Corner Pin, Match Move, Wire Remover, and Witness Protection Filters for $199

Marlborough MA - August 18, 2009 - Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that a new Boris Continuum Unit, Motion Tracker, is now available. The Boris Continuum Motion Tracker Unit includes the Corner Pin, Match Move, Wire Remover, and Witness Protection filters from Boris Continuum Complete 6:

• BCC Corner Pin allows editors to map media to a specific area on a moving object in a media file. For example, if a media file includes a moving bus with an advertisement on its side, an editor could use Corner Pin to track and replace the advertisement with a logo.
• BCC Match Move locks the movement of one image clip to another image clip. One of the great advantages of using the Match Move filter is that it includes full DVE functions such as tumble, spin, and rotate along with interesting lighting and light wrap compositing features.
• BCC Wire Remover removes wires and unwanted objects from still or moving images by either cloning or blending pixels together from surrounding areas.
• BCC Witness Protection allows editors to track the motion of an object in a media file. Editors can then use the motion path data to control another aspect of the effect. For example, an editor can track a logo on a t-shirt and use a blur to obscure the logo. Mosaic, tint, or brightness/contrast effects could also be applied to the specified area.
  

Boris Continuum Motion Tracker supports Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Final Cut Express, Apple Motion, and Adobe After Effects. Apple's new Final Cut Studio 3 release is supported.

The Motion Tracker Unit is the latest addition to previously-released Boris Continuum Units: Chroma Key, Pan and Zoom, UpRez, Motion Key, Lens Flare, Film Look, Glitters, Optical Stabilizer, Light Rays, 3D Objects, and Cartoon Look.

Pricing and Availability
Boris Continuum Motion Tracker is immediately available through the Boris FX worldwide reseller channel and direct from the Boris FX web site at www.borisfx.com for an MSRP of $199 USD. Customers who purchase the Boris Continuum Motion Tracker Unit or any other Boris Continuum Unit may credit the price of the Unit towards the full Boris Continuum Complete plug-in suite. For more information, please visit the Boris FX web site at www.borisfx.com.

About Boris FX
Founded in 1995, Boris FX is the leading developer of integrated graphics and effects technology, delivering 3D compositing and vector graphic products for the broadcast, post production, film and multimedia markets. Boris products have grown to serve over 200,000 artists worldwide. The company's success lies in its ability to tightly integrate and leverage technologies through strong partnerships with industry-leading manufacturers such as Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Avid, Grass Valley, Media 100, and Sony. For more information, visit www.borisfx.com

Labels: After Effects, Boris, Continuum Complete, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro

New 3D Objects, Real-Time Effects Browser Window, and Real-Time Chroma Key, Film Look, and Transition Effects for Apple Pro Video Applications

Marlborough MA - April 16, 2009 - Boris FX , the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that a public beta of Boris Continuum Complete 6 FxPlug (BCC 6 FxPlug) for Apple Pro Video Applications is now available.

BCC 6 FxPlug brings over 200 filters to Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Final Cut Express. In addition to new features included with the recently-released Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE for Adobe - such as Extruded Text, Splines, and Shapes - BCC 6 FxPlug takes advantage of Apple FxPlug's real-time architecture for simultaneous live previews of dozens of preset transitions, glows, and color and film look effects in a newly-designed effects browser window. Code-named "Popcorn", this new technology delivers the best of Boris on Apple's FxPlug platform.

"With the number of filters and presets growing fast in everyone's Final Cut editor, it is hard to find the right look or animation quickly using traditional menus and scroll lists," comments Boris Yamnitsky, founder and president, Boris FX. "Our new, innovative Preset Effects Browser Window allows for a lot of brainstorming without a lot of headache."

The initial release of BCC 6 FxPlug will feature over a dozen new FxPlug Shaders. Many of the FxPlug Shaders draw on BCC strengths such as lights, keying, and 3D. FxPlug Shaders are unique to Apple Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, and Motion, tying directly to each host application's render pipe for maximum efficiency and render speed.

BCC 6 FxPlug will be publicly demonstrated for the first time at the NAB 2009 exhibition held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from April 20-23, 2009 at Booth SL5320.

Pricing and Availability

The public beta of Boris Continuum Complete 6 FxPlug is available for free, immediate download from the Boris FX web site at Borisfx.com.

Boris Continuum Complete 6 FxPlug is scheduled for release in May 2009 for an MSRP of $995 USD. Owners of previous versions of Boris Continuum Complete FxPlug will be able to upgrade for an MSRP or $295 USD. Customers who buy Boris Continuum Complete 5 FxPlug now will receive a free upgrade to Boris Continuum Complete 6 FxPlug when it is available.

About Boris FX

Founded in 1995, Boris FX is the leading developer of integrated graphics and effects technology, delivering 3D compositing and vector graphic products for the broadcast, post production, film and multimedia markets. Boris products have grown to serve over 200,000 artists worldwide. The company's success lies in its ability to tightly integrate and leverage technologies through strong partnerships with industry-leading manufacturers such as Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Avid, Grass Valley, Media 100, and Sony.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, FxPlug

The sales have been going so exceptionally well we just don't want to quit!

The Boris Continuum Chroma Key plug-in, which is one of the new Continuum units, will be half price through midnight EST, Tuesday, September 30.

The Digieffects Aurorix / Berserk / Delirium Bundle that usually sells for $599 is for sale for a mind-blowing $99! These are flying off the virtual shelves. Don't miss out on this fantastic offer. It will be gone with September. (Also expires midnight EST, Tuesday, September 30).

Anytime you ever need to spend some dough, check out our Current Specials. These deals can come up very suddenly, trust me, so you might want to check back often... get a telephone call chain going with your friends (or just subscribe to our newsletter or SMS service. It's free and chock full of goodies).

Labels: Aurorix, BCC Chroma Key, Berserk, Boris, Continuum Complete, Delirium, DigiEffects, One Day Sale, Sale

Boris Continuum Chroma Key automates creation of precise keys with a minimal amount of adjustment. In addition to the award-winning BCC Chroma Key filter, complete with Spill Suppression, this Unit includes a Light Wrap tool for -looking composites, Color Match and Grain Match tools for seamless foreground composites, and a Matte Choker tool for cleaning up challenging keys.

Boris Continuum Chroma Key is on sale for $149.50 USD until September 29th at 11:59pm EDT. The regular price is $299 USD.

Boris Continuum Chroma Key supports Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Apple Motion. For Avid systems, Chroma Key is included as part of Boris Continuum Complete AVX.

Labels: BCC Chroma Key, Boris, Continuum Complete, Sale

Boris Continuum Chroma Key automates creation of precise keys with a minimal amount of adjustment. In addition to the award-winning BCC Chroma Key filter, complete with Spill Suppression, this Unit includes a Light Wrap tool for -looking composites, Color Match and Grain Match tools for seamless foreground composites, and a Matte Choker tool for cleaning up challenging keys.

Boris Continuum Chroma Key is on sale for $149.50 USD until September 29th at 11:59pm EDT. The regular price is $299 USD. Contact us for reseller pricing.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Sale

Submit your best BCC "Tips and Techniques" and win fantastic prizes!

Boris is rolling out the Boris Continuum Complete "How Did They Do That?" tips and techniques contest. Participation in the contest is simple. Submit your favorite Boris Continuum Complete work with a short brief on how you used the BCC 5 filters to realize your project.

Submissions are judged based on your application of the BCC 5 filters and the style and final result of your piece. Contest winners receive great prizes including an iPod and Boris Gift Certificates. Entrees will be posted on www.borisfx.com where thousands of industry professionals visit daily.

