The sales have been going so exceptionally well we just don't want to quit!
The Boris Continuum Chroma Key plug-in, which is one of the new Continuum units, will be half price through midnight EST, Tuesday, September 30.
The Digieffects Aurorix / Berserk / Delirium Bundle that usually sells for $599 is for sale for a mind-blowing $99! These are flying off the virtual shelves. Don't miss out on this fantastic offer. It will be gone with September. (Also expires midnight EST, Tuesday, September 30).
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Customers who own Boris Continuum Complete 5 AE, Final Effects Complete 5 AE, Boris RED 4.x, Boris FX 9.x, Boris Graffiti 5.x., or any Boris Continuum Unit will be eligible to receive free updates to Adobe CS4-compatible versions of their plug-ins. Free updates, if necessary, would be released following Adobe's CS4 release.
Boris Continuum Chroma Key automates creation of precise keys with a minimal amount of adjustment. In addition to the award-winning BCC Chroma Key filter, complete with Spill Suppression, this Unit includes a Light Wrap tool for -looking composites, Color Match and Grain Match tools for seamless foreground composites, and a Matte Choker tool for cleaning up challenging keys.
Boris Continuum Chroma Key is on sale for $149.50 USD until September 29th at 11:59pm EDT. The regular price is $299 USD. Boris Continuum Chroma Key supports Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Apple Motion. For Avid systems, Chroma Key is included as part of Boris Continuum Complete AVX.
Boris Continuum Chroma Key automates creation of precise keys with a minimal amount of adjustment. In addition to the award-winning BCC Chroma Key filter, complete with Spill Suppression, this Unit includes a Light Wrap tool for -looking composites, Color Match and Grain Match tools for seamless foreground composites, and a Matte Choker tool for cleaning up challenging keys.
Submit your best BCC "Tips and Techniques" and win fantastic prizes!
Boris is rolling 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.
The new Boris Continuum Units family of visual effects plug-ins lets you choose toolsets from the award-winning Boris Continuum Complete plug-in suite that are geared towards your specific needs. Available now:
Each Unit seamlessly integrates with Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Apple Motion. If you buy a Boris Continuum Unit, you may later credit the price of the Unit towards the purchase of the full Boris Continuum Complete plug-in suite.
BCC 5's UpRez, Pan and Zoom, and Chroma Key Modules Now Available Separately
Marlborough MA - August 13, 2008 - Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced the availability of its new Boris Continuum Units family of visual effects plug-ins.
The first three Units are available immediately: Pan and Zoom for easy, documentary-style animation, UpRez for instant, high-quality resizing of image clips from SD to HD, and Chroma Key for pulling fast, precise keys.
Boris Continuum Pan and Zoom: Pan and Zoom makes easy work of documentary-style Pan and Zoom techniques made popular by Ken Burns' documentaries. The filter includes a convenient setup mode offering on-screen controls for the size and position of the zoom region, along with the anchor point and a preview area that shows a rendering of the final result. Both manual keyframing and automated workflows are supported. The Pan and Zoom Unit offers advanced image sampling techniques with edge detection for smooth animation and highest-quality image detail.
Boris Continuum UpRez: UpRez is specially designed for conversion of SD footage to higher-resolution HD formats. The UpRez filter employs sophisticated image sampling techniques with edge detection, providing a final result that cannot be achieved by scaling and standard post-processing methods. This Unit also includes an Optical-flow based Deinterlace filter for converting interlaced SD material to progressive scan format.
Boris Continuum Chroma Key: The Chroma Key Unit automates creation of precise keys with a minimal amount of adjustment. In addition to the award-winning BCC Chroma Key filter, complete with Spill Suppression, this Unit includes a Light Wrap tool for the most natural-looking composites, Color Match and Grain Match tools for seamless foreground composites, and a Matte Choker tool for cleaning up the most challenging keys.
"Widely adopted by broadcasters, post-production facilities, corporations, and universities, Boris Continuum Complete 5 has emerged as the leading visual effects plug-in suite for editors and compositors using Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Avid editing and compositing applications," comments Boris Yamnitsky, president and founder, Boris FX.
He adds, "Our new Boris Continuum Units product family facilitates even broader access to Boris Continuum Complete's award-winning filters by allowing customers to choose tools specific to their needs. From keys and mattes to glows and film effects, our new Boris Continuum Units give editors and compositors professional toolsets at an affordable price."
