Boris Continuum – Creative Filters

Two day course

 

COURSE CONTENT

 

Day One

Introduction

• Course overview
• Understanding Boris
• Understanding plug-ins
• Applying multiple filters
• Real-time plug-ins

 

Fundamental Filters – Composite

• Blend modes
• Using the Pixel Chooser
• Limiting effects
• Masks and mattes – the basics
• Boosting colours

 

Designing Noise – Creating a motion background element

• NoiseMap – The designer’s skeleton key
• Creating natural effects & motion backgrounds
• Perlin Noise
• Blurs – Part one
• Colorising black and white
• Keyframing
• Advanced interpolation

 

Blurring in detail

• Blur, Thin & Spread
• Using Composite effects within other filters
• BCC Gaussian Blur RT

 

Displacement Maps

• Exploring displacement maps
• Using existing footage
• Pinning the effect
• Displacing time

 

 

Transitional Noise

• Applying transitions – different methods
  • Continuum transitions
• Textured Wipe
• Radial Wipe
• Borders & Influence

 

Non-transitional Wipes – A new motion background

• Multi-stripe wipe
• Random seeds

 

 

Day Two

Basic Colour Theory

• Colour spaces – Problems and opportunities
• YUV – RGB – HSL

 

Correcting Colours – Matching Elements

• Colour balance – Automatic & manual
• Levels & Gamma

 

Creative Colour Correction – Colorama & Dreams

• BCC Colorize
• Mixing multiple filters for creative effect
• BCC Directional Blur
• Highlight and shadow blooming
• Film-style effects

 

 

Creative Colour Correction – Stylised Effects

• BCC Color choker
• BCC Halftone
• BCC Median
• BCC LED

 

Motion Tracking

• Setting up the motion tracker
• BCC Lens Flare
• Techniques to get the best track
• BCC Corner Pin

 

BCC Light Zoom

• Simple Light Zoom
• BCC Edge Lighting
• Advanced Light Zoom
• BCC Cartooner

 

 

Optical Flow effects

• Time remapping vs. Time Warping
• BCC Optical Flow
• BCC Stabilise
• BCC Motion Key
• Opportunities & problems

 

Advanced Pixel Chooser – Completing the exercise

• Product / witness protection
• BCC Mosaic
• Luma keys
• Scramble

 

Basic Particles

BCC Particle Systems

 

Wrap-up