• Download a free demo of Boris Continuum Complete
• Learn more/purchase Boris Continuum Complete

Submission Dates and Deadlines:

• Now accepting submissions!
• Submission Deadline: October 17, 2008
• Winners will be announced in November 2008
• Review the submission format brief

Prizes:

• First Prize: iPod + $1,000 Boris Gift Certificate
• Second Prize: $500 Boris Gift Certficate
• Third Prize: $250 Boris Gift Certificate

Labels: Boris, Contest, Continuum Complete

Ever needed to fix a clip where an unwanted or unexpected object appears in the scene? A car is suddenly passing across or a stage hand got in the shot by accident? And re-shooting is expensive or impossible? You would be facing hours of tedious frame-by-frame rotoscoping to get rid of the pesky element in your video... But not with Boris Continuum Motion Key! As long as the object is moving in relation to the scene, this job can be done in minutes instead of days using the specialized Boris Continuum Motion Key filter. The filter is based on Optical Flow technology that uses intra-frame data to cleanly remove any moving object.

• Watch the tutorial podcast
• Purchase Boris Continuum Motion Key
• Download a free demo

Boris Continuum Motion Key supports Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Apple Motion. For Avid systems, Motion Key is included as part of Boris Continuum Complete AVX.

Labels: Boris FX, Continuum Complete

The new Boris Continuum Units family of visual effects plug-ins lets you choose toolsets from the award-winning Boris Continuum Complete plug-in suite that are geared towards your specific needs. Available now:

• Boris Continuum Motion Key, for removal of moving foreground objects;
• Boris Continuum Pan and Zoom, for easy, documentary-style animations;
• Boris Continuum UpRez, for instant, high-quality resizing of image clips from SD to HD;
• Boris Continuum Chroma Key, for fast, precise keys.

Each Unit seamlessly integrates with Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Apple Motion. If you buy a Boris Continuum Unit, you may later credit the price of the Unit towards the purchase of the full Boris Continuum Complete plug-in suite.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete

For a limited time, we are offering one free, fully-licensed plug-in from Boris Continuum Complete: Glitter, an OpenGL-accelerated filter that generates glittering sparkles of pretty much any size. The filter includes controls for the brightness, scale, and color of the glitters as well as the number of rays that each glitter emits.

Download the Free Filter

Tutorial: Generate a Glittering Sky

Glitter is available for Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, and Avid editing and finishing systems. Hurry! The free Glitter filter offer expires on September 30, 2008.

Labels: Boris FX, Continuum Complete, Free

BCC 5's UpRez, Pan and Zoom, and Chroma Key Modules Now Available Separately

Marlborough MA - August 13, 2008 - Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced the availability of its new Boris Continuum Units family of visual effects plug-ins.

The first three Units are available immediately: Pan and Zoom for easy, documentary-style animation, UpRez for instant, high-quality resizing of image clips from SD to HD, and Chroma Key for pulling fast, precise keys.

Boris Continuum Pan and Zoom: Pan and Zoom makes easy work of documentary-style Pan and Zoom techniques made popular by Ken Burns' documentaries. The filter includes a convenient setup mode offering on-screen controls for the size and position of the zoom region, along with the anchor point and a preview area that shows a rendering of the final result. Both manual keyframing and automated workflows are supported. The Pan and Zoom Unit offers advanced image sampling techniques with edge detection for smooth animation and highest-quality image detail.



Boris Continuum UpRez: UpRez is specially designed for conversion of SD footage to higher-resolution HD formats. The UpRez filter employs sophisticated image sampling techniques with edge detection, providing a final result that cannot be achieved by scaling and standard post-processing methods. This Unit also includes an Optical-flow based Deinterlace filter for converting interlaced SD material to progressive scan format.



Boris Continuum Chroma Key: The Chroma Key Unit automates creation of precise keys with a minimal amount of adjustment. In addition to the award-winning BCC Chroma Key filter, complete with Spill Suppression, this Unit includes a Light Wrap tool for the most natural-looking composites, Color Match and Grain Match tools for seamless foreground composites, and a Matte Choker tool for cleaning up the most challenging keys.



"Widely adopted by broadcasters, post-production facilities, corporations, and universities, Boris Continuum Complete 5 has emerged as the leading visual effects plug-in suite for editors and compositors using Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Avid editing and compositing applications," comments Boris Yamnitsky, president and founder, Boris FX.

He adds, "Our new Boris Continuum Units product family facilitates even broader access to Boris Continuum Complete's award-winning filters by allowing customers to choose tools specific to their needs. From keys and mattes to glows and film effects, our new Boris Continuum Units give editors and compositors professional toolsets at an affordable price."

Each Boris Continuum Unit is compatible with Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Apple Motion. The Pan and Zoom, UpRez, and Chroma Key Units are available for immediate purchase via download from www.BorisFX.com and from authorized Boris FX resellers.

Pan and Zoom is available for $199, UpRez $99, and Chroma Key $299. Customers who purchase a Boris Continuum Unit may credit the price of the Unit towards the full Boris Continuum Complete plug-in suite at $895. Additional Boris Continuum Units will be released in Q4 2008.

About Boris FX

Founded in 1995 in Boston MA, Boris FX is the leading developer of integrated graphics and effects technology, delivering 3D compositing and vector graphic products for the broadcast, post production, film and multimedia industries. Since the company's inception, Boris products have grown to serve over 200,000 artists worldwide. A great part of its success lies in the ability to tightly integrate and leverage technologies through strong partnerships with industry-leading manufacturers including Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Avid, Eyeon, Grass Valley, Media 100, Sony , and Ulead. For more information, visit www.borisfx.com.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete

Save money on pre-made video backgrounds! Quickly design and animate your own unique video backgrounds by combining Boris Continuum Complete 5's Prism filter with your favorite Apple Final Cut Pro Generator.

Watch the Podcast!

Don't have Boris Continuum Complete? Download a free 14-day trial for After Effects and compatible, FxPlug (Final Cut Pro and Motion) or Avid. Buy Continuum Complete here in multiple flavors.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Podcast, Tutorial

Boris Final Effects Complete has been added to the Boris Motion Graphics Pack, which also includes Boris RED and Boris Continuum Complete. The best part? The price is the same!

• Boris Motion Graphics Pack (RED+BCC+FEC) for Adobe After Effects/Premiere Pro Users
• Boris Motion Graphics Pack (RED+BCC FxPlug+FEC FxPlug) for Final Cut Pro Users

Labels: Adobe, After Effects, Boris, Continuum Complete, Final Cut Pro, Final Effects Complete, Premiere Pro, RED

I was invited to the June Motion Picture Collective Meeting on plug-ins. It was held at Pratt Institute in New York City.

I got there about 45 minutes early and there was no one there! After about 30 minutes I started to worry that I came to the wrong place. As I was walking around I ran into Wes Plate of Automatic Duck. We chatted for a bit and then people started to roll in.

The pizza, sponsored by Sony, was incredible. Seriously, some of the best I've ever had. I had some veggie concoction, but Michael Vitti, head of MoPic Collective told me they also had some Cajun Shrimp pizza, but they only ordered one pie. Sounds fantastic!

The meeting started with an introduction and then Frank Garfi and Marc Fratto talked about their film Zombies Anonymous. Two words: Gratuitous violence. Their talk was pretty interesting though. They've taken the zombie story and flipped it around, making it a statement about how Arabs were treated after 9-11.

After that, Juan Martinez and Andrew Shipsides talked about Sony's EX Cameras.

Wes Plate from Automatic Duck came up and presented his products. Since there were so many editors in the audience, there was a lot of interest in his FCP products, especially.

