Boris FX: Sapphire, Continuum, and Mocha Pro Bundle

Kevin P. McAuliffe shows Avid Media Composer editor's new features in Sapphire 2020. For example, S_FreeLens, Mocha parameter tracking for effects, more.

Mary Poplin at Boris FX shows you how to create transparent ghostly effects using Mocha Pro and Particle Illusion to transform an actress into a ghost.

Reverse Stabilization is a compositing workflow where you stabilize the shot, then composite, and finally, you bring the motion back into your shot.

In this webinar replay, learn about all the new features inside Sapphire, Continuum and Mocha Pro 2019.5, from Ben Brownlee, the new Director of Learning and Content at Boris FX.  You may remember him from Curious Turtle training videos.

In this tutorial, Damien LeVeck of Skubalon Creative explains what's new in the Sapphire Builder (2019.5) for Avid and then shows you how to create a cool stylized effect when working with footage that needs to fit a specific aspect ratio.

Jonathan Winbush explains how to make fog with Boris FX Sapphire using your depth map in After Effects. Bonus tutorial: Create Z Depth pass for DOF and Fog.

Boris FX has some new tutorials for Sapphire 2019.5 that include Overviews for Builder, S_ParallaxStrips, S_PixelSort, and S_DissolvePixelSort.

Nick Harauz and Ian Robinson show Premiere Pro and After Effects artists how Sapphire and Mocha can accomplish advanced sky replacement.

Damien LeVeck shows how he used Boris FX Mocha Pro and Sapphire with Avid Media Composer for high-end horror VFX on his film The Cleansing Hour.

Benjamin Eshagpoor shows you some slick tricks of Boris FX's Particle Illusion, which comes with Boris Continuum and the Continuum Particles Unit.

Mocha is currently on sale through April 28, 2019, so it seemed like a great time to share some cool Mocha tutorials. Today we're focusing on Mocha Tracking Workflow Mocha works as a standalone or plug-in for several hosts and works pretty much the same between hosts, so if you see a tutorial for a software that you don't use, know that it will translate easily to your host.

Surfaced Studio explains how to add digital make-up, scars, and tattoos to your talent using Mocha Pro’s Mesh Warp tool. This tool is found in the Insert Module, inside an Adobe After Effects workflow.

In this short tech video, Mary Poplin explains how the Mocha AE 2019 Export Workflow to get motion tracking data and masking data from Mocha to AE has been improved.

All manner of nightmarish creatures lurk under the light of the moon. But how do you add the moon to your creature feature scene? Watch this in-depth tutorial from John Dickinson of Motionworks.net, and learn how to use Luna in Sapphire to create a photo-realistic moon, in any phase you need.

Ben Brownlee from Curious Turtle walks us through the basics of tracking a screen replacement in the new Mocha Pro 2019. Even if you have used Mocha before, you’ll want to watch this tutorial, as he also explains the new user interface and new spline tools.

Create photorealistic lighting effects with Blackmagic Davinci Resolve and Sapphire Edge Rays. For more cool lighting effects, Check out Boris FX Sapphire for Davinci Resolve, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and other hosts.

Whip Pan, also called a Swish Pan, can give you a really stylish way to transition from one shot to the next or make things look like they're shot in the same place, with a dizzying whip from one side of the room to the next, covering an edit. First I'll show you a couple of examples.

Sapphire Aurora is an amazing VFX plug-in with many uses besides producing high-quality aurora borealis light streaks. Watch how motion graphics guru John Dickinson uses S_Aurora to achieve some stunning results in Adobe After Effects. Create beautiful looks combining Aurora with other effects using the Sapphire Effect Builder.

Learn how to remove a person from a scene using the Mocha Pro Remove Module. Plus this tutorial also shows you how to create a disintegrate/transporter beam effect à la Star Trek using VFX in Sapphire and Continuum. It even comes with the project file and footage.

Learn to create Lens Flares in Avid Media Composer with Boris Sapphire in these two tutorials, one from Kevin McAuliffe and the other from Nick Harauz.

