| Meet tight production schedules. Create dynamic titles, composites, effects and vector graphic inside your editing system and take advantage of cutting edge support for OpenGL hardware acceleration, the perfect combination of efficiency and raw speed. If you need effects for your NLE, build them inside your NLE. No tedious cycle of exports and imports, no media management issues, and no format hassles. Boris Red is the only integrated 3D compositing, titling, and effects application to deliver unparalleled performance at an affordable price to over twenty nonlinear editing applications. Designed specifically for editors, Red offers an unprecedented range of features and adds a standalone engine for rendering. Red integrates advanced 2D and 3D compositing, sophisticated titling, paint, rotoscoping, a full suite of tools to create and extrude vector objects, robust 3D creation and animation, and the industry-leading software DVE technology in a single application. Expand the capabilities of your editing system with just one application. Save time and money using one interface, in one system. Red 4 Key Features
- 164 video filters
- 16 bit color depth
- Raster Paint Engine
- Subtitle import feature
- OpenGL accelerated effects creation and playback
- Advanced 2D and 3D compositing with unlimited layers
- High quality keying, masking, mattes and Apply Modes
- Motion tracking, corner pinning and image stabilization
- Intersect any 3D shape including planes, spheres or extruded text
- Vector paint and rotoscoping with precise controls
- Over 110 filters including Wire Remover, Film Grain and Match
- Superior 2D and 3D titling
- Vector text for razor-sharp display at any scale
New Features
With the release of Red 4, Boris has added a list of new features to the already powerful integrated 3D compositing, titling, and effects application. Image Processing - 16 Bit Color Depth: 16 bit deep-color provides users with the ability to generate smoother gradients and more precise color correction via an expanded color palette, which expands the available color gamut from 16 million (8 bit color) to trillions of colors.) the result Is that gradients are far less prone to mach banding or color stepping.
- New User Interface: The user interface of RED 4 has been significantly improved in terms of looks and ease of use. For instance:
- the toolbar is now context sensitive
- the button array features bigger buttons that are user configurable
- buttons highlight as the cursor is rolled over them in the button array, the toolbar and at the bottom of the controls and composite windows
- the render queue has been redesigned to deliver more feedback to the user
- all windows feature tabs that automatically layer so that they remain visible regardless of the window size
- sticky windows ... windows to move together so that as you resize one window others windows resize automatically to accommodate the new size
- magnetic windows ... windows now pull toward each other when they are placed within a 10 pixel radius
- project window thumbnail previews can be temporarily disabled to speed the import of highly complex large compositions
- new Composite Window with integrated keyframe track
- tab based multi comp timeline window
- sticky windows option for easy layouts
- project settings and modeless options palette: The new addition of an Options Palette makes working with particular functions, such as grids and guides, or vector splines an easier task. For instance, to change the particulars of the grids and guide feature in previous versions of the product, the user was forced to go to the preferences window, make the change and then exit the preferences. The new Options Palette can be left open at all times and changes made in the Options Palette are instantaneous. The options palette is available for the following functions:
- Vector Trace
- Splines
- Grids and Guides
- Keyframe Interpolation
- Keyframe Generator
- Timecode
- improved project window with a media tab
- configurable shortcut buttons in timeline
- Paint Engine
- clone brush
- tablet support: The addition of support for pressure sensitive Wacom tablets, users can now work with these pressure sensitive Wacom tablet devices and use the Wacom data to drive raster paint strokes a variety of different ways. The data gathered from the tablet includes the following: pressure, velocity, direction, tilt, bearing, jitter, white noise, length and reverse length. Any one of these can be used to drive the color, opacity, and size of the brush along the leangth of the stroke.
- image based brushes, multiple layers supported
- spray, roller brush styles
- conversion to spline strokes
- Subtitles
- import EBU format: The subtitle import feature enables users to import EBU subtitle files and modify the imported text slates to suit their requirements right within the RED timeline. As added bonus to FCP users, the modified subtitle file can then be exported as FCP XML data.
