Continuum 2024.5 (v17.5.0) for Apple Final Cut Pro / FxPlug - Release Notes
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What’s New in Continuum 2024.5 for FxPlug (Summary of major changes since Continuum 2024):
BCC+ Witness Protection ML
- Automatic ML face detection with multiple effect combinations for obscuring identity
BCC+ Color Link
- Link color values from one clip to another for motion graphics, compositing, and editorial shot color matching.
BCC+ Denoise ML - New Fast Models
- Newly trained models yield twice the render performance over the previously shipping version of the BCC+ Denoiser ML filter and even bigger gains in UI refresh speeds when scrubbing
BCC+ Polar Warp
- Warp into a circular shape with options for swirling and looping tunnel animations.
BCC+ Mosaic
- Pixelate the source clip to achieve a variety of mosaic effects
BCC+ Mosaic Dissolve
- Auto-animating transition that pixelates the outgoing and incoming shots over the transition dissolve with options for prismatic and color blur effects
BCC+ Spill Remover
- Drag and drop simple and easy to use effect that instantly eliminates any spill from the red, green, or blue screen background of a keyed foreground shot
BCC+ Light Wrap
- Blend the background layer or a user specified solid color over the edges of keyed foreground shots or motion graphics elements for more realistic composites
BCC+ Linear Luma Key
- Quickly and easily generate an alpha channel key from the image luminance
BCC+ FX Editor Enhancements
- Faster playback, new render cache, and playback looping controls
- A/B split/comparison views - Separate view menus control what is shown on each side of the comparison
Compare Mode option for BCC+ Effects
- All BCC+ effects now include the host side Compare Mode option
Mocha Enhancements - Update to 2024 version of Mocha
- GPU Accuracy: Improved accuracy in GPU accelerated tracking
- Skip Frames: Skip over problem frames using the skip function
- Step Frames: Set a track step for stop motion animation
- Hold keyframes: Set linear or constant keyframes for more control over stepped motion
- Extrapolate Track: Predict motion in future problem frames by extrapolating from previous frames
- Zoom to Selected: New option to zoom to fit selected splines in view
- General Bug fixes
Miscellaneous Enhancements
- 3D Transform options in BCC+ Transform, with 3D-aware versions of widgets
- BCC+ Lens Flare - New Occlusion Softness control
- BCC+ Lens Flare render speed enhancements
- BCC+ Audio Visualizer - New Angle Speed and Radius Offset Speed params for keyframe-free animation.
- BCC+ Audio Visualizer - Two new controls in Pre Transform group: Edge Mode and Camera Z
- BCC+ Audio Visualizer - Polar Warp option - Eliminate swirling radius boundary - extends to outer edge of image now, permitting more options for seamless animated backgrounds.
- BCC+ Audio Visualizer - Two new presets
- BCC+ Cross Zoom Dissolve - New Overlap widget for easier timing control
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Other Fixes and Polish in Continuum 2024.5 v17.5.0 for FxPlug:
- BCC+ Harris Shutter - Expand frame range to +/- 90 and ensure the range matches between FX Editor and the host
- BCC+ Beat Reactor - Crashing in some scenarios with bad or missing audio when no Watch Folder was set
- BCC+ Night Vision - Fix several presets not showing correct channel
- FX Editor - OCIO options are removed for the time being since not functioning reliably. Will be restored in a future update.
- BCC+ Audio Visualizer - Fix transform overlay widget scale adjustments
- BCC+ Audio Visualizer - Polar Warp Reflect Y option leads to unexpected banding in some cases
- BCC+ Audio Visualizer - Scattered black pixels along vertical axis when using Polar Warp option
- BCC+ Audio Visualizer - Incorrect center pixel color when using Polar Warp option
- BCC+ Audio Visualizer - Spin, Tumble, and Anchor Z inverted from standard direction (requires inverting settings in saved projects)
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Continuum 2024.5 (v17.5.0) (BCC 17.5.0) for FxPlug was released on 6/18/2024.
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Continuum 2024.5 (v17.5.0) for Apple FxPlug officially supports the following host and OS version:
macOS 12.6+, 13.x, 14.x (up to OS version at time of Continuum release and as appropriate for the host version in use).
Final Cut Pro 10.6.6, 10.6.7, 10.6.8, 10.6.9, 10.6.10, 10.7, 10.7.1, 10.8
Motion 5.6.4, 5.6.5, 5.6.6, 5.6.7, 5.7, 5.8
[Up to host versions released at time of Continuum release]
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Additional Hardware and OS Requirements
- On macOS the Machine Learning (ML) filter requires macOS 12 (Monterey) or higher
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Training:
Numerous resources are available for helping you get the most out of Boris Continuum Complete.
- Help documents for individual BCC effects are accessible directly from eachย plug-inโs UI. ย The entire BCC Help Documentionย library is also available on the BorisFX website, including access to a downloadable version for browsing Offline BCC Help Documentation.
- BorisTV video tutorials cover a huge range of topics from introductions to the Fundamentals, to deep training Webinar Replays, to in-depth looks at ย key effects and techniques.
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Continuum 2024.5 (v17.5.0) for FxPlug - Compatibility Notes:
While in general your previously saved projects should render identically in the newer version, bug fixes and quality improvements can sometimes change the look of older projects. While every effort is made to ensure project compatibility, the following notable areas may see some change to the look of previously saved projects.
- BCC+ Denoise ML now defaults to a new ML model. In most hosts old projects will open using the original older model, so would need to be updated manually. In some hosts the model might auto-update to the new default requiring manually resetting to the previous model if desired.
- BCC+ Audio Visualizer - Spin, Tumble, and Anchor Z where inverted from standard direction in the previous version and this has been corrected, but older projects saved with non-default values of Spin, Tumble, or Anchor Z will need their value inverted when opened in the 2024.5 or higher
- BCC+ Audio Visualizer - The Swirling radius boundary has been eliminated which may change the look of certain projects created in 2024.0.x versions
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Continuum FCP 2024.5 (v17.5.0) - Known Issues and Limitations:
- CO-8326 - The FX Editor window does not block access to the host UI while it is up which can lead to stability problems if you make adjustments in the host while the FX Editor is still open.
- CO-9391 - BCC+ Cross Processing and BCC+ Color Paste clamp in HDR
- CO-9370 - BCC+ Color Gradient - ND Brightness feature ignores alpha
- CO-10185 - FX Editor will show placeholder clips in situations where it is unable to fetch the correct image data from the host. This does not affect rendering and is limited to the FX Editor preview. Mostly commonly this occurs for transitions with inputs of mismatched sizes or for transitions where the effect has not rendered in the current session due to host caching from previous sessions. You can work around this by clearing the host cache or tweaking a param to force a render refresh and then relaunch the FX Editor.
- CO-10260 - Edge Mode repeat sometimes shows transparency instead of repeating the last lines of pixel around the edges in FCP
- CO-10231 - FX Editor shows transparency/black temporarily when scrubbing or widgets in transitions
- CO-11705 - BCC+ Mocha Parameter Tracking of clips trimmed on the front end requires first moving those trimmed clips into nested sequences in FCP
- CO-11779 - BCC+ Transform - Some geometries show more aliased filtering than expected
- B๏ปฟCC+ Super LED can crash when Transform group enabled
- B๏ปฟCC+ Light Wrap not working as expected in FCP
