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	Boris FX Product Manager Overview: BCC 7 AE's Beat Reactor BCC Beat Reactor offers easy, precise, and flexible ways to use audio to influence the animation of visual effects parameters in your Adobe After Effects compositions - resulting in dynamic, high-energy effects that feel tightly integrated into the composition. BCC 7 AE includes a BCC Beat Reactor keyframe generator filter which can be used to influence almost any parameter in an AE composition. Beat Reactor is also offered as a parameter group integrated into many BCC filters for convenient use requiring no keyframe generation to drive specific filter parameters. This video focuses on how to isolate a specific portion of an already-mixed track such as a music track. Tutorial, Video Tutorial

	Boris FX 3D Shadow with BCC Extruded Text in AE In this Boris webinar excerpt, Boris FX Product Manager Dirk de Jong illustrates how to cast a 3D shadow with Boris Continuum Complete Extruded Text in Adobe After Effects CS5. Tutorial, Video Tutorial

	Boris FX 3D Camera Tracking Info and BCC 3D Extruded Text In this Boris webinar excerpt, Boris FX Product Manager Dirk de Jong illustrates how to bring external 3D camera tracking info into Adobe After Effects and then position and animate Boris Continuum Complete Extruded 3D Text to match the background footage. Tutorial, Video Tutorial

	Boris FX Animated Text on a Path Using BCC's Extruded Text Filter This video tutorial shows you some of the animatable paramters included with Boris Continuum Complete's Extruded Text filter. The parameters are useful in creating effects where text characters animate along an After Effects mask path. Tutorial, Video Tutorial

	Boris FX Extrude Adobe Illustrator Logos and Graphics in Adobe After Effects Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE's Extruded EPS filter provides an easy way to import and extrude Adobe Illustrator layered vector logos and graphics in Adobe After Effects. The filter includes full integration with the After Effects 3D camera and lighting system and incorporates the same 3D material presets and free-form deformation properties of other BCC 6 AE 3D Objects filters. The filter is capable of tracking an EPS file using a Watch Folder, making the EPS file live should it be edited in Adobe Illustrator. A handy Keep EPS Color feature lets you preserve the original fill colors for each element as a diffuse color option of the material. Tutorial, Video Tutorial

	Boris FX Boris Continuum Complete 3D Objects in Apple Motion This video tutorial from Dirk de Jong shows Boris Continuum Complete 6 FxPlug's Extruded Text filter running in Apple Motion to demonstrate how BCC 3D Objects can integrate into a Motion 3D scene by making use of Motion's 3D camera. Tutorial, Video Tutorial

	Boris FX Flicker Flicker and Shake is an auto-animating filter which uses bursts of synchronized Exposure, Glow, Blur, X or Y displacement, and RGB channel offset to create a flicker effect for video or graphics elements. The flicker effect has been made popular by recent television commercials and film trailers. Tutorial, Video Tutorial

	Adobe After Effects Using BCC6 Text Jitter in AE This video tutorial from Dirk de Jong gives you an in-depth look at the Jitter feature of Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE's Extruded Text filter. Basic functionality of the Jitter feature is explained and demonstrated. Then, the Jitter feature is shown in the context of a more developed effect involving audio and After Effects Camera and Lights. Tutorial, Video Tutorial

	Boris FX Using BCC6 Animated Presets Boris Continuum Complete 6's new Custom Animated Presets feature lets you save and re-use every parameter animation in every BCC filter - even across host applications and platforms. For the first time, you can animate BCC filters in Adobe After Effects and transfer the animation to the Avid timeline while preserving After Effects keyframes. BCC 6 AVX includes hundreds of factory-installed animated presets. Animated presets are now saved in industry-standard XML format and can be edited by any XML-compliant text editor. Watch this video tutorial and learn more. Tutorial, Video Tutorial

	Boris FX Using After Effects Masks with Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE Extruded Text In this Boris FX video tutorial we show you how to use an After Effects mask to define custom extrusion curves as well as the baseline for text characters in Boris Continuum Complete's Extruded Text filter. Tutorial, Video Tutorial

	Boris FX Map an After Effects Video Layer to Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE Extruded Text In this Boris FX video tutorial we show you how to map an After Effects video layer to the surface of Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE Extruded Text. Tutorial, Video Tutorial

	Boris FX Warp, Deform, and Explode 3D Extruded Text with BCC6 AE In this Boris FX video tutorial we show you how to employ the power of vertex shaders to warp, deform and even explode 3D extruded text using Adobe After Effects and the new 3D Objects from Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE. Tutorial, Video Tutorial