- export flat movie with alpha
- import back to NLE for real-time playback
- export XML file for FCP integration
- Vector Spline tools
- vector trace tool: The Vector Trace tool enables the conversion from a raster bitmap Image such as a tiff, jpeg or a frame from a movie file to a scalable vector graphic with the ability to extrude any of the resulting vector shapes. Images are converted Into vector by simply selecting the Vector Trace tool and then dragging the tool over the Image which Is to be converted. Options for this function include the ability to select the color or alpha channel with which to base the conversion.
- motion path filter: With the motion path filter users can automatically place and animate 2D and 3D objects or shapes along a user defined bezier motion path.
- Optical Flow tools
- motion key
- optical stabilizer
- New filters
- new BCC filters: Boris RED 4 Includes some brand new filters from the Boris Continuum Complete 4 release. These powerful new filters are a significant addition to the product and ease the work of such common tasks as foreground object removal or Image stabilization.
- BCC Color Match filter ensures accurate color and luma match from clip to clip and can also be used as a stylistic effect.
- BCC Halftone filter simulates offset printing, where images are printed via an array of varying dots which carry ink onto paper.
- BCC Median filter can be used to simulate paint styles used in the Fauvism art movement.
- BCC Corner Pin filter with built-in 4 point tracking and compositing features makes It possible to pin one Image onto another.
- BCC Turbulence is used to distort an image based on a built-in noise map function.
- BCC Noise Map 2 generates more interesting noise than the original noise map.
- BCC Color Choker is used to blur and overdrive color channels.
- new FEC filters: FEC filters have been updated to better match RED4 environment.
- FEC Mr. Mercury
- FEC Kaleida
- FEC Radial Scale Wipe
- Additional new filters include:
- FEC Blobbylize
- FEC Drizzle
- FEC Glass
- FEC Glass Wipe
- FEC MinMax
- FEC Threshold
- FEC Threshold RGB
- New host support
- AVX 2 for Avid: Support for the Avid AVX 2.0 API enables the application to take advantage of some of the new features in the AVX2 API, which means for RED 4 users 16 bit deep color support while plugged Into that host environment resulting In cleaner color and gradients.
- Edius 4
- Vegas 7
- 844X
- FXPlug for FCP on Intel Mac (available as free update later 2006)
- Productivity
- Consolidate project feature: This feature automatically creates a folder and moves all media related to the current project into that folder along with the project settings file.
- improved render queue: Users can now render selected items from the render queue instead of having to render all items in order as in previous versions of the product.
- new browser presets: RED 4 includes many new composition presets, which were designed specifically for RED 4 by compositing and effects guru Steve Oakley.
- additional filter presets
- Browser only option for easy presets: Literally hundreds of additional presets have been added to the BCC filters, which are included in the RED 4 application making It easier than ever before to add new looks to your projects.
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Continuum Complete is a set of more than 150 fully native filters and transitions that are applied and animated in your application's interface. A large range of effects deliver everything from basic everyday utility and convenience to extraordinarily eye-catching special effects. Continuum Complete is a set of more than 150 fully native filters and transitions that are applied and animated in your application's interface. A large range of effects deliver everything from basic everyday utility and convenience to extraordinarily eye-catching special effects. Boris Continuum Complete provides cutting-edge filter technology that delivers high-end effects. Working directly in your native application interface, you can access filters and features that let you create unforgettable effects at an affordable price. Version 4 offers major improvements to the award-winning BCC version 3 by building on core technologies such as Optical Flow, OpenGL and motion tracking. True Layer Compositing and Time Effects
Compositing involves blending multiple video layers. BCC 3 provides effects that blend video layers in a number of desirable ways. Take advantage of advanced keying and matte control, blend layers by combining and animating Apply Modes or filter images selectively using the integrated PixelChooser masking. - Integrated PixelChooser: The PixelChooser is a convenient double mask integrated into most filters; it includes Region Controls for defining the area of the image to affect, as well as Matte controls for using channel information such as the chroma and luma to control the intensity of the effect within that region. Continuum 3 adds a new option which allows After Effects users to incorporate their custom masks into the PixelChooser.
- Advanced High Quality Keying: Boris Continuum Complete's superior keying filters use various techniques to create and adjust mattes. Chroma Key, Matte Choking and Alpha Process filters provide precise, clean keys. Some of the Boris Keying filters create mattes using the image's luma or color channel information, while others clean existing mattes by subtracting, adding, or blending pixels in the matte.