Each Boris Continuum Unit is compatible with Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Apple Motion. The Pan and Zoom, UpRez, and Chroma Key Units are available for immediate purchase via download from www.BorisFX.com and from authorized Boris FX resellers.
Founded in 1995 in Boston MA, Boris FX is the leading developer of integrated graphics and effects technology, delivering 3D compositing and vector graphic products for the broadcast, post production, film and multimedia industries. Since the company's inception, Boris products have grown to serve over 200,000 artists worldwide. A great part of its success lies in the ability to tightly integrate and leverage technologies through strong partnerships with industry-leading manufacturers including Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Avid, Eyeon, Grass Valley, Media 100, Sony , and Ulead. For more information, visit www.borisfx.com.
Boris Blue 2.5.1 is now available with support for Windows Vista and new NVIDIA & ATI drivers that are qualified by Avid & Adobe! In addition, we are pleased to announce new pricing-
If you already use Boris Graffiti, Boris RED, or Avid FX, then you'll love Boris Blue. With Blue, you'll get...
Much more speed for previewing effects and rendering effects. Boris Blue uses NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards for accelerated GPU rendering and preview. If you regularly create animated 3D titles in Boris Graffiti, Boris RED, or Avid FX, then upgrade to Blue and enjoy screaming-fast effects setup and rendering.
Much more sophisticated 3D looks because it has more advanced 3D lighting, more advanced materials for 3D surfaces, true 3D shape deformers for all shapes, and custom bevels and extrusion faces.
Fast, powerful 3D Particle Emitters for realistic simulation of smoke, fire, and sparks.
The ability to import 3D model files such as .3ds (3ds Max) and .obj (Maya) geometry files, preserving individual geometry groups and maintaining editable texture and bump maps. This gives you access to an infinite number of new 3D shapes for your Boris Blue 3D effects.
Advanced 3D Camera features including the ability to animate a camera along a bezier path. Have a camera stay focused on a specific 3D point or track another 3D object as its target while moving through 3D space.
Better interface tools for composing 3D effects. The Boris Blue Composite Window offers split views for simultaneously viewing and adjusting your 3D scene from multiple perspectives. Blue also gives you improved 3D interactors for better manipulating objects in 3D space.
Boris Blue is available as a plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe After Effects CS3, and Avid editing and finishing systems on Windows. Blue may also be used as a standalone application.
Save money on pre-made video backgrounds! 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.
Toolfarm is hosting the Boris BCC Rays Cartoon Plugin! For a limited time, we're offering a free, fully-licensed plug-in from Boris Continuum Complete 5 - Rays Cartoon.
Tutorial: BCC Rays Cartoon for Adobe After Effects CS3 and FxPlug (Final Cut Pro/Motion) - Use the BCC Rays Cartoon in Adobe After Effects CS3 or Final Cut Pro and Motion to generate a volumetric lighting effect on an animated text element.
*If you download the BCC Rays Cartoon plug-in, your information will be shared with Boris FX. Normally we do not share any of this information with any of our vendors or anyone else, but in this case, we've made an exception, so we can bring this free plug-in to you. With any other download, your email will not be shared with anyone.
Version 5.3 turns Boris Graffiti into a powerful, template-based text generator. The new specialized Library Browser Mode lets you select and edit saved templates without opening the full Graffiti effects creation user interface. Quickly add text slates and animations within your NLE timeline.
Check out the new tutorial for more information about Graffiti 5.3's new template-based text generation.
Boris Graffiti 5.3 additionally includes a modernized keyframe library. Most effects templates have been improved any many new templates have been added. If you upgrade to Graffiti 5.3 from a previous version of Graffiti, you will be able to override your old keyframe library or use the new library side-by-side with the old library.
Intel Mac customers moving to Graffiti 5.3 will enjoy a significant performance boost.
Boris Final Effects Complete has been added to the Boris Motion Graphics Pack, which also includes Boris RED and Boris Continuum Complete. The best part? The price is the same!
I was invited to the June Motion Picture Collective Meeting on plug-ins. It was held at Pratt Institute in New York City.
