If you don’t want to go out to Adobe After Effects or Apple Motion for all your advanced filter and color and animation effects, BCC 5 is a sophisticated and fast answer to your workflow. It has a high-end feature set that lets you create top-notch results within minutes.
Target Apps
Graphics-intensive video editing, especially those on tight production schedules
What It Costs You
Adobe After Effects/Premiere Pro (BCC 5 AE) $895 (upgrade, $295)
pple Final Cut Pro/Motion (BCC 5 FxPlug) $895 (upgrade, $295)
Avid Xpress Pro (BCC 5 AVX) $895 (upgrade, $295)
Avid (all others) (BCC 5 AVX) $1995 (upgrade, $599)
What's Cool
Being able to do all of these great effects right in your editing application’s timeline, without learning a new interface
What's Missing
A few effects filters don’t work in Premiere Pro CS3 just yet
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Specs
Windows
Continuum Complete AE: Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Autodesk Combustion
Continuum Complete AVX: Avid systems
Macintosh
Continuum Complete FxPlug (Apple FxPlug): Apple Final Cut Pro or Apple Motion
Try mixing and matching any of the more than 100 BCC 5 filters with Adobe's standard filters or any others you might have in your toolbox. The combinations will inspire you.
BCC 5 features are identical across all NLE platforms, so if you need to move between After Effects and Avid, or Final Cut and Premiere Pro CS3, you’ll feel right at home wherever you’re working.
Boris FX plug-ins have been around almost as long as NLEs have. Since the very beginning, the company has put out high-quality, customizable 3D transitions for the most popular NLEs, and the Boris family has grown. I’m more of an editor than an effects person. I’ve been learning Adobe After Effects and use it as I need it for the occasional project. But when I have the choice, I’d rather do the same thing in my favorite editing application, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. That way, I don’t need to have an extra program hogging RAM or need to use any fancy import or export commands to grab my AE comps. So I’m thrilled about one of the latest products from Boris FX, Boris Continuum Complete 5, or BCC 5, for short. Unlike some of the other Boris products, you don’t need to learn a new interface; the software uses your NLE’s interface. The package contains more than 100 filters and video effects. When installed, they will show up in your video effects bin in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, After Effects, Avid, Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion, as well as in the Autodesk Sparks API and Combustion.
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