My turn. Right before the show began, we were told we have an extra 15 minutes to fill. My presentation was planned to be exactly 20 minutes! Haha. I began asking the audience some questions about editing technique vs. software knowledge and then talked about Toolfarm. I presented Boris Continuum Complete and as usual, people are blown away by the Motion Key filter. I also had quite a bit of interest in the BCC Pan & Zoom filter which gives the Ken Burns style effect. I had a bit of time at the end, so I quickly showed Red Giant's Primatte Keyer, since keying seems to be a hot topic lately.

Next Michael Vitti showed Zaxwerks ProAnimator, then Jason Diamond showed Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks, which is always a crowd pleaser. I can't help but think that Zombies Anonymous could have benefited from a touch of Looks! Jason did a great job of presenting Looks and demo'd with some footage from a music video he had recently finished.

They also had an auction that night with tons of stuff.

Anyway, it was a good meeting and it was fun to get to New York City again. Thanks Michael Vitti for the invitation and the shirt. I love free shirts! It was great to see everyone in NYC, especially my old buddy Jim G. of the Toolfarm Expert Forum and Chris Tack, one of my former students who headed out to NYC after graduation. I also met quite a few new people from the NYC area. I saw Mario Lopez at a hot dog stand too! He's buff!

Labels: Automatic Duck, Boris, Continuum Complete, Event, Magic Bullet Looks, Moving Picture Collective, Primatte Keyer, ProAnimator, Red Giant, Zaxwerks

For a limited time, Boris offering a free, fully-licensed plug-in from Boris Continuum Complete 5 - Rays Cartoon, an innovative filter that creates light out of the user-defined 'cartoon edges' of an image. BCC Rays Cartoon is available for Adobe CS3, Apple Final Cut Studio 2, and Avid.


Download Rays Cartoon now! This free filter offer expires July 1, 2008.

Tutorial: Generate a Volumetric Light Effect

In this tutorial, we will use BCC Rays Cartoon to generate a volumetric lighting effect on an animated text element; BCC Rays Carton will also give the text the appearance of being made of neon lights. Then, we will use BCC Light Sweep to add a light sweep across the face of the text. Finally, to complete the effect, we will use BCC Colorize Glow to provide a soft glowing look.

Read the Tutorial

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Free

Download the newest trial versions for Boris Continuum Complete 5.07 FxPlug and Boris Red 4.3.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Demo, FxPlug, RED

Come meet me at the Motion Picture Collective NYC's meeting this Thursday, June 12. I'll be presenting Boris Continuum Complete and possibly Boris Final Effects Complete at Pratt Manhattan, 2nd floor.

Thursday, 12 June 2008, 6:00-8:30pm at Pratt Manhattan, 2nd floor. Google Map

Seating is limited to first come, first serve, but the meeting is open to members, subscribers and their friends, so please join us.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Event, Final Effects Complete, User Group

Yep, that's right. I'll be at the Motion Picture Collective meeting demoing Boris Continuum Complete and maybe Boris Final Effects Complete if there is time.

From the MPC newsletter:

Toolfarm has been taking a proactive community approach to EFX for a while now with the Plugged-In podcasts, the Experts Forums and their great compendium of plug-ins & software. Michele is the VP of Marketing for Toolfarm and is hence responsible for the awesome, 50% off One Day Sales (I keep missing). If not for the pizza or the auction, you must make it a point to meet the Software Diva, the Effects Dignitary, Michele Y and her Boris FX demo.

Oh, they flatter me. I'm certainly can't take credit for the One Day Sales. Effects Dignitary.... I like that. Has a nice ring to it. :-)

The Moving Pictures Collective NYC's June '08 is scheduled for Thursday, 12 June 2008, 6pm-8:30pm at Pratt Manhattan, 2nd floor.

They have a full card this evening with a bunch of great plug-in developers and Sony's EX-3. The meeting will start promptly at 6:00pm with pizza. Seating is limited to first come, first serve, but the meeting is open to members, subscribers and their friends, so please join us.

Pratt's Manhattan campus is located at 144 West 14th St between 6th and 7th Avenues on the south side of the street. Best train stations are Union Square (4/5/6, Q/W + N/R), 1/2/3 at 14th St (7th Ave), the F/V or L at 14th Street (6th Ave) or the A/C/E at 14th Street (8th Ave). Google Map.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Event, Toolfarm

The latest demo for Boris Continuum Complete 5 Sparks for Autodesk Advanced Systems is now available.

• Download demo
• See BCC Sparks in action!
• Buy Boris Continuum Complete 5 Sparks for Autodesk Advanced Systems
• Learn more about Boris Continuum Complete in Toolfarm's Plug-in Finder

Labels: Autodesk, Boris, Continuum Complete, Demo

Boris Continuum Complete 5.0.5 FxPlug is now available. Version 5.0.5 takes further advantage of Apple FxPlug performance acceleration in Final Cut Pro by adding new vector processing and optimizing color conversion, field rendering, and multi-processor acceleration. BCC 5.0.5 FxPlug is a free update for BCC 5.x FxPlug customers. Boris recommends that all BCC 5.x FxPlug customers update to BCC 5.0.5 FxPlug.

Download Final Effects Complete 5.0.1 on our demos page.

Labels: Boris FX, Continuum Complete, FxPlug, Update

Major update to the popular visual effects package for Autodesk Advanced Compositing and Finishing Systems adds 13 new filters

Marlborough MA - May 22, 2008 - Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that Boris Continuum Complete 5 for Autodesk Sparks (BCC 5 Sparks) is now available. Version 5 feature highlights include a new Optical Flow-based Motion Key for foreground object removal, Optical Stabilizer for smooth image stabilization, and a range of other new effects. OS and host support extends to the latest version of Linux and the 2009 lineup of Autodesk compositing and finishing systems: Flint, Flame, Inferno, and Smoke, including Burn network rendering. The BCC 5 Sparks package contains a total of 145 filters including the popular Glint, Glitter, and Glare series, Lens Flare, Film Process, Film Damage, Particle Systems, Volumetric Lighting Rays, and Wipe effects.

"The new Autodesk Sparks update of the popular BCC package will save our customers time and money by automating tedious frame-by-frame rotoscoping jobs with Optical Flow technology," comments Boris Yamnitsky, founder and president, Boris FX. "Many new effects and workflow suggestions came straight from our user forums as well as Autodesk's customer base."

Boris Continuum Complete is the only plug-in suite that allows users to swap filter presets with other BCC host applications regardless of the manufacturer or model. This streamlined workflow allows editors to copy effects from offline to finish and vice versa. Additionally, the new BCC Sparks release includes over 1,500 preset effects, further accelerating effects production workflow.

New BCC 5 Sparks Filters:

• Motion Key - remove moving foreground objects based on the motion vector field automatically generated by the filter.
• Extruded Image Shatter - break up an image into extruded shards flying in 3D space.
• LED - transform a movie clip or text layer as if it was displayed on an array of blinking LED (Light Emitting Diode) lights.
• Prism - simulate the photographic effect of chromatic aberration for artistic effects or auto-generated backgrounds.
• Damaged TV - emulate the look of a badly-tuned or broken analog CRT television screen.
• Scanline - create rolling RGB scanlines over the source image - for example, as if a computer monitor is shot by a video camera.
• Optical Stabilizer - automatically lock a hand-held shot without having to set up tracking points.
• Color Choker - Posterize and blur color channels to achieve creative and artistic looks.
• BCC Cube - create a six-sided cube with your choice of media and transparency for each side.
• BCC Turbulence - create gel-like distortion fields using noise map and turbulence controls.
• Half-Tone - simulate the look of a newspaper print in grayscale or color.
• Noise Map 2 - generate procedurally-based, resolution-independent, auto-animated clips.
• Light Wrap - reflect the background layer in the foreground composite.