Learn to create Lens Flares in Avid Media Composer with Boris Sapphire in these two tutorials, one from Kevin McAuliffe and the other from Nick Harauz.

Get top tips on all things Roto & Cleanup using Mocha Pro with your NUKE workflow, with this webinar replay from oto/paint supervisor, Clark Harding.

This tutorial covers how you can use Sapphire effects, create custom effects, leverage Mocha in Sapphire, and get started creating awesome work with the Sapphire VFX plug-in for Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Nuke, Avid, Flame, and other hosts.

In this tutorial, learn how to set up textures for objects in Nuke using sapphire plug-ins, learn different ways to post-process those textures, use sapphire nodes for color correction and more.

Dan Harvey, UK-based artist and trainer, explains how to use Continuum Title Studio to design lower thirds, customize and save presets, and shows the animation workflows. This tutorial shows Continuum 10 in DaVinci Resolve but the same techniques will work in any Continuum 10 host: Adobe, Apple, Avid, etc.

Ben Brownlee of Curious Turtle walks new Mocha users through the basics of creating a 3D Camera Solve using Mocha Pro’s planar tracker and calculate the parallax camera movement.

Join Mary Poplin in this planar motion tracking and screen insert tutorial for Avid Media Composer editors, and learn how easy it is to replace cell phone screens and monitors using Mocha Pro.

Dan Harvey explains the ins and outs of Mocha’s shape tools for editing roto-masks, tracking obscured objects, layer order and more. Mastering Mocha shapes will save time on visual effects and finishing tasks. If you use Adobe, Avid & OFX workflows, this tutorial is for you!

John Dickinson of Motionworks gives an overview on the Aurora effect in Sapphire to create some lovely and surreal flames. The Boris Sale has been extended, and now that Sapphire and Mocha are under the Boris umbrella, you get 2 more days to save these products!

With Vimeo’s announcement last week about their support of VR, we thought we would showcase a few tutorials that will help you create immersive VR content and show you what some content creators have made with these tools.

Kevin P. McAuliffe gives an introduction on how to use GenArts Sapphire Builder in Avid Media Composer. Sapphire Builder is a super cool piece of software that gives users endless effects, right within Media Composer!

Join professional editor and independent filmmaker Damien LeVeck with this in-depth tutorial on Sapphire’s LensFlare effect in Avid Media Composer.

After seeing all of the VR at NAB in April, VR is still hot! Here are a few tutorials and resources for working in VR in Premiere Pro, After Effects, and other hosts.

Learn how to use one of the most popular Sapphire effects, Rack Defocus. With an array of features, this video effect enables you to create custom & accurate in-camera blurs.

Learn how to create a custom camera shake with varying levels of intensity with Sapphire’s shake effect.

Take a bland, colorless sky and make it into a vault of heaven! Create an alluring azure sky with fluffy clouds, a sublime sunset or an moody moonlight scene. I’ll give several options, utilizing plug-ins from CoreMelt, Video Copilot, Boris FX, Red Giant, SUGARfx and Imagineer.

In this tutorial Imagineer Systems will show you how to use mocha to import and export external mattes.

Martin Brennand shares some of the daily tips that are posted to Twitter and Facebook by Imagineer Systems.

Learn how to use mocha and After Effects to track graphics and effects. 3D Camera solve and object tracking which can then be exported to After Effects to drive the Plexus particle plug-in. Clip courtesy Artbeats.com

A tour of mocha’s tools and the most important keyboard shortcuts. We also explore the main differences between drawing with B-Splines and the Bezier tool.

Before we look at mocha’s Camera Solver, we fix issues with incorrectly interpreted interlaced footage.Next we identify what the camera motion is in the shot, to correctly create the type of tracked layers required to create the virtual camera.  In this tutorial the movement is Pan Tilt Zoom, so we prepare the main track layer plus a track matte layer. Once the camera is solved, we look at how to test it in After Effects using both a regular 3D text layer and a 3D particle layer.