The update also introduces support for OpenColorIO, and for open-source multimedia playback framework GStreamer, the latter as a replacement for QuickTime, which Apple deprecated on Windows in 2016.Ĭontinuum 2020: new effects and transitionsĬontinuum 2020 gets new effects, including BCC_ReflectImage, for projecting reflections of an object into polished surfaces and BCC_CastShadow, for throwing shadows behind or in front of an object. It can also be used to define roto shapes, with Mocha Pro converting paint areas to roto splines. Other changes include a more rapid brush-based workflow for defining tracking search areas, in the shape of Area Brush, a new interactive spline tool with “gestural, paint-like functionality”. Updated 7 October 2019: Boris FX has now released a feature highlights video for Mocha Pro 2020, embedded at the top of the story. Sadly, there doesn’t seem to be a demo video of it in action yet, but the workflow has obvious potential for set extension work and for repositioning footage. The system, described by Boris FX as “unique”, extracts a composite background plate from moving footage, making it possible to generate a clean plate larger than the visible area of any individual frame. Mocha Pro 2020 includes a couple of interesting features: notably Mega Plate. Mocha Pro 2020: new background plate extraction feature, OpenColorIO support

In addition, Mocha Pro gets a new Mega Plate module for extracting larger-than-raster background images from moving footage, plus an Area Brush for defining tracking search areas.Īll of the products will be on show at IBC 2019. The releases add support for key colour management standard OpenColorIO in Mocha Pro and Sapphire, with support in Continuum “in development”. Scroll down for news of the commercial releases.īoris FX has unveiled Mocha Pro 2020, the next version of its planar tracking software, plus Sapphire 2020 and Continuum 2020, the next versions of its effects plugins for compositing and editing apps.

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