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Unleash your vision with Continuum plugins.

Continuum gives you access to stunning visual effects and workflow solutions that fit any content creation need. The easy-to-use interface includes 300+ effects, 40 transitions, and 5000+ presets and is optimized to give you fast performance in many popular video editing and VFX applications.

Use AI-powered tools to reduce noise and upscale images, add pro film textures, apply broadcast-ready transitions, fix footage fast, instantly generate motion graphics elements with Particle Illusion’s 3D particle animations, or even build 2D/3D vector titles with Title Studio. This isn’t just a plugin package — it’s creative freedom.

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Why Continuum?

AI Powered Image Restoration and Visual Effects
Fix your footage from blurry shots to skin touch-ups
Distort and stylize your footage for the perfect look
Film looks and grains for that classic analog look
Mocha tracking built into every effect
Animate your effects to the beat of music
Drag and drop transitions
Easy greenscreen composites

One ultimate package with endless possibilities

Light & Diffusion

Change a scene’s lighting with a simple click.

Take your story to the next level with beautiful and elegant lighting effects.

Distort & Stylize

Degrade your footage for a retro or classic damaged film/video look.

Change the feel of your shot using sophisticated light leaks, hyper realistic blurs, or powerful glows.

Film Looks & Grain

Channel your inner analog filmmaker with The Cinematographer Toolkit.

Instantly transform your footage with curated presets featuring the best film emulation options in the business.

Image Restoration

Why “fix it in post” exists.

Bring blurry shots back to life, retouch skin, get rid of banding + more.

Compositing

Say goodbye to challenging greenscreens with a few simple clicks with Primatte Studio.

Fine-tune your composite with a number of edge tools that take the capabilities of your host further than ever before.

Motion Graphics

Create stunning lens flares or design professional animated intro graphics with the help of Particle Illusion and Title Studio.

Continuum includes a robust set of effects and graphic templates for every project imaginable.

Audio Reaction

Make your effects bounce to music with Continuum’s auto-animating Beat Reactor. Quickly add major production value with just a few clicks.

Mocha Tracking

Unleash the power of every Continuum effect with Mocha’s award-winning planar tracking tools.

Perform complicated masking tasks and track position data with ease and precision.

Transitions

Transitions are an essential part of your storytelling toolkit and with Continuum we have 40+ available for all your production needs.

Effects showcase

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Continuum powers the multiverse in Everything Everywhere All At Once

Learn how 5 artists tackled the majority of the VFX and created the highly-stylized broken mirror look for the multiverse scenes throughout the film.
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Works where you work

System requirements

Mac OS
OS Requirements
  • Catalina 10.15 or higher
  • Note that Continuum ML filters require Monterey 12.0 or higher
Processor (CPU)
  • Apple M-series or Intel processors
System Memory (RAM)
  • 8 GB minimum, 16+ GB preferred
Graphics Processor (GPU)
  • Most modern graphics cards from AMD, NVIDIA and Intel are supported.
Disk
  • High-speed disk array or SSD storage
Windows
OS Requirements
  • Windows 10 and Windows 11
Processor (CPU)
  • Intel or AMD CPU with four or more cores
System Memory (RAM)
  • 8 GB minimum, 16+ GB preferred
Graphics Processor (GPU)
  • Most modern graphics cards from AMD, NVIDIA and Intel are supported.
Disk
  • High-speed disk array or SSD storage

New for 2025

  • BCC+ Motion Blur ML

    Generate crisp, sleek motion blurs from a source clip or UV map

  • BCC+ License Plate ML

    Hide, mask & track multiple license plates in record time

  • 4 New Transitions

    BCC+ Smoke & Fog Dissolve, BCC+ Smoke Wipe, BCC+ Atmospheric Glow, and BCC+ Orbs

  • 6 Updated Effects

    BCC+ Grain, BCC+ Linear Color Key, BCC+ Pixel Chooser, BCC+ Two Way Keyer, BCC+ Smoke & Fog, and BCC+ Atmospheric Glow

  • Particle Illusion Improvements

    Stunning new presets and additional creative options to customize your animations

  • More Presets

    200+ professionally designed and curated presets
New Version 2025

Motion Blur ML

Motion Blur ML uses our newly developed optical flow machine learning algorithm to quickly apply natural-looking motion blur to clips and graphics.

  • Add motion blur to retimed shots, effects, and graphics
  • Apply motion blur from a desired shot or UV map source
  • Precisely match the motion blurs direction from your assets using forward motion, backward motion, or a combination of the two
  • Customize the level of motion blur with a variety of controls
Learn More About Motion Blur ML |
New Version 2025

License Plate ML

License Plate ML is a powerful new feature that automatically detects all license plates in a scene. It then masks and tracks them in an instant!

  • Faster Mocha masking allows you to fine-tune challenging situations
  • Obscure identities with four options: Blur, Mosaic, Brightness/Contrast, and Tint
Learn More About License Plate ML |
New Version 2025

New Transitions

Get more from your edit with four jam-packed transitions that boost your creative options.

  • BCC+ Smoke & Fog Dissolve: Choose from multiple smoke textures and mix with classic Continuum easing controls and color correction
  • BCC+ Smoke Wipe: Similar to Smoke and Fog dissolve, there are over 2+ textures to choose from, along with softness controls to dial in that perfect wipe look
  • BCC+ Atmospheric Glow Dissolve: Create the ultimate glow transitions
  • BCC+ Orbs Dissolve: Drive your edits with colorful auto-animating textures
  • All transitions include easing and color correction options for maximum control
Learn More About New Transitions |
New Version 2025

Updated Effects

Continuum 2025 ships with several effect updates.

  • Film Style Unit: Add realistic film grain to your video with BCC+ Grain
  • Key & Blend Unit: Tackle compositing tasks faster with BCC+ Linear Color Key, BCC+ Pixel Chooser, and BCC+ Two Way Keyer
  • 20+ New Sprite/Texture Options: Available in BCC+ Smoke & Fog, BCC+ Atmospheric Glow, and their transition counterparts
New Version 2025

Particle Illusion Enhancements

Particle Illusion adds more creative features that are perfect for motion graphics workflows.

  • 10+ artistically designed particle presets
  • “Add” button to apply a selected emitter from the library to the PI Stage
  • "Repeat" animation available feature for any keyframed parameter
  • Copy/paste color gradients, alpha gradients, and particle images (sprites) between particle-type nodes
Learn More About Particle Illusion Enhancements |
New Version 2024.5

Retimer ML

Say no to unwanted artifacts, and hello to sleek smooth time warps with animated ramping driven by BCC+ Retimer’s state-of-the-art ML models.

