BCC Colorize Glow Dissolve

Category: BCC Transitions

Effect Name: BCC Colorize Glow Dissolve

The BCC Colorize Glow Dissolve filter, part of the BCC Transitions group, generates a glow from a single channel and then applies a gradient to the glow which automatically animates in intensity as your transition progresses to obscure the underlying dissolve between clips.

Working with the Filter

Presets and the FX Browser

• BCC filters come with a library of factory installed presets plus the ability to create your own custom presets and preview them with the BCC FX Browser™.
• BCC filters also include common controls that configure global effect preferences and other host-specific effect settings.

For more information about working with presets and other common controls, Click Here.

• Layer to Reveal: This layer selection popup is not relevant when you have applied the filter as a true NLE-style transition and it will be hidden or disabled in that context. When applied as a normal “effect” as opposed to a transition, however, this menu is used to select the Incoming or Reveal layer for the transition.
• Animation: Menu controlling what drives the animation of the transition.
• Auto: Automatically generates a transition based on the transition length (when used as a transition) or the clip length (when used as a filter.)
• Percent Done: Requires the user to set keyframes to control the transition progression.
• Percent Done: When the Animation menu is changed to Percent Done then this slider can be manually keyframed to control the transition progression.
• Invert Wipe: Flips the progression of the animation over the course of the transition so that regions which would have been the first to be wiped off are now the last to be wiped off and vice versa.
• Intensity:Used to control the intensity of the glow result. Higher values yield a stronger glow with a total white image when this parameter is set to it’s highest value.
• Glow Opacity: Scales the opacity of the glow. Raising Glow Opacity causes more of the glow to be opaque, and the colors at the left end of the gradient will appear more prominently in the output.
• Filter Animation: sets the animation style for the filter.
  • Intensity: Animates the transition based on intensity values only.
  • Glow Opacity: Animates the transition based on glow opacity values only
  • Both: Animates the transition based on both intensity and glow opacity values.
• Invert Luma: Uses the inverted luma channel.
• Blur Amount: Sets the amount of blur applied to the image to produce the glow effect.
• Spread: Sets each point in the rendered output to be affected more by points farther away in the blur.
• Threshold: Determines which regions in the image will be affected by the glow.

• Overdrive Amount: Sets the overall intensity of the glow created by the blur. Lower values producing a softer glow, mixing the blurred image with the resulting glow. Higher values produce a harder, more dramatic glow effect.
• Overdrive Soften: Softens the glow produced by the Overdrive parameter and pulls its edges in. Higher values of Overdrive Soften sharply reduce the edges of the glow. Negative values gently increase and soften the edges.
• Overdrive: Determines how the glow portion of the effect composites over the blurred portion of the effect. The resulting filtered image is then composited with the source image using the chosen Apply Mode.
• Softness: Sets a blur that is applied to the glow after the first blur and the overdrive mix.
• Glow Offset: Offsets the glow. A positive value pushes some of the negative values positive and makes them visible in the output. A negative value reduces all the glow values, causing only the most glowing pixels to appear in the output.
• Color Preset: Selects a Colorize preset (a gradient of up to six colors to tone the effect). If the Mode menu is not set to Colorize, the presets have no affect.

Colorize Presets offer a range of color gradients for your transitions.

• Gradient: The BCC Gradient group enables complex, multi-color gradients for use in a variety of effect settings such as colorizing light sources.

Region Animation Group

Region Animation allows you to fine tune the style and direction of the transition effect with various settings. These settings are disabled by default until an animation type is selected.

• Animation Type: Sets the direction of the transition animation.
  • None: Sets the transition animation to affect the entire image at once. This is the default setting.
  • Out: The transition will begin at a central point and move outwards towards a edges.
  • In: The transition will begin along the outer edge and move inwards towards a central point.
  • Out & In: The transition will animate outwards and then rebound inwards over the course of the animation.
  • In & Out: The transition will animate inwards and then rebound outwards over the course of the animation.
• Region Type: Determines the shape of the transition effect.
  • Circle: Sets the effect to appear as a circular wipe over the dissolve.
  • Line: Sets the transition to appear as a letterbox wipe over the dissolve.

• Direction: Sets the angle of the transition. Only available when the Region Type is set to Line.
• Softness: sets the edge feathering of the transition region. Lower values will produce a sharper edge.
• Center Point: Sets the XY position of the transition’s animation.

Color Group

Color settings allow you to set the brightness and contrast values of the transition at it’s peak point. Values will increase as the effect transitions in and then decrease as the new layer is revealed.

• Brightness Peak: Sets the maximum brightness value for the transition.
• Contrast Peak: Sets the maximum contrast value for the transition.

The Animation Tuning Group

These parameters control the overall timing of the transition. On hosts which permit on-screen heads up display widgets (such as AE, Premiere, and Avid) you should never need to modify these sliders directly since they can be configured in a more convenient and intuitive manner by manipulating the widgets directly in your comp/preview pane. On hosts without heads up display widgets you can use these sliders directly to fine tune your animation timing, taking advantage of the View Ease Curve option to help visualize the animation rates.

• Glow Ease In: Controls how quickly or slowly the effect amount increases at the beginning of the transition.
• Glow Ease Mid: Controls the rate of change of the effect amount during the middle of the transition.
• Glow Ease Out: Controls how quickly or slowly the effect amount decreases at the end of the transition.
• Dissolve Duration: Controls the timing of the underlying dissolve relative to the timing of the rest of the transition.
• View Ease Curve: (Only visible/enabled in hosts that don’t support heads up display widgets for manipulating these controls directly on screen.) Enable this control to display a preview graph of the the animation curves rendered into in the composite window.