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| RED Tutorials |
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How do you make hundreds of lower-thirds without going mad? Follow the easy steps in this tutorial to generate any number of subtitles automatically. |
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Did you know that your NLE has a powerful paint system capable of creating colored glowing light strokes? But only if you run Boris RED or Avid FX as a plug-in. |
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One of the more interesting text animation techniques is a paint-on effect where brush strokes reveal a title on the screen. To create this effect I chose Boris RED 4.2 for its comprehensive paint features. |
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If your client is asking for a 3D extruded logo animation in his video and all he has for company graphics is his business card you better dig deep into your toolbox. And you better find a copy of BORIS RED in it because that is what you?ll need to get this tough job done. |
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How does the chroma key work? The foreground object has to be separately filmed in front of an evenly colored and lit backing. The footage is brought in the compositing or editing system to be combined with the new background video or still. |
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Watch a video tutorial on how to use the powerful BORIS RED Paint System. |
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Watch a video tutorial on how to create a extruded 3D logo from an imported 2D image file. |
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With the help of some 'RED Magic,' create a visual illustration that helped Vivek Narayan win an Emmy for Editing and also bagged the Emmy for Investigative Report at the 2006 Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards. |
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Watch a video tutorial on how to remove unwanted motion so your clip appears to be shot with a lock down camera. |
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Watch a video tutorial on how to automated the process of animating objects along a bezier path in 3D space. |
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Watch a video tutorial on how to remove a moving forground object from a clip. |
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Summer is packed with weddings. Wedding bells ring across the country and this is where we draw the inspiration for our next tutorial. This tutorial includes free preset effects |
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Want to know about all of the features in RED 4? Read about the slick interface and the in depth features that have been added. You will find this is an upgrade that was worth the wait. |
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Watch a video tutorial on how to import industry standard subtitle files directly into the timeline. |
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Watch a video tutorial on how to clone part of one image clip onto itself to fill out the image. |
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Watch a video tutorial on how to clone part of one image clip onto itself and then and then apply a motion tracker to the clone so that the clone moves with the original clip. |
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Watch a video tutorial on how to clone part of one image clip onto a second clip. |
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In no time at all, John Lafauce from BORIS FX will walk you through the steps necessary to create a broadcast-worthy ski report that just might make you want to head for the slopes! |
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Watch a video tutorial on how to export 16 bit media from RED |
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This tutorial demonstrates how to easily animate and fly a computer generated navy jet using the Boris Red 4.0 Motion Path filter. |
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This tutorial demonstrates how to apply and customize a new, pre-made lower third graphic from Boris' extensive selection of Keyframe Library Effects. |
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BORIS FX, Graffiti and RED all offer numerous masking options. This tutorial uses a Spline Object to create an animating custom mask. You can use any media that you like to complete this tutorial. |
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Beginning with RED version 3.02, you can use the Library Browser in a special Template mode. Template mode allows you tocreate effects directly in the Library Browser. |
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In addition to reflection maps and textures, both RED and Graffiti allow you to apply bump maps to to 3D text and shapes. |
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RED and Graffiti let you animate the splines that make up each character in your text. Let’s start by creating some text... |
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We all know how boring business graphics can be to create (and to watch). In the old days, Boris FX had a tag line: "In Video Effects There Is Boring and There Is Boris." The goal of the 3D Chart generator is to live up to this old motto... |
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The "Animating EPS Files in RED tutorial detailed animating an Adobe Illustrator EPS file using RED's vector animation tools. It was clearly something that a lot of users wanted to know, as the response was overwhelming. A number of questions came up more than once, so lets address them. |