  • Easily speed up or slow down the timing of a selected frame range
  • Keyframe your effects for maximum impact
  • Works great on uneven time percentages


*Not available for FCP

Learn More About Retimer |
New Version 2024.5

Witness Protection ML

Witness Protection ML is a powerful new feature that automatically detects all human faces in a scene. It then masks and tracks them in an instant!

  • Faster Mocha masking allows you to fine-tune challenging situations
  • Obscure identities with four options: Blur, Mosaic, Brightness/Contrast, and Tint
  • Easily mix and blend obscuration effects with each other
Learn More About Witness Protection ML |
New Version 2024.5

Color Link

Link color values from one clip to another in any host with flexibility and speed. BCC+ Color Link is an ideal effect for motion graphics artists, compositors, and editors alike.

  • Dynamically color link or sample color frame by frame — perfect for shots with light fluctuation
  • Choose from over 20 different blending modes
  • Integrate glow, color correction, and drop shadow controls for the best end result
  • Full 32- bit float color processing
Learn More About ColorLink |
New Version 2024

Revolutionary AI Upscaling

Transform your footage with BCC+ UpRes ML, the ultimate tool for scaling up any format size right from the comfort of your preferred host.

  • Format Flexibility: Handles all format sizes for consistent, high-quality results
  • Detail Preservation: Sharpens and maintains fine details during enlargement
  • Selective Zoom: Offers zoom-in capabilities to enhance specific clip regions
Learn more about UpRes |
New Version 2024

AI-Powered Noise Removal

Instantly enhance your video quality with the BCC+ DeNoise ML effect — your one-click solution for clear visuals.

  • Artifact Removal: Eliminates noise from low-light and compression artifacts
  • One-Click Efficiency: Drag-and-drop simplicity for immediate results
  • Intelligent Analysis: Auto-analyzes images to preserve and boost detail
Learn more about DeNoise |

See the ML tools for yourself

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New Version 2024

Visualize Sound in Motion

Make your music come alive with BCC+ Audio Visualizer. The effect intelligently matches the sound in your video to a base audio spectrum of lines, dots or circles. Then push it further with:

  • Fine tuned controls for the size, position, and rotation of your current display plus 3D properties
  • Finish composites by coloring, reflecting, and warping the visualizer
  • Pin the effect with integrated Mocha parameter tracking
  • Easily add a background

Get started with Audio Visualizer | 18:52

Learn how to create your own custom designs | 29:04

Previous releases

New Version 2024.5

Retimer ML

Say no to unwanted artifacts, and hello to sleek smooth time warps with animated ramping driven by BCC+ Retimer’s state-of-the-art ML models.

  • Easily speed up or slow down the timing of a selected frame range
  • Keyframe your effects for maximum impact
  • Works great on uneven time percentages


*Not available for FCP

New Version 2024.5

Witness Protection ML

Witness Protection ML is a powerful new feature that automatically detects all human faces in a scene. It then masks and tracks them in an instant!

  • Faster Mocha masking allows you to fine-tune challenging situations
  • Obscure identities with four options: Blur, Mosaic, Brightness/Contrast, and Tint
  • Easily mix and blend obscuration effects with each other
New Version 2024.5

Color Link

Link color values from one clip to another in any host with flexibility and speed. BCC+ Color Link is an ideal effect for motion graphics artists, compositors, and editors alike.

  • Dynamically color link or sample color frame by frame — perfect for shots with light fluctuation
  • Choose from over 20 different blending modes
  • Integrate glow, color correction, and drop shadow controls for the best end result
  • Full 32- bit float color processing
New Version 2024.5

Updated Effects

Continuum 2024.5 ships with a ton of effect updates.

  • BCC+ Denoise ML: A newly trained model performs twice as fast as the previous shipping version
  • Compare mode with BCC+ Effects: Easily see before-and-after results on your original clip after applying an effect directly in the host
  • Key and Blend Unit: BCC+ Edge Cleaner, BCC+ Light Wrap, BCC+ Spill Remover, BCC+ Linear Luma Key
  • Warp Unit: BCC+ Polar Warp
  • Stylize Unit: BCC+ Mosaic
  • Transitions Unit: BCC+ Mosaic Dissolve
New Version 2024.5

Particle Illusion Improvements

Particle Illusion adds more creative features that are perfect for motion graphics workflows.

  • Position Paths: You can now easily scale, transform, and rotate the entire path and take advantage of new presets for a variety of path animations.
  • Replace Emitter Function: Use it to swap out emitters and keep complex simulations intact!
  • Parameter Search: Allows you to easily find the value you're looking for with a simple text search. You can use it to highlight a parameter or even isolate it.
  • Resultant Gradient: Now displayed when editing color or alpha gradient.
New Version 2024.5

Faster Performance

Continuum 2024.5 is faster than ever before by tapping into your computer and host application technology to help you meet critical deadlines.

  • Enhanced FX Editor playback with a brand new built-in caching mechanism
  • Distributed rendering support available to Avid enterprise-level clients
  • Improved GPU accuracy delivers accelerated tracking in Mocha
New Version 2024

AI Enhanced Particles And More

Particle Illusion adds more creative features perfect for motion graphics workflows.

  • Generate any sprite you want to use in an emitter with a simple text prompt
  • 3D Particle Lines
  • Improvements with the new Inherited Velocity
  • More properties can be controlled within your host and respond with Beat Reactor
New Version 2024

150+ New Presets

Continuum 2024 adds tons of professionally-designed presets to help you quickly hone on the effects, looks, and transitions that your projects need.

Save time and work more creatively with new presets across Audio Visualizer, Lens Flare, SuperLED, Eye Light, Film Glow, and Transition effect categories.

New Version 2024

AI-Powered Noise Removal

Instantly enhance your video quality with the BCC+ DeNoise ML effect — your one-click solution for clear visuals.

  • Artifact Removal: Eliminates noise from low-light and compression artifacts
  • One-Click Efficiency: Drag-and-drop simplicity for immediate results
  • Intelligent Analysis: Auto-analyzes images to preserve and boost detail
New Version 2024

Revolutionary AI Upscaling

Transform your footage with BCC+ UpRes ML, the ultimate tool for scaling up any format size right from the comfort of your preferred host.

  • Format Flexibility: Handles all format sizes for consistent, high-quality results
  • Detail Preservation: Sharpens and maintains fine details during enlargement
  • Selective Zoom: Offers zoom-in capabilities to enhance specific clip regions
New Version 2023.5

Super LED Effect

Quickly recreate the look of LED screens and billboards by transforming your shots, text, and particles into a pattern of dazzling pixels. Includes 25 professionally designed presets.

Watch how Super LED works.

New Version 2023.5

Improved Mocha Parameter Tracking

Easily place must-have BCC+ effects including BCC+ Lens Flare, BCC+ Super LED, and BCC+ Light in any scene.