I got there about 45 minutes early and there was no one there! After about 30 minutes I started to worry that I came to the wrong place. As I was walking around I ran into Wes Plate of Automatic Duck. We chatted for a bit and then people started to roll in.
The pizza, sponsored by Sony, was incredible. Seriously, some of the best I've ever had. I had some veggie concoction, but Michael Vitti, head of MoPic Collective told me they also had some Cajun Shrimp pizza, but they only ordered one pie. Sounds fantastic!
The meeting started with an introduction and then Frank Garfi and Marc Fratto talked about their film Zombies Anonymous. Two words: Gratuitous violence. Their talk was pretty interesting though. They've taken the zombie story and flipped it around, making it a statement about how Arabs were treated after 9-11.
After that, Juan Martinez and Andrew Shipsides talked about Sony's EX Cameras.
Wes Plate from Automatic Duck came up and presented his products. Since there were so many editors in the audience, there was a lot of interest in his FCP products, especially.
My turn. Right before the show began, we were told we have an extra 15 minutes to fill. My presentation was planned to be exactly 20 minutes! Haha. I began asking the audience some questions about editing technique vs. software knowledge and then talked about Toolfarm. I presented Boris Continuum Complete and as usual, people are blown away by the Motion Key filter. I also had quite a bit of interest in the BCC Pan & Zoom filter which gives the Ken Burns style effect. I had a bit of time at the end, so I quickly showed Red Giant's Primatte Keyer, since keying seems to be a hot topic lately.
Next Michael Vitti showed Zaxwerks ProAnimator, then Jason Diamond showed Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks, which is always a crowd pleaser. I can't help but think that Zombies Anonymous could have benefited from a touch of Looks! Jason did a great job of presenting Looks and demo'd with some footage from a music video he had recently finished.
They also had an auction that night with tons of stuff.
Anyway, it was a good meeting and it was fun to get to New York City again. Thanks Michael Vitti for the invitation and the shirt. I love free shirts! It was great to see everyone in NYC, especially my old buddy Jim G. of the Toolfarm Expert Forum and Chris Tack, one of my former students who headed out to NYC after graduation. I also met quite a few new people from the NYC area. I saw Mario Lopez at a hot dog stand too! He's buff!
For a limited time, Boris offering a free, fully-licensed plug-in from Boris Continuum Complete 5 - Rays Cartoon, an innovative filter that creates light out of the user-defined 'cartoon edges' of an image. BCC Rays Cartoon is available for Adobe CS3, Apple Final Cut Studio 2, and Avid.
Download Rays Cartoon now! This free filter offer expires July 1, 2008.
Tutorial: Generate a Volumetric Light Effect
In this tutorial, we will use BCC Rays Cartoon to generate a volumetric lighting effect on an animated text element; BCC Rays Carton 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.
Those who like making subtitles raise your hand! Adding subtitles to your project may prove daunting, time-consuming, and error-prone. However, subtitle work is much easier if you have a copy of Boris RED 4.3 in your toolbox. RED is a very capable text creation tool that provides a rich environment for static lower-thirds - the common way of treating subtitles. But how do you make hundreds of lower-thirds without going mad? Follow the easy steps in this tutorial to generate any number of subtitles automatically...
Boris RED 4.3 is now available, and is a free update for Boris RED 4.x Users.
Highlights include:
Adobe Encore Subtitle Format Support. This new support gives RED users a text-based format for import.
Improved Template Mode in Boris RED's Effects Library Browser. New buttons simplify the workflow for choosing and applying presets. In addition, title preset text can now be directly edited in the Library Browser.
Come meet me at the Motion Picture Collective NYC's meeting this Thursday, June 12. I'll be presenting Boris Continuum Complete and possibly Boris Final Effects Complete at Pratt Manhattan, 2nd floor.
Thursday, 12 June 2008, 6:00-8:30pm at Pratt Manhattan, 2nd floor. Google Map
Seating is limited to first come, first serve, but the meeting is open to members, subscribers and their friends, so please join us.
Yep, that's right. I'll be at the Motion Picture Collective meeting demoing Boris Continuum Complete and maybe Boris Final Effects Complete if there is time.