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Graffiti and RED's Generator tab lets you generate random text or numbers. You can lock each letter or number in position regardless of changes made to neighboring characters... |
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Native vector text, a library of spline primitive shapes, powerful control over border and fill, and true vector masks are just a very few of the elements that make Red the most extensive vector animation application ever offered. |
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RED's vector paint is very fast and easy to use, even though it offers a wide variety of features not found in other vector paint tools. These include fill, multiple strokes, and a much wider range of animatable parameters, such as color, brush size and opacity. |
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Adding the advanced 3D Particle System filter to RED's vector paint offers titling possibilities you never imagined you'd have in your NLE. It's fast and it's easy....but doesn't look like it. |
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Among RED and Graffiti's Overshoot features is an easy way to add "bounce" to your titles. |
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Create a very frequently requested effect, tracking a Mosaic filter over someone's face. This effect can be achived using Boris RED thanks to Motion Tracking technology. |
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The same improvements to Motion Tracker have been added to the Motion Stabilizer filter. Combined with Red's vector paint and exceptionally powerful masking, you can salvage some of the worst footage imaginable...which we just happened to have handy for this tutorial. |
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Four trackers in one filter mean even more possibilities. Even better news? It's just as easy to use as the other motion filters. |
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See how easy it is to build great-looking Type On animations, which is one of BORIS RED's most powerful features. Courtesy of The Creative COW. |
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RED lets you build elegant 3D animations without becoming a 3D expert. When you have one interface for every effects task, right in the middle of your workflow, that's when this whole convergence thing starts to be any fun at all. |
| BLUE Tutorials |
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Check out this video tutorial to learn more about BLUE's extrusion feature. |
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Learn how to use Boris Blue as a plugin inside of Adobe Premiere Pro. |
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Check out these movies showing BORIS BLUE being used by an experienced operator. The movies include sound describing the features of the product so make sure to listen to the audio while viewing them. |
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In this tutorial I'll show you how to create a camera pull transition similar to some the presets found in our library. In order to achieve this effect we'll need to use our new Target Camera and 3D split views. |
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The following tutorial exercises provide step-by-step instructions for creating various kinds of effects, while exploring many aspects of the BORIS BLUE user interface and functionality. The exercises are a good starting point if you’re unfamiliar with BORIS BLUE. |
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Even if you haven’t mastered 3D modeling, you can still add 3D impact to your projects. BLUE is an ideal solution for 3D newbies since it lets you tap into a collection of shareware models in the .3ds and .obj formats. When you import 3D models individual geometry groups, texture maps and bump maps are preserved. Once imported,you can animate with drag-and-drop simplicity and customize the models with innovative pixel shaders. This tutorial uses a 3D model of a taxi that is available for download from www.PlanIT3D.com. |
| FX Tutorials |
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Summer is packed with weddings. Wedding bells ring across the country and this is where we draw the inspiration for our next tutorial. This tutorial includes free preset effects |
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The Motion Stabilizer filter let's you stabilize shaky video. Motion trackers analyze one or more specified regions of motion then adjust the track's position to compensate. Playback appears smooth because the track moves incrementally to offset the unwanted motion. You can also stabilize just a portion of a track to correct isolated camera bumps. |
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BORIS FX offers this incredibly useful filter. It's easy to use and very powerful. |
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Recent tutorials looked at how to using BORIS FX filters to create uniquely artistic visual effects, such as charcoal and watercolor. This time, let's combine the two, using some of the filters in BORIS FX to create create organic wipe transitions. |
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You won't believe how it easy it is to make your video look like it was drawn with colored pencils or charcoal, or painted with watercolors, using BORIS FX! |
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Combine two of FX's filters -- Fire and Burnt Film -- to create a Bonanza-style transition from within your NLE. Courtesy of Creative Mac (as above, this effect works the same way in Windows NLEs). |
