BCC Preferences
Category: Common Controls
Effect Name: BCC Preferences
The BCC Preferences panel manages global settings that apply across the full BCC effect set. These controls allow fine tuning your BCC workflow and configuring special options such as hardware settings. Because these preferences are not saved into project files, care should be taken when moving projects to other systems or when sharing systems between multiple users since changes to preferences can affect both render results and parameter defaults in newly applied effect instances.
Transferring/Migrating Preferences
You can manually transfer preference files between systems or between versions of Continuum to ensure render results remain identical, or alternatively preference settings can be manually set to match settings on another system if needed.
Preference files are XML based text files and can be merged/edited in standard text editors, although care must be take to preserve proper tags.
File Locations
Mac:
- /Users/YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME/Library/Preferences/com.borisfx.BCC11.filter.ae.xml
- /Users/YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME/Library/Preferences/com.borisfx.BCC11.fxBrowser.ae.xml
- /Users/YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME/Library/Preferences/com.borisfx.Continuum.BCC.ae.xml
Windows:
- C:\Users\YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME\AppData\Local\BorisFX\Boris Continuum Complete\Continuum_BCC_Preferences_AE.xml
- C:\Users\YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME\AppData\Local\BorisFX\Boris Continuum Complete\BCC11_FXBrowserPreferences_AE.xml
- C:\Users\YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME\AppData\Local\BorisFX\Boris Continuum Complete\BCC11_FilterPreferences_AE.xml
Launching the Preferences Panel
The way you access the Preferences panel is different for each host. In After Effects, Premiere, and Motion the preferences are accessed by clicking the Preferences button that is part of the main BCC banner at the top of each effect. In Avid the preferences are accessed by a Preferences button in the General Controls parameter group. In Vegas and Resolve the preferences are accessed by a Preferences button at the top of the effect.
Working with the Preferences Panel
- Help (โ?โ): You can access the help documentation for the Preferences panel at any time by clicking the โ?โ icon in the panel.
- Reset: You can reset the preferences to factory default settings at any time by clicking the Reset button in the panel.
- Cancel / OK: After editing preference settings, choose the Cancel or OK buttons to either dismiss or commit your changes.
Clearing Render Caches
Note: Some preference settings will affect the render results, but changing preferences may not automatically clear the render caches in hosts which maintain them. If you have changed a preference setting that will potentially affect the render results you may need to manually purge any cached renders as appropriate for your particular host.
Preference Details
- Enable OpenCL: Enables or disables accelerated GPU processing for the filters that use OpenCL.
- Hide Disabled Parameters [Adobe only]: Enables whether or not disabled parameters are hidden or grayed out.
- Load Pixel Chooser Mask with Preset: Controls whether Pixel Chooser parameters are modified when loading presets.
- Logging: Event logs are generated when running BCC and these can occasionally be useful when troubleshooting problems, particularly OpenCL related failures. You can choose the level of detail in the Logging Menu.
- Normal: Standard logging.
- Comprehensive: Provides more detailed logging. Choose Comprehensive when troubleshooting BCC.
- Safe Levels Default [Avid only]: Specifies the default value for the Safe Levels in any newly applied effect instances going forward. Changing this setting has no effect on previously applied filter instances but allows you to customize your preferred default setting for any new effects that get applied after the setting is changed. This allows streamlining your workflow based on your personal preferences and the requirements of your current project.
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- Safe Levels Global Override [Avid only]: Specifies whether or not to globally override the Safe Levels settings in all current effect instances. This allows you to force a project to render with Safe Levels universally On or Off irrespective of how the Safe Levels checkboxes are actually configured within the individual effect.
Note: The host application must be restarted after changing the Logging Menu setting in order for the change to take effect. The Logging Open button will open the current log file. Any standard text editor can be used to read the contents of this log file.
- None: Skips any global override of Safe Levels handling and each effect respects the value of its individual Safe Levels checkbox.
- Forced On: All effects ignore their individual Save Levels checkbox state and render with Safe Levels forced to ON.
- Forced Off: All effects ignore their individual Save Levels checkbox state and render with Safe Levels forced to OFF.
Note: This setting does not change the checkbox state in the individual filters, but it instead causes all the individual filters to render as if their checkbox state had been changed.
Legacy Preference Details (for older versions of BCC)
- Enable GPU [BCC9 Only]: Enables or disables GPU processing.
- Use 4K Buffers [BCC9 Only]: Enables 4K processing.
- Anti Alias Buffer Level [BCC9 Only]: Controls edge quality.
