Boris FX Continuum 2024.5 Adds New Color & AI Tools, Particle Illusion Updates

The Boris FX Continuum 2024.5 release builds upon its fall release with two more advanced AI tools, a striking new colorize effect, Particle Illusion updates, and faster speeds.

Note: The Continuum 2024.5 is a free update for customers on a valid Upgrade & Support Plan or Subscription.

What’s New in Continuum 2024.5 Highlights

BCC+ Retimer ML

BCC+ Retimer ML produces unrivaled image quality on time warps with state-of-the-art ML models. The internal ML tech delivers smooth motion without the pesky artifacts traditionally associated with time-based effects. It also includes options to ramp up or slow down speed changes.

BCC+ Witness Protection ML

BCC+ Witness Protection ML automatically identifies and isolates human faces in a scene. The useful AI-powered tool features four ways to hide an identity: Blur, Mosaic, Brightness/Contrast, and Tint. Users can mix options to create a custom obscured look.

BCC+ Denoiser ML

Continuum’s first ML-powered tool — BCC+ Denoiser ML — gets a boost with newly trained models that result in 2x faster render performances and more types of footage covered.

BCC+ Color Link

BCC+ Color Link allows motion graphics artists, compositors, and editors to add stunning grades to clips by applying color from one layer and linking it to another. Users can choose 32-bit dynamic or static frame-by-frame color sampling. It also includes multiple blend modes and built-in glow and color correction tools.

Updated Key & Blend Tools

The Key & Blend category adds BCC+ Edge Cleaner, BCC+ Light Wrap, BCC+ Linear Luma Key, and BCC+ Spill Remover to help make green screen clean-up easier. The Stylize category adds BCC+ Mosaic, the Transitions category adds BCC+ Mosaic Dissolve and BCC+ Polar joins the Warp category. 

Particle Illusion

Particle Illusion gives users greater artistic control with new position path presets, the ability to replace an emitter after creating a complex animation, and a parameter search function.

Press release

Boris FX Continuum Adds Advanced AI Tools for VFX Artists and Content Creators

The 2024.5 release adds flawless time warps, automatic face detection, a deluxe new colorize effect, Particle Illusion updates, and faster speeds.

Miami, Florida, U.S.A — June 20, 2024 —  Continuum, the storied flagship visual effects plugin from Boris FX, expands its AI-driven capabilities with its 2024.5 release. The collection, which delivers the post-production software industry’s most comprehensive toolkit, now includes four powerful ML-based effects.

“With this release, Boris FX doubles down on its ML strategy first introduced with the 2024 releases last year,” states Boris Yamnitsky, president and founder of Boris FX. “We’re excited to build upon Continuum’s AI technology with two new internally developed machine learning tools and significant improvement on the existing denoising models.”

Boris FX Continuum 2024.5

“Artists tasked with slow (or fast) motion time warps on action sequences or sports promos will effortlessly create smooth crystal clear motion with Continuum’s new BCC+ Retimer ML effect,” continues Yamnitsky. “Additionally, unscripted series, newscasts, and documentary editors will save hours of work thanks to BCC+ Witness Protection ML. This innovative tool instantly finds multiple faces in a shot and makes hiding a person’s identity as easy as one click.

Boris FX Continuum 2024.5: New BCC+ Retimer ML

Machine Learning Tools

BCC+ Retimer ML produces unrivaled image quality on time warps with state-of-the-art ML models. The internal ML tech delivers smooth motion without the pesky artifacts traditionally associated with time-based effects. It also includes options to ramp up or slow down speed changes.

BCC+ Witness Protection ML automatically identifies and isolates human faces in a scene. The useful AI-powered tool features four ways to hide an identity: Blur, Mosaic, Brightness/Contrast, and Tint. Users can mix options to create a custom obscured look.

Continuum’s first ML-powered tool — BCC+ Denoiser ML — gets a boost with newly trained models that result in 2x faster render performances and more types of footage covered. 

Boris FX Continuum 2024.5: New BCC+ Witness Protection ML

Creative Effects

Continuum 2024.5 also strengthens its massive plugin collection with eight new effects, updates to its fast 2D/3D particle generator, faster playback in the FX Editor, and a host-side compare option when applying BCC+ effects. View the full product page.

BCC+ Color Link allows motion graphics artists, compositors, and editors to add stunning grades to clips by applying color from one layer and linking it to another. Users can choose 32-bit dynamic or static frame-by-frame color sampling. It also includes multiple blend modes and built-in glow and color correction tools.

The Key & Blend category adds BCC+ Edge Cleaner, BCC+ Light Wrap, BCC+ Linear Luma Key, and BCC+ Spill Remover to help make green screen clean-up easier. The Stylize category adds BCC+ Mosaic, the Transitions category adds BCC+ Mosaic Dissolve and BCC+ Polar joins the Warp category. 

Particle Illusion gives users greater artistic control with new position path presets, the ability to replace an emitter after creating a complex animation, and a parameter search function.

Boris FX Continuum 2024.5: New BCC+ Color Link

Pricing & Availability

Continuum is available as a plugin with annual subscriptions, upgrade & support plans, and permanent licenses. Host application support includes Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Foundry Nuke, Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve, and VEGAS Pro. See pricing.

Continuum customers on active subscriptions or upgrade & support plans receive the 2024.5 product release as a complimentary update.

About Boris FX

Boris FX creates award-winning video editing, visual effects, motion graphics, and photography plugins used by over one million broadcast, streaming, and feature film professionals worldwide.

The product line includes Sapphire, the high-end visual effects and motion graphics plugin suite; Continuum, the most complete plugin collection for editors and content creators; Mocha Pro, unparalleled planar motion tracking and masking; Silhouette, the most advanced paint, and rotoscoping tools; Optics, cinematic effects for photographers and digital artists; and CrumplePop, AI-driven audio plugins.

The company’s success lies in its ability to tightly integrate and leverage technologies through strong partnerships with Adobe, Autodesk, Avid, Blackmagic Design, Final Cut Pro, Foundry Nuke, VEGAS Pro, and other leading video software developers. Founded in 1995.