| Graffiti Tutorials |
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In this tutorial, we'll take a closer look at how to create innovative title effects in minutes - using Graffiti 5.3 in Sony Vegas Pro 8. Although the tutorial is written for Vegas, the same Graffiti user interface and step-by-step instructions would apply to any supported host application, including Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Pinnacle Studio... |
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What is the oldest text animation effect in film history? You guessed right. It is the opening or closing credit roll. Traditionally a long page of text is rolled from the bottom of the screen revealing line after line. In the early days of cinematography a paper print was physically rolled before the film camera to produce this effect. Hence the name: Credit Roll. |
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This tutorial focuses on using BORIS Graffiti to generate animated titles within the Avid Editing environment and assumes that the Graffiti application has already been installed into your system. |
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How do they make these network news lower thirds look so good? With the help of a premium broadcast graphics package such as BORIS Graffiti it is actually very easy. In this tutorial we will show you how it´s done. |
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Tired of using the same text templates over and over again? They came bundled with your NLE and they looked great the first time you saw them but now you need something custom-made. A copy of BORIS Graffiti can solve that problem. |
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Even expert graphic artists have had few options to quickly create high-quality animated charts. Rather than trying to squeeze broadcast-quality results out of multimedia business applications, you can now tap into BORIS Graffiti's 3D Chart feature. |
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In addition to reflection maps and textures, both RED and Graffiti allow you to apply bump maps to to 3D text and shapes. |
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BORIS Graffiti offers the powerful 3D titling insdie your NLE, with features including 3D text animated along paths with reflection maps and 3D cameras and lights. It's also an exceptionally powerful tool for animating 2D titles using 3D shapes |
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Both RED 3GL and Graffiti 3 let you animate the splines that make up each character in your text. Let’s start by creating some text... |
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You're not going to believe how easy this is... Using BORIS Graffiti or BORIS RED: Step 1: Create your text. |
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A resolution independent titler means that you can change resolutions while you work for faster previews, but it also means you can include oversized documents as part of your title animations. You don't need to add titles if you don't want - simply use Graffiti to create pan-and-zoom, documentary style animations. |
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Dive into Real Title Animation in Graffiti. We even include the finished 2D and 3D settings for some of the examples. |
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No, I'm not insane. At least not about this. Some very simple things will dramatically speed the setup of 3D text effects. |
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Take advantage of the shapes in BORIS Graffiti to quickly create advanced effects. This particular effect uses Graffiti's mapping capabilities (just the ticket for an effect with a globe in it), powerful lights and masking tools. |
| Continuum Complete AVX Tutorials |
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In this tutorial, we will use BCC AVX 5 in Avid Media Composer to give you an overview of the BCC Glow, BCC Colorize Glow, and BCC Glow Alpha Edges filters. |
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The BCC Optical Stabilizer filter stabilizes shaky footage, using optical flow technology. Unlike many stabilizing tools, the BCC Optical Stabilizer doesn't require you to define a tracking point. In addition, the Optical Stabilizer can take panning, zooming and rotation into account during the analysis. |
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This tutorial introduces the Corner Pin filter in BCC AVX. Several of the Corner Pin Tracker's powerful features are combined with other BCC AVX filters to create a realistic composite. This compositing primer places emphasis on workflow and techniques. |
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In this tutorial, you will use the BCC Motion Key filter to successfully remove a moving foreground object from a clip. In this particular case, the moving object that you want to remove is the silver car. |
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The Corner Pin filter is similar to the integrated motion tracker except that four trackers follow four separate points. You assign media whose corners follow the four trackers, distorting as necessary. You can complete this tutorial using your own media or download the QuickTime movies that we used. |