Simply click the button at the top of your desired BCC+ effect to access a point or corner pin tracker using the same Mocha tools you’ve come to know and love.

Watch how Mocha Parameter tracking works.

New Version 2023.5

Particle Illusion Update

Particle Illusion adds even more creative features perfect for motion graphics workflows.

  • Emit particles from any text or mask-based source in your host.
  • Boost the creativity of your particle animations with particle trails.
  • Easily update particle colors with an enhanced gradient editor and presets.
  • Add organic motion using force object direction turbulence.
  • Create faster with dozens of usability improvements.

See Particle Illusion's new tools in action.

New Version 2023.5

Beat Reactor Comes to BCC+ Effects

One of the features that sets Continuum apart is Beat Reactor which lets video editors drive effects (and stories) forward by animating effects to audio. It’s now included in 40 BCC+ effects.

  • Animate popular properties such as glow, flicker, opacity, and glitch values.

Choose your audio source, identify your preferred levels, and let Beat Reactor do the rest.

Discover what you can do with Beat Reactor.

New Version 2023.5

Silver Screen Style

Continuum adds three new creative options to the always-popular film style category, which features 20+ effects and hundreds of presets.

  • BCC+ Smoke and Fog: Add auto-animating sprite smoke presets to graphics and footage.
  • BCC+ Light Flicker: Apply precise or random photorealistic light flicker to any shot.
  • BCC+ Orbs: Add colored orbs that move randomly throughout shots.

See what you can create with the new effects.

New Version 2023.

A Cut Above

Building upon Continuum 2023’s new GPU-accelerated transitions, the mid-year release adds another slick transition with 13 included presets.

  • BCC+ Flutter Cut: Gain total control over the energetic transition’s look and feel with new properties.

Learn how to use BCC+ Flutter Cut on your next project.

New Version 2023.5

150+ More Presets

Continuum 2023.5 adds tons of professionally designed presets to help you quickly hone on the effects, looks, and transitions that your projects need.

Save time and work more creatively with new presets across Film Style, Stylize, and Transition effect categories.

New Version 2023

New for 2023

  • New Effect! BCC+ Atmospheric Glow- a versatile filter combining multiple light textures into a single effect.
  • New Transitions! 10 powerful transitions including BCC+ Swish Prism, BCC+ Film Roll, BCC+ Texture Wipe and more.
  • Updated Particle Illusion: Better performance, UI changes, and improved 3D model handling.
  • Updated Effect! BCC+ Film Glow Effect gets brighter with a secondary glow option.
  • New Presets! 250+ new professionally designed and curated presets.
New Version 2023

New! Instant Radiance with Atmospheric Glow

Say hello to your new favorite glow effect. It harnesses the power of multiple light types into a single effect. Create a pristine glow and punch it up with automatic flicker, lens textures, and atmospheric effects like rays and smoke.

New Version 2023

New! Up Your Edit Game with 10 High-Octane Transitions

Transitions drive stories forward. Continuum 2023 has 10 new GPU-accelerated and preset driven transitions including the new Film Roll and Swish Warp. Easily work with on-screen controls to dial in the movement just the way you want it.
New Version 2023

New! 250+ New Presets to Ignite Creativity

Every editor knows the importance of finding inspiration to get those creative juices flowing. Continuum 2023 has you covered with an additional 250+ artist presets. Find them in your favorite BCC+ effects including Film Glow, Light, Prism, Camera Shake, and Chromatic Abberation

New Version 2022.5

New for 2022.5

  • 15 new accelerated transitions & 5 effects
  • Lots of presets: 60+ new transition and effect presets including Video Glitch, Light Leaks, and Camera Shake
  • Speed improvements: Up to 35% quicker renders for all BCC+ effects
  • FX Editor: New user-friendly onscreen controls
  • Particle Illusion: UI improvements, Text/Mask Emitters and 3D model support
  • Mocha masking workflow improvements
New Version 2022.5

New in 2022.5: It All Starts with Transitions

Every editor knows the importance of transitions to drive stories forward. Continuum 2022.5 includes 15 GPU-accelerated transitions to assist you in a variety of content creation. Transport viewers to another scene with Crash Zoom, use light leaks to elegantly move between scenes, and up your essential dissolve arsenal with both Film Glow and Prism Dissolve. Work faster with new FX Editor presets and even blend essential dip to color or blur effects to the mix.

New Version 2022.5

New in 2022.5: Take the Leap with 3D Models and Particle Illusion

The next evolution of Particle Illusion brings 3D models to the user-friendly generator. Import Maxon Cinema 4D files and map particles to different surface setups for full creative particle control. After Effects users also have the ability to use text or masked shapes for line simulations.
New Version 2022.5

New in 2022.5: 5 Essential Effects Rebuilt for Speed

Continuum 2022.5 gives creators access to 5 rebuilt stylistic effects. BCC+Film Glow, Video Glitch, Light Leaks, Magic Sharp, and Radial Blur are reengineered to take full advantage of your GPU. Each effect contains new presets to help you visualize your imagery every step of the way.

You can also save your own presets and share them with any host that runs Continuum.

New Version 2022.5

New in 2022.5: Presets and FX Editor Enhancements

The FX Editor is a versatile way to work with every BCC+ effect. New easy-to-use overlay widgets have been added to speed up your workflow along with 60+ new effect and transition presets.

New Version 2022

New for 2022

  • Particle Illusion Fluid Dynamics
  • Adobe Multi-Frame Rendering support for 350+ effects
  • Native Apple M1 support
  • 60+ movie looks (BCC+Film Stocks) and 50+ gobo presets (BCC+Lights)
  • 6 speedy blurs effects with 80 presets (BCC+Blur)
  • BCC+ adds integrated Mocha tracking & masking
  • BCC+BeautyStudio: Full GPU processing and a cleaner user interface
  • Improved & streamlined PixelChooser
  • Enhanced FX Editor with a slick new user-interface
New Version 2022

Particle Illusion: Fast, Fluid Dynamics

The next evolution of Particle Illusion brings fluid dynamics to the user-friendly 3D particle generator. Quickly add organic particle motion to existing emitters that swirl and flow just like in the real world.

Particle Illusion 2022 includes 20+ new presets designed by the pros and delivers a new workflow to easily create your own custom animations. Library Scenes allow you to save multiple emitters, forces/fluids, deflectors, and animation positions as a single preset right inside the massive preset library.

New Version 2022

Major Speed Gains

Continuum 2022 is the fastest version of the award-winning plugin collection yet.

Get ready for dramatic speed gains inside After Effects with Adobe Multi-Frame Rendering support on over 350 effects, speedier workflows with native Apple M1 support, and overall performance boosts with the addition of more fully GPU-accelerated effects (BCC+).

