Webinar Replay – Everyday VFX in Avid Media Composer

Live Training Event

If you couldn’t join us for last Tuesday’s training event with Steve Holyhead of Bloomcast, use your next lunch break to learn something new. Steve’s engaging presentation shed light on three everyday VFX problems, Pan & Zoom, Beauty Pass, and Transitions, which he solves using an array of filters from the BCC 8 AVX package.

Highlights included: a Ken Burns style pan & zoom with no key framing needed (!); a 1-2-3 step approach (BCC Smooth Tone, BCC Film Glow & BCC Film Grain) to giving your talent that Hollywood glow; and the power of BCC transitions – quick, easy, and versatile.

Plus, get a sneak peak of the soon-to-be released BCC v8.2 AVX with up to 100% improvement in render time, the additions of lots more “green dot” effects, and enhanced real-time performance.

Watch it now.

Here’s what people are saying: Steve Holyhead

“Thank you so much for one of the best planned and timed presentations/webinars to date. Kudos to Steve Holyhead for his excellent preparation and clear presentation.”

“Love your stuff – Great for adding a little spice or completely altering a clip or transition!”

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Extended One More Week – Save 50% Off Boris Continuum Arts Looks!

BC Arts Look Unit

Available now through Friday, May 10th.

Whether you’re looking to recreate this fall’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill graphic novel style or a watercolor style mimicking Paul Cézanne, the Boris Continuum Art Looks Unit has got you covered, including: Cartoon Look, Pencil Sketch, Posterize, and Halftone, and more.

Each filter has customizable preset looks that slash time-consuming rotoscoping and hand-painting tasks. Unleash your inner artist.

Buy it today, only $99! (Regularly $199)

Want to see it in action? Watch Boris TV, Episode 96: Create A Graphic Novel.


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Free Boris Continuum Presets by Expert Designer John Dickinson

BCC Presets

Three Filters, Thirteen Presets

John Dickinson of Motionworks has designed an exclusive Artistic Preset Bundle for BCC users based on three BCC Filters: BCC Charcoal Sketch, BCC Watercolor, and BCC Halftone. Each preset allows you to explore and apply distinctive styles without having to spend hours and hours tweaking individual effects controls.

Make your next project look like an Etch-a-Sketch drawing or an old-timey newspaper or give your footage a warm glow. Plus many more options like Blurry Misprint, Dark Daubs, and Soft Charcoal.

Download your free presets today.

Don’t have BCC 8 yet? Top reasons to upgrade! (#1 Reason: Free added-value like this!)

About John Dickinson

John DickinsonBased in Sydney, Australia, John Dickinson is a cutting-edge motion graphics artist who is in demand. As Senior Broadcast Designer at Foxtel (foxtel.tv) and ambassador and presenter for Adobe Australia, John delivers highly creative yet commercially relevant motion graphics solutions. With Motionworks, John combines 15 years of industry experience with a proven teaching ability to provide high quality learning resources that encourage and challenge participants to break through to new levels of excellence and impact in their work.

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Now Available for BCC v8.x AE Users: Download Boris Continuum Complete v8.2 AE for Free

BCC 8 AE

Download the Update

We recommend that all BCC v8.x AE users download this important update for its many enhancements, including: up to 100% improvement in render times (All OpenGL-accelerated BCC filters including, the ever-popular BCC Lens Flare 3D and BCC Stage Light filters, optimized for dramatically faster rendering), enhanced BCC particle effects (Faster rendering and greater depth-of-field implementation), and expanded graphics card support.

Read the Release Notes

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Live Training Event: Everyday VFX with Avid Media Composer

Live Training Event

When: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 @ 1:00 pm Eastern Time

One lucky attendee will win a Final Effects Complete AVX license!

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Join Steven Holyhead as he teaches you the ins-and-outs of creating vfx that you’ll use daily. From generating a Ken Burns-style pan and zoom to making your talent look Hollywood glam with a beauty pass to quickly creating highly stylized transitions, you’ll learn how to efficiently and effectively produce a more professional look, while also discovering some of BCC’s unique features.

About Steven Holyhead

Maxim JagoSteve’s education began with 16mm film, and he transitioned to videotape when he started his career in television. In Toronto in the mid 1990s, he edited his first TV series using Avid Media Composer. Steve quickly became an expert user of Media Composer and other non-linear editing systems, and he began training others in how to use them. He is known for masterfully synthesizing complex information into a plain-English, user-friendly learning experience.In 1999, Steve post-produced and edited Wilfred, one of the very first UK 35mm digital intermediate (DI) projects. Since 2000, through his work in the Hollywood and Burbank production communities, Steve has become an expert in HD cameras, film and DI processes, file-based production, and visual effects. He has worked for world-class media and technology companies, including Autodesk, Avid, BBC, and Discovery Communications, in addition to running his own company BloomCast.

