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.