Create stunning particle animations in no time thanks to huge performance increases delivering up to 5x faster speeds across all supported plugin hosts.
New Version 2022

Blazin’ Blurs

The brand-new, innovative BCC+ Smear Blur filter is joining BCC blurs collection adding the ability to create artistic blur effects by smearing or blurring pixels forward and backward along the Z axis while providing the unique option to rotate the smeared/blurred pixels around the Z axis.

The redesigned BCC+ Prism filter also offers the push and twist effect that the Smear Blur offers but in addition to this, it displaces RGB pixels to generate a color separated prismatic effect.

New Version 2022

Movie Looks & Gobos

The 2022 release adds 60+ film and TV-inspired color grades (BCC+Film Stocks) to help you transform your footage into iconic and fan-favorite looks with just one click. Highlighted presets include The Wizard of Oz, E.T., The Grand Budapest Hotel, Euphoria, and Stranger Things.

BCC+Light adds 50+ digital gobos presets to bring the overall number of gobos available to over 800 options. Easily test out different gobos in seconds without the added production costs.
New Version 2022

Improved Tracking and Masking

Mocha’s planar tracking and masking tools have been integrated into Continuum for years, making it easy to accomplish advanced VFX tasks without leaving your Continuum project. The 2022 release brings those same beloved tools to over 100 BCC+ effects. Track and isolate effects with ease.

The built-in PixelChooser, a long-time user favorite, is redesigned with full GPU processing, a simple user interface, and a new practical workflow that allows you to combine multiple tracked mask shapes with gradients and image mattes to isolate filtered pixels. Available in all BCC+ effects.

New Version 2021.5

Continuum 2021.5 - New BCC+ Filters

  • New! 9 cinematic effects: BCC+Multi-Star, BCC+Vignette, BCC+FilmGrunge, BCC+TwoStrip, BCC+Flashing, BCC+Composite, BCC+F-Stop, BCC+Fluorescent, and BCC+Haze
  • New! 200+ drag and drop presets designed by the pros
  • New! Avid infrastructure controls added to all BCC+ filters: Apply to Title Matte Option, Safe Levels Option, and True Bypass Switch.
New Version 2021.5

Continuum 2021.5 - Particle Illusion Features

  • New! Node View: Select any particle node in the tree and corresponding parameters instantly display in the control panel
  • New! 3D Emitter Shapes, Forces, Deflectors, and Emission: From flat 2D to true 3D
  • New! Improved Integration with After Effects: Emitters can trace AE native live text and mask layers and emitters can attach to host native lights and 3D layers
  • New! Emitter Presets: Stunning professionally-designed presets added to the factory installed Emitter Library
New Version 2021

Continuum 2021

Continuum 2021 is the biggest release in its storied history with 80+ new effects, 1000+ new professionally-designed presets, 3 new Unit categories, major additions to Particle Illusion, a new keying effect, improvements to Mocha’s planar tracking, and more.

  • New! 80+ brand new HDR compliant plug-ins including film stocks, looks, and lighting gobos.
  • New! Particle Illusion is now 3D and includes turbulence and line generators.
  • New! Edge Cleaner recovers fine details while smoothing the edges of keyed compressed footage.
New Version 2020.5

New in Continuum 2020.5

  • New! Crash Zoom Dissolve Transition: Simulates a fast zoom, forward or reverse
  • New! Spin Blur Dissolve Transition:: Simulates a rapid image rotation with streaks or smears
  • New in Particle Illusion: Forces, favorites, new emitters and new presets
  • New in Title Studio: Native composite modes and a new cast shadow shader
  • Improved Effects: New features in Remover, Cast Shadow, Particle Illusion Dissolve Transition and Dissolve Transitions
  • New! Custom UI 4k / HighDPI monitor support: Crisp and clear user interface on 4K monitors

Continuum 2020.5 adds two new transitions with dozens of professionally-design presets, a forcefield option to Particle Illusion that makes it easy to mimic real-world environmental forces like wind bursts and gravitational fields (plus you can now save your favorite emitters for quick access), and Title Studio’s vector graphics generation adds host-native compositing options. See what was new in the 2020 release.

New Version 2020.5

New In Particle Illusion

Particles that move like the wind! The new forces feature makes it easy to create point and grid forcefields that mimic organic movement by attracting or repelling particles. The result? Even more photorealistic particles. Plus, stunning new presets, a new Favorites feature, and greater interactivity deliver the most robust and user-friendly experience to date.

New Version 2020.5

New In Title Studio

Title Studio’s new Cast Shadow shader lets you instantly add cast shadows from any objects in your scene. In addition, Title Studio can now be applied to any video track in all supported editing and compositing systems making it easier to add titles & graphics to a sequence, and new host-side Composite Modes allow users to blend titles and graphics with the host video source.

New Version 2020.5

New Transitions

Continuum’s popular Transitions Unit adds two new dissolves — Crash Zoom Dissolve and Spin Blur Dissolve — as well as new Saturation Peak controls on all dissolves to give editors more creative freedom.

New Version 2020.5

Improved Effects

Many of Continuum’s effects have been updated to help you work faster. The popular Remover tool now offers on-screen clone source and destination widgets, absolute/relative cloning modes, and integrated Mocha tracking. And new detail and color cloning options deliver the functionality you need on detailed image restoration work.

New Version 2020

New in Continuum 2020

  • New! Corner Pin Studio: Simplify screen inserts and more with built-in Mocha planar tracking and integrated color correction, light wrap, and drop shadow
  • New! Reflection Effect: Quickly generate mirror surface reflections
  • New! Cast Shadow Effect: Easily generate true 3D cast shadows with a built-in 3D camera and light system
  • New! Curl Effect: Instantly create auto-animating heat haze, surface drops, and curlycue distortions
  • New! Transitions: Add 6 more slick auto-animating transitions with on-screen controls to your toolkit New in Continuum 2020: Curl Dissolve, Colorize Glow Dissolve, RGB Displacement Dissolve, RGB Blur Dissolve, Kaleidoscope Dissolve, and Prism Dissolve.
  • New! Mocha Area Brush: Track and mask faster using paint-like gestural strokes
  • New! Particle Illusion: updates include new professionally-designed emitter, improved search, and tons of new time-saving functionality
  • New! Title Studio: updates include new professionally-designed preset templates, new materials & shaders, and overall interface improvements to work faster

Continuum 2020 is the latest major release of the post-production industry’s most comprehensive plugin collection. Key new features include 4 effects, 6 transitions, and nearly 100 professionally-designed presets. You’ll work even more efficiently with Particle Illusion and Title Studio’s new functionality and updated interfaces. And tracking and masking takes seconds with the addition of an Area Brush tool to integrated Mocha.

