2024.5 Boris FX Continuum FCP

Tools for Filmmakers

Film Stocks

Go retro with analog film stock looks.

Transform your digital video or stills into Kodachrome 35mm film, Polaroid process prints, and tons more with over 300+ drag and drop presets based on physical film scans from the world’s leading film stock developers — Agfa, Fuji, Kodak, Ilford, Polaroid, Rollei, and more.

Set the desired film stock, control the film processing, and finish your look by setting the final print stock.

Looks Development

Color grades based on iconic Academy Award-nominated films.

Love the greenish hue of Aliens, faded warmth of The Godfather II, or the golden tones that defined Titanic? The Grade filter gives you access to 100 presets developed by the world’s leading colorists. Apply the same color grades as classic movies — by film title — with just one click.

Additional color grading options include grain generation, color correction, diffused lighting, gradient tints, gel overlays, lab processing emulation, and more.

Optical Filter Emulators

Give cinematographers the exact look they want – without the added hassle and cost on set.

Quickly test out the digital equivalent of glass optical filters with a simple click. Control light and color, add soft-focus blur to the foreground in a scene, simulate rack focus, add fog, and more.

Includes 8 filters and 110+ unique customizable holdback mattes that allow the diffused or color-corrected light to push through user-defined areas to deliver added depth to shots.

Lights and Gobos

Eek! The production team didn’t add the gobo on set. Now what?

Easily apply digital gobo effects with real-life shadowing. The digital gobo library features 750+ options categorized by Abstract, Doors, Elements, Foliage, Snowflakes, Textures, and Windows.

Want to use your own gobo image? Simply import it into the BCC+Lights FX Editor and create your own custom library.

Lens Flares

Realistic lens flares at your fingertips.

The Lens Flare filter delivers 300+ stunning presets. Add a subtle natural flare, can’t miss ‘em flares like your favorite sci-fi films, or anything in between.

Simply drag and drop a lens flare onto your footage or modify with options including edge trigger, integrated apply modes, occlusion, and flicker.

Want to create your own lens flare? Use the custom Flare Editor that allows you to add or remove elements, build your flare, and save it for future use.

Light Rays & Glows

Volumetric and atmospheric lighting effects fast.

Add a heavenly God Ray in post with the option to include a user-defined light source positioned anywhere in the frame. Includes integrated shimmer and texture options.

Elevate flat or mundane shots into gorgeously deep glowing scenes with 30 glow presets.

Photographic Gels

The digital equivalent of the Kodak® Wratten photographic lens gel system is beloved by cinematographers worldwide.

Features 200 lighting gels and 95 photographic filters with the same industry-standard names used in production.

Easily warm up a shot with a 22 Deep Orange or 23A Light Red glass filter emulator, cool a scene with L725 Old Steel Blue, isolate the effect to the foreground or background, and carefully control the light exposure.

Create Amazing Titles Quickly

Auto-Animating 2D/3D Titles

Choose from dozens of auto-animating and fully customizable title templates, lower thirds, and graphics. Just select a title template from the Titles group and add it to your scene. Then double-click the text in the viewer window to make it your own.

Title templates include animated text objects, integrated cast shadows, mirrored shimmering reflections, lens flares, semi-transparent backdrops, glows and glitches, and banner reveals.

OS Requirements

• macOS 12.6+, 13.x, 14.x (up to OS version at time of Continuum release and as appropriate for the host version in use).

Recommended Hardware

• Apple M1 or M2 (Standard, Pro, Max and Ultra)
  
• Intel or AMD CPU with four or more cores

Memory

• 8 GB minimum, 16+ GB preferred
• Storage: High-speed disk array or SSD storage

Host compatibility

• Final Cut Pro 10.6.6, 10.6.7, 10.6.8, 10.6.9, 10.6.10, 10.7, 10.7.1
• Motion 5.6.4, 5.6.5, 5.6.6, 5.6.7, 5.7

Additional Hardware and OS Requirements

• On macOS the Machine Learning (ML) filter requires macOS 12 (Monterey) or higher

What’s new in Continuum FCP 2024.5

BCC+ Witness Protection ML

• Automatic ML face detection with multiple effect combinations for obscuring identity

BCC+ Color Link

• Link color values from one clip to another for motion graphics, compositing, and editorial shot color matching.

