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John Dickinson of Boris FX breaks down an epic fantasy title animation created with Blender and After Effects with Sapphire and Continuum.

Nick Harauz guides you through Continuum Essentials for Avid Media Composer in this 20-part, 4-hour series.

If you've ever wanted to know how to make still images come to life, as you've seen in documentaries, Nick Harauz from Boris FX shows you how!

If you work with old video footage in standard format or can't shoot 4K, learn how to make the job smoother and get better results.

John Dickinson breaks down a ghostly text reveal that he created using Sapphire and Particle Illusion in After Effects.

Ceate transparent ghostly effects using Mocha Pro and Particle Illusion to transform an actress into a ghost.

Beat Reactor is now available inside more than 40 plugins in the Boris FX Continuum 2023.5 release. Drive your animation with sound!

Nick Harauz gives you a tour of Smoke & Fog, Orbs, and Light Flicker effects in the latest release of Boris FX Continuum 2023.5.

Nick Harauz explores Boris FX Continuum BCC+ Super LED, an extremely powerful and robust effect, new in Continuum 2023.5.

Aspect Ratios may seem mundane, but really important for anyone creating content. Learn about resizing tools, + fun facts for cinephiles!

Boris FX Design Director John Dickinson dives into how to enhance existing Particle Illusion presets during Office Hours from Boris FX.

John Dickinson shows you how to create the effect of text blowing away with Continuum Particle Illusion inside After Effects.

Check out some of the new features in Boris FX Particle Illusion 2022, available soon as the free application and in the plugin. Amazing!

Create the Dune Look with Maxon Cinema 4D, Adobe After Effects, Boris FX Continuum, and Sapphire with John Dickinson.

John Dickinson shares his clever creative techniques in this Movie Trailer Graphics tutorial. Download free demos of Boris FX tools today!

In this tutorial series, Ben Brownlee takes you through how to create a sound blast by using music data, using Boris FX plugins.

Lens Flares add drama and presence to scenes. In this article, I'll be comparing some lens flare tools for your favorite NLEs and Motion Graphics tools

Create a cinemagraph by adding bubbles to a photo of a glass of bubbly using Particle Illusion + After Effects. Download Particle Illusion.

Learn about creating particles in After Effects with plugins including Particle Illusion, Trapcode Particular, Rowbyte Plexus, and more!

Watch Boris FX Live presentations for Virtual IBC! They are featuring customer presentations, sneak peeks of 2021 releases, giveaways.

John Dickinson shows how to create a slick mograph look using the new free Particle Illusion Standalone application, together with the plugin version.

This 8 part tutorial series from Boris FX walks you through the process of creating professionally-designed and animated 3D sports interstitial graphic from scratch using Title Studio together with an Adobe Creative Cloud workflow.

Ben Brownlee shows Avid Media Composer editors how to use Continuum's integrated Beat Reactor that uses audio to drive effects. No keyframing needed!

This series of tutorials shows you how to use the Continuum Premium Filter Motion Blur to simulate realistic motion blur or interesting stylized effects, in After Effects, Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, and DaVinci Resolve.

In case you missed the webinar, Boris FX has posted this informative webinar replay so you can learn how to use Primatte Studio to easily chromakey and composite green screen footage.

UK-based colorist, Dan Harvey, leads Resolve users through an introduction to Particle Illusion — and why colorists will want to use it.

In this webinar replay, learn about all the new features inside Sapphire, Continuum and Mocha Pro 2019.5, from Ben Brownlee, the new Director of Learning and Content at Boris FX.  You may remember him from Curious Turtle training videos.

Boris FX has just made Particle Illusion a standalone Premium Filter.  If you're new to Particle Illusion you'll want to check out this 4 part training series from Ben Brownlee, VFX artist and Curious Turtle trainer, that will get you up and running in After Effects with this powerful particle generator in no time.

This is part 1 of 3 tutorials from Boris FX about creating a flaming sword with Particle Illusion. Particle Illusion was re-introduced recently...

Here's a fun tutorial for all you Game of Throne fans.  Learn how to create a GOT-inspired flaming sword effect using Particle Illusion in Vegas Pro 16, with this tutorial by Boris FX Product Speicalist Vin Morreale.

Benjamin Eshagpoor shows you some slick tricks of Boris FX's Particle Illusion, which comes with Boris Continuum and the Continuum Particles Unit.