Pricing and Availability

BCC 5 Sparks is immediately available through the Boris FX worldwide reseller channel and direct from the Boris FX web site at www.borisfx.com for an MSRP of $2495.00 for new licenses and $695.00 for upgrades. Users can test-drive BCC 5 Sparks by downloading a 60-day Trial Version from the Boris FX web site.

Labels: Autodesk, Boris, Continuum Complete

Here I am at Denver International waiting for my connection and there's free wifi! I thought this might be a good opportunity to tell you about my experience at NAB 2008. I have about 10 minutes until I board, and I'll have to put up the photos later. Enjoy.

Sunday, April 13 - Arriving in Las Vegas

Alicia VanHeulen (fellow Toolfarmer) and I got into Vegas around 6pm and caught a taxi in the organized chaos outside the airport. I hate cabs. Hate em. I always get a weird cab driver who wants to come to my house or has some strange hobby he wants to tell me all about. This time, we got to spend 25 minutes hearing about how to prepare Lake Superior Whitefish.

We checked in at the Sahara, which was chosen souly on the fact that you don't have to walk through a casino to get to the monorail. We had plans to go to the FMC party on Sunday evening with John Kerr from Red Giant. It was $85 to get into the rooftop party at Pure at Caesar's Palace, however, RG was a sponsor, so we told them we were guests of John Kerr and they let us in with no problem. We had to walk through about a mile of corridors and stairways to get up to the roof where they had a small buffet of carved beef, shrimp on skewers and spring rolls, which were completely gone. We did have some refreshingly tasty drinks of vodka, cranberry, sprite, and grapefruit juice. There was a woman whose body was being painted on the patio, some people carrying around gobs of hula hoops, as well a big giveaway, that we didn't enter, unfortunately. We met some really cool people from Hawaii (Hi Shanti). We did finally meet up with John Kerr, Sean Safreed and Jeremy Hill from Red Giant, as well as our good friend Seth Hancock from ICVA and his lovely wife Lisa.

After the party, we headed to Mesa, Bobby Flay's restaurant, with the Red Giant guys and had a nice dinner. By the time we left, it was 3:00am our time, so we were tired, to say the least.

Monday, April 14 - Day one of the convention

7:45am - We took the monorail to the convention center. This was our first day on the convention center floor, and Alicia's first NAB ever. I took her to the doorway and pointed her to the Digieffects booth where she was starting her day, but I couldn't get in to the show floor due to the fact that I never received my badge! I had a printout receipt that I had registered in December. It took a while at registration but somehow they lost my registration. After 45 minutes, I was badged.

I headed over to Red Giant, where I had a presentation on Magic Bullet Looks at 10am. Looks is very easy to demo and lots of fun to use, and I have to say, the presentation went pretty well. I've just learned to get through the spiel within 10 minutes because people were standing and I wasn't giving a tutorial, but an overview. The Looks Theatre sold it for a lot of people. It was really great seeing everyone at the RG booth and meeting the new RG employees. Thanks for the nuts and popcorn, Beth! Delicious.

At 1:00pm each day I demoed Boris Continuum Complete and Boris Final Effects Complete at the Boris FX booth. This booth was on the middle aisle of the show floor in a highly trafficked area. Boris FX had a theatre set up with about 25 seats. It was the Motion Key plug-in for BCC that really seemed to get a lot of attention. I'll be putting together a tutorial for Motion Key in the next few weeks, because it really is an amazingly cool plug-in. It garnered lots of ooh's and aah's as a silver car driving across a busy street scene is removed from the shot with ease. I showed off the BCC UpRez plug-in, which converts SD to HD and uses a nifty feature called Magic Sharpen. I demoed the BCC Pan & Zoom which makes the Ken Burns style effects. I showed a few other BCC plug-ins and Final Effects Complete (FEC). Did you know all FEC plug-ins contain motion trackers and a feature called Pixel Chooser, which is a built-in masking tool? If you would've known that during the presentation, you could have won a Boris hat or training Class on Demand Boris Continuum Complete Training DVD.

Digieffects and Red Giant's booths were directly behind each other in the Plug-in Pavillion, which made things very nice for us. Digieffects was demoing the new Damage, as well as the Simulate and Natural Forces plug-ins for After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Combusion and Boris Red, which will be out in 4-6 weeks. We hadn't seen the new plug-ins at all yet, so it was a big difficult to answer questions. We ended up setting up little comps with examples, but then found the best way to demo was by using the little blue button. What is this little blue button? It's the randomizer. Shin Kurokawa, the engineer at Digieffects explained that he put the button in for testing purposes so he could see the range of values for each parameter without having to change all of the sliders each time, and soon realized that it's brilliant for getting ideas and seeing what variety of looks that the plug-in can produce. Tim Kolb, David Vieria and Robert Sharp were also at the booth with us all week. Robert... smart move on the couch rental. You can't go wrong with a big comfy couch, especially after you've been on the show floor all day.

Monday night was the IMUG Media Motion Ball 2008 at the Sahara Hotel, which I've attended the last 4 years. The crowd is generally IMUG and AE-List people. Brian Maffitt of Total Training was the speaker and once again and he was hilarious! Brian is a collector of crazy movie memorabilia and marketing gimmicks from William Castle fims. The presentation was about brilliant marketing campaigns for these movies. Macabre with the tagline 'So Terrifying We Insure You For $1000 against Death By Fright! (Not valid for persons with heart or nervous conditions)'. He showed us an original Tingler (filmed in "Percepto"). The best film of all, The House on Haunted Hill, filmed in "Emergo", in which an inflatable skeleton would pop out over the scene. Well, Brian had one of these inflatable skeletons with him at the dinner! We laughed, we cried, it was better than The Tingler.

Dinner at the Media Motion Ball was delicious as always. It was antipasto, salad and several Italian dishes. The highlight was definitely the dessert. Steve Kahn had arranged a surprise for everyone and that was Bananas (and strawberries) Foster over ice cream. Fabulous. I think overall I gained 5 pounds in Las Vegas, but I probably walked it off.

Alicia and I dined with Mark Spencer, author of Apple Pro Training Series: Motion 3, which I highly recommend. Also at the table was Niclas Bahn of Noise Industries on crutches, Niclas' girlfriend, Peter Wiggins and a few others from Noise Industries. Straight across from me was the guy who looks like Andy Samberg from SNL (who incedently ended up winning a Boris Training DVD during my presentation).

It was great to see everyone again at the MMB - it's kind of like a reunion every year. I get to meet up with Keith and Alan, the Plugged-in Podcast guys, Jim Kanter, who is one of our forum experts, a lot of the plug-in developers and those wild and crazy guys from Anchorage. They had gobs of giveaways, including several donated by Toolfarm. I didn't win anything, but I got to go on stage and draw a few names. The first name I drew was Lisa Hancock, who took home Maxon Cinema 4D. Toolfarm did give away lots of prizes, including several bundles of Professional Video Templates, Harry Frank's Expressions Training and his Trapcode Form Training, and two copies of Digieffects Damage.

We cabbed over to the party with Harry Frank and left the MMB early to go to Peder Norrby's party (Peder Norrby is the man behind Trapcode). Sadly, Ko Maruyama told us that not long after we left the MMB, Harry Frank's name was drawn for the big prize of the night, but since he left, he couldn't claim it. Bummer.

Peder threw yet another swanky party! The suite was very modern and silver and on one of the top floors of the hotel. From the main room you could see in the bathroom through a window and there was even a stripper pole in the shower! Crazy stuff. I have a feeling Paris Hilton had stayed in that very room last weekend. There were lots of people from the plug-in industry in attendance and a DJ spinning some great house music. Peder has a new product coming out called Trapcode Horizon, which helps AE users work in 3D space. He presented it at the Red Giant booth, but unfortunately, I missed his presentations. He wasn't showing anything at the party, just socializing. Horizon will be out near the end of summer, so stay tuned.