From the MPC newsletter:
Toolfarm has been taking a proactive community approach to EFX for a while now with the Plugged-In podcasts, the Experts Forums and their great compendium of plug-ins & software. Michele is the VP of Marketing for Toolfarm and is hence responsible for the awesome, 50% off One Day Sales (I keep missing). If not for the pizza or the auction, you must make it a point to meet the Software Diva, the Effects Dignitary, Michele Y and her Boris FX demo.
Oh, they flatter me. I'm certainly can't take credit for the One Day Sales. Effects Dignitary.... I like that. Has a nice ring to it. :-)
The Moving Pictures Collective NYC's June '08 is scheduled for Thursday, 12 June 2008, 6pm-8:30pm at Pratt Manhattan, 2nd floor.
They have a full card this evening with a bunch of great plug-in developers and Sony's EX-3. The meeting will start promptly at 6:00pm with pizza. Seating is limited to first come, first serve, but the meeting is open to members, subscribers and their friends, so please join us.
Pratt's Manhattan campus is located at 144 West 14th St between 6th and 7th Avenues on the south side of the street. Best train stations are Union Square (4/5/6, Q/W + N/R), 1/2/3 at 14th St (7th Ave), the F/V or L at 14th Street (6th Ave) or the A/C/E at 14th Street (8th Ave). Google Map.
Did you know that your video editing software includes a powerful paint system capable of creating colored glowing light strokes? But only if you run Boris RED or Avid FX as a plug-in. In this week's tutorial, we show you how to "draw with light" over any background video using Boris RED as a plug-in to your NLE...
Major update to the popular visual effects package for Autodesk Advanced Compositing and Finishing Systems adds 13 new filters
Marlborough MA - May 22, 2008 - Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that Boris Continuum Complete 5 for Autodesk Sparks (BCC 5 Sparks) is now available. Version 5 feature highlights include a new Optical Flow-based Motion Key for foreground object removal, Optical Stabilizer for smooth image stabilization, and a range of other new effects. OS and host support extends to the latest version of Linux and the 2009 lineup of Autodesk compositing and finishing systems: Flint, Flame, Inferno, and Smoke, including Burn network rendering. The BCC 5 Sparks package contains a total of 145 filters including the popular Glint, Glitter, and Glare series, Lens Flare, Film Process, Film Damage, Particle Systems, Volumetric Lighting Rays, and Wipe effects.
"The new Autodesk Sparks update of the popular BCC package will save our customers time and money by automating tedious frame-by-frame rotoscoping jobs with Optical Flow technology," comments Boris Yamnitsky, founder and president, Boris FX. "Many new effects and workflow suggestions came straight from our user forums as well as Autodesk's customer base."
Boris Continuum Complete is the only plug-in suite that allows users to swap filter presets with other BCC host applications regardless of the manufacturer or model. This streamlined workflow allows editors to copy effects from offline to finish and vice versa. Additionally, the new BCC Sparks release includes over 1,500 preset effects, further accelerating effects production workflow.
New BCC 5 Sparks Filters:
Motion Key - remove moving foreground objects based on the motion vector field automatically generated by the filter.
Extruded Image Shatter - break up an image into extruded shards flying in 3D space.
LED - transform a movie clip or text layer as if it was displayed on an array of blinking LED (Light Emitting Diode) lights.
Prism - simulate the photographic effect of chromatic aberration for artistic effects or auto-generated backgrounds.
Damaged TV - emulate the look of a badly-tuned or broken analog CRT television screen.
Scanline - create rolling RGB scanlines over the source image - for example, as if a computer monitor is shot by a video camera.
Optical Stabilizer - automatically lock a hand-held shot without having to set up tracking points.
Color Choker - Posterize and blur color channels to achieve creative and artistic looks.
BCC Cube - create a six-sided cube with your choice of media and transparency for each side.
BCC Turbulence - create gel-like distortion fields using noise map and turbulence controls.
Half-Tone - simulate the look of a newspaper print in grayscale or color.
Light Wrap - reflect the background layer in the foreground composite.
Pricing and Availability
BCC 5 Sparks is immediately available through the Boris FX worldwide reseller channel and direct from the Boris FX web site at www.borisfx.com for an MSRP of $2495.00 for new licenses and $695.00 for upgrades. Users can test-drive BCC 5 Sparks by downloading a 60-day Trial Version from the Boris FX web site.
