-5, BCC-5-FxPlug, Boris-Tutorial
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Rev13 Films is a boutique post-production and production facility. Recently, the dynamic Montreal-based production company Rezolution Pictures International asked Rev13 Films to do the finishing for a high-octane, documentary-style car show they were producing called RezRides. They wanted a very powerful and engaging opener for the show. Creatively the producers wanted the feeling of light and movement, as if the cars were precious diamonds or metals that reflected, streaked and even emanated light. Rev13 Films turned to Boris Continuum Complete to create the lights, glows, and streaks...
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Labels: BCC-5, Boris-User-Story
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
New BCC 5 AE Tutorial includes 20 Free Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 Projects
Quickly design and animate your own unique video backgrounds by combining BCC 5 AE's new Prism filter with your favorite Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 generator.
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Don't own BCC 5 AE? Download the 14-day Trial Version!
Labels: BCC-5, BCC-5-Tutorial, BCC-Prism, Boris-Tutorial
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Here is an excerpt from the review:
"Boris Continuum Complete has become an indispensable tool for my post production workflow. A job is not 'complete' until it's been run through Continuum Complete. No matter what kind of job it is: from keying to motion tracking or grading to uprezing, Boris Continuum Complete has something for everyone."
Labels: BCC-5, Boris-Review
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
In part three of this tutorial series, we add text as a foreground element using Apple Final Cut Pro's Boris Calligraphy text engine. Then, to complete the effect, we treat the text with Boris Continuum Complete's Light Zoom filter. Read the tutorial
Review the entire tutorial series by checking out part one and part two.
Labels: BCC-5, BCC-5-Tutorial, Boris-Calligraphy, Boris-Tutorial
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Yes! There's really a Boris! And he really wrote this tutorial for you. It takes advantage of the free Boris FX title generators included with Final Cut Pro, with a little help from the Boris Continuum Complete 5 video effects plug-ins, for titling power you might not known you had available inside FCP. Read the Tutorial at Creative Cow
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Labels: BCC-5, BCC-LED, Boris-Calligraphy, Boris-Tutorial
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
In this week's tutorial, we illustrate how to create a green screen effect using the BCC Chroma Key filter. BCC Chroma Key is used for compositing camera footage shot using a blue, green, or orange screen as a backdrop over a new background video or a still image from a separate file. BCC Chroma Key and other keying and matte filters are included as part of Boris FX 9.1, Boris RED 4.1, and Boris Continuum Complete 5.
Pull a perfect key in minutes!
Labels: BCC-5, BCC-Chroma-Key, Boris-Tutorial
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
In a recent tutorial, we took a still image file of a world map, and used BCC LED to transform it into a wall of blinking LED lights. Then, we used BCC DVE to spin the image 50 degrees along the Y axis to place it at an angle to the viewer. To continue the effect, we'll take the same image and add a particle filter to make the lights appear as though they are being sprayed onto the wall, creating a blinking and glowing LED map over time.
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Labels: BCC-5, BCC-5-Tutorial, Boris-Tutorial
Monday, September 24, 2007
"Boris Continuum Complete 5 is an exceptional plug-in set for Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion, and I could go on for hours about all the effects and how great they are. The amount of thought that went into this plug-in set is obvious, and Boris is moving this plug-in set forward by leaps and bounds. Don't let the $895 price tag scare you away, as there are a few plug-ins in this set that if you were to buy separately, would almost cost you the same as BCC 5 itself. For all the users of Boris Continuum Complete who haven't upgraded to version five, what are you waiting for, and for everyone else, head on over to www.borisfx.com to download the free demo. You won't be disappointed."
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Labels: BCC-5, Boris-Review
Thursday, September 6, 2007
New Boris Continuum Complete 5 Tutorial includes 20 Free Apple Final Cut Pro 6 Projects
Quickly design and animate your own unique video backgrounds by combining BCC 5 FxPlug's new Prism filter with your favorite Apple Final Cut Pro Generator...
BCC 5's new Prism filter is typically used to simulate the photographic effect of chromatic aberration in which a bad lens can generate prismatic color fringing along edges of high contrast within an image. This filter is part of the new OpenGL category of BCC filters which benefit from hardware acceleration to reduce render time.
BCC Prism can also be applied to popular generators such as Clouds, Texture, Grid, Gradient, Membrane, and Particles to give them a completely new look. This special new filter can be used with generators from any BCC 5-supported host or even Boris' own generators, but we chose Apple Final Cut Pro 6 because we wanted to show you just how nicely BCC operates within Apple's new FxPlug architecture.
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Labels: BCC-5, BCC-5-Tutorial, BCC-Prism, Boris-Tutorial
Monday, August 27, 2007
Boris Continuum Complete 5's new LED filter is 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 seen in today's sports stadiums. By default, the lights take their color from the clip to which they are 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 is applied. BCC LED is a part of the new OpenGL category of Boris Continuum Complete filters which benefit from hardware acceleration; all of the processing is done by the graphics card GPU instead of the CPU, greatly improving performance while working with the filters and significantly reducing render times.
In this week's tutorial, we'll use Apple Final Cut Pro to generate an HD format show opener for a news program that incorporates a world map in the background. We will treat the world map image with Boris Continuum Complete 5's new LED filter to make it appear as though it was made out of LED bulbs. Read the tutorial
Labels: BCC-5, BCC-5-Tutorial, BCC-LED, Boris-Tutorial
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
This tutorial shows how to use the Pan and Zoom filter in the new BCC 5 release, which is designed to simplify documentary style pan and zoom techniques. Also known as the "Ken Burns" effect, BCC Pan and Zoom lets users easily import and control large still image files and transform, scale, and pan across the view screen over time.
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Labels: BCC-5, BCC-5-Tutorial, BCC-Pan-and-Zoom, Boris-Tutorial