BCC Curl
Category: BCC Warp
Effect Name: BCC Curl
The BCC Curl filter, part of the BCC Warp category, simulates curled distortions in the source footage. This filter automatically creates animated curls and allows you to choose from a range of distortions.
Additionally Pixel Chooser with integrated Mocha includes tools to generate geometric shapes, gradient mattes, an AI depth map generator, and an AI-powered face detection model. Integrated Matte Assist ML and Matte Refine ML, use advanced machine learning to generate and track masks.
Working with the Filter
Presets and Common Controls
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 Browserโข.
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.
Effect Controls
Mocha Mask and Track
Continuum effects include integrated masking and matte tools that allow you to restrict the effect to specific regions of the image.
- Mocha masks: used to create custom spline masks. Mocha also includes Matte Assist ML and Matte Refine ML, which use machine learning to generate and track masks.
- Pixel Chooser: used to generate geometric shapes, gradients, or mattes based on channel, luma, or color-based selections. Additionally, an AI depth map generator, and an AI-powered face detection model allow for precise control of masks and mattes.
Note: Mocha can also be used to drive geometric parameters. See the Mocha Motion Tracker documentation for details.
For more information, see Mocha and Pixel Chooser.
Compare Mode
The Compare Mode is used to view the filtered result alongside the original source layer. Several split-screen and side-by-side display options are available.
For more information, see Compare Mode.
Beat Reactor
The BCC Beat Reactor is an animation control system that drives effect properties using an audio track. This allows visual effects to sync automatically to sound without manual keyframing.
For more information on the Beat Reactor, Click Here.
- Complexity: Sets the number of distortions in the effect. Higher values will produce more complex curl distortions in the scene.
- Distortion Amplitude: Determines the amplitude of the curl effects. Higher values will result in tighter curls, while lower values will result in smoother curls.
- Curl Size: Sets the overall size of the curls. Higher values will produce larger curls.
- Direction: Sets the angle of movement of the curl distortions in the scene.
- Direction Spread: Sets the distance between curls along the angle of direction.
- Speed: Sets the speed at which the curl distortions move through the scene. Higher values will result in faster movement, while lower values will create more subtle distortions.
- Random Seed: Adds randomness to the distortion movement.
- Advanced Sampling: Provides an additional render passes to smooth and anti-alias the effect. Enabling this may increase render times.
- Mix with Original: Blends the source and filtered images. Use this parameter to animate the effect from the unfiltered to the filtered image without adjusting other settings, or to reduce the effect of the filter by mixing it with the source image.
