Tools for Content Creators
Discover the vast universe of content creation possibilities with Continuum plugins.
Continuum plugins are a one-stop shop for your content creation needs. The post-production industry’s most complete plugin package includes over 300+ effects, 40+ transitions, and 5000+ presets. The speedy and easy-to-use toolset is fully GPU-accelerated with Adobe Multi-Frame Rendering and native Apple M1 support.
Take the capabilities of any effect further with the implementation of Mocha masking in every one of Continuum’s effects. Import and export Mocha data from other hosts, easily set up offset tracking, and limit effects with complex masking driven by the award-winning art of planar tracking.
New for Continuum 2024
BCC+ DeNoise ML: AI-powered noise removal with one-click simplicity and intelligent detail preservation
BCC+ UpRes ML (After Effects only): Effortlessly resize to any format with Continuum’s new integrated AI scaling tool
BCC+ Audio Visualizer: Let your music speak volumes with poppin’ auto-animated motion graphics
Particle Illusion: Generate sprites with AI, true 3D objects with line emitters, inherited velocity, and more
Performance Boost: Experience snappier playback in the FX Editor, distributed rendering, and tighter integration within Avid
More Presets: 150+ professionally designed and curated presets
AI-Powered Noise Removal
Instantly enhance your video quality with the BCC+ DeNoise ML effect — your one-click solution for clear visuals.
Artifact Removal: Eliminates noise from low-light and compression artifacts
One-Click Efficiency: Drag-and-drop simplicity for immediate results
Intelligent Analysis: Auto-analyzes images to preserve and boost detail
Revolutionary AI Upscaling (AE only)
Transform your footage with BCC+ UpRes ML, the ultimate tool for scaling up any format size right from the comfort of your preferred host.
Format Flexibility: Handles all format sizes for consistent, high-quality results.
Detail Preservation: Sharpens and maintains fine details during enlargement
Selective Zoom: Offers zoom-in capabilities to enhance specific clip regions
Visualize Sound in Motion
Make your music come alive with BCC+ Audio Visualizer. The effect intelligently matches the sound in your video to a base audio spectrum of lines, dots or circles. Then push it further with:
Fine-tuned controls for the size, position, and rotation of your current display plus 3D properties
Finish composites by coloring, reflecting, and warping the visualiser
Pin the effect with integrated Mocha parameter tracking
Easily add a background
AI Enhanced Particles And More
Particle Illusion adds more creative features perfect for motion graphics workflows.
Generate any sprite you want to use in an emitter with a simple text prompt
3D Particle Lines
Improvements with the new Inherited Velocity
More properties can be controlled within your host and respond with Beat Reactor
150+ New Presets
Continuum 2024 adds tons of professionally designed presets to help you quickly hone in on the effects, looks, and transitions that your projects need.
Save time and work more creatively with new presets across Audio Visualizer, Lens Flare, SuperLED, Eye Light, Film Glow, and Transition effect categories.
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One Ultimate Package with Endless Possibilities
Continuum serves the everyday needs of editors, motion graphic artists, and compositors working in today’s fast-paced environments. Below is a glimpse of the 300+ effects used in broadcast, film, and television for over 25+ years.
LIGHT AND DIFFUSION
Change a scene’s lighting with a simple click.
Take your story to the next level with beautiful and elegant lighting effects.
DISTORT AND STYLIZE
Use several filters to degrade your footage for a retro or classic damaged film/video look or change the feel of your shot using sophisticated light leaks, hyper realistic blurs, or powerful glows.
FILM LOOKS & GRAIN
Channel your inner analog filmmaker with The Cinematographer Toolkit
Instantly transform your footage with curated presets featuring the best film emulation options in the business.
IMAGE RESTORATION
Why “fix it in post” exists.
Bring blurry shots back to life, retouch skin, get rid of banding + more
COMPOSITING
Say goodbye to challenging greenscreens with a few simple clicks with Primatte Studio. Then fine tune your composite with a number of edge tools designed to take the capabilities of your host further than ever before.
MOTION GRAPHICS
Create beautiful lens flares or design professional animated intro graphics with the help of Particle Illusion and Title Studio. Continuum has a robust set of effects and graphic templates for every project imaginable.
AUDIO REACTION
Beat Reactor is built natively into several Continuum effects allowing specific properties to auto-animate to music. Never has production value come with so few clicks.
