Software
Review: Boris Continuum Complete 5, Pg. 3
I wanted to show you two of my favorite presets.
I wish I’d shot on film #2. (Figure 8)
One of the most valuable BCC5 effects is called BCC Film Process, and like its name, its purpose is to simulate shooting on film and then chemically processing the film. The upper left is the Original shot. The upper right uses Film Process with the Movie Color preset to give the footage that “shot on film” look. The preset increases the contrast and color saturation and stretches out the midtone range to better simulate the color response of film. Film Process with the Black and White preset gives a rich B&W film look. Notice that the image has the full range from black to white. Most other techniques for converting color to black and white would have resulted in a muddled gray image that looks like bad video, not like film. I added Glint in to show you a simulated glass star burst diffraction filter.
In the following examples, I used multiple effects to radically change the look of the scene.
Putting several effects together to illustrate the range of control. (Figure 9)
Cloudy Sky: That’s a cloud generator combined with Basic DVE to match the cloud angle to the sky, and then apply a “grays toward the horizon”. It also uses Film Process Movie Color. Helicopter Searchlight: Spotlight generator combined with a Day-For-Night effect. Desolate Beach: Film Process with Black and White, and then a White Mist applied to reduce the detail in the beach and out toward the horizon.
Surveillance/closed-circuit TV video. (Figure 10)
The problem with surveillance cameras is getting the footage out of the proprietary security system and getting it into a standard video format at an appropriate frame rate, size, and color. BCC comes to the rescue again by enabling ordinary footage to become security-camera footage by applying a single effect.
Crime-drama effects. (Figure 11)
Scatterize adds a rough grain to the image giving a “gritty” look. Scatterize Horizontal has the look of walking past while peering through etched glass.
I tried the Witness Protection using the built in motion tracker and it was flawless.
These are some more blatant graphical effects.
Special “look of the times” effects. (Figure 12)
Invert Solarize Blue looks a lot like 1960’s still image film that’s been left in the fix bath too long. A lot of images from this era had blacks that faded to blue and whites that yellowed. Light Zoom Orange Glow looks a lot like 1970’s print film that often turned orange. Improvements in the chemical processing of film in the 1980s fixed these problems, anchoring the looks to a particular era.
