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Contents

1 The Stats
2 Purchase plug-in
3 Download Demo
4 Feature Tour
5 Description
6 Features
7 List Of Filters
8 Support
9 Reviews

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The Stats

Developer: Boris FX, Inc
Version: 9.2 (Released December 21, 2007)
Platforms: Mac OSX.2.6, Mac OSX Leopard, Windows 2000, XP, Vista
Host Applications: Adobe After Effects CS3, Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 and 2, Apple Final Cut Pro 5.1-5.1.1 on Power PC, Avid Xpress, XpressDV, Xpress Pro 4+, Xpress Pro 5.0+ on Windows, AVX_1.5, Xpress Pro 4.8.x on Mac, Xpress Pro 4.0.x-4.6.x on Mac, Media Composer Adrenaline 1.0+ on Windows, AVX 1.5, Media Composer Adrenaline 2.5+ on Mac, AVX 1.5, Media Composer Adrenaline 1.0.x-1.6.x on Mac, Media Composer Adrenaline 1.8.x on Mac, Xpress/Newscutter DV 4.8+, Media Composer 11.8+, Symphony Nitris, Symphony for Win 3.5+, Symphony for Mac 4.5+, Newscutter Adrenaline FX 5.0+, Newscutter XP, Avid Liquid 7, Media 100 Media 100i 8.1, HD 10.0, and Version 11 systems, Sony Vegas 5-8 (see the Boris Product Matrix)
Number of filters: 100+
Compatibility with After Effects CS3, Mac Universal Binary, Microsoft Vista Compatibility and Mac OSX Leopard Compatibility

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Purchase plug-in

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Download Demo

Demo

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Feature Tour

FX Feature Tour

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Description

FX is the industry standard for integrated effects creation. It is a great value with realistic lighting, advanced keying and color correction, compositing, DVE, vector paint and support for third-party After Effects filters. Need an effect completed quickly? FX offers a Library Browser with hundreds of high-quality presets for easy application in over 20 NLEs. Core functionality includes; lighting, keying, color correction, vector paint and an award winning DVE - providing a complete compositing and effects workflow. The new Boris FX 9.2 release adds support for major operating systems Leopard (Apple OS X) and Vista (Microsoft) as well as extended Sony Vegas 8.0 and Adobe CS 3.0 host integration with full validation for the Intel-Mac versions of After Effects and Premiere Pro and After Effects for Windows Vista. Sophisticated vector paint and spline tools allow you to create animatable masks. More than 60 filters include motion tracking and image stabilization, as well as self-animating natural effects that easily interact with timeline video.

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Features

Support for Apple OS X Leopard and Windows Vista operating systems (9.2).

Host Support-Adobe CS 3 (Intel-Mac AE and Premiere Pro, Windows Vista AE), and Sony Vegas 8.0 (9.2).

Optimized features-Preview to Monitor (support Firewire / AJA video cards).

User Interface Improvements-Many new improvements have been made to the user interface of FX. User customizable quick key buttons in the timeline, new machine controls in the composite window, magnetic and sticky windows, a non-modal options palette and a tabbed interface for the Controls Window eases compositing and effects generation.

New electronic Help System-A brand new fully searchable electronic help reference system has been added to FX, meaning that you spend more time creating effects and less time figuring out how to do it.

All New BCC Filters With Custom Preset Manager-The original filter effects in FX have all been replaced with the more powerful filters from the Boris Continuum Complete package and the number of effects filters that ship with FX 9 has been increased to a total of 115. The list of filter effects includes blurs, particles, glows, distortions, volumetric lighting, film effects, keys and matting, and procedural generators such as snow, rain and clouds.

FEC Filters-Several filters from the Final Effects Complete package have been included with this latest release of FX. Use FEC Hair to make shapes appear to grow hair along the edges, or FEC Drizzle to make the image appear as though it was reflected in a puddle of rain. FEC Glass can be used to make an image appear to have been cut from glass. Generate kaleidoscope magic with FEC kaleida. Create organic dissolved with FEC Blobbylize.

Keyframe Effects Directly In The Composite Window-Now you can generated keyframed effects right within the composite window, without the need to see the master timeline. Select an element in the composite window by clicking on it and the keyframes associated with that object appear in the mini timeline included in the composite window. Keyframes can be added and directly manipulated right in the mini timeline.

