This Week Only: BCC 6 AE for Adobe, BCC 6 FxPlug for Apple, and Boris XML Transfer for $995

Monday, November 23, 2009

From now through November 30, 2009, Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE, Boris Continuum Complete 6 FxPlug, and Boris XML Transfer are available for a bundle price of $995 USD, a $2,289 value. This bundle includes the award-winning Boris Continuum Complete effects collection for Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, and Apple Final Cut Express. The bundle also includes Boris XML Transfer, a new plug-in that allows editors to seamlessly transfer an Apple Final Cut Pro program sequence to Adobe After Effects. Boris XML Transfer preserves all aspects of a Final Cut Pro project including effects, audio, media clips, transitions, and geometric transformations. When you use Boris XML Transfer to transfer a Final Cut Pro sequence to After Effects, all Boris Continuum Complete effects are carried over - including individual parameters.

Labels: BCC-6-AE, BCC-6-FxPlug, Boris, Boris-XML-Transfer

Digital Kitchen Standardizes on Boris Continuum Complete

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Award-Winning Creative Agency Chooses BCC for Adobe After Effects

Digital Kitchen is a creative agency that focuses on film production, experiential design, motion graphics, brand identity, and interactive work for marketing and entertainment. With studios in New York, Chicago, Seattle, and Los Angeles, Digital Kitchen has created experiential campaigns for Target and Microsoft, broadcast spots for hundreds of leading brands, interactive work for AT&T, Budweiser, and Mercedes, the Emmy Award-winning main titles for "Dexter" and "Six Feet Under", a series of manga comic books for Nike, and the live show content for The 2008 Webby Awards.

To give its artists a wide range of tools and plug-ins in one unified visual effects suite, Digital Kitchen recently standardized on Boris Continuum Complete AE for Adobe After Effects, investing in 65 licenses including 20 render-only licenses. Instead of constantly digging and searching for the right plug-in, Digital Kitchen artists turn to one of BCC AE's nearly 200 filters for fast, easy, and visually-striking effects. Using BCC AE as a one-stop shop for visual effects has resulted in increased creativity and productivity.

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Labels: BCC-6-AE, Boris-FX, Boris-User-Story

Digital Arts Reviews Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Neil Bennett recently took a look at BCC 6 AE for Digital Arts. BCC 6 AE garnered 4.5 out of 5 stars and received Digital Arts' Best Buy distinction.

Here are a few excerpts from the review:

"BCC 6 is a powerful collection of plug-ins that most motion graphics artists and editors will want, especially for the new 3D Objects filters."

"Where Extruded Text really shines - literally - is in its integration with the rest of AE's 3D workspace. The text interacts with lights and cameras, casting shadows if necessary, and you can use other layers to create reflection maps (for added realism) or texture maps (for 'on-text' video)."

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Labels: BCC-6-AE, Review

Pro Editing @ Home Reviews Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE

Thursday, February 19, 2009

"Looking ahead, I can see BCC 6 being on people's 'Top 10 of 2009' list, as Boris has taken the one problem with After Effects (not 'real 3D'), and has given us real 3D text with complete camera and lighting support, and has taken something that works exceptionally well in Boris Blue, Deformers, and added those as well. These, combined with all of the other great effects in the package, make it something that shouldn't be overlooked."

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Labels: BCC-6-AE, Review

New Release: Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE Now Available

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Extruded Text, 13 New Filters, Support for AE's Camera & Lighting System

Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE (BCC 6 AE) brings nearly 200 filters to Macintosh and Windows versions of Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro. The new release features 13 new filters including Extruded Text, Extruded Spline, Type-On Text, Layer Deformer, Smooth Tone, DV Fixer, and Pixel Fixer. In addition, BCC 6 AE delivers unique workflow enhancements such as support for After Effects' Camera and Lighting System, the ability to import After Effects mask paths into BCC 6 AE filters, saving and loading of XML-based animated presets, a single-click custom preset navigation tool, and motion tracking data import and export in an industry-standard format.

"BCC 6 AE is a giant leap forward in 3D," commented Boris Yamnitsky, president and founder, Boris FX. "We harnessed the power of modern graphics cards to deliver a true 3D experience for editors and compositors while integrating with Adobe applications tighter than ever before."

"The beauty of BCC 6 AE's new 3D text and spline filters is that I can now create and fine-tune 3D objects within After Effects - at the same time as I'm working with other BCC 6 filters like rays, particles, generators, and distortions," commented Larry Andersen of Spot Editorial in Boston, MA. "I also appreciate the 3D filters' thoroughness - built-in textures, character animation, camera, and lights make for very powerful yet easy-to-use tools."

New BCC 6 AE Feature Highlights

* 13 New Filters ranging from realistic 3D vector graphics extrusions to organic 3D deformers to painting and image restoration. The new 3D Objects category includes Extruded Text, Extruded Spline, Type-On Text, and Layer Deformer. New image restoration filters include DV Fixer, Smooth Tone, and Pixel Fixer. New image painting filters consist of Charcoal Sketch, Pencil Sketch, Water Color, and Cartoon Look. New OpenGL filters include Lightning and Tile Mosaic. Learn More

* Support for AE's Camera and Lighting System. Many BCC filters - including Extruded Text, Type-On Text, and Extruded Spline - are now integrated with AE's camera and lighting system for easy, intuitive setup using AE's native tools and controls.

* Import AE Mask Paths into Boris Continuum Complete Filters. From 3D text on a path to custom bevel profiles and extruded spline objects, AE masks can now be used to control the geometry of BCC 6 AE filters. Now there is no need to learn a custom user interface or switch to a different application to adjust spline shapes. Users may take advantage of AE's familiar mask tools for all custom spline work. Additionally, all BCC 6 AE filters feature the ability to load custom AE spline masks into BCC's built-in PixelChooser matte and masking system for ultimate control over the filtered result.

* Custom Animated Presets. This unique feature lets users save and re-use every parameter animation in every BCC filter - even across host applications and platforms. BCC 6 AE includes 1000+ factory-installed animated presets. Animated presets are now saved in an industry-standard XML format so that they can be viewed and edited by any XML-compliant text editor.

* Single-Click Custom Preset Navigation Tool lets users easily browse presets without opening a pop-up box. Both static and animated presets are immediately applied and the host preview window is automatically updated to reflect the selected preset. Over 1500 factory-installed, user-modifiable presets are included with BCC 6 AE.

* Built-In Motion Tracker Enhancements are found in almost every filter. Users may now save motion tracker data from one filter and load the saved data in another filter or in After Effects itself.

* Significant Performance Gains. Every BCC 6 AE filter is either OpenGL-based or multiprocessor-accelerated for ultimate rendering speed on modern computing and graphics platforms.

Pricing and Availability
Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE supports Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro and is available immediately for an MSRP of $995 USD. Owners of previous versions of Boris Continuum Complete AE may upgrade for an MSRP or $295 USD. A 14-day trial version is available for free download from http://www.borisfx.com/. Customers who purchased BCC 5 AE in 2009 are eligible to receive a free upgrade to BCC 6 AE.

Boris Continuum Complete 6 FxPlug for Apple Final Cut Studio and Apple Final Cut Express and Boris Continuum Complete 6 AVX for Avid editing and finishing systems are scheduled for release later in Q1 2009. Customers who purchase Boris Continuum Complete 5 FxPlug or Boris Continuum Complete 5 AVX as of February 5, 2009 will receive a free upgrade to Version 6.

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