In addition to creative effects, a real strength of BCC 10 is found in the Image Restoration unit. Rather than combining them into one effect, I find Boris sometimes provides too many single-use effects that can make this large suite feel overwhelming at times. One critique of BCC Particles is there seems to be too many one-use effects such as Snow, Comet and Sparks. While I didn’t have a lot of time to play with it, this effect is impressive, and I’m intrigued to see what it’s truly capable of. Particle Emitter 3D offers many default particle sprites and even a few 3D shapes like spheres, cubes and cylinders.
You’ll find some familiar parameters, plus a lot more. Trapcode Particular and Form users should be able to handily navigate these effects. One of my favorite parts of BCC is the Particles unit. Adding Light Leaks can really tie a comp together with atmospheric effects. The new Light Leaks is a great effect that can produce the popular vintage look. It’s more useful to see the flare in context of your composition while editing it.
The new Beauty Studio plug-in brings advanced skin smoothing and retouching tools to your editing timeline.Ĭoming from Optical Flares, I like how BCC 10 allows you to create a flare directly in the comp view rather than in a separate GUI window. While the presets may not be as nice, it does provide the same custom options to build your own lens flares. Lens Flare 3D is a good alternative to the popular Optical Flares plug-in from Video Copilot. One of my favorite units, Lights, offers some nice effects that can be used for both motion graphics and visual effects. Using tools like this can really help make your animations more dynamic.ĭiving into the effects, there are many areas where BCC 10 shines. It’s able to analyze an audio track and control keyframes based on the beats and tones, similar to Trapcode’s Sound Keys. Similar to how mocha is integrated, Beat Reactor allows you to do much more within each effect to drive animations. BCC’s filters have a built-in browser that helps you quickly choose and compare from a large library of looks, presets and effects transitions.Īnother useful feature is Beat Reactor. The FX Browser helps showcase one of the suite’s important features: thousands of presets. That, along with a handful of preset mask shapes and various blending options, helps you combine several effects into one, resulting in a cleaner effects stack.īCC effects also include useful integrated tools for previewing and keyframing. In addition to incorporating mocha, BCC helps simplify your effects stack by allowing you to directly matte effects using the PixelChooser, a quick way to generate mattes using luma, channels or keys.
While AE users have been enjoying the bundled mocha AE for years, this integration brings Academy Award®-winning mocha tools to Avid and Premiere editors. The new Light Leaks effect is an organic film exposure look that can be applied as a clip effect or as a transition.
This integration gives the user power to isolate effects and do advanced compositing such as blurring logos and faces. Boris recently acquired Imagineer Systems, and together they have added the power of mocha tracking and masking into every effect. In addition to performance, one of the key new features in every BCC 10 effect is integrated mocha tools. For example, I was able to apply six film effects (including film grain, which is typically render-intensive) and build a preview in half the time of just one instance of the native film grain effect in AE. BCC effects are GPU-accelerated through OpenCL, making previews interactive and saving lots of time on renders. After testing the suite for a week, however, I admit I was wrong-BCC 10 is a professional-quality effects package that can be compared to plug-in tools from companies like GenArts and Red Giant.įirst of all, BCC 10 is blazingly fast in comparison to the standard effects in Adobe After Effects and Premiere or Avid Media Composer. Prior to sampling the tools in the new BCC 10 release, I honestly was a bit skeptical I’ve never used Boris plug-ins, and the company’s website and branding don’t match my personal design aesthetic. Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) is a comprehensive set of over 230 VFX plug-ins designed to complement postproduction tasks-from editing and effects, to graphics and finishing.