Flicker is a really annoying problem in video. It occurs when the frequency of the lights and your camera's shutter speed don't jive. Learn how to fix it.

First, we'll start out with Vegas Pro Color Correction since you'll do a color correction before you will grade your footage. 

In this tutorial, Vin from Boris FX shows you how to create Doctor Who inspired titles in VEGAS Pro using only Boris Continuum Title Studio.

Learn how to apply high-end particles like fireworks and explosions in Premiere Pro using Particle Illusion, part of Continuum 2019, in this tutorial from Youtuber Surfaced Studio.

Learn all about the Time Displacement filter, which creates an effect known as slit scan, a trippy looking time manipulation that can be used to represent a time travel, a warp in the space time continuum, a drug trip and much more.

Learn how to make sure your videos are broadcast safe and stay within the broadcast standard legal color ranges with the Broadcast Filter from Boris FX.

Continuum expert, Vin Morreale shows you how to use the Stage Light filter to augment the built in lights in Adobe After Effects. It can also function as a self-contained 3D lighting system when used in Vegas, Resolve, and other Continuum-supported host applications.

Steve at Ripple training shows you how to do a Sky Replacement with Final Cut Pro X’s powerful Keyer effect and a few color correction tools.

Learn how to remove a person from a scene using the Mocha Pro Remove Module. Plus this tutorial also shows you how to create a disintegrate/transporter beam effect à la Star Trek using VFX in Sapphire and Continuum. It even comes with the project file and footage.

Boris Continuum 11 came out recently and in this tutorial, Dan Harvey gives an overview of how the keying and masking tools work in Vegas Pro.

Boris Continuum BCC Reframer makes a vertical video look great quickly and easily, with loads of customization options. It’s is included with Boris Continuum 11 and the Continuum Restoration Unit. This is a quick walkthrough on how it works.

Premiere Gal shows you how to do a bit of Skin Retouching in Premiere Pro. Retouch and smooth skin in Adobe Premiere Pro with Continuum Beauty Studio.

Dan Harvey, UK-based artist and trainer, explains how to use Continuum Title Studio to design lower thirds, customize and save presets, and shows the animation workflows. This tutorial shows Continuum 10 in DaVinci Resolve but the same techniques will work in any Continuum 10 host: Adobe, Apple, Avid, etc.

Brian Fox from Boris FX walks you through the Motion Graphics Templates in Adobe’s 2017 release, with an emphasis on third party plug-ins in After Effects and Premiere Pro.

Editor Kevin P. McAuliffe shows Media Composer editors how to take day time footage and transform it into night using Continuum’s Color & Tone tools and sister product Sapphire’s Night Sky and Luna.

The VR Unit is new in Continuum 11 and is designed to help editors work in 360 VR formats which can be extremely time consuming and difficult.

Boris Continuum BCC Beauty Studio is here. With HD and so much high res video, every pore on your actor now shows. Beauty Studio all-in-one digital makeup filter for giving your actors a bit of touching up during post-production.

Here’s a 5 minute tutorial on the Remove Objects plug-in in Mocha Pro. Remove objects doesn’t use a manual clone or paint. Mocha Product Specialist, Mary Poplin, explains how to use Remove Module inside Adobe After Effects, the same basic technique used in the mocha Pro 5 standalone or plug-in on other supported hosts.

In this tutorial Kevin P. McAuliffe shows you how to transform your crisp HD footage to a more gritty organic film look by subtly layering multiple effects from Boris Continuum 10.

Get over 2 hours of free Boris Continuum Complete training with BCC Fundamentals.  Learn the basics of BCC from titling to transitions, advanced keying to mocha tracking data and more.

Just in case you missed them or want to see them again, here are the most popular articles we posted in 2016.

Avid editor, Kevin P. McAuliffe shows Media Composer editors how to realistically remove unwanted objects with BCC Remover and the integrated mocha planar tracking tools.

If you’ve had a chance to check out our NAB Survival Video, you should! It’s lots of fun. I dove back into Cinema 4D to create the open animation. Here’s how I did it.

The Disney Research Hub has a video and paper on cloth simulations based on “geometric multigrids” that you can download for free.

Are you an Avid Media Composer user? Dan Harvey shows you how easy it is to motion track footage in Avid, with three different approaches: BCC’s native motion tracking, the integrated mocha/PixelChooser, and the new mocha Pro plug-in.