New Version 2020

New! Corner Pin Studio

Corner pinning and compositing inserts just got a lot easier. Corner Pin Studio’s next-gen workflow makes replacing screens/billboards/devices a cinch with a single Mocha planar tracker that targets the surface and four offset pins to accurately position the source shot onto the target. Includes post-processing options for foreground color correction, edge chokes, drop shadow, light wrap, and 27 unique blend modes.

New Version 2020

New! Reflection

Need to add a reflection to an element or titles? The Reflection effect instantly generates a planar reflection using a filtered source image. Reflections can be easily tweaked with options for blurring, shimmering, scaling, repositioning, and independent animation. Includes a built-in animatable 3D camera system to fill the gap if your host application doesn’t offer native cameras. After Effects artists have the option to use AE’s native cameras.

New Version 2020

New! Cast Shadow

Throw a shadow onto your shot! The Cast Shadow effect generates true 3D shadows using an integrated point or parallel light source positioned in 3D space. Includes options to control the intensity, color, and length of a shadow blur, plus a ripple feature if you’re casting a shadow over water. Use the built-in animatable 3D camera system to reposition the source as needed. After Effects artists have the option to use AE’s native cameras and lights.

New Version 2020

New! Curl

Curl is a warp effect that’s perfect for creating heat haze, underwater distortions, and smoky effects. Users can easily tweak the number, speed, and angle of curls. Includes the integrated Beat Reactor to make your effect bounce to music.

New Version 2020

New Transitions for 2020

Continuum 2020 features 6 brand new drag and drop transitions for editors looking to spice up their sequences.

  • Curl Dissolve - Based on the new Curl effect, the Curl Dissolve transition adds a psychedelic look to projects. Simply drag-and-drop the dissolve in between clips, use one of the included presets, or customize.
  • Colorize Glow Dissolve - The Colorize Glow Dissolve transition pumps up projects with a slick stylized dose of color between shots. Easily control the color glow with the included gradient generator.
  • RGB Displacement Dissolve - The RBG Displacement Dissolve transition separates color channels then adds warp displacements. Perfect for music videos or highly-stylized looks.
  • RGB Blur Dissolve - The RGB Blur Dissolve transition gives editors even more options to play with the RBG color channels between two clips. Includes a master level blur control, separate horizontal and vertical scale controls, or individual blur level by color channel.
  • Kaleidoscope Dissolve - Remember how much fun you had using a kaleidoscope as a kid? You can now apply those geometric designs between clips! The Kaleidoscope Dissolve transition includes two independent tile controls that come with their own set of presets as well as an undistort option.
  • Prism Dissolve - The Prism Dissolve transition adds a subtle chromatic aberration with prismatic color separation that dissolves between clips.
New Version 2020

Mocha Improvements - New Area Brush

If you’re not a fan of working with splines, you’ll love Mocha’s new Area Brush tool with Quick Mask mode. Track and mask even faster by painting over track search areas. Includes full support for Wacom tablets. Paint strokes automatically convert into splines for a simple new workflow.

New Version 2020

Particle Illusion Improvements

Particle Illusion’s fast and easy-to-use real-time particle and motion graphics generator gets a major update with new functionality and UI improvements. Highlights include:

  • New professionally-designed emitters
  • New high-resolution thumbnails for all emitters
  • Particle sprites can now be selected from any emitter library
  • New Preview Window toolbar with ability to choose background color
  • Motion blur enable / disable in emitter preview window
  • List and grid views for emitter library
  • Resizable thumbnails in the grid view
  • Improved visible emitter tagging and emitter search function
  • Emitters can now be renamed, modified, saved, deleted
New Version 2020

Title Studio Improvements

Title Studio’s Cinema 4D integration results in the best and most accurate renders of any 3D model plugin for NLE and compositing systems — and now includes more shaders and materials than ever before. Highlights include:

  • New preset templates added and updates to earlier ones to help you work faster
  • New Vertex and Pixel shaders allow users to create 3D warps for 3D titles and imported 3D models or map real-world materials (sand, stone, marble, metals) independently over any 3D object surface
  • New Texture Specular Bump Reflection and Texture Specular Reflection materials makes adding reflections simple
New Version 2019.5

New in Continuum 2019.5

Continuum 2019 is the latest major update to the most comprehensive plug-in collection on the market. Key new features include the rebirth of the famed Particle Illusion motion graphics generator, Particle Illusion Dissolve transition, Title Studio Cinema 4D integration, Title Studio image-processing shaders such as glows, rays, and blurs, Spill Remover and Light Wrap Spill tools, Mocha Essentials workspace with 4 new spline tools like magnetic and edge-snapping, point-driven parameter tracking powered by Mocha, and overall GPU-acceleration.

  • New! Fully editable Particle Illusion emitters
  • New! Particle Illusion Dissolve with dozens of presets and full customization
  • New! Enhanced Title Studio & Cinema 4D integration: Higher quality results and faster renders
  • New! Spill Remover cleans unwanted light spill in just one click
  • New! Light Wrap Spill allows users to wrap a background image onto the spill region
  • New! Edge-snapping Mocha splines make roto and masking even faster
New Version 2019.5

Particle Illusion

It’s back! Particle Illusion (formerly particleIllusion) gets a total overhaul. The redesigned 64-bit application gives editors and artists access to an easy-to-use high-end particle and motion graphics generator. Instantly create preset-driven photorealistic motion tracked particle effects for titles, lower thirds, and background graphics. Build custom particle animations with fully editable emitter properties. Particle Illusion is included inside Continuum and the Continuum Particles Unit.

New Version 2019.5

Particle Illusion Dissolve

Editors are always looking for new transitions — and Particle Illusion Dissolve offers limitless possibilities. Choose from over 50 professionally-designed auto-animating presets or build your own custom transition from scratch. Particle Illusion Dissolve includes the full power of the Particle Illusion editor giving you ultimate control over the look and timing of your transition.

New Version 2019.5

Title Studio Improvements

Continuum’s popular Title Studio plug-in makes it easy to create high-quality titles and lower thirds in minutes. The 2019 release adds superior render quality and speed to Maxon Cinema 4D imports, new real-time image processing shaders including animated glows, blurs & volumetric lighting options, new 3D materials, new 8K or higher resolution support, new grids & guidelines, new onscreen text tools,150+ new presets, and faster playback.

New Version 2019.5

Spill Remover

Green screen footage with a lot of light spill is no longer a time-consuming clean-up task. Spill Remover instantly gets rid of pesky light spill with a simple click making it the ideal tool for fine edges like hair. Spill Remover is integrated directly inside Primatte Studio and is an individual filter within the Key & Blend Unit. The new Light Wrap Spill feature inside Primatte Studio allows you to quickly wrap your background image onto the spill region.