Static Generator for Sony Vegas 7-Users of Sony vegas 7 will now be able to use FX as a static title generator, meaning less rendering and faster effects creation.

New Library Browser Templates from Effects Guru Steve Oakley-Industry effects guru Steve Oakley, a long time Boris advocate and digital effects compositor / editor, has contributed dozens of new keyframed effects which are included in the FX Library Browser.

16 Bit Color (host dependent)-16 Bit deep-color provides the user with the ability to generate smoother gradients and more precise color correction via an expanded color palette, which expands the available color gamut from 16 million in 8 bit color to trillions of colors. The result is that gradients are far less prone to mach banding or color stepping. 16 bit color in FX is host dependent and will only work in hosts that support this feature, such as Avid systems

Unlimited Layers of Media-FX includes the ability to create unlimited layers of media of any size, which can be used to generate complex composites using the many apply modes included on each layer. Multiple apply modes can be mixed to generate unique effects. Layers can be masked with the built-in pixelchooser matting and masking system or by adding spline based garbage mattes. The masking system in FX features both upstream and downstream masking, making this a very flexible compositing system.

Oversize Image Import for Pan and Scan-Import image based media of any size into your editing timeline using FX and animate the position and scale of the layer to create smooth pan and scan documentary style effects.

3D Shapes such as Cylinders, Spheres and Cubes-FX includes the ability to map generated text onto 3D objects such as cylinders, spheres and cubes. These objects can be manipulated in 3D space with controls for camera, lights and motion blur. Each of the objects has it's own unique features, such as the ability to disassemble a cube over time or unwrapping a cylinder or sphere over time. Create bouncing balls mapped with video, cylindrical video tunnels or spinning video cubes with ease and speed.

3D User Modifiable Spline Primitive Shapes-Several spline primitive shapes are included with FX and all of these shapes can be filled, stroked or even extruded into 3D objects. The extruded objects can also be reflection, texture and bump mapped for added realism. Every aspect of the shapes can be modified by the user; points can be added, deleted or manipulated just like any other bezier spline shape.

Gradient and Procedural Media Generator-Included in FX is a procedural media generator that is capable of generating smooth gradients with options for linear, contour, bevel, edge and revolve gradient styles. Every parameter of the gradient can be animated, including the gradient color and stops.

Motion Blur-Motion blur is built into every shape track in FX and is used to add a photo-real touch to animated objects. Motion blur can also be used on animated masks to match the natural motion blur recorded by the camera.

Audio Import with Scrubbable Waveform-Video composites are more often than not accompanied by audio sound cues like a pop or splash. FX enables users to import scratch audio tracks and the visual cues from the waveform monitor in the timeline helps users to synchronize the video effect with the imported audio track. The audio track can be played with the effect preview and the timeline waveform can be scrubbed to ensure correct synchronization of the audio and video.

Vector Paint System-The vector paint system in FX can be used to generate 2D geometric shapes which can be used as a graphic element in your composition or as part of a mask track. The style palette can be used to apply beveled edges to filled or stroked paint. The motion tracker can be used to automatically lock the position of a paint stroke to moving objects in the image clip.

Volumetric Lighting Filters-Use one of the many included lighting filters in FX to simulate volumetric lighting in which objects appear to be in a scene with hazy air, dust, smoke, steam, mist or fog. Several filters in FX specialize in creating different volumetric lighting effects, such as textured or puffy light.

16 Bit Color (host dependant) -16 Bit deep-color provides the user with the ability to generate smoother gradients and more precise color correction via an expanded color palette, which expands the available color gamut from 16 million in 8 bit color to trillions of colors. The result is that gradients are far less prone to mach banding or color stepping. 16 bit color in FX is host dependent and will only work in hosts that support this feature, such as Avid systems.

Motion Tracking, Stabilization and Corner Pinning-FX includes tools such as 4 point motion tracking with sub-pixel accuracy, 2 point image stabilization and 4 point corner pinning. The motion tracker can track an object over time and then apply the recovered motion to a second object, such as paint, to lock the movement of the paint to the motion of the object in the clip. Image stabilization is used to remove unwanted camera shake from a clip and the corner pinning function enables the user to accurately and easily pin one image clip to another image clip with perspective distortion.

