Continuum Complete Tutorials for Avid

Creating Glow Effects

In this tutorial, we will use BCC AVX 5 in Avid Media Composer to give you an overview of the BCC Glow, BCC Colorize Glow, and BCC Glow Alpha Edges filters.

Working with the Optical Stabilizer Filter

The BCC Optical Stabilizer filter stabilizes shaky footage, using optical flow technology. Unlike many stabilizing tools, the BCC Optical Stabilizer doesn't require you to define a tracking point. In addition, the Optical Stabilizer can take panning, zooming and rotation into account during the analysis.

Corner Pin Compositing Inside Avid

This tutorial introduces the Corner Pin filter in BCC AVX. Several of the Corner Pin Tracker's powerful features are combined with other BCC AVX filters to create a realistic composite. This compositing primer places emphasis on workflow and techniques.

Working with the BCC AVX Motion Key Filter

In this tutorial, you will use the BCC Motion Key filter to successfully remove a moving foreground object from a clip. In this particular case, the moving object that you want to remove is the silver car.

Working with the BCC AVX Corner Pin Filter

The Corner Pin filter is similar to the integrated motion tracker except that four trackers follow four separate points. You assign media whose corners follow the four trackers, distorting as necessary. You can complete this tutorial using your own media or download the QuickTime movies that we used.

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Creating Precise Keys in Continuum Complete AVX

Continuum Complete and Continuum Complete AVX include native filters to create precise keys. This tutorial combines multiple filters to solve some complex (but common) keying issues. Although the tutorial uses four filters, BCC Chroma Key, BCC Matte Choker, BCC Color Balance and BCC Light Wrap, you can quickly create accurate keys. This is true even with difficult-to-key DV footage.

Applying Multiple Filters to Avid Titles

The Apply to Title option is one of the most compelling integration features of BCC AVX. Applying an effect to an Avid Title or Matte Key without affecting the background video is as simple as clicking a single button. You can also apply multiple filters to the same title.