New Version 2019.5

Enhanced Mocha Tracking And Masking

Users already know and love the Academy Award-winning Mocha planar tracking tools integrated directly inside Continuum. The 2019 release provides some major updates including an Essentials interface, magnetic spline tool and edge-snapping splines, point-parameter driven tracking, layout manager to customize your workspace, improved auto-saves, and High DPI support for Retina and 4K monitors. Mask and rotoscope even faster!

New Version 2019.5

Overall Improvements

The 2019 release also includes new external broadcast monitor support (Blackmagic Design and AJA) for Title Studio and the FX Browser applications, new 32-bit deep-color support inside Adobe Premiere Pro, and streamlined filter, transitions and VFX generation in Avid thanks to the introduction of Mocha-based parameter tracking, rendering non-realtime blue dot filters unnecessary.

New Version 2019

Particle Illusion

It’s back! Renowned Particle Illusion (formerly particleIllusion) gets a total overhaul in Continuum 2019. Redesigned from the ground up as a 64-bit application, Particle Illusion gives editors and artists access to an easy-to-use, powerful, high-end particle and motion graphics generator. Instantly create preset-driven photorealistic motion-tracked particle effects for titles, lower thirds, and background graphics.

  • New! Real-time GPU-based Particles Generation: A slick new interface makes generating motion graphics like sparkles, smoke, fireworks, and explosions simple, and alpha blending options make compositing elements into live-action sequences a cinch.
  • New! Work Even Quicker: Lightning fast renders on longer clips and major overall performance improvements make user interactivity even smoother.
  • New! Edit Colors: The Properties Group now lets you easily edit particle colors, color gradients, and alpha gradients to help you create your perfect look.
  • New! Standalone Option**: Particle Illusion can be run as a standalone application, but rendering is only available as a plug-in. Artists and Editors can use the standalone to create and save a preset effect outside a host application and then can render that saved effect from inside a host timeline.
  • New! Revamped Emitter Library: The Emitter library now includes a handy search function and has been rewritten, allowing users to access an unlimited number of emitters without needing to reload libraries.
New Version 2019

Mocha Essentials with New Tracking Tools

Users already know and love the Academy Award-winning Mocha planar tracking tools integrated directly inside Continuum. The Continuum 2019 release provides some major updates. Say yes to faster effects masking and rotoscoping.

  • New! Mocha Essentials Workspace: Editors and artists will love the simplified, clean interface that focuses on only the most essential icons and tools. Master tracking quicker.
  • New! Spline Tools: 4 new spline tools make masking and roto work even more simple. Includes a new magnetic spline tool with edge-snapping, a freehand tool, and geometric shapes like ellipse and rectangle.
  • New! Parameter-driven Tracking: Position point parameters in Continuum filters can now be driven directly by Mocha. Track filters like Lens Flare 3D, Rays, and Spotlights.
  • New! High-DPI and Retina Display Support
New Version 2019

Title Studio Updates

Title Studio is a next-gen 2D/3D titling plug-in that can be used as a custom interface plug-in or standalone application. Easily create high-quality professional 2D or 3D titles with custom bevels, fills and styles; import 3D models from Maxon C4D or Adobe Illustrator EPS files; and add OpenGL-accelerated features like 3D extrusions, materials, cameras, lights, and deformers.

  • New! Image Processing Shaders: Quickly add text treatments such as animated glows, blurs, and volumetric lighting to titles directly inside the application in real-time (GPU-accelerated). Shaders can also be applied at texture, shape or scene levels for even greater flexibility.
  • New! 3D Materials: Image processing shaders create new compelling materials previously not possible. New professionally-designed material presets can be found in the Materials Palette.
  • New! 8K or higher resolution support: New preferences allow users to define max texture size and display the size of each layer of text in pixels.
  • New! Grids & Guidelines: Now includes a very useful grid and guides feature. The grid is totally user configurable via the new Grids Palette and users can elect to have objects in the scene snap to the grid or the guides or both.
  • New! Onscreen Text Tool: Users can now select the text tool, click in the comp window and start typing, making the accurate placement and generation of titles faster and easier than ever before.
  • New! Onscreen Text Box: Text objects can now be repositioned and scaled with the click of a mouse. Scale faster and more accurately.
  • New! Preset Library: 150 new professionally-designed presets using the new Image Processing Shaders have been added to get users up-and-running quickly. Simply drag & drop or customize and save your presets in the new library.
  • New! Faster playback: Playback within the Title Studio UI now supports 8K or higher resolutions
New Version 2019

Overall Improvements

  • Avid Effects Simplified: The introduction of Mocha-based parameter tracking renders most non-real time blue dot filters unnecessary. Non-real time filters have been moved into an obsolete folder to support the older legacy Continuum tracker.
  • External Broadcast Monitor Support: Applications like Title Studio and the FX Browser now support external broadcast monitors. Currently only available for Blackmagic Design, AJA coming soon.
  • Deep Color 32-bit Support in Premiere Pro: The 32-bit float color processing option in Continuum, which has always been available in hosts such as After Effects, has been extended to include the Premiere Pro host with deep color support enabling users to generate HDR content without clipping.

Continuum offers a powerful collection of ML-driven plugin tools artists need most.

All Boris FX ML tools process directly on your local system, ensuring a faster, more efficient workflow while keeping your data secure and saving you valuable time.

ML Image Restoration

Denoise ML

Get rid of unwanted artifacts fast.

Low-quality image sensors, low light scenes, high ISO settings, or lossy compression codecs can all lead to noisy video.

BCC+ Denoise ML is a drag-and-drop solution that automatically reduces or entirely removes unwanted noise in video clips. Once you apply it, the plugin automatically analyzes the filtered source video using internally developed ML algorithms trained by in-house engineers. It instantly produces clean, sharp results while preserving detail contrast and color fidelity with no measurable detail loss.

Find BCC+ DeNoise ML in Continuum’s Image Restoration category.

Watch | 4:58

UpRes ML

Upscale video footage while preserving image detail.

Editors and compositors often need to upscale video source files to fit into larger frame sizes. Host-side tools typically handle this with bilinear or bicubic image sampling, resulting in a soft image with a loss of detail.

BCC+ UpRes ML allows you to resize video from one format to another (HD to 4k, etc.) while delivering results far superior to the standard upscale tools. The plugin uses state-of-the-art ML models trained in-house on thousands of images. Match different archival sizes or even cheat camera angles while sharpening and maintaining fine details. Selectively zoom to enhance specific clip areas.

Find BCC+ UpRes ML in Continuum’s Image Restoration category.

Watch | 4:33

ML Creative Effects

Retime ML

Time warps reimagined.

Adjusting the speed of a video is often necessary as a visual effect or to perfect an edit.

BCC+ Retimer ML uses in-house trained models that deliver high-quality time warps without the artifacts or tearing seen in traditional time-based effects. It achieves this by synthesizing new frames that precisely predict pixel movement from frame to frame, ensuring smooth and natural motion in every render.

