creating a FC Pro effect in Avid with Boris

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Julian,

For Indent you can find a matching result if you use BCC Bump Map. You’ll probably only need to adjust the filters bump height parameter for most clips.

For Color Emboss, you can get a match if you use BCC Emboss. Select the OverlayOnOriginal preset from the factory installed presets and you should be good to go.

I hope this helps!

Cheers,

Peter.

[Julian Semilian]

Thank you, Peter!

I will try these tomorrow and send you a message on how it worked. Much appreciated!

All the best,

Julian

[Julian Semilian]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the suggestions. The Bump Map worked like a charm and I had immense fun playing with the controls. I did get the effect I wanted, and much better than I expected.

Regarding “BCC Emboss. Select the OverlayOnOriginal preset from the factory installed preset”: I could not find the OverlayOnOriginal preset. As I mentioned I have BCC 5. Is it possible it is not on it?

All the best,

Julian

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Julian,

I’m glad that worked out for you. I’ve uploaded the preset that I mentioned in my post, which may have been from a more recent version of the software – you can download it here:

https://f1.creativecow.net/2536/preset-emboss-filter?uploaded=file

Cheers,

Peter.

[Julian Semilian]

Dear Peter,

Thank you profusely! I really appreciate it. I will give you a report tomorrow.

All the best,

Julian

[Julian Semilian]

Hi Peter,

It worked like a charm. Thanks again.

I am in the process of moving all my projects to Avid from FC. I had already created a large number of files in FC using Indent and Color Emboss. But what I can do with Boris looks delightfully better. So, I am re-doing all that work now with Boris in Avid. Fortunately, I don’t have a strict timeline, I make experimental movies with lots of effects and layering. I spent many years in my career as an editor cutting on film. Then in the nineties moved to Avid, after which I began teaching editing at the University of North Carolina School of Filmmaking. I started using FC for my own experimental projects but in the last few weeks moved back to Avid. I am very grateful to Boris for creating such wonderfully imaginative effects, allowing me to make the sorts of projects I have only dreamed about all my wife but couldn’t make because the technology wasn’t there, of if it was, would have been cost-prohibitive.

All the best to you,

Julian