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Boris FX has been no stranger over the years to the LAPPG but at our August Meeting, Nick Harauz, Director of Marketing, Continuum made his LAPPG debut as he showed us “VFX for Content Creators Using Continuum from Boris FX.” He began with an overview of Boris FX and discussed the company as well as the products they produce. He then started to drill down into Continuum explaining it as a cross platform plugin application and mentioned that Boris FX introduced Machine Learning across various product lines starting last year. First Nick showed a live demo of DeNoise ML, and then DeNoise used with BBC Magic Sharp. Next he showed a pretapped video of BCC UPRes ML and created a multi camera workflow with it to add more editing variety. Next Nick demoed Witness Protection ML where he showed multiple faces in a shot which he masked and tracked instantaneously. He also demonstrated using Pixel Chooser which allows you to mask something without having to hop into Mocha. Following this, Nick showed a little Mocha tracking. Afterwards he highlighted Retimer ML as a way to speed up or slow down a clip and showed a pre-taped demo. He then played back a few Retimer examples and compared them to native Optical Flow algorithms found in a lot of hosts which showed more glitches. For those who use Avid Media Composer, Nick mentioned that Boris FX Learn has a 5-hour free course that walks through the ML effects and all of the Continuum Effects as well as a VFX workflow. Nick’s last demo was Particle Illusion using Gen AI and he showed how it can be used to make slight modifications to existing particles. Nick finished his presentation with a short Q & A. Thank you so Boris FX and Nick Harauz for a great presentation!

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