Found - The Fountain of Youth! Mary Poplin demonstrates how to make talent look younger - Covers: mocha masking techniques, BCC Remove and BCC Warp, and general beauty techniques.

Learn how to use the BCC 10 Particle Array 3D tool in Premiere Pro to create and save a custom wipe transition.

Transitioning with Cross Zoom for BCC, Media Composer & Premiere Pro and Quick Tip: Removing Dead Pixels for BCC & After Effects

Colorist Dan Harvey shows DaVinci Resolve users how to quickly apply new style effects & transitions from Boris FX with BCC 10.

Learn how the new BCC Title Studio easily delivers multi-page credit rolls in a minutes. Plus, working in any resolution and adding supers and title crawls – all without leaving your timeline.

In this webinar replay, VASST trainer John Rofrano teaches you how to create a Marvel-like 3D logo with BCC Extruded EPS in Sony Vegas Pro. Plus, use BCC Particle Array 3D to transition your logo onto the screen as a tornado of particles. Finally, discover how to create and save custom transitions.

If you’ve had a chance to check out our NAB Survival Video, you should! It’s lots of fun. I dove back into Cinema 4D to create the NAB Survival Video Open.

In this one hour tutorial, Toolfarm’s Pluginologist Michele Terpstra guides Adobe Premiere Pro users through building a reality show style opening title sequence using the new Boris Continuum Complete 10.Topics covered: 3D titling, light leaks, glitch, color grading & transitions.

"In the first of a series of Quick Tips, Senior Product Manager Dirk de Jong dives into BCC Particle Emitter 3D. Learn how to easy it is to use randomization and post processing to produce a more varied and organic look even when you’re using a single repeated particle image." - Jessie Electa Petrov

Not the long-running CBS soap opera, but the Guiding Light in this tutorial refers to the use of BCC Rays Puffy to your create realistic light rays in a scene. Paul Ezzy shows you how in this Boris TV tutorial.

Fixing vertical cell phone footage is easier than ever with BCC Reframer by Boris FX.  Learn how this Avid plug-in works in this tutorial by freelance editor Nathan Ryan.

In this new video tutorial, Mary Poplin shows you how to use the new BCC Remover plug-in to clone out an unwanted sign and the integrated mocha masking tools to roto-mask the foreground back on top.

Paul Ezzy shows you how to make this super cool animated 8-bit Pac-Man from scratch in Boris Continuum Complete inside Adobe After Effects.

Learn how to recreate the look of a silent film using BCC Film Styles using BCC for OFX in DaVinci Resolve. Trainer Andrew Devis shows also explains when to apply a filter to a clip versus your timeline.

In this simple After Effects tutorial, Imagineer System’s Mary Poplin shows you how to add realistic rain to a shot with plug-ins from Boris FX and mocha AE.Mary uses the bundled mocha AE CC for planar tracking and masking and Boris Continuum Complete BCC Rain.

Join Ben Brownlee of Curious Turtle as he gives some great advice on using Imagineer mocha with After Effects. Ben really knows his mocha.

Learn how to UpRez SD footage to HD using BCC UpRez from Image Restoration, in FCPX and Motion 5.

Learn how to manipulate the different parameters, including channel sharpening, detail tuning, and channel tuning, to make your footage pop.

John Rofrano shows you how to save otherwise-unusable shots using two image restoration tools from Boris Continuum Complete: BCC Smooth Tone and BCC Noise Reduction. BCC Smooth Tone smooths or softens an image while preserving the important detail contrast areas while BCC Noise Reduction eliminates unwanted video noise from image clips.

Repair video affected by uneven shutter exposure or a flickering light source with Boris Continuum Complete v8 AE’s Flicker Fixer filter, part of Boris Continuum Unit: Image Restoration.

Want to get rid of that fish-eye from your GoPro footage directly in DaVinci Resolve? BCC Lens Correction will allow you to fix the problem by changing the distortion amount,  the vertical perspective, adjust pan and lens center, and scale your footage.

John Rofrano explains how to use BCC’s Match Move plug-in for OFX in Sony Vegas Pro to match text to movement on screen.

Learn how to incorporate the Media Composer “Favorites” bin into your BCC and RED workflows.