BCC+ Denoise ML – New Fast Models

• Newly trained models yield twice the render performance over the previously shipping version of the BCC+ Denoiser ML filter and even bigger gains in UI refresh speeds when scrubbing

BCC+ Polar Warp

• Warp into a circular shape with options for swirling and looping tunnel animations.

BCC+ Mosaic

• Pixelate the source clip to achieve a variety of mosaic effects

BCC+ Mosaic Dissolve

• Auto-animating transition that pixelates the outgoing and incoming shots over the transition dissolve with options for prismatic and color blur effects

BCC+ Spill Remover

• Drag and drop simple and easy to use effect that instantly eliminates any spill from the red, green or blue screen background of a keyed foreground shot

BCC+ Light Wrap

• Blend the background layer or a user specified solid color over the edges of keyed foreground shots or motion graphics elements for more realistic composites

BCC+ Linear Luma Key

• Quickly and easily generate an alpha channel key from the image luminance

BCC+ FX Editor Enhancements

• Faster playback, new render cache, and playback looping controls
• A/B split/comparison views – Separate view menus control what is shown on each side of the comparison

Compare Mode option for BCC+ Effects

• All BCC+ effects now include the host side Compare Mode option

Mocha Enhancements – Update to 2024 version of Mocha

• GPU Accuracy: Improved accuracy in GPU accelerated tracking
• Skip Frames: Skip over problem frames using the skip function
• Step Frames: Set a track step for stop motion animation
• Hold keyframes: Set linear or constant keyframes for more control over stepped motion
• Extrapolate Track: Predict motion in future problem frames by extrapolating from previous frames
• Zoom to Selected: New option to zoom to fit selected splines in view
• General Bug fixes

Miscellaneous Enhancements

• 3D Transform options in BCC+ Transform, with 3D-aware versions of widgets
• BCC+ Lens Flare – New Occlusion Softness control
• BCC+ Lens Flare render speed enhancements
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – New Angle Speed and Radius Offset Speed params for keyframe-free animation.
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – Two new controls in Pre Transform group: Edge Mode and Camera Z
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – Polar Warp option – Eliminate swirling radius boundary – extends to outer edge of image now, permitting more options for seamless animated backgrounds.
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – Two new presets
• BCC+ Cross Zoom Dissolve – new Overlap widget for easier timing control

Other Fixes and Polish in Continuum 2024.5 v17.5.0 for FxPlug:

• BCC+ Harris Shutter – Expand frame range to +/- 90 and ensure the range matches between FX Editor and the host
• BCC+ Beat Reactor – Crashing in some scenarios with bad or missing audio when no Watch Folder was set
• BCC+ Night Vision – Fix several presets not showing correct channel
• FX Editor – OCIO options are removed for the time being since not functioning reliably. Will be restored in a future update.
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – Fix transform overlay widget scale adjustments
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – Polar Warp Reflect Y option leads to unexpected banding in some cases
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – Scattered black pixels along vertical axis when using Polar Warp option
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – Incorrect center pixel color when using Polar Warp option
• BCC+ Audio Visualizer – Spin, Tumble, and Anchor Z inverted from standard direction (requires inverting settings in saved projects)

What’s new in Continuum FCP 2024

• BCC+ DeNoise ML effect – AI-POWERED NOISE REMOVAL
• BCC + Audio Visualizer

What’s new in Continuum FCP 2023

New BCC+ Atmospheric Glow Effect

• An exciting new glow style mega-filter effect that brings instant atmospheric looks to an otherwise flat scene.

10 New/Ported BCC+ Transitions

• BCC+ Film Roll
• BCC+ Swish Glow
• BCC+ Swish Pan
• BCC+ Swish Prism
• BCC+ Swish Warp
• BCC+ Linear Wipe
• BCC+ Radial Wipe
• BCC+ Rectangular Wipe
• BCC+ Texture Wipe
• BCC+ Vignette Wipe

BCC+ Light – New Gobos and Tiling

• 50 new, seamlessly tiling gobo presets in the Abstract, Foliage, Glass, and Texture categories. Choose the “New” tag in the FX Editor to see them all.
• New Edge Mode option with Wrap and Reflect abilities that let you infinitely tile textures.

BCC+ Film Glow – New Secondary Glow

• A new set of independent secondary glow params allows chained glows for easier creation of more diverse looks.

