BCC Tritone Dissolve

Category: BCC Transitions

Effect Name: BCC Tritone Dissolve

The BCC Tritone Dissolve filter, part of the BCC Transitions group, creates a tint/tritone effect with optional levels/gamma adjustments that automatically animates up and down in intensity while the underlying dissolve progresses to complete the transition.

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 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.
• Color Options: Determines which combination of color effects is applied during the transition.
• Tritone And Levels: Apply both the Tritone and Levels/Gamma pass.
• Tritone Only: Apply only the Tritone pass.
• Levels Only: Apply only the Levels/Gamma pass.
• Dissolve Only: Skip both the Tritone and Levels/Gamma passes and just render the underlying dissolve.
• Intensity: Determines the overall intensity of the color changes caused by the Tritone, Levels/Gamma, and Apply Mode settings.
• Highlights: Sets the tint color for the highlights in the Tritone pass.
• Midtones: Sets the tint color for the midtones in the Tritone pass.
• Shadows: Sets the tint color for the shadows in the Tritone pass.
• Use Midtones Color: Controls whether the tinting uses a 3-color tritone process with separate tint colors for Highlight, Midtone, and Shad0w, or if it instead uses a 2-color duotone process with just Hightlight and Shadow tint colors.

The Color Group

• Brightness Peak: Determines the maximum change to the Brightness at the midpoint of the transition. Auto-animates so that it has no effect at the beginning or end of the transition and peaks in intensity at the middle.
• Contrast Peak: Determines the maximum change to the Contrast at the midpoint of the transition. Auto-animates so that it has no effect at the beginning or end of the transition and peaks in intensity at the middle.
• Saturation Peak: Determines the maximum change to the Saturation at the midpoint of the transition. Auto-animates so that it has no effect at the beginning or end of the transition and peaks in intensity at the middle.

The Extras Group

• Apply Tint To: Determines how the tritone and levels/gamma passes are applied to the source and reveal layers.
• Input Black: Sets the input black value for the levels/gamma pass.
• Input White: Sets the input white value for the levels/gamma pass.
• Gamma: Sets the midpoint level for levels/gamma pass.
• Reverse Colors: Swaps the Highlight and Shadow color selections.
• Apply Mode: Controls the blend mode used to apply the results of the tritone and levels/gamma passes back to the image.
• Filter Apply Mix: Controls the intensity of the changes introduced by the Apply Mode settings, with a value of 100 generating the pure apply mode result and lower values reducing the strength of the apply mode.

The Animation Tuning Group

• Blur Ease In: Controls how quickly or slowly the color effects increases at the beginning of the transition.
• Blur Ease Mid: Controls the rate of change of the color effects during the middle of the transition.
• Blur Ease Out: Controls how quickly or slowly the color effects 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.