- Time Based Effects: BCC 3 allows you to create time-based effects such as realistic motion blur and animatable motion effects where velocity smoothly ramps up and down. The Time filters include Optical Flow which uses motion vectors to analyze the image and create new intermediate frames providing very smooth, keyframable, slow motion effects. Optical Flow analyzes motion vectors in the image to create new intermediate frames for super smooth keyframable slow motion effects. Click here for a 1.3MB Quicktime video showing the power of OpticalFlow.
- New Suite of Film Tools: Continuum Complete includes a suite of new film tools that allow you to create a variety of effects. Film Damage emulates many different aged film and film projector effects while Dust and Scratches removes unwanted damage from an image. Film Process gives video the appearance of having been shot on film. This filter allows you to integrate different types of media in your project. For example, match computer-generated animations with archival film stock, make video appear like color-pushed film, infrared film or make images appear warmer or cooler. You can combine this filter with the BCC DeInterlace, BCC Film Grain, BCC Film Damage and BCC Match Grain filters for the truly realistic results. In the following examples, the original image appears in the top left corner. The other images illustrate some of the different looks that can be achieved with the Film Process filter.
- Built In Motion Tracking: Built-in Motion Tracking allows Position parameters to follow the movement of something in the video image.
- Filters for Sophisticated Blending of Layers: Composite, RGB Blend and Boost Blend provide image blending effects based on Apply Modes. You can easily combine Apply Modes, animate between them and mix back to the original image to create a wide variety of looks. In addition, you can use the PixelChooser to create a matte between filtered and unfiltered pixels, either by specifying a geometric region or by using the image's luma or color information. For even more precision, use a region-based matte as a garbage matte, then combine it with a channel-based matte.
Powerful Filtering, Distorting, and Generating Capabilities
Compositing involves blending multiple video layers. BCC 3 provides effects that blend video layers in a number of desirable ways. Take advantage of advanced keying and matte control, blend layers by combining and animating Apply Modes or filter images selectively using the integrated PixelChooser masking. - Color Effects: Correct Selected Color - Allows you to adjust a specified range of colors in the source image, leaving colors outside the range unaffected. This filter goes beyond simply distinguishing shadows, mid-tones, and highlights by luma levels. This powerful and convenient tool adjusts specific colors within a shot, rather than color matching between shots.
- Blurs: Continuum includes several high quality Blurs. With integrated Apply Modes and PixelChooser masking, these filters can be used as a basis for a variety of useful effects.
- Distortion and Perspective: 2D Particles and 3D Image Shatter use auto-animation, so you can easily create effects where a video image or title dissolves into bits or explodes into pieces without having to keyframe. Controls for gravity, velocity, and particle wipes let you further refine the effects.
High quality distortion effects like Ripple, Wave, Twirl, Bulge, or Displacement Map - Ripple and Wave use auto-animation by default so they ripple and wave as soon as you apply them . These filters offer controls for speed, wave height, and light. Displacement Map allows you to displace the pixels of an image based on another image. Once again, these effects can also be used to great effect with titles or imported graphics. 3D Shapes like Cylinder, Sphere, Cube, and Page Turn - Map video, logos, or titles to 3D shapes with full 3D rotation control, and realistic lighting. - Film Effects: Deinterlace, Film Process, Film Grain, Film Damage, Match Grain - Film effects let you give video the appearance of having been shot on film. Emulate popular film stocks or integrate different types of media in a single project. For example, match computer-generated animations with archival film stock. Deinterlace converts to frame-based footage while maintaining the highest image quality and resolution. This filter also includes options for simulating telecine 24 fps material with pulldown. Film Process offers precise controls to simulate the tinting and gamma of film stocks. Film Grain and Film Damage can add grain, flicker, hair, and scratches. Match Grain samples the grain from one source and applies a similar grain to the filter clip.
- Glows: Colorize Glow, Glow, and Glow Alpha Edges - Colorize Glow creates a glow color that can be precisely defined by a gradient of up to six color values. Glow can create a glow based on the chroma, luma, or alpha channels of the image. Glow Alpha Edges quickly and easily adds a glow that extends beyond the alpha edges of a clip - great for use with a title, logo, or other keyed foreground element.