New Presets Across a Variety of Filters

• BCC+ Beauty Studio
• BCC+ Camera Shake
• BCC+ Chroma Bands
• BCC+ Chromatic Aberration
• BCC+ Develop
• BCC+ Film Glow
• BCC+ Light Leaks
• BCC+ Prism
• BCC+ Vignette
• BCC+ X-Ray

Improved Mocha Performance

• Tracking performance has been improved by up to 50% on Apple Silicon hardware

BCC+ Film Grunge Refinements

• Gate Weave section has new Auto Scale option and expanded ranges. Allows more stylized, dramatic weave/shake looks.

Other Fixes and Polish in Continuum 2023 (v16.0.0) for FCP:

• Film Stocks and other BCC+ filters with Curves control – Fix rendering clamped on Apple Silicon hardware
• BCC+ Transitions – adjust timing so transition reaches full completion on the last frame. May affect the perceived timing of transitions by 1 frame in saved projects.
• BCC+ Rays – Rays Only mode now reflects the Brightness and Color params
• BCC+ Light – Fix missing thumbnail images for Glass texture category on Windows
• BCC+ Light – Fix shear direction
• BCC+ Film Grunge – Fix asymmetric Gate Weave
• BCC+ Vignette – Fix premultiplication issues when applied to alpha clips
• BCC+ Vignette – CPU mode did not produce the same result as GPU

What’s new in Continuum FCP 2022

• Mocha Masking and PixelChooser added to all BCC+ filters
  • BCC+ filters now include a redesigned, 100% GPU’d version of the PixelChooser including brand new support for Mocha planar mask tracking in BCC+.

   

• 11 New Fully GPU Accelerated BCC+ Effects:
  • BCC+Blur
    • Fast, simple, yet tunable blurring
  • BCC+Channel Blur
    • Create subtle or highly stylized color separations with per-channel tunable blur amounts
  • BCC+Channel Blur YUV
    • Control independent blur amounts for the luminance and color channels in YUV color space, both for subtle image restoration / noise suppression work and for more stylized washed out / degraded color looks
  • BCC+Directional Blur
    • Blur along any direction with unique control over the perpendicular blur amount, plus the ability to dial in each channel separately. Includes a full set of blur quality tuning controls and excellent performance with no slowdown for larger blur amounts.
  • BCC+Film Glow
    • BCC’s classic glow is now fully ported to BCC+ for maximum performance and usability
  • BCC+Light Leaks
    • Layered evolving leaks for subtle to highly styized looks with improved image quality, full HDR support, and faster rendering.
  • BCC+Magic Sharp
    • Advanced sharpening technology to rescue soft footage without artifacts/ringing with extensive tuning controls to refine detail size, region, and intensity.
  • BCC+Radial Blur
    • Fast radial blurs with excellent performance and silky smooth render quality
  • BCC+Prism
    • Stylized prismatic color separation combined with geometric/smeary blurs. Excellent performance and silky smooth quality despite large non-uniform blur ranges.
  • BCC+Smear Blur
    • New blur filter with looks ranging from fast standard geometric motion blurs to unique smeary/trippy/dreamy looks available by decoupling the motion transforms in non-standard and mixed ways. Excellent performance and silky smooth quality despite large non-uniform blur ranges.
  • BCC+Video Glitch
    • Layers of digital glitch artifacts with ultimate control

  15 New Fully GPU Accelerated BCC+ Dissolve Transitions:

  • BCC+ Blur Dissolve
  • BCC+ Camera Shake Dissolve
  • BCC+ Channel Blur Dissolve
  • BCC+ Crash Zoom Dissolve
  • BCC+ Cross Zoom Dissolve
  • BCC+ Direction Blur Dissolve
  • BCC+ Dissolve
  • BCC+ Film Glow Dissolve
  • BCC+ Light Leaks Dissolve
  • BCC+ Multi-Star Dissolve
  • BCC+ Prism Dissolve
  • BCC+ Rack Focus Dissolve
  • BCC+ Rays Dissolve
  • BCC+ Spin Blur Dissolve
  • BCC+ Video Glitch Dissolve

   

• 10 New Simple Title Templates
  • New minimalist titles, designed to adapt to any format for easy integration in broadcast or social media.