Tuesday, April 15

The second day on the show floor was busier than the first. I did another presentation for both Red Giant and Boris FX and each went smoother the second time around. Alicia and I also worked at the Digieffects booth showing the new plug-ins. I caught a couple of great presentations at the Adobe Booth - one about After Effects, presented by Steve Holmes, and one about working with video in Photoshop, presented by Richard Harrington. I use these programs day in and day out and they both managed to show me new things about the software. I took notes during both presentations and both really got the wheels in my head spinning.

I walked around and got a nice demo of GridIron Flow from Jim Geduldick. The GridIron booth was freakin' huge. Andrew Kramer, Aharon Rabinowitz and Mark Coleran were also hanging around the booth, demoing the GridIron goods. They were also giving away cool GridIron yo-yo's. You know the first yo-yo's were used as weapons? I learned that one from a tv commercial.

Pete from RE:Vision Effects gave us a nice demo on DE:Noise and Shade/Shape, and we also spent a some time with Jim Tierney of Digital Anarchy, as he walked us through ToonIt and some of their other offerings.

I also sat in on an awesome presentation by Harry Frank at the Red Giant booth. He showed off some cool projects that he did using Trapcode Form and Trapcode Particular. He broke down his technique into little bit-sized pieces. It was really amazing work. Harry is just so darn talented.

Colin and Jason Sharp from Toolfarm flew in Tuesday and the Toolfarm crew went to a fabulous dinner at B&B, Mario Batali's place. I tried the most amazing octopus appetizer, and had sweet potato ravioli with sage butter, as well as squab with beet risotto. Did I mentioned I think I gained weight? :-) Afterward we met up with some friends from Boris FX/Channel Wolves and walked a bit around the Venetian.

Wednesday, April 16

Another day on the show floor and boy, are my dogs tired! More presentations for Red Giant, Digieffects and Boris FX. By this time, I'm pretty good with the presentations. Also, this is Alicia's birthday. Happy Birthday! What did Alicia do on her birthday? Presented Magic Bullet Frames at Red Giant's booth. Now how many people get to do that on their birthday!? Haha. I also met Bert Kish at the RG booth. Bert was the winner of the MyToolfarm Red Giant NAB contest. He presented his winning video and also showed what went into the project.

On Wednesday night I ended up going out with Boris and his crew. We ate at an Italian place in the Venetian. I ate some really interesting pear ravioli with a bechemel sauce and some asparagus. Yummo. I just love the guys from Boris. They are all such nice guys. The food was fantastic as well.

Thursday, April 17

It's the last day of the show, so we got up nice and early and met Kevin Bourke who handles PR for the likes of Automatic Duck and Imagineer Systems for breakfast at the EGO Cafe, right outside the convention center. He told me about Imagineer mogul so as soon as I got into the show I went in to check it out. It was a private screening room and the presentation was given by CE and Alan Jaenicke of Imagineer. I am not entirely sure what information they'd like to be shared about this product, but I can tell you it's a subscription based product that includes software and hardware and is something that is in dire need. This product is going to be massive. Huge.

I also stopped by to see the GenArts booth and talked with Anish and Laurie. Lastly, we sat in on a private demo of Nuke at The Foundry's booth. It's awesome. I want it. We did get some free training DVDs on Nuke and we can download the demo. Too bad I am not doing any work that requires such a splendid piece of software. I didn't have much time to see anything else because we had to get to the airport.

What I learned at NAB 2008

I've learned a few tricks over the past few years at NAB that I think are worth sharing.

1. Avoid cabs if at all possible, unless you're looking for Lake Superior whitefish recipes and restaurant recommendations for Beverly Hills. Trust me. So, you ask, if you're avoiding cabs, how do you get around? There is a shuttle that goes between the convention center and the aiport that is free. That will save you $25 right there.
2. There is also a monorail. We bought monorail passes before the show and had them mailed to us. It was cheaper to buy 3 single day passes than it was to buy a three day pass. Weird. Now here's a great from Alicia. If you have single day passes, they are good for 24 hours. To maximize your usage, get to the station a few minutes earlier each day. If you use your card for the first time at 8:26am on Monday, you can use it at 8:23am the next day. You can start your next single day pass on the way back.
3. When registering for your NAB pass, it doesn't hurt to register twice! NAB will hate me for saying so, but I would have saved myself 45 minutes at registration on Monday morning if I would have registered again when I didn't receive my badge by mail.
4. Wear comfortable shoes and bring bandaids. Sunglasses are also mandatory, as well as a little bottle of vitamin E to rub on chapped hands and lips. The desert is incredibly dry and flying doesn't help matters.
5. Keep a pen with you to make notes on the back of people's business cards. This will help you keep them straight when you get back.
6. Free wifi is a bit hard to come by in Las Vegas. If they can make money off of something in Vegas, they will. One place you can get free wifi, or even check your email at one of their computers, is the Sprint Center at the monorail station at the convention center. Las Vegas' McCarran Airport (and Denver Airport which we flew through) also has free wifi. I love free wifi, but I'm Dutch, so I like anything free. :-)

Time to recover. A massage sounds really good right now.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Damage, DE:Noise, DigiEffects, Imagineer mogul, Imagineer Systems, NAB, Particular, Red Giant, Total Training, Trapcode, Trapcode Form, Trapcode Horizon

Download the Boris FEC FxPlug for Final Cut Pro and Motion here. It's good for 15 days. It's (obviously) Mac only, but there is a version for After Effects and compatible also.

There are also many ways to buy FEC:

• Boris Final Effects Complete 5.0 FxPlug Version for Final Cut Pro and Motion
• Boris Final Effects Complete 5.0 FxPlug Version for Final Cut Pro and Motion Upgrade or Crossgrade for Boris Continuum Complete Users
• Boris Final Effects Complete 5 FxPlug & AE Bundle Mac
• Boris Final Effects Complete 5 AE Upgrade and FxPlug Crossgrade Bundle Mac
• Boris Native Filter Suite for Final Cut Studio Mac (Final Effects Complete 5 FxPlug & Continuum Complete 5 FxPlug Bundle)
• Boris Final Effects Complete 5.0 FxPlug Version for Final Cut Pro and Motion Academic

We're in the process of updating the FEC entry in our Plug-in Finder.

Labels: After Effects, Boris, Continuum Complete, Final Cut Pro, Final Effects Complete, FxPlug, Motion

We've just added a quick sale on most of our Wacom Tablets. Save an additional 4% off the regular discounted price at Toolfarm! Save on the Intuos and the new Cintiq tablets. It's an instant rebate.... so instant that we just knocked it off the price! The offer expires February 29, 2008.

Also on special: Digital Anarchy ToonIt! for Avid Limited time Toolfarm only introductory pricing of $229! Save $70! This offer also ends February 29, 2008.

You still have time to cash in on the Imagineer Systems mocha Node-locked License Crossgrade for mocha AE owners February 2008 Special! mocha AE owners can upgrade to the full version of mocha for just $399 through February 29, 2008. If you don't own mocha AE, you can still get in on the offer.

Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks Crossgrade from Digieffects Cinelook (Regular price: $399.00, Toolfarm price: $99.00) and the Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite Crossgrade from Digieffects Cinelook (Regular price: $799.00, Toolfarm price: $299.00). Save an additional $100 for a limited time! Offer Expires February 29, 2008.

Buy Boris Continuum Complete 5 AE and get Title Toolkit for FREE! Expires Saturday, March 1, 2008. Title Toolkit is available for a suggested retail price of $299 USD. In addition, Title Toolkit is now included FREE with Boris Continuum Complete 5 AE purchases (including the AE/FxPlug bundle and BCC 5 upgrades). This offer expires Saturday, March 1, 2008 and is valid for the download version of Title Toolkit.