- Generators: Particle Based Generators including Comet, Rain, Snow, Sparks, and Particle System - Comet is an easy to use auto-animating particle emitting projectile that flies through 3D space. Rain and Snow offer a quick way to simulate earthly precipitation with controls to precisely composite with footage, and an interaction layer to make rain or snow bounce or accumulate. Particle System offers a full 3D particle generating environment with advanced features like particle attractors, the ability to use an alternate layer’s alpha or luma as a production boundary or interaction layer.
Procedural Texture Generators like Rock, Wood Grain, Steel, Brick, Granite, and Cloth - Each offers precise control to make the effects capable of a wide variety of looks. Most offer a Bump Map feature for a realistic 3D look and lighting, and integrated Apply Modes for compositing with video. - Light Rays: New Light Rays filters - Continuum 3 adds several new effects for simulating volumetric light rays. While these effects have many controls in common, each effect is geared toward a particular way of filtering or masking the light source. For example, mask the light source based on the luma edges (Rays Radiant Edges) or an outline around the edges (Rays Cartoon), or mask the light source based on an animatable ring or wedge shape (Rays Ring and Rays Wedge). You can also create dramatic effects where the light rays have an auto-animating shimmering texture that can be generated based on a ripple or noise map.
- Lens Flare: Lens Flare and Other OpenGL-based Light Effects - Continuum now offers high quality, realistic Lens Flare effects that accurately simulate light bouncing or refracting inside the camera lens. Glint and Glare simulate reflective light in the image that is based on the highlights of the video. Built in motion tracking lets you easily track a light source. Glitter generates moving and twinkling patterns of color or monochromatic stars.
- Wipe Transitions: New Auto-Animating Wipe Transitions - Continuum 3 offers a suite of wipes which provide a variety of unique transitions. You can apply and customize the wipes in no more than a few clicks (no keyframing required). Advanced features include animating patterns and noise that modify the shape of the wipe edge as well as multiple borders with options for softness and bias control. A unique Influence feature uses the luma or chroma values of a shot to influence the shape of the wipe edge, resulting in unique looks with a natural feel.
New In Version 4
Motion Key
The Motion Key filter is based on proprietary optical flow technology first introduced in BCC's Optical Flow and Motion Blur filters. The Motion Key isolates and removes moving foreground objects from a clip without the need for complex masking or cloning. Corner Pin
The Corner Pin Tracker lets you map media to a moving object using
perspective distortion to a clip. A four point motion tracker automatically pins a clip onto a specific region of another clip. 3D Extruded Image Shatter
The OpenGL-based 3D Extruded Image Shatter filter shatters a clip
into three-dimensional particles with adjustable extrusions. The filter provides a variety of explosion, velocity and gravity and auto-animates by default, although you manually animate it for precise control. Halftone
The Halftone filter simulates the look of traditional offset printed material by converting the image to simulated halftone dots. Median
The Median filter creates painterly brush style effect by making each pixel look like the majority of its neighboring pixels. Optical Stabilizer
The Optical Stabilizer uses optical flow technology to analyze a shaky clip then adjusts the track's position to compensate. Unlike many stabilizing tools, the BCC Optical Stabilizer does not require you to set user-defined tracking points. This allows you to stabilize images where tracking data is unreliable.You can also stabilize just a portion of a track to correct isolated camera bumps. Unlike many stabilize effects which only take horizontal and vertical movement into consideration, the BCC Optical Stabilizer takes motion, rotation and scaling into account when stabilizing. Color Match
The Color Match filter quickly matches the color and luma values from the highlight, midtone and shadow areas of two separate clips. Continuum Complete 4 Key New Features
- Updated host support includes Apple Final Cut Pro 5, Apple Motion 2.01, Autodesk Combustion 4, and Eyeon Fusion version 5; Adobe After Effects version 7.0 will be supported once it is released.
- New Version 4.0 filters include Color Match, Halftone, Median,
- Motion Key, Corner Pin Tracker, Optical Stabilizer and an
- OpenGL-based 3D Extruded Image Shatter.
- Filters now support 16-bit processing in supported hosts
- including the Adobe After Effects production bundle, Autodesk
- Combustion and Eyeon Digital Fusion.