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Continuum Complete and Continuum Complete AVX include native filters to create precise keys. This tutorial combines multiple filters to solve some complex (but common) keying issues. Although the tutorial uses four filters, BCC Chroma Key, BCC Matte Choker, BCC Color Balance and BCC Light Wrap, you can quickly create accurate keys. This is true even with difficult-to-key DV footage. |
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The Apply to Title option is one of the most compelling integration features of BCC AVX. Applying an effect to an Avid Title or Matte Key without affecting the background video is as simple as clicking a single button. You can also apply multiple filters to the same title. |
| Continuum Complete Tutorials for Final Cut Pro |
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Chroma Key Studio is one of the 28 new filters in BCC 6 FxPlug for Final Cut, Motion and Final Cut Express and now a fresh addition to BCC Chroma Key Unit. It builds on the strength of previous BCC keying and compositing tools with features such as best-of-breed chromakey process, spill suppression, matte choker and a light wrap compositing step. |
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In this tutorial we will use the bcc lens flare filter to generate a point light source and a lens flare effect that we will track automatically to the camera motion in the clip to which the filter is being applied. |
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Use BCC Rays Cartoon in Apple Final Cut Pro to generate a volumetric lighting effect on an animated text element. |
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What good is a snow effect if snow does not stick to horizontal surfaces in the shot? The BCC Snow filter can do that and provide many other mesmerizing looks for your winterly scenes. BCC Snow is part of just about every Boris product. Whether you are using Continuum Complete or Graffiti or RED or FX, BCC Snow is available in the Generator section of the package. It works especially well with the text captions where snow accumulates on top of the letters creating a natural outdoor look. |
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Here are four basic processes, using a combination of filters from the BCC 5 FxPlug package, that when applied to video source clips can generate the illusion that these clips originated on film and not tape. |
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Save money on pre-made video backgrounds! Quickly design and animate your own unique video backgrounds by combining BCC 5 FxPlug's new Prism filter with your favorite Apple Final Cut Pro Generator.. |
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In this exercise, we'll use Apple Final Cut Pro to generate an HD format show opener for a news program, such as we might see on the Larry King show, that incorporates a world map in the background, which has been treated with the BCC LED filter to appear as though it was made out of LED (light emitting diode) bulbs. |
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To continue the effect, we'll take the same map image and add a particle filter to make the lights appear as though they are being sprayed onto the wall, creating the blinking and glowing LED map over time. |
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So now that we have in place our wall of blinking lights as the backdrop, we'll add the show opener text. |
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Continuum Complete 3.0.2 introduced significant improvements to the integrated Motion Tracker. This tutorial uses the Witness Protection filter in Final Cut Pro to obscure an ad on a trolley. The clip was provided courtesy of www.ArtBeats.com. However, you can use any clip that you like for this tutorial. |
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BORIS Continuum Complete filters can be used as transitions in Apple Final Cut Pro. Some effects such as the Wipe Transitions auto-animate from the outgoing to the incoming shot. For the remaining filters, you need to keyframe the transitions manually as described in this tutorial. |
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Continuum Complete includes native filters to create precise keys. This tutorial combines multiple filters to solve some complex (but common) keying issues. Although the tutorial uses four filters, BCC Chroma Key, BCC Matte Choker, BCC Color Balance and BCC Light Wrap, you can quickly create accurate keys. This is true even with difficult-to-key DV footage. |
| Continuum Complete AE Tutorials |
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3D Objects is a new feature of BCC 6. It's built around a concept of using vector text or splines to generate real 3D objects right in After Effects composition by the means of extrusion or creating thickness for otherwise flat layer or shape. Such extrusion would typically require a shape of it's own, unless you really want it to be straight with sharp angles. |
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Use BCC Rays Cartoon in Adobe After Effects to generate a volumetric lighting effect on an animated text element. The BCC Rays Carton filter will also give the text the appearance of being made of neon lights. |
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The BCC Glitter filter is OpenGL hardware-accellerated and can be used to generate glittering sparkles of pretty much any size. There are parameters in the filter UI to control the brightness, scale and color of the glitters and also the number of rays that each glitter has. |
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There are several BCC filters that were designed to produce the glow effect that seems to be popular for sports broadcast and commercial spots. This tutorial we will be using the After Effects version of BCC within Adobe CS3 package. The same BCC Glow filters are available for Avid and FCP with a similar workflow. |