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Coming Soon: New VFX Browser for Continuum Complete

BCC Effects Library Browser

At last week’s NAB Show in Las Vegas, we previewed a new, free VFX browser for Boris Continuum Complete. The Boris Continuum Complete Effects Library Browser plug-in will allow you to instantly preview BCC preset effects – even if you do not have BCC installed on your system.

Any of the thousands of factory-installed BCC presets will be previewable in real-time with host application video, allowing you to quickly find your desired look. Presets will be sorted by filter and filter category for maximum convenience. In addition, you will be able to preview custom BCC presets alongside factory-installed presets.

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Boris Soundbite Named a StudioDaily Prime Award Finalist

Boris Soundbite

Try Boris Soundbite Free for 14 Days

Boris Soundbite quickly and accurately finds any word or phrase spoken in recorded media. Video editors, producers, and journalists can instantly play all occurrences of a spoken phrase in their media, then insert the perfect take into their Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro project, organize clips around keywords, and even find replacement words for problematic audio. Based on Nexidia’s patented dialogue search technology – which has received accolades from Creative COW, DV, POST, and others – Boris Soundbite greatly reduces logging and transcription costs and lets you spend your time being creative instead of manually searching hours of video.

The new Boris Soundbite v2.1 includes the ability to import Final Cut Pro X projects. In FCP X, you can export any event via XML, and the XML can then be imported into Soundbite. Each event is treated as a FCP X project within Soundbite and all media from the FCP X event is indexed and searchable. In addition, all Soundbite functionality previously available for FCP 7 is now available for FCP X, including searching, previewing, grouping, and saving. Resources can be exported back to FCP X with markers using the “Export to FCP X XML” feature.

Get Boris Soundbite for just $295

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Boris TV Episode 167: Search for Dialogue and Insert the Perfect Take into Apple Final Cut Pro X

Soundbite

Boris Soundbite quickly and accurately finds any word or phrase spoken in recorded media. Video editors, producers, and journalists can instantly play all occurrences of a spoken phrase in their media, then insert the perfect take into their project. In this new Boris TV Episode, Steve Kanter demonstrates Soundbite v2.1′s audio indexing features and how the resulting XML data can be imported into Final Cut Pro X.

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Free Live Training Event on March 28th: Professional Transitions in Adobe Premiere Pro

Live Training Event

One lucky attendee will win a one year Adobe Creative Cloud Membership – a $600 value!

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Attend this free live training event and learn how to create and customize a variety of professional transitions using Boris FX v10 on the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 timeline. Presented by Adobe Master Trainer and Adobe Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book author Maxim Jago, this live training event will cover the following topics:

• Using Boris FX as a single-track transition
• How to create thumbnails and previews of transitions using your footage in the Boris FX Library Browser
• Customizing factory-installed preset templates
• Building unique custom transitions with Boris FX’s built-in image processing filters
• Sharing transition presets across platforms and host applications
• Installing and customizing third-party transitions

About Maxim Jago
Maxim JagoMaxim Jago is a media trainer, stage presenter, and filmmaker as well as an author of several media technology courses and books, including the Adobe Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book. He’s an Adobe Master Trainer, Grass Valley Master Trainer, and Avid Certified Instructor. Maxim developed his own approach to making complex technologies accessible and meaningful for creative minds, called the ESP Teaching System. He presents internationally at media events and conferences, has trained editors all around the world, has been published in magazines and quoted in books, while teaching everyone from schoolchildren to professors, from ABC in Australia to the BBC in the UK. Maxim’s primary focus is on techniques that work in the real world, and he shares his time between teaching and producing films. His forthcoming feature film project, Orpheus Rising, based on an award-winning script he wrote, is currently in development.

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Apply Masks to Containers in Avid FX or Boris RED

Forum Tip

In response to a question on the Avid Community Forums, Boris FX Senior Product Manager Dirk de Jong illustrates a simple way to apply masks to a container element within the Avid FX or Boris RED environment by exploiting the pre-composition function. Pre-composition is a simple, powerful way to manipulate containers – very useful when compositing in Avid FX or Boris RED.

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