MOCHA TRACKING
Unleash the power of every Continuum effect by launching Mocha. Perform complicated masking tasks and track position data with incredible ease and precision.
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The Cinematographer’s Toolkit
ANALOG FILMMAKING MEETS DIGITAL VIDEO
The Cinematographer’s Toolkit gives artists access to 80 new effects, 3 new Continuum Units, and 1000+ new presets that pay homage to the bygone era of shooting on film. The built-in FX Editor makes it simple to browse the presets and create your own custom presets directly inside the interface. Recreate classic Hollywood looks in just one click.
Each new effect is GPU-accelerated, HDR compliant, and includes OCIO color management support.
FILM STOCKS
Quickly transform digital video into beloved analog looks.
BCC+FilmStocks features nearly 300 customizable presets organized by color, black & white, photographic films, and motion picture film stocks including Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Fuji, Agfa, and Polaroid. Easily adjust a film’s most important elements: black & white, film response, color correct, color filters, sharpening, diffusion, vignette, and grain.
LOOK DEVELOPMENT
Easily establish a signature look for your film or episodic.
BCC+Grade includes 85+ color grading presets from Academy Award-nominated films including 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Frankenstein, Gone with the Wind, and Titanic.
Create your own custom look using a visual Color Wheels interface or manipulate hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, gamma, cyan/magenta, RGB values, mid-tones, highlights, and shadows. Included in the Continuum Color & Tone Unit.
BCC+Looks lets you create virtually any look with 65+ stylized color and black & white looks or tweak color correct, diffusion, color gradient, gels, lab, and grain modules.
OPTICAL FILTER SIMULATIONS
Get the look of glass camera filters without the hassle.
Dial in the exact look your cinematographer wants with digital optical filter simulations that you can change at any time. Darken a sky with a polarizing filter, reduce wrinkles with diffusion filters, add stars to specular highlights with multi-star filters, saturate colors with enhancing filters, and add a pop of color with color-graduated filters.
BCC+Optical Diffusion filters include Double Fog, Fog, Frost, Halo, Mist, Net, Rack Focus, and Silk.
LIGHTS
No more waiting for light setups! Add natural and realistic effects fast.
Create a stylized atmosphere with gobos, enhance a scene with realistic lens flares that can be customized with the new Flare Editor, add drama with volumetric light rays and glows, or choose a gel from the Kodak® Wratten set.
BCC+Light includes BCC+Glow, BCC+Glow Darks, BCC+Glow Edges, BCC+Photographic, BCC+Color Gradient, BCC+Radial Tint, BCC+Sunset, and many more.
GOBOS
The production team forgot to add a gobo to the lights during the shoot. Now what? Apply Gobo effects in post complete with realistic shadowing!
Browse the factory-installed digital Gobo library featuring 750+ Gobo options sorted into seven distinct categories: Abstract, Doors, Elements, Foliage, Snowflakes, Textures, and Windows.
You can also import your own gobo images into the BCC+Lights FX Editor and create your own custom gobo library for use in any project.
LENS FLARES
Add subtle realism to a shot or go for a certain director’s signature lens flare style.
Choose from 300+ factory-installed presets, all of which are completely editable, or create your own unique custom lens flare from scratch using the new Flare Editor directly from within the BCC+Lens Flare FX Editor. With the FX Editor, you can save customized presets into the Custom preset category and use the favorites starring feature to instantly retrieve your favorite looks.
Lens flares are broken into Anamorphic, Circular, Polygons, Star, Starburst, and Stylized categories.
LIGHT RAYS & GLOWS
Create a sense of drama or a dreamy atmosphere.
The lighting effect filters in this update are all hardware accelerated, easy to use, and come with dozens of preset looks. Whether your shot calls for a subtle glow or some in-your-face volumetric rays, this new set of filters generates sublime results.
Featuring 6 new realistic glow effects and stunning volumetric lighting effects. Each effect is fully customizable.
GELS
Set the mood with color. Choose from 200+ lighting gels and 95 photographic filters to colorize footage using the same names known to cinematographers.
Warm up a shot with a 22 Deep Orange or 23A Light red glass filter emulator and use the integrated graduated filter to isolate the effect to the foreground or background. Or select the L725 Old Steel Blue gel to cool the image and use the integrated ND filter to control light exposure in the filtered shot.
The BCC+Photographic filter is the digital equivalent of the Kodak® Wratten set licensed under Tiffen.