Check out our Current Specials page for all of our specials. We keep it updated with the latest deals and we have some AWESOME deals for March. Be sure to sign up for our newsletter so you don't miss out.

Labels: Continuum Complete, DigiEffects, Digital Anarchy, Imagineer Systems, Magic Bullet Looks, Magic Bullet Suite, mocha, Mocha AE, Red Giant, Sale, Title Toolkit, ToonIt, Wacom Tablets

There are several Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) filters that were designed to produce the glow effect that is very popular for sports broadcast and commercial spots. In this new tutorial, we will use BCC 5 AE in Adobe After Effects CS3 to give you an overview of the BCC Glow, BCC Colorize Glow, and BCC Glow Alpha Edges filters. These same filters are available for Avid and Apple Final Cut Pro editors with a similar workflow using BCC 5 AVX and BCC 5 FxPlug. In addition, the glow filters are included with RED 4.2, Boris FX 9.2, and Graffiti 5.2.

Read the tutorial

Labels: Boris, Boris FX, Continuum Complete, Graffiti, RED, Tutorial

Get the latest 5.0.2 point upgrade for Boris Continuum Complete AVX.

Labels: After Effects, Avid, Boris, Continuum Complete, Demo, FxPlug

This update will bring CD or Try and Buy installs of BCC FxPlug 5 up to date with version 5.0.3. The FxPlug version works in Final Cut Pro and Motion.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Demo, Final Cut Pro, FxPlug, Motion

Final Effects Complete 5 AE is a ground-up re-write of the legendary Final Effects Complete filters by the Boris FX development team. With a modernized user interface, multi-processor acceleration, and 16-bit color processing, the famous Final Effects Complete filters are ready for the creative minds of the 21st century. Well known for the unique particle treatments of Mr. Mercury and Bubbles, the creative distortions of Griddler and Flo Motion, the eye-catching, stylized effects of Mr. Smoothie and Glue Gun, and the excellent edge treatments of Sparkle Edges and Wiggle Edges, Final Effects Complete remains the hidden secret behind many award-winning projects. While borrowing many new technologies from Boris Continuum Complete, Final Effects Complete 5 AE remains fully compatible with all previous FEC versions, allowing you to open and adjust any existing Adobe After Effects project.

What's New in Final Effects Complete 5 AE

FEC 5 AE supports Adobe After Effects CS3 and Adobe After Effects 7 under Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Windows Vista. FEC 5 AE is a Universal Binary release.

Final Effects Complete USD Pricing

• Suggested Retail Price: $895
• Suggested Educational Price: $295
• Upgrade from Previous Versions: $295
• Crossgrade for Boris Continuum Complete Users: $295

Final Effects Complete 5 FxPlug for Apple Pro Video Applications and Final Effects Complete 5 AVX for Avid NLEs are coming soon. Stay tuned!

A demo is available for Final Effects 5 AE

Labels: After Effects, Boris, Continuum Complete, Final Effects Complete, Universal, Vista

Boris Continuum Complete's FREE (registration required) Snow filter is an auto-animated snow generator. The filter offers extensive options and allows you to create drifts or make flakes pile up along the edges of an alpha channel. The free BCC Snow filter offer expires on March 1, 2008. You must install the free filter before this date.

Download the Free Snow Filter for Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion

Download the Free Snow Filter for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects


Don't have Boris Continuum Complete? Download a free demo or purchase from our store. Don't forget that for a limited time, if you purchase Boris Continuum 5 AE you get Boris Title Toolkit for FREE!

Tutorial: Make it Snow with the Boris Snow Filter

What good is a snow effect if the snow does not stick to the horizontal surfaces in the shot? The Boris Continuum Complete Snow filter can make snow do just that, creating a realistic look for your wintry scenes. The BCC Snow generator is featured in just about every Boris product, including Boris Continuum Complete, Graffiti, RED, and Boris FX. It works especially well with text captions, creating snow that accumulates on top of the letters for a natural look. Best of all, BCC allows you to create this effect right in your NLE! Apple Final Cut Pro Tutorial
and Adobe Premiere Pro Tutorial.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Free, plug-ins

Boris Title Toolkit gives Adobe After Effects users superior titling capabilities in a familiar environment for maximum quality, speed, and creativity. Using Title Toolkit, video editors, graphic artists, and compositors can import ASCII or RTF files for fast, easy credit rolls, take advantage of rich text style options such as bevel borders, gradient fills, simulated extrusion, and embossing, and save or apply custom or preset text styles, gradients, and colors, all of which can be applied on a per character basis. Title Toolkit supports Truetype, Postscript, Unicode, and Multibyte fonts on Mac and Windows, including Leopard and Vista.

Title Toolkit is available for a suggested retail price of 299 USD. In addition, Title Toolkit is now included FREE with Boris Continuum Complete 5 AE purchases. Offer expires March 1, 2007.

Boris Title Toolkit supports Intel and PowerPC-based Macintosh systems.

Try a free 15-day demo of Boris Title Toolkit today!

Labels: Boris FX, Continuum Complete, Demo, Sale, Title Toolkit

Boris Continuum Complete Sparks is a massive filter set for Inferno, Fire, Flame, Flint, and Smoke systems. BCC now combines volumes I and II to give Autodesk users access to 130+ filters and 1,500 presets including blurs, tints, glints, glares, lens flares, glows, time warps, and much more. Sparks is an advanced Application Programming Interface (API) for developing custom plug-ins.

Labels: Autodesk, Boris, Continuum Complete

Marc Franklin over at Studio Monthly reviewed Boris Continuum Complete 5 and gave it mad props.

...BCC 5 is a sophisticated and fast answer to your workflow. It has a high-end feature set that lets you create top-notch results within minutes.

Read the BCC5 Review at Studio Monthly

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, reviews, Studio Daily

Here is the review that I mentioned earlier in the month for BCC5 for FCP from Post Magazine. Enjoy.

I should mention it's actually called Boris Continuum Complete 5 FxPlug, meaning it runs in both Final Cut Pro and Motion and allows you to work between the two programs without rendering. FxPlug technology is so awesome.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, reviews

The entire collection of Boris technology is now available for just $1,995 (USD).

The Windows box set includes:

• RED: Integrated 3D/2D Compositing, Titling, and Effects
• Blue: Real-Time 3D Compositing and Motion Graphics
• BCC AE: 180 Native Filters and Transitions for Adobe CS3
• BCC AVX: 180 Native Filters and Transitions for Avid Xpress Pro
• Final Effects Complete: Native Filters for Adobe and Combustion
• Final Effects Complete AVX: Native Filters for Avid Xpress Pro
• Title Toolkit: Dynamic Titling Plug-ins for Adobe CS3

Crossgrades are available.

The Macintosh box set includes:

• RED: Integrated 3D/2D Compositing, Titling, and Effects
• BCC AE: 180 Native Filters and Transitions for Adobe CS3
• BCC FxPlug: 180 Native Filters and Transitions for Apple Final Cut Studio 2
• BCC AVX: 180 Native Filters and Transitions for Avid Xpress Pro
• Final Effects Complete: Native Filters for Adobe, Apple, and Combustion
• Title Toolkit: Dynamic Titling Plug-ins for Adobe CS3
• Media 100 Producer Suite: Professional, easy-to-use video editing software

Crossgrades are available

At $1,995, the Boris Box Set represents savings of over 60%.

Customers who own RED, Blue, Continuum Complete, Final Effects Complete, or Media 100 Producer can get the Boris Box Set for $1,595.

Educational pricing is available.