   

• FX Editor Enhancements
  • Video playback (instead of a single still frame)
  • UI Look and Feel Update – flatter, cleaner, more efficient use of space
  • Customized Workspaces with Save/Load controls for optimized layouts across a variety of scenarios.
  • OCIO2 support
  • New alpha preview control mode for choosing between previewing Over Black, Over Gray, Over White, Over Checkerboard, or Straight RGB.
  • Improved reliability of restoring window layout from previous session
  • Show thumbnails over black for Light, Diffusion, Textures, Ice Halos – so that the image textures can be more easily visualized.

   

• HUD Overlay Widgets in BCC+:Many BCC+ filters now support HUD on-screen-control overlay widgets for quickly dialing in controls such as radial and linear gradients, geometric transforms, corner pins, and transition animation tuning. HUD widgets are available both in the native host view and in the FX Editor.
• Apple Silicon “M1” arm64 support
  • Run BCC+ plugins natively on Apple Silicon / M1 arm64 hardware

   

• New Presets for BCC+Film Stocks
  • 60 new “movie look” presets for BCC+Film Stocks based on iconic film looks.

   

• New Presets for BCC+Camera Skake
  • 13 new presets ranging from subtle hand-held camera drift to earthquake level shaking

   

• New Gobos for BCC+Lights
  • 50 new Glass style gobos in BCC+Lights

   

• BCC+ Alpha Handling
  • Improved handling for numerous BCC+ filters when applied to transparency or soft alpha regions including BCC+ Lens Flare, BCC+ Glow, BCC+ Rays, and others.

   

• Improved BCC+ Vignette Defaults
  • The BCC+ Vignette defaults have been adjusted for a more typical default starting look.

   

• New BCC+ Edge Mode Controls Added to Filters:
  • BCC+ Camera Shake
  • BCC+ Lens Distortion
  • BCC+ Wide Angle Lens
  • BCC+ Transform
  • BCC+ Composite
  • BCC+ Film Grunge
  • BCC+ Borders

   

• Other Fixes and Polish in Continuum 2022 v15.0.5 for FCP:
  • BCC+ GPU Rendering menu has been moved from the top of each effect down to the bottom so that the mostly commonly used controls are more immediately accessible at the top.
  • BCC+Beauty Studio – quality refinements
  • BCC+Vignette – fix incorrect colors in some presets
  • BCC+Transform – Fixed premult fringe
  • BCC+Camera Shake – Fixed premult fringe
  • BCC+Rack Focus – Fixed premult fringe
  • BCC+Depth of Field – Fixed premult fringe
  • BCC+Split Field – Fixed premult fringe
  • Mac Registration Dialog in installer can fail on certain unicode entries
  • BCC+ Rays, Glows, Flares – improvements to alpha handling in some alpha regions and simplification of alpha controls.
  • FxEditor – params disabled in host were not setting to correct values if enabled during the FX Editor session
  • BCC+ Camera Shake – Randomize param not working
  • BCC+ Camera Shake – Expanded slider parameter ranges
  • BCC+ Lens Flare – extend the range of the Brightness parameter
  • License tool updates and improved diagnostics

Q: What happens when I need to open FCP projects using legacy Continuum effects? Will the legacy versions still work?

A: Due to changes in the host API, the current version of the Final Cut Pro host does not support the legacy Continuum FCP product, which was discontinued and replaced with the new (and very fast) Continuum FCP product. If you have a timeline that used legacy Continuum filters you will find that they will only produce the expected results if you run a legacy version of the FCP host.

Q: DO I HAVE TO SUBSCRIBE?

A: Nope! Our 3 units packs are all perpetual licenses. For the full suite of Continuum FCP, you can choose to subscribe or buy it outright with a perpetual license.

Q: What are the main differences between Continuum FCP 2024 and Continuum FCP (2020 or older versions)

A: It’s a completely new product with no cross-over effects, presets, or transitions — and it’s way faster! Continuum FCP 2024 offers blazing-fast renders speeds in FCP and delivers up to 10x faster workflows depending on your specific Apple hardware. Plus, every effect is GPU-accelerated, HDR compliant, and includes OCIO support for color management, unlike previous versions.

Q. Will my Continuum FCP 2024 license work on multiple computers?

A: All Boris FX licenses allow for one activation per workstation. If you would like to move your Continuum FCP 2024 license between multiple workstations, you can download the Boris FX Application Manager to easily deactivate your license and reactivate it on a different computer. For customers with more than 5 licenses, please contact sales@borisfx.com or sales@toolfarm.com for information on upgrading to a floating license server.