Upcoming Continuum Version 2024.5 Features Advanced Machine Learning Enhanced Artistic Tools
In the ever-evolving world of video editing, Boris FX has announced the release of Continuum 2024.5, a significant update to their comprehensive plugin suite. This update is available for Adobe After Effects & Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve, Foundry Nuke, and VEGAS Pro.
The new version promises a host of exciting features designed to streamline and enhance the video editing experience.
**Improved Face Handling**
One of the standout additions is Witness Protection ML, a powerful tool that automatically detects, isolates, masks, and tracks multiple faces in seconds. This feature is further bolstered by Hide Faces Fast, a new feature that promises even quicker face masking.
**Color and Performance Boost**
Continuum 2024.5 also introduces Simplified Color, a feature aimed at simplifying colour grading tasks. Additionally, users can expect speedier playback in the FX Editor and accelerated Mocha tracking, thanks to Faster Performance updates.
**Innovative Time Manipulation**
Disrupt Time, another new feature, offers artifact-free time warps for sports and action shots, providing editors with unprecedented control over the temporal aspects of their projects.
**New Creative Effects**
A host of updated creative effects is also on offer, including BCC+ Edge Cleaner, BCC+ Light Wrap, BCC+ Linear Luma Key, BCC+ Mosaic, BCC+ Mosaic Dissolve, BCC+ Polar, and BCC+ Spill Remover.
**Particle Illusion Update**
The Particle Illusion Update introduces position path presets, emitter replacement, and a parameter text search function, offering greater flexibility and efficiency in particle-based effects.
**Retimer ML**
Retimer ML, another new feature, offers artifact-free time warps for sports and action shots, providing editors with unprecedented control over the temporal aspects of their projects.
**Pricing and Availability**
Continuum 2024.5 is a free update for existing customers on an active monthly/annual subscription or upgrade & support plan. New installers for Continuum 2024.5 can be downloaded through the Boris FX Hub. For those new to Boris FX, a free trial of the Boris FX Hub is available to get more Continuum. The pricing for Continuum 2024.5 starts at $195/year or $25/month.
While specific details about the updates in Continuum 2024.5 for various software platforms are not yet available, it's interesting to note that similar updates in other software often include enhanced performance, new effects and presets, improved integration, and user interface enhancements. For precise details about Continuum 2024.5 updates, checking the official Boris FX website or recent releases from the company would be advisable.
As Maxon One, which includes Red Giant Complete, demonstrates, comprehensive packages can significantly enhance editing workflows. Similarly, Boris FX Mocha Pro, known for its powerful tracking capabilities, updates often enhance tracking efficiency and object removal, which could be similar in focus to updates in Continuum.
The sophisticated update, Continuum 2024.5, introduces a range of technological advancements to revolutionize video editing, including Witness Protection ML, a tool for automatic face detection, isolation, masking, and tracking. Furthermore, the update offers Simplified Color, a feature to streamline color grading tasks, and Disrupt Time for artifact-free time warps.