Find BCC+ Retime ML in Continuum’s Time category.

Watch | 11:35

Motion Blur ML

Achieve accurate motion blur.

In-camera motion blur happens when objects move too fast for a camera shutter to capture, resulting in the moving object being blurred. Motion blur tools simulate the same technique and can be used as a photorealistic or creative effect.

BCC+ Motion Blur ML automatically detects pixel motion in a shot across adjacent frames, which gives shots a more dynamic look (think action or sports-related scenes) and is helpful if you’re compositing CG elements into a live-action shot.

Create seamless composites with options to fine-tune blur levels and blur motion forward, backward, or both. You can also use an alternate source input to take the motion from one source shot and apply it to another.

Find BCC+ Motion Blur ML in Continuum’s Time category.

Watch | 9:10

Witness Protection ML

Hide faces in a blink.

Protecting or concealing a person’s identity is a task editors working on newscasts, documentaries, and unscripted TV series deal with regularly. If a subject is moving, it becomes more difficult, especially if there is more than one face to hide. Traditionally, editors create a mask shape for the face and then track the mask shape over time.

BCC+ Witness Protection ML automatically detects, isolates, masks, and tracks any number of faces in seconds using in-house developed AI/ML models. You can then hide identities using Blur, Mosaic, Brightness/Contrast, and Tint effect options. Choose one effect or combine them to customize your concealed look. Includes built-in Mocha masking.

Find BCC+ Witness Protection ML in Continuum’s Match Move category.

Watch | 11:36

License Plate ML

Conceal license plates instantly.

Editors working on broadcast news, reality TV, and documentaries often need to hide alphanumeric values in license plates due to legal issues. Traditionally, it’s tackled with manual masking and tracking solutions — a tedious and time-consuming task that can lead to user error.

BCC+ License Plate ML is powered by an internally trained AI/ML model. It automatically scans a scene for any vehicle, detects and tracks license plates, and obscures the data on the plate to make it unreadable. Effects in the filter include Blur, Mosaic, Brightness/Contrast, and Tint options. Apply effects individually or combine them to create customized looks on your tracked plates. Includes built-in Mocha masking.

Find BCC+ License Plate ML in Continuum’s Match Move category.

Watch | 7:34

Light and Glows

Continuum includes a large collection of light and glow effects.

Easily manipulate the lighting and mood of your scene with subtle glimmers, dramatic radiance, golden hour beauty, lens flares, the aura of magical elements — and everything in between.

Distort, Warp and Style

Push the boundaries of your visual storytelling.

Continuum makes it easy to bend, twist, glitch, or reshape your footage and assets. Craft surreal warps that create an altered state of reality or produce stylistic distortions that add character.

Film Looks, Diffusion and Grain

Transform your digital footage.

Continuum includes dozens of effects and thousands of presets to simplify your color process. Choose from Hollywood’s most iconic color grades, classic film stocks, soft lighting looks, and more.

Evoking the nostalgia of shooting on film has never been easier.

ML-Powered Image Restoration

This is why “Fix it in Post” exists. Continuum leverages machine learning (ML) technology to tackle some of the most common challenges in post.

Quickly remove noise or enhance clarity and detail in archival projects with unrivaled quality thanks to ML-driven tools. Or use image restoration’s additional features to subtly touch up skin with Beauty Studio, fix flicker, remove damaged pixels, and more.

Compositing

Quickly conquer green screen keying and seamless composites with Continuum’s Primatte Studio.

Primatte Studio delivers advanced keying and blending capabilities with the world’s leading chromakey technology. The intuitive interface includes options to auto-analyze, suppress light spill, correct uneven lighting, mask and track with integrated Mocha tools, and much more.

Titles and Motion Graphics

Instantly up the production value of your projects with render-based effects, titles, and particles.

Avid editors will love Continuum’s Title Studio. Choose from hundreds of basic and animated title presets and even add photorealistic grunge-based textures to the foreground or background of your composite/animation.

Continuum also includes Particle Illusion, a user-friendly 2D/3D particle generator for creating bokeh and glitter, fire and smoke, sci-fi elements, and much more. You can add your particle animations to text or use integrated Mocha to track them to a subject.

Audio Reaction

Continuum features a variety of ways to use audio to create graphics or animate your effects.

Audio Visualizer intelligently matches the sound in your video to a base audio spectrum of lines, dots, or circles. You can push it further with fine-tuned controls, compositing tools, integrated Mocha parameter tracking, or even adding a background.

You’ll also find Beat Reactor in 50+ effects. Sync and drive effects to the beat of music without any keyframes!

Masking

One of Continuum’s standout features is the ability to mask virtually any effect.

The Pixel Chooser delivers masking tools unavailable within your host application, including masking through luma and color information, limiting from a gradient, or using simple to complex shapes.

You can even combine multiple masks and track them using the award-winning Mocha tracker.

Mocha Tracking

Continuum gives you access to the same powerful planar tracking favored by top VFX artists. It’s a game-changer in your post-production workflow.

Built-in Mocha tracking allows you to accurately track and mask effects through scenes without leaving your host application. Use Mocha point tracking tools on various render effects and easily track complicated shape masks over time with the flexible toolset.

Presets and the FX Editor

Continuum’s BCC+ effects and transitions feature curated presets to help jump-start your creativity.

You’ll find the FX Editor at the top of an effect — preview and compare presets, take snapshots, look at before & afters, and even save your own presets.

Your custom presets are cross-host compatible. Work in Premiere Pro by day and finish the job in Resolve by night. Presets and the FX Editor will save you tons of time!

Transitions

Transitions are an essential element in every content creator or video editor’s storytelling toolkit.

Continuum includes 40+ transitions and hundreds of presets to meet any production need. Transport viewers with crash zoom, add beautiful glow dissolves, and tons more.

Intuitive speed controls and color correction tools allow you to quickly customize the look and pace of your transitions just the way you want.

VR

Enhance and streamline the post-production process of 360-degree immersive content.

Use VR Insert to place flat graphics or 360 Reorient to reposition and animate your spherical content to focus the viewer’s attention

Continuum’s VR tools include overlays and comparison features, so you can stay grounded when directing your 360 world.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Continuum?
Boris Continuum, aka BCC / BCC+, is a set of over 350 effects and transitions with over 5000 factory installed preset looks featuring specialized tools that meet the everyday needs of compositors, editors and motion graphics artists alike. In the host effects panel, you’ll find that some Continuum filters and transitions include the prefix BCC while others include the prefix BCC+. Moving forward, all new Continuum filters will include the BCC+ prefix.

BCC filters and transitions feature an integrated FX Browser, for selecting factory installed or user generated custom presets. In the FX Browser there is a full video playback of the filtered source media and several compare options to view the before/after effect state.
BCC+ filters and transitions feature in integrated FX Editor, for selecting and editing factory installed or user generated custom presets. In the FX Editor there is a full video playback of the filtered source media and several compare options to view the before/after effect state. The FX Editor also includes OCIO options for previewing the filtered result.

Many filters and transitions in Continuum include on-screen control widgets that enable the user to adjust certain parameters without having to use the effects control panel.

Most BCC filters include a Beat Reactor option, which can be used to automatically drive effect animation in sync with an audio file.

Most BCC filters include the Academy Award winning Mocha masking and tracking system. This system is deployed as a way to generate tracked mask shapes for use as a holdout matte or as a way to motion track position point parameters in filters where this makes sense, such as a lens flare or volumetric rays source. The Mocha tracking system is also used in the BC Corner Pin effect.

All BCC and BCC+ filters include the PixelChooser integrated matte and masking system which can be used to isolate the effect result to a user defined portion of the filtered source. In addition to being able to generate its own mask shapes with either the basic geometrics rectangle and ovals, or via the Mocha masking and tracking system, the PixelChooser can also take advantage of host mask shapes in the After Effects host environment.

Some BCC filters, Title Studio for instance, include an integrated 3D camera and lights system and can also make use of the After Effects host camera and lighting systems when running the effects in that host environment.

The included BCC Title Studio is a full featured 2D/3D titling application with hundreds of factory installed user modifiable templates, its own custom user interface and provides the user with features such as :

  • Resolution independent vector text
  • Unlimited text tracks
  • Automated credit rolls, crawls, fades and zooms
  • RTF text file import and extrusion
  • Flat text with or without lighting
  • Extruded text
  • Media track import from host
  • Spline objects and primitives
  • EPS import and extrusion
  • 3D model import
  • 3D cameras and lights
  • Gradient generators
  • Image processing filters such as blurs, cast shadows, glows, volumetric light rays, light sweep, scanlines, textures, ripples and wipes
  • Image deformers, such as bend-taper-twist, curl, mesh shatter, pulse, ripple

The included BCC Particle Illusion effect is a hardware accelerated 3D particle generator with thousands of factory installed emitters and its own custom user interface and includes a separate application that can be launched independently of the host for offline setup. Both the integrated effect and the standalone application include an option to render the particles to the desktop for compositing in any application. Highlights of Particle Illusion include:

  • Thousands of professionally designed emitter systems
  • Support for Cinema 4D and OBJ model import
  • Particle emission from 3D models
  • Free standalone version included with export capabilities
  • Integrated Mocha tracking
  • Integrated Glow option
  • Independent World/Emitter transforms
  • Integrated PixelChooser mask/matte option
  • Integrated Beat Reactor option
  • Emit particles from text in the After Effects host
  • Emit particles from masks in the After Effects host
  • 15 Blending modes
  • Integrated motion blur
  • Host -side controls for brightness, contrast, gamma and tint and more
What’s the difference between BCC and BCC+?
The original Continuum filters, aka BCC (which stands for Boris Continuum Complete) have been superseded by a newer filter set for which we have labelled BCC+. On the surface the effects that are in BCC and BCC+ may look quite similar and will produce the same or similar look to their BCC counterpart, but there are some major differences between them. Here’s a short list of some of the main differences :

  • BCC filters include the FX Browser while the BCC+ filters include the FX Editor
  • BCC+ filters are 100% GPU accelerated while in BCC it’s a mix of GPU and CPU
  • BCC+ filters offer improved performance over their BCC counterparts
  • BCC+ filters include a full CPU fallback, should the GPU path fail
  • In BCC+, the Mocha option is placed at the top of the filter as opposed to the bottom of the filter in BCC
Locating the Continuum diagnostic log
Continuum generates a log file that records information about the system and includes details that can assist support technicians and engineers in the event of a software failure. When working with support to troubleshoot a problem, in the event that a support tech assisting you may ask for the log file, you can find it here:

MacOS:
/Users/(user name)/Library/logs/borisfx/bcc.log

Win OS:
\users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\BorisFX\Logs\bcc.log
What are Continuum Units?
Continuum Units are prepackaged groups of Continuum filters offered at a reduced price. When you run the product installer for a particular Unit, you will be presented with an option dialog that will have two options :

  • keep only the licensed filters that are included in that Unit
  • keep all filters with the caveat that unlicensed filters, ie those not included in the purchased Unit, will include a watermark
What are Continuum Premium filters?
Continuum Premium filters are individual filters that are offered at a reduced price. When you run the product installer for a particular premium filter, you will be presented with an option dialog that will have two options :

  • keep only the licensed filters that are included in that Unit
  • keep all filters with the caveat that unlicensed filters, ie those not included in the purchased Unit, will include a watermark
Is my graphics card supported with hardware acceleration?
Most modern graphics cards support the GPU pipe for Continuum. If you’re finding that Continuum is slowing down on your system when working with 4k or larger clips then this might be an indicator that the GPU can’t process that image size and is falling back to the slower CPU path. In this case you may need a graphics card with more available memory or you may need to close out other applications that are pulling GPU memory from the graphics card. Some hosts offer an option for the user to control how much memory is consumed when running that host so in these cases you may want to reduce the available memory in the host application to see if this helps with the GPU performance.
Does Continuum run natively on the Mac M1 processor?
Yes, Continuum is fully M1 native and does not require Rosetta to run in a host that is also M1 native. For non-M1 native hosts you must have Rosetta 2 installed for 3rd party plugins to operate as expected.
Why am I seeing a red X over filtered source shots with Continuum?
The red X that you see when working with Continuum indicates that the product is running in unlicensed mode. Activating a licence will remove the red X watermark from the filtered shots. If you activate and find that the red X watermark persists, please clear the host cache and you’ll find that this should resolve the problem. Should you feel that your licence is valid and active yet you’re still seeing the watermark, even after purging the host cache then first try resetting your licence. If this does not lift the watermark please file a ticket with support and a support agent will assist you.
In some hosts, BCC transitions appear in both effect and transition lists. Which one should I use?
The Continuum transitions that are located in the host transition category are referred to as two input effects and automatically take a video feed from the outgoing clip and the incoming clip. The duration of the transition is always set using host controls and the Continuum transition will automatically retime itself to fit the transition length. The Continuum transition filters that are located in the host filter category are single input effects and operate more like a standard filter. They’re quite useful when working in compositing hosts such as After Effects and include a percent done parameter which when manually keyframed will enable the user to create a transition in a compositing host, which doesn’t normally offer transitions.
Does Boris FX Continuum work with Premiere Pro?
Yes, Boris FX Continuum supports Adobe Premiere Pro. Users who purchase Continuum for Adobe can use its plugins in both Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects with a single license.
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