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Tools for Content Creators

Discover the vast universe of content creation possibilities with Continuum plugins.

Continuum plugins are a one-stop shop for your content creation needs. The post-production industry’s most complete plugin package includes over 300+ effects, 40+ transitions, and 5000+ presets. The speedy and easy-to-use toolset is fully GPU-accelerated with Adobe Multi-Frame Rendering and native Apple M1 support.

Take the capabilities of any effect further with the implementation of Mocha masking in every one of Continuum’s effects. Import and export Mocha data from other hosts, easily set up offset tracking, and limit effects with complex masking driven by the award-winning art of planar tracking.

New for Continuum 2024

  • BCC+ DeNoise ML: AI-powered noise removal with one-click simplicity and intelligent detail preservation
  • BCC+ UpRes ML (After Effects only): Effortlessly resize to any format with Continuum’s new integrated AI scaling tool
  • BCC+ Audio Visualizer: Let your music speak volumes with poppin’ auto-animated motion graphics
  • Particle Illusion: Generate sprites with AI, true 3D objects with line emitters, inherited velocity, and more
  • Performance Boost: Experience snappier playback in the FX Editor, distributed rendering, and tighter integration within Avid
  • More Presets: 150+ professionally designed and curated presets

AI-Powered Noise Removal

Instantly enhance your video quality with the BCC+ DeNoise ML effect — your one-click solution for clear visuals.

  • Artifact Removal: Eliminates noise from low-light and compression artifacts
  • One-Click Efficiency: Drag-and-drop simplicity for immediate results
  • Intelligent Analysis: Auto-analyzes images to preserve and boost detail

Revolutionary AI Upscaling (AE only)

Transform your footage with BCC+ UpRes ML, the ultimate tool for scaling up any format size right from the comfort of your preferred host.

  • Format Flexibility: Handles all format sizes for consistent, high-quality results.
  • Detail Preservation: Sharpens and maintains fine details during enlargement
  • Selective Zoom: Offers zoom-in capabilities to enhance specific clip regions

Visualize Sound in Motion

Make your music come alive with BCC+ Audio Visualizer. The effect intelligently matches the sound in your video to a base audio spectrum of lines, dots or circles. Then push it further with:

  • Fine-tuned controls for the size, position, and rotation of your current display plus 3D properties
  • Finish composites by coloring, reflecting, and warping the visualiser
  • Pin the effect with integrated Mocha parameter tracking
  • Easily add a background

 

AI Enhanced Particles And More

Particle Illusion adds more creative features perfect for motion graphics workflows.

  • Generate any sprite you want to use in an emitter with a simple text prompt
  • 3D Particle Lines
  • Improvements with the new Inherited Velocity
  • More properties can be controlled within your host and respond with Beat Reactor

 

150+ New Presets

Continuum 2024 adds tons of professionally designed presets to help you quickly hone in on the effects, looks, and transitions that your projects need.

Save time and work more creatively with new presets across Audio Visualizer, Lens Flare, SuperLED, Eye Light, Film Glow, and Transition effect categories.


One Ultimate Package with Endless Possibilities

Continuum serves the everyday needs of editors, motion graphic artists, and compositors working in today’s fast-paced environments. Below is a glimpse of the 300+ effects used in broadcast, film, and television for over 25+ years.

LIGHT AND DIFFUSION

Change a scene’s lighting with a simple click.

Take your story to the next level with beautiful and elegant lighting effects.

DISTORT AND STYLIZE

Use several filters to degrade your footage for a retro or classic damaged film/video look or change the feel of your shot using sophisticated light leaks, hyper realistic blurs, or powerful glows.

FILM LOOKS & GRAIN

Channel your inner analog filmmaker with The Cinematographer Toolkit

Instantly transform your footage with curated presets featuring the best film emulation options in the business.

IMAGE RESTORATION

Why “fix it in post” exists.

Bring blurry shots back to life, retouch skin, get rid of banding + more

COMPOSITING

Say goodbye to challenging greenscreens with a few simple clicks with Primatte Studio. Then fine tune your composite with a number of edge tools designed to take the capabilities of your host further than ever before.

