ML-Enhanced Innovative Tools in Continuum 2024.5 for Enhanced Creativity
Continuum 2024.5, the latest version of the Boris FX plugin suite, is now available, offering a host of improvements and new features to streamline your video editing workflow.
For starters, Continuum 2024.5 boasts faster performance, with speedier playback in the FX Editor and accelerated Mocha tracking. This update is a boon for editors working with complex effects, as it ensures smoother and more efficient workflows.
Among the new features in Continuum 2024.5, Retimer ML stands out. Designed specifically for sports and action shots, this tool enhances time warps with pristine, artifact-free results.
Another notable addition is Hide Faces Fast, a feature that quickly and efficiently masks faces in footage, making it easier to work with sensitive content. Simplified Color, another new feature, aims to streamline colour grading workflows.
Particle Illusion, a popular tool within the Continuum suite, has been updated with position path presets, emitter replacement, and a parameter text search function. These updates make it easier to preview and fine-tune particle effects.
BCC+ Color Link is a new feature that allows for easy linking of colour values from one clip to another, and includes built-in colour correction tools. Additionally, several creative effects have been updated, including BCC+ Edge Cleaner, BCC+ Light Wrap, BCC+ Linear Luma Key, BCC+ Mosaic, BCC+ Mosaic Dissolve, BCC+ Polar, and BCC+ Spill Remover.
Witness Protection ML is another new feature that automatically detects, isolates, masks, and tracks multiple faces in seconds, making it a valuable tool for editors working with large amounts of footage.
Continuum 2024.5 is a free update for existing customers who are on an active monthly/annual subscription or upgrade & support plan. Pricing for new customers starts at $195/year or $25/month.
The Boris FX Hub is the platform for downloading the new installers for Continuum 2024.5. The Hub also offers a free trial for those who wish to test the software before committing.
While specific details about the Simplified Color feature and any additional costs for Particle Illusion updates or Simplified Color features were not available in the search results, each annual update typically focuses on expanding effects and presets, improving performance, refining keying and titling tools, and enhancing GPU acceleration and compatibility with host video editing software.
Continuum 2024.5 is now compatible with Adobe After Effects & Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve, Foundry Nuke, and VEGAS Pro, ensuring a seamless integration into your existing workflow.
Technology enhancements have been introduced in Continuum 2024.5, such as the Retimer ML for precise time warping of sports and action shots, and Hide Faces Fast for quick and efficient face masking in footage.
The newParticle Illusion updates offer position path presets, emitter replacement, and a parameter text search function, aiming to streamline the preview and fine-tuning of particle effects.