Labels: After Effects, Avid, Blue, Boris, Boris FX, Continuum Complete, Final Cut Pro, Final Effects Complete, FxPlug, Graffiti, Media 100, Motion, Premiere Pro, RED, Title Toolkit

I was just looking through Post's website and there are some reviews that might interest you.

Imagineer Mocha review by Fred Ruckel. Fred likes Mocha. Buy mocha!... do it for the children.

Post Magazine Reviews Boris Continuum Complete 5

Here is an excerpt from the review: "Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) has become an indispensable tool for my post production workflow. A job is not 'complete' until it's been run through Continuum Complete. No matter what kind of job it is: from keying to motion tracking or grading to uprezing, BCC has something for everyone."

I don't have a link (yet) to the BCC review. Maybe it's not on the site yet. I'll keep an eye out. Learn more about Boris Continuum Complete in our Plug-in Finder

Labels: Boris FX, Continuum Complete, Imagineer Systems, mocha, reviews

From Boris FX:

In this week's tutorial, we illustrate how to create a green screen effect using the BCC Chroma Key filter. BCC Chroma Key is used for compositing camera footage shot using a blue, green, or orange screen as a backdrop over a new background video or a still image from a separate file. BCC Chroma Key and other keying and matte filters are included as part of Boris FX 9.1, Boris RED 4.1, and Boris Continuum Complete 5.

Pull a perfect key in minutes!

Labels: After Effects, Boris, Boris FX, Continuum Complete, RED, Tutorial

Boris Continuum Complete 5 is an exceptional plug-in set for Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion, and I could go on for hours about all the effects and how great they are. The amount of thought that went into this plug-in set is obvious, and Boris is moving this plug-in set forward by leaps and bounds. Don't let the $895 price tag scare you away, as there are a few plug-ins in this set that if you were to buy separately, would almost cost you the same as BCC 5 itself. For all the users of Boris Continuum Complete who haven't upgraded to version five, what are you waiting for, and for everyone else, head on over to www.borisfx.com to download the free demo. You won't be disappointed.

• Buy or upgrade Boris Continuum Complete
• Download a free demo of Boris Continuum Complete
• Learn more about Boris Continuum Complete in our Plug-in Finder

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, reviews

The Boris Continuum Complete 5 Trial Versions have all been updated to reflect BCC 5.01:

• Boris Continuum Complete AE Windows and Mac
• Boris Continuum Complete FxPlug Mac
• Boris Continuum Complete AVX Windows and Mac

Download Boris demos here.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Demo

Got questions about Boris Continuum Complete, Final Effects Complete, RED or any other Boris Products? Get your questions answered by Peter McAuley of Boris FX and our other brainy Toolfarm Forum Experts. Peter has been with Boris since 1999, so he's very familiar with their product lines.

The new Boris FX Forum went up this morning. Go ask some questions!

Labels: Blue, Boris, Continuum Complete, Final Effects Complete, Forum, Graffiti, RED

A new addition to Boris Continuum Complete 5 (FxPlug), UpRez is a fantastic filter that lets you upscale SD video to HD. In this Boris FX podcast, Dave DiPinto demonstrates a possible production scenario in Apple Final Cut Pro 6 where you have D1 resolution stock footage that you want to use in a 1080 HD project.

Watch podcast in iTunes

If this link does not work for you, please follow these instructions:

1. Copy this link to your clipboard: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BorisPodcast
2. Launch iTunes. Go to Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast...
3. Paste http://feeds.feedburner.com/BorisPodcast and click OK

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Final Cut Pro, FxPlug, Motion, Podcast

Support for Adobe CS 3.0, Custom On-screen Controls, Heads Up Display and Innovative, Accelerated Filters

Marlborough MA - Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that Boris Continuum Complete 5.0 for AE (BCC 5.0 for AE) is now shipping. Supporting Adobe products since 1995, the new Boris release brings its 180 plus filter set to Adobe’s new Creative Suite 3.0 applications including the Intel Mac versions of Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects; extending the effects creation workflow and capabilities with custom on-screen controls, Heads Up Display (HUD) and a slew of new innovative filters. "BCC 5.0 for AE is so packed with new features that I haven't even had time to go through even a quarter of the new tools," comments Jean Hauptman, motion graphics designer and BCC beta tester. " The new native BCC package both compliments and extends the Creative Suite 3.0 effects creation functionality with features such as Optical Flow, Open GL rendering, Film Process, Motion Key and Optical Stabilization.

"We have been developing our Boris effects plug-ins for Adobe video solutions for over a decade – starting with Adobe After Effects version 3.0. With the release of Adobe Creative Suite 3.0 and the next-generation After Effects and Adobe Premiere products – we took advantage of the new plug-in architecture to provide even deeper integration allowing us to deliver custom features ideal for the Adobe post process," said Boris Yamnitsky, president and founder, Boris FX.

New BCC 5.0 filter highlights:

BCC UpRez is used for high-quality SD to HD conversions; BCC UpRez is designed to facilitate the resizing of image clips while minimizing the data loss that is usually associated with resizing media in a host. The BCC UpRez filter includes several high-end image processing algorithms to enhance the apparent sharpness and / or smoothness of the final result.

BCC Pan and Zoom known as the "Ken Burns" effect; BCC Pan and Zoom provides users extensive controls for precise image scaling and re-sampling. Overall better workflow and image quality is achieved with special filter features such as the "watch folder".

BCC MatchMove based on the award-winning motion tracking technology in Boris Red, the new BCC MatchMove filter allows users to combine motion tracking with transformation/compositing of a layer. With the BCC MatchMove filter, users can lock the movement of one image clip to another image clip using the built-in motion tracking function. BCC MatchMove provides controls for DVE functions such as tumble, spin and rotate, as well as realistic lighting controls.

BCC LED makes an image, clip or text element with alpha appear as though it was constructed out of an array of blinking or solid LED lights - similar to the display boards in sports stadiums. This filter is part of the new OGL category of filters in BCC that benefit from hardware acceleration to reduce render time.

BCC Prism can be used to simulate the photographic effect of chromatic aberration in which a bad lens can generate prismatic color fringing along edges of high contrast within the image. This filter is also part of the new OGL category of filters in BCC, which benefit from hardware acceleration to reduce render time.

BCC Scan Lines is another filter from the new BCC OGL category. This filter generates rolling RGB scanlines over the source image clip, emulating the effect of a computer monitor which was shot on video tape or film. The filter also includes a user controlled noise generator function for added realism.

BCC Damaged TV a filter in the Open GL category; BCC Damaged TV is designed emulate the appearance of a CRT style television set that is receiving a bad antenna signal or is in need of repair, complete with gun offset, distorted edges, image roll, noise, scan lines, and interference lines, this powerful filter features both automatic and manual modes.

BCC Turbulence generates auto-animated gel-like distortion fields in an image clip based on input from the built-in noise map and turbulence controls. This filter includes dozens of preset effect settings for accelerated effect production.

BCC Noise Map 2 generates procedurally based, resolution independent, auto-animated image clips that are used for backdrops or as a mask track input for other image clips. Dozens of presets are included with this filter for producing complex animations quickly and easily.

BCC Color Choker posterizes and blurs colors in an image clip. Colors in the clip to which the filter was applied can be attenuated or remapped individually or as an RGB group. Controls allow users to convert images to monochrome before applying a blur or choke for additional creative results.

Pricing and Availability
BCC 5.0 for AE is designed to support Adobe Creative Suite 3.0, Autodesk Combustion, and Eyeon Digital Fusion. BCC 5.0 for AE is available today through Boris FX worldwide reseller channel and direct through Boris FX web site at www.borisfx.com for an MSRP of $895.00 (new) , $299.00 (upgrade to BCC 5.0 for AE) and $495.00 (upgrade to BCC 5.0 for AE and BCC 5.0 for FxPlug). Special cost effective cross grade options are available for BCC AVX and BCC FxPlug products.

