This a single academic license of Boris FX Suite of Plug-Ins for Avid/Adobe/OFX that is available for accredited schools. The academic license is made available for the express purposes of teaching or learning the suite of plug-ins and is not to be used for commercial/business/revenue-generating productions.
The suite features robust VFX tools for tracking, rotoscoping, paint, and creating effects as well as using VFX filters on still photos. This downloadable combination requires an annual subscription and verification of eligibility, which provides you with a year's worth of updates and support, and it can be used to supply plug-ins for After Effects & Premiere Pro, Media Composer, and OFX hosts Foundry's Nuke, Resolve, Fusion, VEGAS Pro, and Flame (Sapphire & Mocha Pro only) on Windows, macOS, or Linux platforms.
Eligibility
Continuum
Postproduction Tools
The collection delivers nearly 350 creative effects in 20 categories, 4000+ presets, built-in Academy Award-winning Mocha planar tracking and masking, a Beat Reactor that drives VFX to music, and the FX Browser. Busy editors and artists rely on Continuum to get the job done.
Speed Improvements
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+).
Cinematographer's Toolkit
The Cinematographer's Toolkit gives artists access to 80 new effects, 3 new Continuum Units, and 1000+ new presets that pay homage to the bygone era of shooting on film. The built-in FX Editor makes it simple to browse the presets and create your own custom presets directly inside the interface. Recreate classic Hollywood looks in just one click.
Sapphire
ColorFuse
Create cinematic color grades with ease, using the one-of-a-kind Sapphire LUT effect. Combine up to three LUTs in different combinations and opacities for limitless choices or choose from one of 50 included presets. Transfer looks between host applications, no LUTs needed—all the info is stored in the S_ColorFuse preset. Maintain accurate color representation by setting the host application colorspace and LUT colorspace (produced in accordance with OCIO standards). S_ColorFuse is fully GPU-accelerated with CUDA and Metal support and renders natively on Apple M1 processors.
Built for Speed and Excellence
Sapphire is built for the pros. Its suite of over 270 effects features image processing algorithms that produce Hollywood's highest-quality results. Each Sapphire effect is GPU-accelerated for faster rendering with NVIDIA CUDA technology for Windows and Linux, and Apple's Metal technology for macOS, along with native support for M1-powered Macs.
Workflow
The user-friendly experience—paired with a uniform naming structure and speedy workflow—makes it easy for editors and artists to start creating gorgeous effects. Sapphire also features a large online library of tutorials to teach you about the effects or provide you with inspiration on what to create next.
Ready for Any Pipeline
Work faster and smarter with Sapphire, a powerful and proven VFX solution that seamlessly integrates into any pipeline. Easily scale up your rendering output when needed with Sapphire background renders with identical CPU fallbacks.
Silhouette
Designed for Roto Artists
Create sophisticated masks using B-Spline, Bézier, X-Spline, or Magnetic Freehand shapes. Intelligent design and easy-to-use tools such as variable per-point edge softening and new brush-based magnetic reshaping assist in creating articulate animations. Render mattes with realistic motion blur or export to industry-standard shape formats. Advanced roto tools include: Highly optimized interface, layer controls, and toolset Magnetic spline and edge-snapping with new Brush Reshape for fast shape editing IK (Inverse Kinematics) to animate limbs and all manner of jointed creatures Integrated point tracking, planar tracking, and Mocha planar tracking Stereoscopic 3D workflow Move, scale, rotate, shear, and corner pin shapes and groups of shapes Point groups, weighted keyframes, brush-based reshape, split shapes, collapse, and distribute points Review/approval notes for collaboration
Fast & Non-Destructive Paint
Silhouette's Paint is a 32-bit float raster-based paint and tracking system with a high-performance, multi-layer, color managed workflow. Designed to handle the demands of film and 4K postproduction. Whether it's image restoration, dust busting, matte painting, beauty work, rig removal, or just plain paint, Silhouette's unique Auto Paint recording system delivers the speed of raster paint with the repeatability of vector paint. Paint Tools:Pressure-sensitive customizable brushes. Includes Clone, Grain, Repair, Drag, and more. New in 2021: Improved Paint Preset workflow. Fast & Non-Destructive Paint: Highly efficient layer system for large-resolution film/video paint. Auto Paint recording system delivers the speed of a raster-based paint system with the flexibility of vector paint. Powerful Motion Tracking: Features multiple tracking options, including integrated Mocha for rock solid planar tracking. Channels & Detail Separation: Paint on individual RGBA channels or work on separated detail and color views for advanced control. Now with improved performance, 20201.5 release. Sophisticated Cloning: Advanced offset and warping, onion skin, and display views enable a streamlined workflow for aligning, patching, and removing unwanted pixels. Powerful Tracking Options: Native point, planar tracking, and integrated Mocha tracking.
