In this case I’ve already chosen the Mocha Spline, but I could choose a default shape like an egg, which is designed to closely approximate the shape of someone’s face so it gets you started in the right direction ( Figure 6, below Figure 5).įigures 5 and 6. Then under PixelChooser, you can also choose default shapes for the mask. Blur would just be a standard blur and mosaic gives it a more of a pixelated appearance.Īs far as the shape, I just choose PixelChooser because that’s what corresponds with Mocha ( Figure 5, below). Now I can apply that information to just about any effect I want and just say, “Use this mask that I created in Mocha and follow it.” In this case, I wanted to use what they call the Witness Protection effect and I wanted to use the mosaic effect, not the blur. You just click Save icon and close it out, and the tracking information you entered is applied to that particular effect.
Click the image to see it at full size.Īfter I’ve set your tracking parameters and keyframes to make sure the tracking works throughout the selected portion of my clip, BorisFX saves the tracking information so I can close this interface. Note the mask around the kayaker’s face created with the spline tools. Check the video tutorial to see how I used the tracking capabilities in this example.įigure 4.
You can make in and out points to select only areas that you’re using in the clip otherwise, by default, it loads the entire the clip. You can see in Figure 4 (below) how many parameters and controls are available to set in Mocha. Most of the effects that you can use in the Continuum set will have this Mocha button down at the bottom of the effect controls where you can click Launch Mocha to launch the Mocha interface. The next effect I want to show you uses the Planar Tracker found in Mocha, which BorisFX acquired in late 2014. I was able to get the precise lens flare effect I wanted in this shot without keyframing any animation. I just turned on a few options and there it was.įigure 3. That was very easy to do without having to custom-animate the Lens Flare 3D effect with a bunch of keyframes. You can see how the flare appears to interact with the oar in Figure 3 (below). When the oar comes through the flare, there's a little bit of a flash the glow expands in the center, almost as if the oar is cutting the sun, and the light is shining through the oar. It also shows how the lens flare changes-moving, flickering, glowing differently-over time. The video tutorial explains in detail how I’ve customized this effect to get the look I want. Presets currently available for this effect Clicking PREFERENCES enables you to turn on OpenCL.įX BROWSER is something unique to BCC that I really like I’ll get into it in detail later in this tutorial.īy clicking Current, you can access all of your presets, including pre-made presets that come with BCC 10 and any you’ve created yourself, via the drop-down menu shown in Figure 2 (below).įigure 2.
LICENSE CONTROL and PURCHASE pertain to the license that you've purchased (or maybe you haven’t purchased) for the plugins. If I click HELP while I’m working in this effect, Boris launches the Lens Flare 3D Help, and easily enables me to get to the rest of Help file if I need it. It actually goes to the help section on the plugin that you’re using.
The HELP button launches a help resource that’s offline in your browser, but it won’t just go to Boris Continuum Help and leave you to navigate to the information you need.
Your editors can access them through this interface so that if somebody makes a preset that you really like, they don't have to put it on your computer. LOAD and SAVE are for loading and saving your own presets, which you can share with others if you have a storage area network or other server and you have several different editors sharing visual effects. Click the image to see it at full size.Įvery BCC 10 plugin has its own interface with the buttons highlighted in Figure 1. A kayaking clip with a Lens Flare 3D effect applied. You can tweak and tweak until it doesn't look anything like a lens flare if you really want to.įigure 1.
We’ll explore several key effects in BCC 10 in the tutorial video, and how to tweak and customize them in Premiere Pro.įor example, with the Lens Flare 3D effect applied in Figure 1 (below), you’ll notice range of customization options available. Customizing Effectsįor my sample footage, I’m using some kayaking footage that I shot a couple of years ago it works pretty well for a lot of the filters and transitions that I’ll demonstrate in this tutorial. Some of the plug-ins are exclusive to After Effects, but we're going to limit this tutorial to what you can do in Premiere Pro.
BCC 10 is available now for Premiere Pro and After Effects. In this tutorial we’ll look at BorisFX Continuum Collection 10 (BCC 10), the latest version of Boris’s popular collection of professional plug-ins from BorisFX.