MOTION GRAPHICS

Create beautiful lens flares or design professional animated intro graphics with the help of Particle Illusion and Title Studio. Continuum has a robust set of effects and graphic templates for every project imaginable.

AUDIO REACTION

Beat Reactor is built natively into several Continuum effects allowing specific properties to auto-animate to music. Never has production value come with so few clicks.

MOCHA TRACKING

Unleash the power of every Continuum effect by launching Mocha. Perform complicated masking tasks and track position data with incredible ease and precision.


The Cinematographer’s Toolkit

Analog filmmaking meets digital video

The Cinematographer’s Toolkit gives artists access to 80 new effects, 3 new Continuum Units, and 1000+ new presets that pay homage to the bygone era of shooting on film. The built-in FX Editor makes it simple to browse the presets and create your own custom presets directly inside the interface. Recreate classic Hollywood looks in just one click.

Each new effect is GPU-accelerated, HDR compliant, and includes OCIO color management support.

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Film Stocks

Quickly transform digital video into beloved analog looks.

BCC+FilmStocks features nearly 300 customizable presets organized by color, black & white, photographic films, and motion picture film stocks including Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Fuji, Agfa, and Polaroid. Easily adjust a film’s most important elements: black & white, film response, color correct, color filters, sharpening, diffusion, vignette, and grain. See the Full Effects list.

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Look Development

Easily establish a signature look for your film or episodic.

BCC+Grade includes 85+ color grading presets from Academy Award-nominated films including 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Frankenstein, Gone with the Wind, and Titanic.

Create your own custom look using a visual Color Wheels interface or manipulate hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, gamma, cyan/magenta, RGB values, mid-tones, highlights, and shadows. Included in the Continuum Color & Tone Unit.

BCC+Looks lets you create virtually any look with 65+ stylized color and black & white looks or tweak color correct, diffusion, color gradient, gels, lab, and grain modules. See Full Effects list.

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Optical Filter Simulations

Get the look of glass camera filters without the hassle.

Dial in the exact look your cinematographer wants with digital optical filter simulations that you can change at any time. Darken a sky with a polarizing filter, reduce wrinkles with diffusion filters, add stars to specular highlights with multi-star filters, saturate colors with enhancing filters, and add a pop of color with color-graduated filters.

BCC+Optical Diffusion filters include Double Fog, Fog, Frost, Halo, Mist, Net, Rack Focus, and Silk. See the Full Effects list.

Boris Continuum center spot blur before Boris Continuum Center spot blur

Lights

No more waiting for light setups! Add natural and realistic effects fast.

Create a stylized atmosphere with gobos, enhance a scene with realistic lens flares that can be customized with the new Flare Editor, add drama with volumetric light rays and glows, or choose a gel from the Kodak® Wratten set.

BCC+Light includes BCC+Glow, BCC+Glow Darks, BCC+Glow Edges, BCC+Photographic, BCC+Color Gradient, BCC+Radial Tint, BCC+Sunset, and many more. See the Full Effects list.

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Gobos

The production team forgot to add a gobo to the lights during the shoot. Now what? Apply Gobo effects in post complete with realistic shadowing!

Browse the factory-installed digital Gobo library featuring 750+ Gobo options sorted into seven distinct categories: Abstract, Doors, Elements, Foliage, Snowflakes, Textures, and Windows.

You can also import your own gobo images into the BCC+Lights FX Editor and create your own custom gobo library for use in any project. See the Full Effects list.

 

Boris Continuum Gobos

Lens Flares

Add subtle realism to a shot or go for a certain director’s signature lens flare style.

Choose from 300+ factory-installed presets, all of which are completely editable, or create your own unique custom lens flare from scratch using the new Flare Editor directly from within the BCC+Lens Flare FX Editor. With the FX Editor, you can save customized presets into the Custom preset category and use the favorites starring feature to instantly retrieve your favorite looks.

Lens flares are broken into Anamorphic, Circular, Polygons, Star, Starburst, and Stylized categories. See the Full Effects list.

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Light Rays & Glows

Create a sense of drama or a dreamy atmosphere.

The lighting effect filters in this update are all hardware accelerated, easy to use, and come with dozens of preset looks. Whether your shot calls for a subtle glow or some in-your-face volumetric rays, this new set of filters generates sublime results.

Featuring 6 new realistic glow effects and stunning volumetric lighting effects. Each effect is fully customizable. See the Full Effects list.

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Gels

Set the mood with color. Choose from 200+ lighting gels and 95 photographic filters to colorize footage using the same names known to cinematographers.

Warm up a shot with a 22 Deep Orange or 23A Light red glass filter emulator and use the integrated graduated filter to isolate the effect to the foreground or background. Or select the L725 Old Steel Blue gel to cool the image and use the integrated ND filter to control light exposure in the filtered shot.

The BCC+Photographic filter is the digital equivalent of the Kodak® Wratten set licensed under Tiffen. See the Full Effects list.

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Full List of Continuum 2024 Effects

3D Objects

  • Extruded EPS
  • Extruded Spline
  • Extruded Text
  • Layer Deformer
  • Title Studio
  • Type-On Text

Art Looks

  • Posterize
  • Median
  • Halftone
  • Artist’s Poster
  • Borders
  • Bump Map
  • Cartoon Look
  • Cartooner
  • Charcoal Sketch
  • Color Shadow
  • Color Infrared
  • Harris Shutter
  • Infrared
  • Night Vision
  • Pencil Sketch
  • Spray Paint Noise
  • Tile Mosaic
  • Water Color
  • X-Ray

Blur

  • Directional Blur
  • Fast Lens Blur
  • Gaussian Blur
  • Lens Shape
  • Motion Blur
  • Pyramid Blur
  • Radial Blur
  • Spiral Blur
  • Unsharp Mask
  • Z-Blur
  • BCC+ Blur
  • BCC+ Channel Blur
  • BCC+ Channel Blur YUV
  • BCC+ Detail
  • BCC+ Smear Blur

Color and Tone

  • Fluorescent
  • Haze
  • Tritone
  • 3 Way Color Grade
  • Black and White
  • Brightness and Contrast
  • Color Balance
  • Color Correction
  • Color Match
  • Colorize
  • Correct Selected Color
  • Defog
  • Develop
  • Enhance
  • Flourescent
  • FStop
  • Grade
  • Haze
  • High Contrast
  • Hue-Sat-Lightness
  • Invert Solarize
  • Kelvin
  • Levels Gamma
  • Low Contrast
  • MultiTone Mix
  • Polarizer
  • Safe Colors
  • Selective Saturation
  • Shadows Highlights
  • Tritone
  • Videoscope

Film Style

  • Bleach bypass
  • Cross processing
  • Day for Night
  • DeInterlace
  • Fast Film Glow
  • Fast Film Process
  • Film Damage
  • Film Grain
  • Film Grunge
  • Film Stocks
  • Flashing
  • Halftone
  • Looks
  • Match Grain
  • Two Strip
  • Three Strip
  • Two Strip Color
  • Vignette

Grads & Tints

  • Color Gradient
  • Color Spot
  • Colorize Gradient
  • Dual Gradient
  • Gels
  • ND Gradient
  • Photographic
  • Radial Tint
  • Sepia
  • Skin Tone
  • Split Tone
  • Sunset
  • Tint

Image Restoration

  • Broadcast Safe Effects
  • Flicker Fixer
  • Beauty Studio
  • Deband
  • Deblock
  • Dropout Fixer
  • Dual Gradient
  • Dust and Scratches
  • DV Fixer
  • Lens Correction
  • Magic Sharp
  • Motion Key
  • Noise Reduction
  • Optical Stabilizer
  • Pixel Fixer
  • Reframer
  • Remover
  • Smooth Tone
  • Split Tone
  • Uprez
  • Wire Remover

Key and Blend

  • Alpha Process
  • BCC Edge Composite
  • Boost Blend
  • Chroma Key
  • Chroma Key Studio
  • Color Paste
  • Composite
  • Composite Choker
  • Edge Composite
  • Glow Matte
  • Holdout Composite
  • Light Matte
  • Light Wrap
  • Linear Color Key
  • Linear Luma Key
  • Make Alpha Key
  • Math Composite
  • Matte Choker
  • Matte Cleanup
  • Non-Additive Mix
  • Optical Dissolve
  • Pixel Chooser
  • Premult
  • Primatte Studio
  • RGB Blend
  • Two way key

Lens

  • Camera Shake
  • Chromatic Aberration
  • DeFringe
  • Lens Distortion
  • Radial Exposure
  • Wide Angle

Lights

  • Alpha Spotlight
  • Ambient Light
  • BCC+Rays
  • Chroma Bands
  • Edge Lighting
  • Eye Light
  • Glare
  • Glint
  • Glitter
  • Glow
  • Glow Alpha Edges
  • Glow Darks
  • Glow Edges
  • Ice Halos
  • Key Light
  • Laser Beam
  • Lens Flare
  • Lens Flare 3D
  • Light
  • Light Leaks
  • Light Sweep
  • Lightning
  • Overexpose
  • Multi Star
  • Rays
  • Rays Cartoon
  • Rays Puffy
  • Rays Radiant Edges
  • Rays Radiant Spotlight
  • Rays Ring
  • Rays Ripply
  • Rays Streaky
  • Rays Textured
  • Rays Wedge
  • Reflector
  • Relight
  • Reverse Spotlight
  • Spotlight
  • Stage Light
  • Streaks

Match Move

  • Corner Pin
  • Match Move
  • Witness Protection

Optical Diffusion

  • Center Spot
  • Depth of Field
  • Diffusion
  • Double Fog
  • Fog
  • Frost
  • Halo
  • Mist
  • Net
  • Rack Focus
  • Silk
  • Split Field

Particles

  • Particle System
  • 2D Particles
  • Comet
  • Organic Strands
  • Particle Array 3D
  • Particle Emitter 3D
  • Particle Illusion
  • Pin Art 3D
  • Rain
  • Snow
  • Sparks
  • Wild Cards

Perspective

  • 3D Extruded Image Shatter
  • 3D Image Shatter
  • Cube
  • Cylinder
  • DVE
  • DVE Basic
  • Fast Flipper
  • Page Turn
  • Pan and Zoom
  • Sphere
  • Sphere Transition

Stylize

  • Mosaic
  • Emboss
  • Alpha Pixel Noise
  • Cast shadow
  • Color Choker
  • Colorize Glow
  • Damaged TV
  • Drop Shadow
  • Edge Grunge
  • Emboss
  • Glow Alpha Edges
  • Grunge
  • LED
  • Misalignment
  • Mosaic
  • Multi Shadow
  • Prism
  • Reflection
  • RGB Edges
  • RGB Pixel Noise
  • Scanline
  • Scatterize
  • Video Glitch

Textures

  • Brick
  • Caustics
  • Cloth
  • Clouds
  • Fractal Noise
  • Granite
  • Mixed Colors
  • Noise Map 2
  • Rays
  • Reptilian
  • Rock
  • Stars
  • Steel Plate
  • Textures
  • Veined Marble
  • Weave
  • Wood Grain
  • Wooden Planks

Time

  • Beat Reactor
  • Jitter
  • Looper
  • Optical Flow
  • Posterize Time
  • Temporal Blur
  • Time Displacement
  • Trails
  • Velocity Remap

Transitions

  • Blobs Wipe
  • Blur Dissolve
  • Burnt Film
  • Checker Wipe
  • Composite Dissolve
  • Colorize Glow Dissolve
  • Criss-Cross Wipe
  • Cross Glitch
  • Cross Melt
  • Cross Zoom
  • Curl Dissolve
  • Damaged TV Dissolve
  • Fast Film Glow Dissolve
  • Flutter Cut
  • Grid Wipe
  • Kaleida Dissolve
  • Lens Blur Dissolve
  • Lens Distortion Wipe
  • Lens Flare Dissolve
  • Lens Flare Round
  • Lens Flare Spiked
  • Lens Flash
  • Light Leaks Dissolve
  • Light Wipe
  • Linear Wipe
  • Multi Stretch Wipe
  • Multi Stripe Wipe
  • Particle Illusion Dissolve
  • Prism Dissolve
  • Radial Wipe
  • Rays Dissolve
  • Rectangular Wipe
  • RGB Blur Dissolve
  • Ribbon Wipe
  • Rings Wipe
  • Ripple Dissolve
  • Spin Blur Dissolve
  • Swish Pan
  • Textured Wipe
  • Tile Wipe
  • Tritone Dissolve
  • Twister
  • Vector Blur Dissolve
  • Vignette Wipe
  • Water Waves Dissolve
  • Criss Cross Wipe
  • Cross Glitch
  • Cross Melt
  • Cross Zoom

VR

  • VR Insert
  • VR Flicker Fixer
  • VR Reorient
  • VR Blur
  • VR Sharpen

Warp

  • Morph
  • Bulge
  • Curl
  • Displacement Map
  • Polar Displacement
  • Ripple
  • Turbulence
  • Twirl
  • Vector Displacement
  • Video Morph
  • Warp
  • Wave

OS Requirements:

  • Mac OSX: 10.15.6 or higher
    Note that Continuum ML filters require Monterey 12.0 or higher
  • Windows: Windows 10 and 11

Hardware:

Recommended Hardware:

  • Processor: Apple M1 or M2 (Standard, Pro, Max and Ultra)
  • Intel or AMD CPU with four or more cores
  • Memory: 8 GB or more
  • Disk: High-speed disk array or SSD storage
  • Graphics Card: Most modern graphics cards from ATI, Nvidia and Intel are supported. click here for a full listing

Licensing options:

Node-locked, Subscription or floating license.
For floating and render license options, please contact us.

Supported Host Applications:

  • ADOBE :
    • After Effects and Premiere Pro
  • AVID :
    • Media Composer
  • OFX :
    • Blackmagic Design Davinci Resolve
    • Vegas Pro
    • Foundry Nuke

Host & OS Support

For compatibility with specific versions and operating systems, please see the Host Compatibility Page.

Continuum 2023 v16.0.3 for Adobe supports the following Adobe host applications:

Added:

macOSX 10.14, 10.15, 11.x, 12.x, 13.x (up to OS version at time of Continuum release and as appropriate for the host version in use). Continuum supports running natively on M1/ARM64 native chipsets for After Effects and Premiere Pro versions which themselves support running natively on M1/ARM64.

  • Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro CC 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 (up to versions released at time of Continuum release)

Windows 10 x64, Windows 11:

  • Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro CC 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 (up to versions released at time of Continuum release)

 

Continuum 2023 v16.0.3 for Avid AVX supports the following host applications:

Macintosh:

  • Avid Media Composer 2018.x, 2019.x, 2020.x, 2021.x, 2022.x (up to Avid versions released at time of Continuum release) and running macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11.x, 12.x, 13.x (up to OS version at time of Continuum release and as appropriate for the host version in use).

Windows:

  • Avid Media Composer 2018.x, 2019.x, 2020.x, 2021.x, 2022.x (up to Avid versions released at time of Continuum release) and running Windows 10 or Windows 11

 

Continuum 2023 (v16.0.3) for OFX (OpenFX) officially supports the following host applications:

Note that Continuum OFX may work to varying degrees in other OFX hosts, but at this time it is only officially supported in Resolve, Vegas Pro, and Nuke. Note that official Resolve support does not yet include the embedded Fusion page within Resolve. Note that the Apple App Store version of Resolve is not fully supported and direct downloads of Resolve from the Blackmagic Design site should be used instead.

macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11.x, 12.x (up to OS version at time of Continuum release and as appropriate for the host version in use): Note, Continuum supports running natively on M1/ARM64 native chipsets for host versions which themselves support running natively on M1/ARM64. [Up to host versions released at time of Continuum release]:

  • DaVinci Resolve Studio and DaVinci Resolve 17.x, 18.x
  • Nuke 12, 13

Windows 10 x64 and Windows 11 [Up to host versions released at time of Continuum release]:

  • DaVinci Resolve Studio and DaVinci Resolve 17.x, 18.x
  • 19, 20 (Magix)
  • Nuke 12, 13 (4k monitor support on windows requires Nuke 12.1 or higher)

 


Graphics Cards: Guidelines for Graphics Card Support

  • We recommend that you run the latest graphics card driver version supported by your host application.
  • Graphics Cards must support OpenGL 2.1 or higher.
  • Editing in HD? A graphics card with a minimum of 1GB of RAM is recommended for best performance.
  • Editing in 2K or Higher? A graphics card with a minimum of 2GB of RAM is recommended for the best performance.
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Customer Reviews

Review: Boris FX Continuum 2020.5 and Sapphire 2020.

BorisFX has created THE toolbox for editors. From fixing lighting shifts using Continuum Flicker Fixer, Continuum Gaussian Blur with Mocha Tracking, to even Sapphire's S_Glow - Continuum 2020.5 and Sapphire 2020 are must have plugins for Avid Media Composer, Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere and After Effects, and many more apps.

Read the full review by Brady Betzel at Post Perspective

Would you recommend this product to a colleague? Yes

By: Brady Betzel
Date: May 15, 2020

New for Continuum 2024

  • BCC+ DeNoise ML: AI-powered noise removal with one-click simplicity and intelligent detail preservation
  • BCC+ UpRes ML (After Effects only): Effortlessly resize to any format with Continuum’s new integrated AI scaling tool
  • BCC+ Audio Visualizer: Let your music speak volumes with poppin’ auto-animated motion graphics
  • Particle Illusion: Generate sprites with AI, true 3D objects with line emitters, inherited velocity, and more
  • Performance Boost: Experience snappier playback in the FX Editor, distributed rendering, and tighter integration within Avid
  • More Presets: 150+ professionally designed and curated presets

New in 2023.5

  • BCC+ Super LED Effect: Easily pixelate the look of shots, text, or particles.
  • Improved Mocha: Parameter and corner pin tracking now available in BCC+ Lens Flare, BCC+ Super LED, and BCC+ Light effects.
  • Particle Illusion: Adds masking, trails, gradient presets, 3D deflectors, force turbulence, and more.
  • Beat Reactor: Now included in 40 BCC+ effects. Make your effects dance to music.
  • Effects and Transitions: BCC+ Smoke and Fog, BCC+ Light Flicker, BCC+ Orbs, and BCC+ Flutter Cut.
  • More Presets: 150+ new professionally designed and curated presets.

New in 2023

  • The BCC+Atmospheric Glow effect delivers instant drama, mystery, or nostalgia on otherwise flat scenes. The multi-faceted glow effect produces photoreal results and includes automatic flicker, lens textures, rays, and smoke options.
  • The Transitions Unit adds 10 wipes, rolls, and swishes to give editors a rapidly expanding cutting toolkit. Includes BCC+FilmRoll, BCC+SwishPan, BCC+SwishPrism, BCC+SwishGlow, BCC+SwishWarp, BCC+LinearWipe, BCC+RadialWipe, BCC+RectangleWipe, BCC+VignetteWipe, and BCC+TextureWipe.
  • Particle Illusion features a significant performance boost with combined calculation and render speed increases of up to 50% depending on OS, hardware, and project specifics. An upgraded interface provides a simplified user experience with easy-to-understand property controls. Additional functionality includes improved 3D model handling.
  • Continuum’s popular BCC+FilmGlow effect adds a secondary glow option that enables users to generate multiple independent glows with full control over each element.
  • Title Studio adds support for Blackmagic Resolve on Mac and improved handling of missing fonts when moving titles and templates between platforms.
  • The BCC+Light effect, which includes over 800 presets, adds a seamless texture option with wrap and reflect properties.
  • Continuum 2023 adds 250+ presets to the versatile plugin collection. The curated presets can be used as it or easily customized based on project needs.
  • BCC+ filters and transitions are GPU-accelerated on Apple M1, Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD graphics processors, and certain effects can see up to a 50% performance improvement over previous versions.