Node-Based Compositing
Silhouette's core is a feature-rich node-based effects tree that delivers film-grade results. View and edit any combination of nodes for complex compositing, matte manipulation, keying, color correction, grain management, look development, morphing, warping, and much more. Silhouette 2021 features 154 speciality nodes organized into Color, Composite, Diffusion, Filter, Film Lab, Image, Key, Light, Silhouette, Special Effects, Time, Tints, Transform, Warp, Sapphire, and OFX groups.
Features:Gestural node-based compositing OCIO color-managed workflow Multiple roto and paint nodes Exacting color grading Proprietary matte generation Edge tools to color correct or blur the composite's edge Matte manipulation using shrink, grow, blur, and wrap functions Visual presets for most nodes
Features:
- The Silhouette standalone also supports OFX plugins including Mocha Pro, Sapphire, Neat Video, and RE:Vision Effects products.
- As a plug-in Silhouette provides the full-feature set and is supported by After Effects, Premiere Pro and OFX Hosts including NUKE, Resolve, Fusion, Flame, and other OFX Hosts
Warping & Morphing
Silhouette's fully featured shape-based warp and morph tools provide the highest level of creative control and render quality for digital retouching, image deformations, and even talking animals. Create invisible touch-ups, subtle facial exaggerations, or dramatic transitions with either shape or pin options.
Keying & Matte Generation
Integrated Tracking
The industry's most powerful tracking drives Silhouette's animation system and can be applied to speed up paint, roto, warp, and stabilization tasks. Choose from 1, 2, or 4 point tracking, native planar tracker, or award-winning Mocha tracking included as a standard feature in Silhouette
Mocha Pro
Performance, Speed & Features
Insert Module with PowerMesh
Improved Tracking Workflows
Remove Objects and Wires
Remove unwanted elements, wires, rigs, tracking marks, and 360 cameras. Generate clean plates for massive time savings. The Remove Module is an amazing alternative to traditional clone techniques for removing objects. It automatically detects temporal clean frames to blend and align pixels with little user input. Beyond object removal, this same technology can also be used to create a large, stitched image out of multiple frames.
Stereoscopic Workflow
Mocha supports native stereo 3D and 360/VR stereo formats. This unique workflow uses planar tracking analysis on "both eye views" to reduce manual offsets and tedious keyframe work on stereo 3D rotoscoping, tracking, 3D camera solve, and object removal.
Optomized for 360/VR
Award-winning 360° video tools for tracking and masking, horizon stabilization, Camera and Object Removal, Nadir Patching, and spherical video post. A native mono and stereo 360° optimized workflow simplifies spherical video postproduction challenges: work across seams with less pre-comps, nesting, or rendering.
Optics Cinematic Plug-Ins for Photoshop & Lightroom
Fast and Creative Photo Manipulation
Featuring a robust layer-based compositing interface and powerfully flexible masking tools, Optics can be used for simple photo editing, full-image manipulations, or to design and generate creative assets and graphics. Add a lighting effect in just one click or combine unlimited masks and filters to design your own look.
Used by Pro VFX Artists
Top tools from the Boris FX Suite are included in Optics to help produce professional-looking images. Includes Lens Flares, Light Rays, Ultra Zap (lightning), UltraGlow, Light Leaks, and many more from the popular Boris FX Sapphire collection and Continuum's Beauty Studio.
Emulate Optical Filters
Add beauty and depth to your digital images with diffusion filters like Mist, Fog, Net, Halo, and more. New Beauty Studio filter simplifies detail separation techniques for subtle skin retouching!
Masking and Paint Tools
Optics features powerful masking and paint tools to replace backgrounds, isolate effects, or fix and touch up pixels. EZ Mask with gestural stroke based masking Gradient, Spot, Path, Snap, Selection, and Paint mask types Combine multiple masks using blend modes Paint, clone, and blur with support for Wacom tablets
Graphic Design Tools
Apply Optics to text to create stunning graphics and inspired style frames. Optics also includes multiple generator and texture effects to design unique backgrounds and graphic elements.