Welcome to the final installment of this series on skin retouching. I’ve already covered loads of plug-ins available for After Effects and a few NLEs, linked to lots of tutorials and given you several tips on how to touch up skin, keeping your actor as natural looking as possible. This article includes even more plug-ins and some recent tutorials for all sorts of compositors and editing tools.

Take a bland, colorless sky and make it into a vault of heaven! Create an alluring azure sky with fluffy clouds, a sublime sunset or an moody moonlight scene. I’ll give several options, utilizing plug-ins from CoreMelt, Video Copilot, Boris FX, Red Giant, SUGARfx and Imagineer.

Class up your holiday graphics with a gorgeous 3D Spinning snowflake with glints of light reflecting off of it. Here’s a fairly popular tutorial from about 5 years ago that is just as relevant today.  Although all the software used has been updated, the formula is the same.

Learn how to create quickly you can create a creepy grungy look using BCC Grunge in Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve. Add shake, flicker, dust, and a vignette. Kevin P. McAuliffe will show you how.

Paul Ezzy explains how to create some Doctor Who inspired titles with Boris Continuum Complete

Paul Ezzy with Boris TV, created this tutorial of the new BCC 9 transition Flutter Cut in Adobe Premiere Pro.  Learn how to control the start and end frames, incoming and outgoing frames, add a color, have your footage flutter with another video layer, and add an effect type like invert or monochrome.

Paul Ezzy explains how to create a write-on effect with a new tool in BCC 9, BCC Laser Beam, in Adobe After Effects.

It’s Tutorial Tuesday! In this BorisFX Webinar, MediaMotion Ball and International Media Users Group (IMUG) founder, Carey Dissmore gives you an inside look at how he created this year’s animated logo.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s John Rofranom, a VASST trainer, explaining how to make a comic book 3D logo straight out of Marvel, with Boris Continuum Complete Extruded EPS in Sony Vegas Pro. He uses BCC Particle Array 3D to blow the logo onto the screen like a tornado of particles, then shows how to create and save custom transitions.

Steve Martin and Mark Spencer talk about the Ken Burns Effect to do a move on a still image in FCP X… and improve upon the effect.

Creative Cow leader Kevin P. McAuliffe returns with a second Halloween-themed episode filled with quick tips and shortcuts for both MAC and PC users with BCC 8 AE and Adobe After Effects CS 6 or higher.Learn how to create a quick show animation from a still image -- add flickering lights to a jack o'lantern and generate atmospheric lighting. Filters used: BCC Film Glow, BCC Linear Luma Key, BCC Rays Puffy, and BCC Stagelight.Free Project file available.

Boris FX recently posted a tutorial on manipulating time in your video projects via BCC Optical Flow. Check out this article to learn the ropes!

In this episode, they create a nice Glow transition using a Boris Continuum Complete Effect that ships with Media Composer.

Steve Holyhead’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.

Michele Yamazaki of Toolfarm takes you through a unique use of the Boris Continuum Complete BCC SmoothTone filter for Adobe After Effects, which is made for smoothing skin. She walks you step-by-step through how to make a wrinkled shirt appear smoother, while retaining the sharpness in other details. The tutorial explains PixelChooser.

Here’s the rundown of noise and grain reduction plug-ins on the market for After Effects and other NLE’s, rated on speed, accuracy and quality, as well as return on investment. This article will focus mostly on grain and noise reduction but also touch upon matching and adding grain and noise.

Using Boris Continuum Complete’s powerful Lens Flare 3D filter, Kevin P. McAuliffe shows you how to set up lighting effects in your favorite Avid video editing system. First, Kevin demonstrates how to create multiple lights that blink automatically. Then, he combines BCC Extruded Text with BCC Lens Flare 3D to create a starting title sequence.

Kevin P. McAuliffe harnesses the power of Boris Continuum Complete v8 AVX's Particle Emitter 3D filter to create engaging particle effects directly from within Media Composer, giving his Avid titles a "particle overhaul".

On Wednesday, June 27, 2012, Michele Yamazaki tapped Boris Continuum Complete v8 AE’s state-of-the-art particle system effects to develop and enhance broadcast graphics in Adobe After Effects CS6. Using BCC Particle Emitter 3D and other Boris Continuum Complete VFX filters in conjunction with After Effects’ native 3D camera and lighting systems, Michele made ordinary graphics and titles pop off the screen in 3D particle bursts.