Support for 3rd Party AE Plug-in Filters-Most filters 3rd party After Effects filters can be used in FX, and thereby the editing system into which FX is plugged into making it easy to use some of your favorite AE filters in the host editing environment. A complete list of the supported filters is available on the support section of the BorisFX web site.

Over 115 Filter Effects Including Several FEC Filters-FX ships with over 115 distinct filter effects from the Continuum Complete product. Also included are many filter effects from the Final Effects Complete product. Each of the included filter effects has a built-in preset manager, which can be used to load any of the 1000 + filter presets designed to ease effects creation. The preset manager can also be used to save out custom favorite filter effects settings, which can be shared across networked environments. Each filter also includes the pixelchooser masking and matting system and a built-in motion tracker.

Hardware Accelerated OpenGL Previews-FX takes advantage of the built-in OpenGl libraries included with most video cards to accelerate the preview of effects on screen. Although the level of !OpenGl support does not extend to rendered output files, this feature speeds compositing and effects generation making on-screen previews immediate, especially useful when dealing with 3D elements.

Library Browser with Hundreds of Preset Animations-The built-in Library Browser contains hundreds of preset compositions, all of which are user modifiable. Categories include animated shapes, filters and complex composites with PIP effects and 3D shapes. Users can save customized composition settings into the Library Browser for future retrieval and use on other projects.

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List Of Filters

Color and Blurs Filters
- bcc artist's poster
- bcc blur
- bcc boost blend
- bcc brightness contrast
- bcc color balance
- bcc color choker
- bcc color correction
- bcc color match
- bcc color palette
- bcc colorize
- bcc correct selected color
- bcc directional blur
- bcc gaussian blur
- bcc hue-saturation-lightness
- bcc invert solarize
- bcc levels gamma
- bcc motion blur
- bcc multitone mix
- bcc posterize
- bcc pyramid blur
- bcc radial blur
- bcc safe colors
- bcc shift channels
- bcc spiral blur
- bcc tritone
- bcc unsharp mask

Distortion & Perspective Filters
- bcc 2D particles
- bcc 3D image shatter
- bcc bulge
- bcc corner pin
- bcc displacement map
- bcc edge bevel
- bcc fast flipper
- bcc polar displacement
- bcc ripple
- bcc turbulence
- bcc twirl
- bcc vector displacement
- bcc wave

Effects Filters
- bcc alpha pixel noise
- bcc alpha spotlight
- bcc burnt film
- bcc cartooner
- bcc colorize glow
- bcc deinterlace
- bcc denoise
- bcc drop shadow
- bcc dust and scratches
- bcc glow
- bcc glow alpha edges
- bcc halftone
- bcc median
- bcc misalignment
- bcc mosiac
- bcc multi shadow
- bcc noise map
- bcc noise map 2
- bcc rgb edges
- bcc rgb pixel noise
- bcc rough glow
- bcc scatterize
- bcc spotlight
- bcc spray paint noise
- bcc witness protection

Final Effects Complete Filters
- blobbylize
- drizzle
- glass
- hair
- kaleida

Generators Filters
- bcc bump map
- bcc caustics
- clouds
- bcc comet
- bcc fire
- bcc fractal noise
- bcc noise map
- bcc noise map 2
- bcc particle system
- bcc noise map
- bcc noise map 2
- bcc particle system
- bcc sparks
- bcc stars

Keys and Matte Filters
- bcc alpha process
- bcc chroma key
- bcc compostie choker
- bcc glow matte
- bcc light matte
- bcc light wrap
- bcc linear color key
- bcc linear luma key
- bcc make alpha key
- bcc matte choker
- bcc matte clean up
- bcc star matte
- bcc two way key

Light Filters
- bcc edge lighting
- bcc light sweep
- bcc light zoom
- bcc rays cartoon
- bcc rays puffy
- bcc rays radiant edges
- bcc rays radiant spotlight
- bcc rays ring
- bcc rays ripply
- bcc rays streaky
- bcc rays textured
- bcc rays wedge
- bcc reverse spotlight