What is the oldest text animation effect in film history? You guessed right: the credit roll. Traditionally, a long page of text is rolled from the bottom of the screen revealing line after line. In the early days of cinematography, a paper print was physically rolled before the film camera to produce this effect. Hence the name: Credit Roll.
A complete set of tools for creating credit rolls is included with Boris Graffiti, Boris RED, and Boris Blue. The same functionality is available in Boris Calligraphy which is bundled with Apple Final Cut Pro and Apple Final Cut Express and Boris Title Toolkit which is available for Adobe After Effects.
Final Effects Complete 5.0.1 AE is now available. In addition to Adobe After Effects, version 5.0.1 supports Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 as well as Boris RED 4.x.
100+ Legendary Filters for Avid editing and finishing systems
Final Effects Complete 5 AVX brings Ball Action, Mr. Mercury, and 100+ other legendary visual effects to Avid editing and finishing systems as an AVX 2.0 plug-in set. Supporting both Windows and Macintosh (Universal Binary), the new FEC 5 AVX takes full advantage of AVX 2.0's power and performance. New features include support for 16 bit-color processing, AVX 2.0 real-time filters, native on-screen controls, multi-processor acceleration, a number of new wipe transition filters, and hundreds of factory-installed presets.
Boris FX Ships Final Effects Complete 5.0 for Avid AVX
New version of Final Effects Complete now available for Avid editing and finishing systems supporting the AVX plug-in format
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that Final Effects Complete 5.0 for AVX (FEC 5 AVX) is now shipping. This is the third release in the FEC product family that also included FEC 5.0 for AE (shipping since February 2008) and FEC 5.0 for FxPlug (shipping since March 2008). FEC 5 AVX adds support for Avid editing and finishing systems based on Avid's proprietary AVX 2.0 plug-in interface running on Mac and Windows platforms.
"Final Effects Complete has been a long-time favorite of Avid editors, affording organic looks and increasing the production value of many high profile projects," comments Boris Yamnitsky, founder and president, Boris FX. "This latest release breathes new life into the legendary Final Effects Complete package with all of the modern amenities of AVX 2 as well as features transplanted from FEC's sibling - BCC 5 AVX."
Final Effects Complete 5 for AVX is an update to FEC 4 AVX. FEC 5 AVX adds new support for 16 bit-color processing, AVX 2 real-time (RT) filters, native on-screen controls, multi-processor acceleration, Universal Binary support on Macintosh, and several new wipe transition filters. Hundreds of factory-installed presets provide quick starting points for new effects.
FEC 5 AVX is fully compatible with FEC 5 AE for Adobe After Effects and FEC 5 FxPlug for Apple Final Cut Studio. Individual filter presets can be saved and loaded across all NLEs and platforms for seamless, open-architecture workflow.
New FEC 5 AVX filters include:
Blur Dissolve: organic blur transition with apply modes and glows
Lens Wipe: zoom in with a lens effect
Rain Wipe: transitions using rain drops to wipe image
Griddler Wipe: zoom in with a griddler effect
Pin Wipe: transition with a 4 corner pin effect
Slant Wipe: transition with a slant effect
Spherize Wipe: spherize and undistort to complete transition
Universal Binary: supports Intel and PowerPC Macintosh computers
Supports Avid's Advanced Keyframing Mode
EZ Parameter display mode: view most commonly used parameters
Smart Parameter mode: view modified parameters only
Multi-processor acceleration boosts production speed
Boris Motion Tracker and PixelChooser borrowed from BCC allow users to selectively apply filters to specific areas of the image, greatly extending the compositing power of Avid editors.
New FEC 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.
Load and Save Presets feature allows users to exchange effects on all supported hosts on Windows or Macintosh.
The built-in Electronic Help system provides comprehensive information to maximize productivity.
Pricing and Availability
FEC 5 AVX is available today through the Boris FX worldwide reseller channel and direct from www.borisfx.com for an MSRP of $895.00 new or an upgrade price of $295.00 for existing FEC AVX users. FEC 5 AVX is also available as part of the Boris Box Set (Windows Bundle, Mac Bundle) which includes all Boris products for an MSRP of $1995.
After that, Juan Martinez and Andrew Shipsides talked about Sony's EX Cameras.
Next Michael Vitti showed 