BCC 5.0 for AE no longer supports the Apple Professional Video applications that ship with the FxPlug architecture. These applications are supported by the new BCC 5.0 for FxPlug (shipped July 9th 2007).

About Boris FX
Founded in 1995 in Boston MA, Boris FX is the leading developer of integrated graphics and effects technology, delivering 3D compositing and vector graphic products for the broadcast, post production, film and multi-media industries. Since the company's inception, Boris products have grown to serve over 200,000 artists worldwide. A great part of its success lies in the ability to tightly integrate and leverage technologies through strong partnerships with industry-leading manufacturers including Adobe®, Apple®, Autodesk®, Avid®, Eyeon®, Grass Valley, Matrox®, Media 100®, Sony Pictures Digital®, and Ulead®. For more information, visit www.borisfx.com.

Labels: After Effects, Boris, Continuum Complete, FxPlug, Universal

Take BCC5 for a spin! The new version works in After Effects CS3, Premiere Pro CS3 and Combustion and is Universal.

There are also demos available for BCC 5 FxPlug for Motion and Final Cut Pro and a version for AVX on the same page.

BCC 5.0 for AE, PPRO and CMB can be purchased here. If you need an upgrade or would like a bundle, oh, we can help you with that!

Labels: After Effects, Avid, Boris, Combustion, Continuum Complete, Demo, Final Cut Pro, FxPlug, Motion, Premiere Pro, Universal

Would you like to take Boris Continuum Complete 5 FxPlug for a test drive? It's now available in our demos section. It is, obviously, FxPlug, so it's screamin' fast and it runs in Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Demo, FxPlug

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 Final Cut Pro Filters in Continuum Complete 5

BCC Version 5 offers Apple Final Cut Pro users major improvements to the award-winning BCC version 4. This is an essential upgrade for those who use Continuum Complete version 4. We have continued building on core technologies such as Optical Flow, OpenGL and motion tracking, and added key new features.

• UpRez
• Scanline
• Pan and Zoom
• Damaged TV
• Matchmove
• Turbulence
• LED
• Noise Map 2
• Prism
• Color Choker

Key Features for Final Cut Pro Users

Workflow Features for the Final Cut Pro Editing Environment

• High quality SD to HD conversion tool
• Professional Ken Burns effect with large still images
• Integrated Match Move right inside Final Cut timeline
• More than 1500 presets, save your own settings and share with other editing systems
• Precise Keying and advanced Matte filters
• Motion Tracking is integrated into all appropriate effects
• Integrated PixelChooser masking tool
• Each filter includes integrated online help
• Common post production tasks are simplified with wire removal, light wrap, as well as dust and scratches

True Layer Compositing and Time Based Effects

• Open GL filters add new unique looks to your video with blazing rendering speed
• Advanced high quality Keying
• Stack Multiple Filters on Keyed Elements or Titles
• Sophisticated layer blending
• Optical Flow creates keyframable motion effects and super smooth slow motion

A Wide Range of Powerful Filtering, Distorting, and Generating Capabilities

• A wide variety of effects such as Blurs, Glows, Light Rays, Wave Distortions, Particle Wipes, and 3D Shapes
• Film effects for making video appear more like film
• Auto-animating Wipe Transitions

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: Boris, Continuum Complete, Final Cut Pro, FxPlug, Motion

Download Boris Continuum Complete 5.0 for Avid AVX!

The FxPlug and AE versions will be available within the next couple of weeks.

Labels: Avid, Boris, Continuum Complete, Demo

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

Marlborough MA - Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that Boris Continuum Complete 5.0 for Avid® AVX^TM 2.0 architecture (BCC 5.0 for AVX) is now available. BCC 5.0 for AVX is a high performance desktop compositing plug-in package offering over 180 filters for professional visual effects creation. Leveraging the new AVX 2.0 API features, BCC 5.0 delivers a number of user workspace enhancements including on screen and contextual controls for faster and better effects design. Other significant additions are the new BCC 5.0 for AVX filters that incorporate high powered image scaling and motion tracking as well as OGL 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 5.0 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 5.0 on screen controls are designed specially for Avid AVX systems. They provide Avid editors an organized workspace in which they can visually set up often used geometric parameters such as Motion Tracker and Pixel Chooser. The new BCC 5.0 contextual controls reduce the user interface clutter whilst the new EZ mode helps users keep their focus on the main filter parameters.

"With the release of BCC 5.0, 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 work flow," 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 5.0 is a Must-Have addition to every video finishing system."

BCC 5.0 Filter and Feature Highlights New BCC 5.0 filters are either multi-core processor or OGL 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 more extensive controls for precise image scaling and re-sampling. Overall better workflow and image quality is achieved with special filter 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. With the release of version 5, the Motion Tracker has an improved UI, making it even easier to use.

New fast rendering OGL BCC filters; LED, Prism, Scanlines, and Damaged TV filters leverage OGL rendering technology allowing Avid editors to produce eye catching and unique looks quickly.

Enhanced noise and edge detection algorithms; BCC 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 5.0 for AVX is available today through Toolfarm for an MSRP of $895.00 (new) and $295.00 (upgrade) for Avid Xpress Pro systems and $1995.00 (new) and $599.00 (upgrade) for Avid Media Composer and Symphony systems.

About Boris FX Founded in 1995 in Boston MA, Boris FX is the leading developer of integrated graphics and effects technology, delivering 3D compositing and vector graphic products for the broadcast, post production, film and multi-media industries. Since the company's inception, Boris products have grown to serve over 200,000 artists worldwide. A great part of its success lies in the ability to tightly integrate and leverage technologies through strong partnerships with industry-leading manufacturers including Adobe®, Apple®, Autodesk®, Avid®, Eyeon® Grass Valley, Matrox®, Media 100®, Sony Pictures Digital®, and Ulead®.

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It seems like lots of specials are expiring today or tomorrow. The Boris Media 100 Producer and Boris Continuum Complete Bundle Special ends today, June 29. Don't miss out!

Regular price: $1,590.00
Toolfarm special price: $995.00

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Media 100

Get this exclusive Boris Media 100 Producer and Boris Continuum Complete Bundle.

If purchased separately, the cost of these packages is $1,590, but get it this month for only $995. This deal expires June 29, 2007.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Media 100

Entire Boris FX product line available for new Apple release; new Boris Continuum Complete package adds FXPlug integration

Marlborough MA - May 21, 2007 - Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that the entire Boris FX product line is available today for the new Apple Final Cut Studio 2.0 release. Owners of Boris Continuum Complete 4.1, Boris Red 4.1, Boris FX 9.1, and Boris Graffiti 5.1 can move to Apple Final Cut Pro version 6.0 and begin working immediately. Boris projects and presets are seamlessly transitioned to Apple Final Cut Pro 6.0; no additional software updates are needed.

The new Apple Final Cut Studio 2.0 release improves Boris plug-in integration as well as adds some key updates including support for Boris FX transitions.

Announced at NAB 2007 and shipping in Q2 1007, Boris Continuum Complete 5.0 family of products now includes support for the Apple FXPlug architecture. Boris Continuum Complete 5.0 for FXPlug is a brand new BCC package designed to support Apple Pro Applications via Apple proprietary FXPlug architecture. Customers who purchase Boris Continuum Complete 4.1 for use with Apple Final Cut Studio 2.0 on or after April 1, 2007 are eligible for a free Boris Continuum Complete 5.0 for FXPlug update.

Labels: Boris, Continuum Complete, Final Cut Pro, FxPlug, Graffiti, RED