- The Motion Tracker has been improved to let you process your image for increased accuracy.
- A new Motion key feature isolates and removes moving foreground objects based on motion estimation.
- Hundreds of new presets have been added.
- Support for Macintosh OS X Tiger.
Key Features:
- Color and Blur filters include Motion Blur, Radial Blur, Gaussian Blur, Unsharp Mask and true color correction.
- Distortion and Perspective filters to generate shapes such as spheres and planes intersecting in Z-space with soft cast shadows and 3D spotlights.
- Effects filters include Colorize Glow, DeGrain, Denoise, Deinterlace, Dust and Scratches, Film Process, Glow Alpha Edges and Match Grain.
- Lights filters include Edge Light, Lens Flare, Light Zoom, Glint, Glare, Rays and Spotlight. A subset of these filters use OpenGL for unprecedented rendering speed.
- Procedural generator filters such as Particle System, Clouds, Snow, Rain and Sparks.
- Advanced keys and mattes including superior Witness Protection, PixelChooser, Chroma, Luma and Two Way.
- Each filter includes presets for quick, customizable effects.
Works With:
- After Effects
- Premiere Pro
- Final Cut Pro
- Combustion
The Boris Title Toolkit is a set of dynamic plug-ins that allow you to animate broadcast-quality titles directly in the After Effects user interface. Create, position, and move titles and vector graphic elements in 3D space with features like Text On a Path, Type On, and Motion Blur. Title Toolkit also provides a variety of ways to randomize, jitter and scramble text characters and text styles, build vector shapes that can link to text, create film-quality rolls and crawls, animate text fill, borders, softness, and shadows, and link to built-in After Effects or third-party parameters. Broadcast-quality title animation has never been easier in After Effects. Supports Adobe After Effects v5.5, v6.0 and CS3. Final Effects Complete 5 AE
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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, FEC 5 AE remains compatible with all previous FEC versions released by Cycore, MetaCreations, and ICE. Significant new features in version 5
- FEC 5 takes full advantage of many technologies found in Boris Continuum Complete. Features such as PixelChooser, Motion Tracker, Preset Loader and Online Documentation hallmarks of BCC filters are now included with FEC, too.
New UI: The new modernized native parameter UI sports new control groups, contextual controls, on-screen widgets, custom controls and many other improvements. All parameter options are now readily available as native parameters without a need to open modal dialog windows. - 16 Bit Rendering : FEC 5 includes both 8 and 16 bit filters for highest quality image processing.
- MP Acceleration : All filters have been optimized from the original version to take full advantage of multi core and multi processor computing platforms. The overall speedup varies from filter to filter.
- PixelChooser Technology : Most FEC 5 filters feature the award-winning Boris PixelChooser where appropriate. PixelChooser is an internal method of selectively applying the image processing to the image based on criteria defined by the user. The criteria may vary from color channel information to simple geometric shapes to spline-based masks available in After Effects. This method is superior to layer duplication and masking because it is more flexible and efficient. The mask can be applied to various stages of pre and post processing. The parts of the image not chosen by the mask remain untouched by the filter.
- Multitude Of Standard Presets : As any Boris product FEC 5 ships with over 800 pre-saved presets for quick new looks. Custom presets can be saved and shared between multiple workstations and even emailed to other users.
- Extensive Filter Enhancements: FEC 5 AE adds new features and improvements to every one of the 108 filters in the set. Highlights include:
- Auto-animation in many of the transitions
- Extensive new controls in FEC Hair such as the ability to generate curly hair instead of just straight hair as well as the ability to modulate the gravity direction across the image based on a gradient map
- New FEC Bubbles controls for drift direction, particle randomness, and source texture mapping pinning. In addition, FEC Bubbles now includes a Deflector point to create regions with no bubbles.
- Much better lighting controls in Mr Mercury, Blobblylize, Glue Gun, Glass, and Ball Action
- Two new particle types in Particle Systems II Advanced Sphere and Advanced Lens. These new particle types allow you to generate different looking spheres with more extensive lighting control.
- New bend styles added to the FEC Bender menu
System Requirements
- Adobe After Effects CS3 or Adobe After Effects 7
- Mac OS X, Windows XP, or Windows Vista (FEC 5 AE is a Universal Binary release)
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