Boris Continuum Unit: Image Restoration 2023 Boris FX

Features

• On-screen control widgets
• Professionally designed factory installed presets
• Integrated FX Browser
• Integrated PixelChooser matte and masking system
• Support for Adobe host native mask shapes
• Integrated Mocha masking and planar tracking system
• Integrated Beat Reactor for audio generated VFX
• Hardware acceleration (OpenGL/OpenCL)
• Multi-processor (SMP) and multi-core (CMP) support

The Continuum Image Restoration Unit offers multi-host support with a single license.

Effects

• Beauty Studio – Quite often, in these days of cameras equipped with ultra sharp lenses and highly sensitive light sensors, we’re seeing more detail than ever before in images on screen. Akin to digital make-up, the BCC Beauty Studio filter was designed to automate the process of eliminating wrinkles, pores and other undesirable blemishes from the skin-tones in a close up shot of a person’s face.
• Broadcast Safe Effects – Continuum’s Broadcast Safe is the easiest way to guarantee projects pass broadcast safe standards in any market. Pick your desired preset, render, and you’re done! Continuum’s soft knee approach to maintaining safe color and luma levels means you’ll never suffer from dreaded crushed highlights again.
• DV Fixer – The BCC DV Fixer filter is designed to remove diagonal stair-caseing (also known as aliasing or jaggies) that are apparent in images or clips that have been subject to DV compression, while maintaining the overall sharpness of the original image.
  The built in PixelChooser allows for greater control over which areas of the image the filter should affect.
• Dropout Fixer – The BCC Dropout Fixer filter was designed to fix field glitches / artifacts in a source clip which are present as a the result of digitizing tape based media with faulty equipment.
  Sometimes digitized media will have fields that contain artifacts due to brief signal loss – the BCC Dropout Fixer filter provides a way to isolate the exact frame with the field artifact and replace the damaged portion of the field with data from a near field.
• Dust and Scratches – The BCC Dust and Scratches filter removes unwanted dust and scratches from an image to help restore old and damaged footage.
  The built in PixelChooser with integrated mocha planar tracking allows for greater control over which areas of the image the filter should affect.
• Flicker Fixer – The BCC Flicker Fixer filter is designed to eliminate flicker from source footage. It provides 3 different methods for removing flicker.
• Frame Analysis is intended for use with clips with flicker that is uniform throughout the frame – e.g. flicker that is caused by unintended shutter speed or aperture variations from frame to frame.
• Two Temporal Smoothing methods are intended for use with clips in which the flicker varies from pixel to pixel within the frame – e.g. a scene that is lit partly by natural light and partly by a flickering artificial light.
• Lens Correction – The BCC Lens Correction filter is designed to reduce or remove image distortion in source clips that were shot using a wide angle or fish-eye lens. It can also be used to make simple perspective corrections.
  BCC Lens Correction includes a number of presets specifically designed for go-pro cameras.
• Magic Sharp – The BCC Magic Sharp filter uses algorithms to enhance image detail while minimizing artifacts associated with traditional sharpening tools.
• Motion Key – The BCC Motion Key filter allows you to isolate and remove a moving foreground object based on motion estimation. For example, you have a static shot of some buildings and a car passes by on the street in front of the buildings. You could use this filter to remove the car and replace it with the buildings.
  The built in Motion Tracker allows for greater control over which areas of the image the filter should affect.
• Noise Reduction – The BCC Noise Reduction filter smooths out noise by comparing each pixel with the pixels in it’s immediate temporal and spatial neighborhood. For each pixel, it blends in pixels that are close (in color) to the pixel, while ignoring pixels that are distant in color. This allows us to smooth out the noise without losing detail.
  This filter is designed to remove noise from camera images, and will not work properly unless the input is fully opaque.
  The built in PixelChooser with integrated mocha planar tracking allows for greater control over which areas of the image the filter should affect.
• Optical Stabilizer – The BCC Optical Stabilizer filter enables you to quickly and easily stabilize shaky video footage, such as clips that were shot with a hand-held camera. The Optical Stabilizer uses optical flow technology to analyze every frame in the source clip to determine the movement of the camera and then adjusts the position, rotation and scale of the clip to compensate for the unwanted camera movement. Depending upon filter parameter settings the motion in the clip will either be smoothed or completely locked down. Unlike many image stabilization tools, the BCC Optical Stabilizer does not require you to set and keyframe user-defined tracking points, which is very useful for images where point tracking data is unreliable.
• Pixel Fixer – The primary purpose of the BCC Pixel Fixer filter is to fix bad pixels caused by bad pixels on the sensor in digital video and still cameras. The filter may also be used to fix bad spots on digital still images caused by dust on the sensor.
• Reframer – The BCC Reframer filter was designed to ease the work of integrating video that was shot in portrait format into a landscape video frame. Typical application of this filter might be inserting footage that was sourced on an iPhone into an HD format sequence.
  Due to the special nature of this filter the parameter list and suggested workflow can vary considerably from one host to another.
• Remover – The BCC Remover filter was designed to provide a semi-automatic way of removing small undesired elements from an image or video clip by cloning pixels from one user defined section of the image to another section of the image.
• Smooth Tone – The BCC Smooth Tone filter is designed to control the smoothness of an input image or clip while retaining as much of the original image detail as possible. This process is achieved via the use of the image processing algorithms that are at the heart of the filter.
• Uprez – The BCC Uprez filter is used to increase the resolution of source clips (for example SD to HD or SD/HD to 4K) while ensuring maximum possible image quality. Uprez uses advanced techniques to maintain and fine tune image details, generating much higher quality final images than can be obtained with standard host upscaling.
• Wire Remover – The BCC Wire Remover filter removes wires and unwanted objects from still or moving images by either cloning or blending pixels together from surrounding areas. This filter has several uses. When working with blue or green screen shots, use this filter to remove wires or eliminate unwanted rigs or objects prior to keying. You can also use this filter to blend replacement pixels over video dropouts or film scratches.

Specs 

Installation Requirements

In order to work properly, your copy of Image Restoration requires Blackmagic Resolve, The Foundry Nuke, Apple FinalCut Pro X or:

	Adobe After Effects Creative Cloud Create incredible motion graphics and visual effects.
	OR
	Adobe Premiere Pro Creative Cloud Make visually stunning videos virtually anywhere.
	OR
	Avid Avid Media Composer High-Res to HD workflows, Real-time collaboration, and powerful media management. Includes your first year of Avid Standard Support.
	OR
	Magix Vegas Pro Video & audio for professionals.
	OR
	Avid Avid Media Composer Subscription The Professional’s Choice for Creative Editorial. Includes software updates and Standard support.

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