Boris FX releases Continuum 2025
Boris FX has begun its 2025 updates to Continuum, its set of effects plugins for compositing and editing software, adding new AI-based tools.
Continuum 2025.0 adds new machine learning-based filters for adding motion blur to video clips and graphics, and automatically obscuring car license plates in footage.
The update also adds four other new filters, four new transitions, and improves workflow in Particle Illusion, Continuum’s particle toolset, particularly when creating looping effects.
New AI tools for adding motion blur and obscuring car license plates in footage
Boris FX began to add AI features to Continuum in its 2024 releases, beginning with machine learning-based filters for denoising, upresing and retiming video.
In Continuum 2025.0, they are joined by BCC+ Motion Blur ML, a new motion blur filter that combines a new hardware-accelerated optical flow algorithm with machine learning.
It provides controls for both the intensity and direction of the blur, and also makes it possible to apply motion blur data from another clip, helping to connect elements in a composite.
The other new AI filter, BCC+ License Plate ML, automatically anonymizes car license plates, isolating the plates in a shot and applying blur, mosaic or brightness/contrast effects.
Other new filters and transitions
Continuum 2025.0 also features four other new filters, BCC+ Grain, BCC+ Linear Color Key, BCC+ Two Way Key and BCC+ Pixel Chooser, all faster and more controllable versions of existing filters.
The BCC+ Light filter, for adding new lights to shots, gets 33 new gobos.
There are also four new transitions, BCC+ Atmospheric Glow Dissolve, BCC+ Orbs Dissolve, BCC+ Smoke Wipe and BCC+ Smoke and Fog Dissolve, shown in the video above.
Workflow improvements to Particle Illusion
Particle Illusion, Continuum’s particle effects system, gets new options to copy and paste data between particle type nodes, including color and alpha gradients, and particle sprites.
Other workflow improvements include a new Repeat option for creating looping effects, available for any animated parameter, and updates to the UI for the emitter library.
Pricing and system requirements
Continuum 2025 is compatible with a range of compositing and editing software, including After Effects, DaVinci Resolve and Nuke, on Windows 10+ or macOS 10.15+.
It is priced according to host application, with new perpetual licences costing from $295 to $1,995. Subscriptions cost from $195/year to $695/year.
Read an overview of the new features in Continuum 2025 on Boris FX’s website
Read a full list of new features in Continuum 2025.0 in the release notes (Adobe edition)
Have your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we don’t post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects.