Boris Continuum Complete 5 for Apple FxPlug is a brand new member of the Boris Continuum Complete product family. Offering over 180 filters for professional visual effects creation, BCC 5 FxPlug takes full advantage of Apple's new FxPlug plug-in architecture to extend the compositing and effects capabilities of Apple Final Cut Pro 6 and Apple Motion 3. With BCC 5 FxPlug, Apple Final Cut Studio users gain many compositing options such as motion tracking and masking directly inside the Apple Final Cut Pro editing application. Other must-have enhancements include contextual controls for a more organized user workspace and faster workflow.

New Filters in BCC 5

Key Features for Apple Final Cut Pro Users

BCC 5 FxPlug is available now for a suggested retail price of $895 US. Existing BCC customers can upgrade to BCC 5 FxPlug for $295 US.

Labels: BCC, BCC-5, BCC-FXPlug, Boris, Final-Cut-Pro

Computer Arts, one of the world's best-selling magazines for digital artists and designers, recently reviewed PowerProduction StoryBoard Artist.

Here are a few highlights from the review:

"The great thing about StoryBoard Artist is that it's so incredibly easy to use. You can be up and running after around ten minutes."

"Another thing we really like about StoryBoard Artist is the ease with which you can create animatics - or animated storyboards."

"The included libraries and amount of options within them make the storyboarding process simple and enjoyable."

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Labels: PowerProduction, StoryBoard-Artist

Custom on-screen controls, enhanced motion tracking, and popular new filters such as Match Move and Up-Rez extend Avid NLE motion graphics capabilities

Boris Continuum Complete 5 for Avid AVX is a high-performance desktop compositing plug-in package offering over 180 filters for professional visual effects creation. Leveraging the new Avid AVX 2.0 API, BCC 5 AVX delivers a number of user workspace enhancements including on-screen and contextual controls for faster and better effects design. Other significant additions are filters that incorporate high powered image scaling and motion tracking as well as OpenGL acceleration for creating unique looks and organic effects.

"Already one of the most popular compositing applications among Avid users, the new BCC release is a quantum leap ahead of its peers with Avid integration. Combine this with highly sought-after features such as Match Move and Up Rez and BCC 5 is one of the most robust and highly engineered compositing plug-in applications on the market today," said Boris FX founder Boris Yamnitsky.

New User Workspace Enhancements
The new BCC 5 AVX on-screen controls are designed specially for Avid systems. They provide Avid editors an organized workspace in which they can visually set up often-used geometric parameters such as BCC's Motion Tracker and PixelChooser. New contextual controls reduce the user interface clutter while the new EZ mode helps users keep their focus on the main filter parameters

"With the release of BCC 5 AVX, I can't imagine needing another effects package! Being able to take the same filter set from my compositing tools - After Effects and Combustion - and match the look and feel as a native AVX tool in the editing application completes the post production workflow," comments David Baertsh, creative director and senior editor, DB Editorial. "The BCC film process tools will impress even the most critical director/producer. It comes closer than anything I have seen for matching HD cameras to 35mm film. BCC 5 is a must-have addition to every video finishing system."

BCC 5 Filter and Feature Highlights
New BCC 5 filters are either multi-core processor or OpenGL-accelerated to take full advantage of new desktop and laptop hardware.

* BCC Pan and Zoom. Known as the "Ken Burns" effect, BCC Pan and Zoom improves on the Avid Pan and Zoom filter by giving users extensive controls for precise image scaling and re-sampling. Better workflow and image quality are achieved with special features such as the "watch folder" and new "UpRez" filter.

* BCC UpRez. For common SD to HD conversions, the new BCC UpRez filter provides high quality conversion results.

* Built-in Motion Tracking for new BCC Match Move filter. Based on the award-winning motion tracking technology in Boris RED, the new BCC Match Move filter allows users to combine motion tracking with transformation/compositing of a layer. The Motion Tracker has an improved UI making it even easier to use.

* New fast rendering OpenGL BCC filters. LED, Prism, Scanline, and Damaged TV filters leverage OpenGL rendering technology allowing Avid editors to produce eye-catching and unique looks quickly.

* Enhanced noise and edge detection algorithms. Turbulence, Noise Map 2, and Color Choker filters now offer users even more choices for stylizing their media.

"Boris has hit a home run once again. This latest release of the BCC effects package adds many new options that were wanted by many including myself. Great job as usual!" - Terence Curren, editor and president, Alpha Dogs.

Pricing and Availability
BCC 5 AVX is available now for a suggested retail price of $895 (new) and $295 (upgrade) for Avid Xpress Pro systems and $1995 (new) and $599 (upgrade) for Avid Media Composer and Symphony systems.

Labels: BCC-5, BCC-5-AVX, BCC-AVX, Boris