New in 2022.5 – Faster Speeds, Powerful Transitions, and 3D Objects for Particles

  • 15 new accelerated transitions & 5 effects
  • Lots of presets: 60+ new transition and effect presets including Video Glitch, Light Leaks, and Camera Shake
  • Speed improvements: Up to 35% quicker renders for all BCC+ effects
  • FX Editor: New user-friendly onscreen controls
  • Particle Illusion: UI improvements, Text/Mask Emitters and 3D model support
  • Mocha masking workflow improvements

New in 2022.5: It All Starts with Transitions

Every editor knows the importance of transitions to drive stories forward. Continuum 2022.5 includes 15 GPU-accelerated transitions to assist you in a variety of content creation. Transport viewers to another scene with Crash Zoom, use light leaks to elegantly move between scenes, and up your essential dissolve arsenal with both Film Glow and Prism Dissolve. Work faster with new FX Editor presets and even blend essential dip to color or blur effects to the mix.

New in 2022.5: Take the Leap with 3D Models and Particle Illusion

The next evolution of Particle Illusion brings 3D models to the user-friendly generator. Import Maxon Cinema 4D files and map particles to different surface setups for full creative particle control. After Effects users also have the ability to use text or masked shapes for line simulations.

New in 2022.5: 5 Essential Effects Rebuilt for Speed

Continuum 2022.5 gives creators access to 5 rebuilt stylistic effects. BCC+Film Glow, Video Glitch, Light Leaks, Magic Sharp, and Radial Blur are reengineered to take full advantage of your GPU. Each effect contains new presets to help you visualize your imagery every step of the way.

You can also save your own presets and share them with any host that runs Continuum.

New in 2022.5: Presets and FX Editor Enhancements

The FX Editor is a versatile way to work with every BCC+ effect. New easy-to-use overlay widgets have been added to speed up your workflow along with 60+ new effect and transition presets.

New in Continuum 2022

  • Particle Illusion Fluid Dynamics
  • Adobe Multi-Frame Rendering support for 350+ effects
  • Native Apple M1 support
  • 60+ movie looks (BCC+Film Stocks) and 50+ gobo presets (BCC+Lights)
  • 6 speedy blurs effects with 80 presets (BCC+Blur)
  • BCC+ adds integrated Mocha tracking & masking
  • BCC+BeautyStudio: Full GPU processing and a cleaner user interface
  • Improved & streamlined PixelChooser
  • Enhanced FX Editor with a slick new user-interface
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Everyday VFX in Avid Media Composer with Boris Continuum Complete

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Create Cool Lighting Effects in Avid with BCC Lens Flare 3D

Using Boris Continuum Complete’s powerful Lens Flare 3D filter, Kevin P. McAuliffe shows you how to set up lighting effects in your favorite Avid video editing system. First, Kevin demonstrates how to create multiple lights that blink automatically. Then, he combines BCC Extruded Text with BCC Lens Flare 3D to create a starting title sequence.

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Create Complex Particle Effects in Avid- BCC AVX

Kevin P. McAuliffe harnesses the power of Boris Continuum Complete v8 AVX's Particle Emitter 3D filter to create engaging particle effects directly from within Media Composer, giving his Avid titles a "particle overhaul".

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On Wednesday, June 27, 2012, Michele Yamazaki tapped Boris Continuum Complete v8 AE’s state-of-the-art particle system effects to develop and enhance broadcast graphics in Adobe After Effects CS6. Using BCC Particle Emitter 3D and other Boris Continuum Complete VFX filters in conjunction with After Effects’ native 3D camera and lighting systems, Michele made ordinary graphics and titles pop off the screen in 3D particle bursts.

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