2024.5 Boris FX Continuum FCP Unit: Beauty Essentials

OS Requirements

• macOS 12.6+, 13.x, 14.x (up to OS version at time of Continuum release and as appropriate for the host version in use).

Recommended Hardware

• Apple M1 or M2 (Standard, Pro, Max and Ultra)
  
• Intel or AMD CPU with four or more cores

Memory

• 8 GB minimum, 16+ GB preferred
• Storage: High-speed disk array or SSD storage

Host compatibility

• Final Cut Pro 10.6.6, 10.6.7, 10.6.8, 10.6.9, 10.6.10, 10.7, 10.7.1
• Motion 5.6.4, 5.6.5, 5.6.6, 5.6.7, 5.7

Additional Hardware and OS Requirements

• On macOS the Machine Learning (ML) filter requires macOS 12 (Monterey) or higher

What’s new in Continuum FCP 2024.5

BCC+ Witness Protection ML

• Automatic ML face detection with multiple effect combinations for obscuring identity

BCC+ Color Link

• Link color values from one clip to another for motion graphics, compositing, and editorial shot color matching.

BCC+ Denoise ML – New Fast Models

• Newly trained models yield twice the render performance over the previously shipping version of the BCC+ Denoiser ML filter and even bigger gains in UI refresh speeds when scrubbing

BCC+ Polar Warp

• Warp into a circular shape with options for swirling and looping tunnel animations.

BCC+ Mosaic

• Pixelate the source clip to achieve a variety of mosaic effects

BCC+ Mosaic Dissolve

• Auto-animating transition that pixelates the outgoing and incoming shots over the transition dissolve with options for prismatic and color blur effects

BCC+ Spill Remover

• Drag and drop simple and easy to use effect that instantly eliminates any spill from the red, green or blue screen background of a keyed foreground shot

BCC+ Light Wrap

• Blend the background layer or a user specified solid color over the edges of keyed foreground shots or motion graphics elements for more realistic composites

BCC+ Linear Luma Key

• Quickly and easily generate an alpha channel key from the image luminance

BCC+ FX Editor Enhancements

• Faster playback, new render cache, and playback looping controls
• A/B split/comparison views – Separate view menus control what is shown on each side of the comparison

Compare Mode option for BCC+ Effects

• All BCC+ effects now include the host side Compare Mode option

Mocha Enhancements – Update to 2024 version of Mocha

• GPU Accuracy: Improved accuracy in GPU accelerated tracking
• Skip Frames: Skip over problem frames using the skip function
• Step Frames: Set a track step for stop motion animation
• Hold keyframes: Set linear or constant keyframes for more control over stepped motion
• Extrapolate Track: Predict motion in future problem frames by extrapolating from previous frames
• Zoom to Selected: New option to zoom to fit selected splines in view
• General Bug fixes

Miscellaneous Enhancements

• 3D Transform options in BCC+ Transform, with 3D-aware versions of widgets
• BCC+ Lens Flare – New Occlusion Softness control
• BCC+ Lens Flare render speed enhancements
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – New Angle Speed and Radius Offset Speed params for keyframe-free animation.
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – Two new controls in Pre Transform group: Edge Mode and Camera Z
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – Polar Warp option – Eliminate swirling radius boundary – extends to outer edge of image now, permitting more options for seamless animated backgrounds.
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – Two new presets
• BCC+ Cross Zoom Dissolve – new Overlap widget for easier timing control

Other Fixes and Polish in Continuum 2024.5 v17.5.0 for FxPlug:

• BCC+ Harris Shutter – Expand frame range to +/- 90 and ensure the range matches between FX Editor and the host
• BCC+ Beat Reactor – Crashing in some scenarios with bad or missing audio when no Watch Folder was set
• BCC+ Night Vision – Fix several presets not showing correct channel
• FX Editor – OCIO options are removed for the time being since not functioning reliably. Will be restored in a future update.
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – Fix transform overlay widget scale adjustments
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – Polar Warp Reflect Y option leads to unexpected banding in some cases
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – Scattered black pixels along vertical axis when using Polar Warp option
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – Incorrect center pixel color when using Polar Warp option
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – Spin, Tumble, and Anchor Z inverted from standard direction (requires inverting settings in saved projects)