Boris Continuum 11 out now

Boris FX released a major new version of its flagship plug-in collection Continuum (formerly BCC). Building upon the previous award-winning release, Continuum 11 delivers even more powerful chroma keying and compositing tools, new streamlined titling options, and a new VR Unit for 360/VR editing and finishing tasks. The set integrates Photron's Academy Award-nominated keying algorithm and toolset Primatte, giving editors access to the same revolutionary keying tools used in blockbuster films like the Lord of the Rings series, Spider-Man, and the Harry Potter series.

The new Continuum VR Unit fills a much-needed gap in the burgeoning 360 video industry, by complementing Adobe's recent immersive initiatives and providing Avid Media Composer with a 360 finishing workflow. The Continuum VR Unit is the result of a collaboration with the award-winning Mocha VR development team and features five new filters, including VR Reorient, VR Insert, and VR Sharpen, that drastically reduce the often laborious post and VFX tasks related to 360/VR video. Continuum 11 is now available for Avid (Avid Media Composer, Symphony, and NewsCutter) and Adobe (Adobe After Effects CC and Adobe Premiere Pro CC) host applications. Continuum 11 for OFX and Apple will be released later this year.



Continuum 11: New Features

Primatte Studio: Based on Photron’s Academy Award-nominated Primatte green/blue screen compositing algorithm, Primatte Studio is a powerful, next-gen keying and compositing feature. Highlights include: automatic green/blue screen analysis, manual transparency tuning, adjust lighting to correct unevenly lit screens, foreground object detection to deliver a perfect key with a single color sample, and integrated Mocha masking. Primatte Studio is included in Continuum’s Key and Blend Unit.

Broadcast Safe: The new Broadcast Safe filter guarantees a project will pass rigorous broadcast-safe standards with a simple one-click solution. Choose the desired standard option and the filter automatically produces the final picture-perfect result. Broadcast Safe is included in Continuum’s Image Restoration Unit.

VR Unit: The new VR Unit gives 360/VR editors highly-useful tools, including VR Reorient, VR Insert, VR Blur, VR Sharpen filters, and VR Flicker Fixer, to work quickly inside their host timeline while also avoiding the seams inherent to regular non-VR filters. Based on Mocha VR’s award-winning 360/VR tech.

Title Studio: New improvements to Title Studio include a 3D render engine for realistic 3D cast shadows and depth-of-field, a spline-based motion path for animating multiple objects on one path, faster performance, a simplified user interface, and many more presets/templates. Title Studio is included in Continuum’s 3D Objects Unit.