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The BCC Film Process plug-in can help “filmize” digital video by deepening the color response range of the digital image to emulate film’s dynamic color range. It can also be used to color grade and mimic an variety of analog lens filters (e.g. Cokin, Tiffen, Hoya), optical processes, and special effects. |
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The problem with interlaced images shown on a non-NTSC display is there can be errors when the two fields are synthesized into one frame. These errors are usually referred to as "the jaggies", “combing” or “teeth”, and are apparent in the moving parts of the image. |
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BCC Match Grain takes a snapshot of film-to-video ("telecined") media and generates a grain signature which can be used as a matching grain sample for a destination clip containing little or no grain. |
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Continuum Complete includes native filters to create precise keys. This tutorial combines multiple filters to solve some complex (but common) keying issues. Although the tutorial uses four filters, BCC Chroma Key, BCC Matte Choker, BCC Color Balance and BCC Light Wrap, you can quickly create accurate keys. This is true even with difficult-to-key DV footage. |
| Continuum Complete Tutorials for Premiere Pro |
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Continuum Complete 6 now includes a Swish Pan transition filter for registered users of the BCC 6 product. In this tutorial, we'll use the new BCC 6 Swish Pan filter to transition between a pair of clips. |
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What good is a snow effect if snow does not stick to 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 Continuum Complete, Graffiti, RED, and 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! |
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Save money on pre-made video backgrounds! Quickly design and animate your own unique video backgrounds by combining BORIS Continuum Complete 5 AE's new Prism filter with your favorite Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 Generator. |
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In this tutorial, you use the BCC Motion Key filter to successfully remove a moving foreground object from a clip. In this example, the object you remove is a silver car. |
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BORIS Continuum Complete filters can be used as transitions in Adobe Premiere Pro. Some effects such as the Wipe Transitions auto-animate from the outgoing to the incoming shot. For the remaining filters, you need to keyframe the transitions manually, as described in this tutorial. |
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Continuum Complete includes native filters to create precise keys. This tutorial combines multiple filters to solve some complex (but common) keying issues. Although the tutorial uses four filters, BCC Chroma Key, BCC Matte Choker, BCC Color Balance and BCC Light Wrap, you can quickly create accurate keys. This is true even with difficult-to-key DV footage. |
| Continuum Complete Tutorials for Autodesk Sparks |
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Sparks are visual effects plug-ins that every artist needs to know how to use to extend the functionality of an already power system. Sparks for the Autodesk systems products are manufactured by the leading suppliers of visual effects software in the world: companies such at The Foundry, GenArts, and Boris FX. suppliers of visual effects software in the world: companies such at The Foundry, GenArts, and Boris FX. For this example, I'm using Boris Continuum Complete 5.o because many artists new to Smoke will be familiar with them from Avid Media Composer, Avid DS, After Effects, and Final Cut Pro. So let's get started. |
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In this exercise, we'll use the BCC Motion Key spark within the Autodesk Flame host to remove a moving foreground object from a scene which does this without rotoscoping or heavy compositing. |
| Final Effects Complete Tutorials |
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Are you tired of solid stroke and soft shadow on your text styles? Do you need something unique and catchy for your project? The new FEC 5 from Boris FX may offer a fresh treatment for the old title or lower third. |
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Creating a Living Art Gallery
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| Final Effects Complete Sparks Tutorials |
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The 2012 games in London should provide plenty of inspiration for your ideas and Boris Final Effects Complete 5 Sparks can help you realize them - quickly and easily. |
| XML Transfer Tutorials |
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In this tutorial, we'll use the Boris XML Transfer filter to import an FCP timeline into AE, maintaining all of the cuts and transitions, multicam edits, audio, nested sequences, FCP effects and 3rd party filter effects such as BCC and FEC. |
In this tutorial you will create a living art gallery effect using FEC. "What is a living art gallery?" You will make a standard video clip appear like a painting on canvas, then you will pin the clip to a wall, hence the gallery. The tutorial uses three FEC filters, Min/Max, LensStar and PowerPin.
