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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
- 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
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