BCC Cylinder
Category: BCC Perspective
Effect Name: BCC Cylinder
The BCC Cylinder filter, part of the BCC Perspective category, maps source media onto a 3D cylindrical surface, allowing for animation, lighting, and flexible wrapping behaviors.
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.
Beat Reactor
The Beat Reactor is an audio-driven animation system that links effect parameters to an audio track. This allows visual effects to react dynamically to sound without manual key-framing.
For more information, see Beat Reactor Documentation.
- Non-Square Pixels:Sets non-square pixels to square format to prevent distortion.
- Position:Sets the X and Y coordinates of the center point of the cylinder.
- Wrap Percentage:Determines how much the image wraps around the cylinder.
- Unwrap as Transition:When enabled, unwrapping restores the original image scale and rotation. When disabled, unwrapping does not affect those properties.
Note: If you spin, tumble, or rotate the cylinder and then unwrap it, the object returns to its original orientation. To animate a full spin while unwrapping, animate Spin from โ360 to 0 (or 360 to 0).
- Perspective:Sets the distance between the viewer and the cylinder.
- Lock Scale to X:When enabled scale proportions are maintained.
- Scale X:Sets the size of the cylinder along the x axis.
- Scale Y:Sets the size of the cylinder along the y axis.
- Axial Displacement:Moves the cylinder along its axis.
- Tumble:Tumbles the image along the z axis.
- Spin:Spins the image along the y axis.
- Rotate:Rotates the image along the x axis.
Faces Group
- Wrap:Determines how the image wraps.
- Around: Fully wraps image.
- One Way Repeat: Front + back copies.
- Back & Forth Repeat: Back is mirrored.
- Front: Only front is visible.
- Faces:Determines visible sides.
- Front: Outside only.
- Back: Inside only.
- Both: Inside and outside.
- Front Opacity:Controls transparency of the outer surface.
- Alternate Back:Sets the layer used for the back of the image.
- Symetrical Crop:Crops evenly on both sides.
- Crop Top-Left:Crops the image using the top left x/y bounds.
- Crop Bot-Right:Crops the image using the bottom-right bounds.
Light Group
- Light XY:Sets the position of light source.
- Light Z:Sets the light distance from the object.
- Ambient Light:Sets the base illumination.
- Diffuse Light:Sets the main surface lighting.
- Specular Light:Sets the highlight intensity.
- Light Falloff:Sets the softness of lighting edges.
- Light Color:Sets the color of the light source.
- Specular Apply:Determines how the highlights are composited.
Drop Shadow Group
- Drop Shadow On:Enables/disables the drop shadow.
- Shadow Distance:Sets the shadow distance from the object.
- Shadow Intensity:Sets the opacity of the shadow.
- Shadow Softness:Sets the softness of the shadow edges.
- Shadow Angle:Sets the direction of the shadow.
- Shadow Color:Sets the color of the shadow.
