Continuum alone ranges from $295 per year for Adobe-only to $695 per year for Avid, Adobe, Apple and OFX (Resolve). While I have always been a fan of outright owning the products I use, I do like the yearly upgrades to the Boris FX products and think the Annual Subscription price (if you can afford it) is probably the sweet spot. You have a few pricing options called Annual Subscription, Permanent, Renewals (upgrades), Units and Enterprise. Beyond that, Continuum and Sapphire 2020 continue to offer the same high-quality effects you know, continue to integrate Mocha tracking, and have added even more benefits to what I always thought was an endless supply of effects. Sorry if it’s confusing, but 2020 has some great updates, and 2020.5 has even more improvements.Īll four Boris FX plugins could have a place in your editing tool kit, and I will point out the perks of each as well as how all of them can come together to make the ultimate Voltron-like plugin package for editors, content creators, VFX artists and more.īoris FX has standardized the naming of each plugin and app with release 2020. You’ll see that I jump back and forth between 20.5 a little bit. While writing this review, Boris FX released the 2020.5 updates for everything but Sapphire, which will eventually come out, but they are dialing it in.

In an upcoming review, I will cover Mocha 2020.5 and Silhouette 2020.5 they have a similar feature set from the outside but work symbiotically on the inside. Silhouette is a bit different in that it comes as a stand-alone or a compatible plugin for Adobe Premiere or After Effects (just not Avid Symphony/Media Composer at the moment).īecause they are comparable, and editors tend to use both or choose between the two, Continuum 2020.5 and Sapphire 2020 are first.

Over the course of two reviews I will be covering all four of Boris FX’s 2020 offerings - Continuum 2020.5 and Sapphire 2020 now, and Mocha Pro 2020.5 and Silhouette 2020.5 to come soon - for NLE applications like Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere and Blackmagic Resolve. The latest Boris FX 2020 plugin releases like Continuum, Sapphire and Mocha, as well as the addition of the Silhouette software (and paint plugin!), have really changed the landscape of effects and compositing.

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