The Creative COW Boris FX Tutorials Podcast is filled with tips, tricks, techniques, training, support and information that will enhance your ability to use the Boris FX plug-ins and expand your knowledge of the software for use in After Effects and other programs. These podcasts are pod-friendly video tutorials which can be downloaded to your iTunes or any other device that can use iTunes. If you wish to interact with the podcast, please feel free to post a comment on one of the tutorials or at creativecow.net in the Boris FX forum.
Are you tired of solid stroke and soft shadows on your text styles? Do you need something unique and catchy for your project? Final Effects Complete 5 from Boris FX for Final Cut Pro may offer a fresh treatment for your old title or lower third.
In this video tutorial, we use the BCC Witness Protection filter in Apple Final Cut Pro to obscure the face of a surfer who is surfing a wave at great speed, moving across the frame from the center to exit on the right.
Boris Continuum Complete's Cartoon Look filter lets you easily convert images and clips into cartoon-style roto animations. The result is a look that has been popularized in films such as Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly.
The BCC Optical Stabilizer filter enables you to stabilize shaky video footage. The filter uses optical flow technology to determine the movement of the camera and then adjusts the clip's position to compensate.
This video tutorial gives you an in-depth look at the Jitter feature of Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE's Extruded Text filter. Basic functionality of the Jitter feature is explained and demonstrated.
BCC6's new Custom Animated Presets feature lets you save and re-use every parameter animation in every BCC filter - even across host applications and platforms. Animate BCC filters in Adobe After Effects and transfer the animation to the Avid timeline.
In this Boris FX podcast video tutorial we show you how to use an After Effects mask to define custom extrusion curves as well as the baseline for text characters in Boris Continuum Complete's Extruded Text filter.
Learn how to employ the power of vertex shaders to warp, deform and even explode 3D extruded text using Adobe After Effects and the new 3D Objects from Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE plug-in.
DV video is prone to jaggy edges and compression artifacts. DV Fixer in the Boris BCC 6 plug-in will greatly improve the look of your clip without sacrificing image detail or quality. Watch how it's done inside Adobe After Effects CS4.
BCC Smooth Tone is an image restoration filter that smoothes out skin imperfections while maintaining image detail and contrast in areas such as hair and eyes. Paul Ezzy goes over the basics of applying the filter to a clip in AE.
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