| Title Effects
All the features below are ONLY available from Boris! |
| Effects Filters Graffiti delivers 3 powerful blurs: Blur, Directional Blur, and Gaussian Blur. You can apply the Blur or Gaussian Blur filter to soften the focus of an image or create the appearance of lens diffusion, or add Directional Blur to simulate motion. Boris Graffiti offers 4 Distortion Filters: Bulge, Edge Bevel, Ripple and Wave. All of these are fully animatable, and offer exceptional degrees of control. Users can select edges of the frame to be pinned down or distorted at the edges by these effects. Alpha Pixel Noise, Luma Pixel Noise, RGB Pixel Noise, and Spray Paint Noise randomly select pixels in the image and alter the alpha, luminance, or RGB color levels in each selected pixel. Animating these noise filters, and applying blur and distortion filters to them, can create unique, organic effects. Boris Graffiti contains three Particles filters, two of which break the source image up into particles and disperse them in space. All of these filters auto-animate and offer a variety of different parameters for fine-tuning the effect. No other titler offers this range of keyframable filter control. Demos: Text Change, Particles |
| Natural Media Natural Media can be applied to the faces of 2D or 3D objects including text, or serve as backgrounds for Graffiti compositions. Because they are mathematically generated textures, they display smoothly at any scale. Each texture category includes a variety of animatable parameters, any of which may saved to the Graffiti Style Palette. (The Style Palette also comes with dozens of preset, editable textures.) Natural Media types include Wood, Wood Plank, Fractal Noise, Marble, Granite, Fabric, Reptilian and Random Color. |
| Gradient Editor Most titlers include some kind of basic gradients, which look especially nice mapped to the face of text or backdrops. Graffiti goes far beyond the basics. Unlimited color stops may be added to Graffiti gradients, which may be linear or radial. These gradients can be saved to the Graffiti Style Palette, where they may be reused or edited later. They can be applied to text and spline objects including backdrops, and serve as backgrounds for title animations. The Boris gradient editor is unique in that it not only controls gradients between chroma values, or colors, but between alpha values, or transparency. Thus a gradient might go from black to transparent instead of black to white. Any degree of transparency is possible, and each stop on the gradient can have separate values for both color and alpha. Once a gradient has transparency, it may be also used as a mask. The illustration below shows a gradient nested on the face of text and as a background, and a different gradient used as a mask for the text. No other titler offers this degree of flexibility with gradients. |
| Apply Modes, Motion Blur and beyond One of the compositor's primary tasks is to manage the transparency of layers, and Boris Graffiti 2.0 offers a number of unique ways to do this, accessible on the Composite tab of the Controls window. Among these is the animation of compositing modes in a single layer through the "Apply Mix From" setting. (Compositing modes are also known as Apply Modes, Transfer Modes.) "Apply Mix" can be used to soften the effect of a composite mode, or animated to transition from one mode to another. Only Boris offers animated composite modes. There are many other advanced compositing features found in Boris Graffiti, including Motion Blur, which simulates camera shutter movement, and gives graphics a less "computer-y" feel. Graffiti's lights offer specular highlights, spotlights and light sweeps across the face of text. Shadows can be animated separately from layers for increased realism in animations. And every layer in Boris has built-in masks, for unmatched flexibility. No other titling application comes close to the advanced compositing, effects, and animation power of Boris Graffiti. |
| Third Party AE Filters Boris Graffiti has always offered more filtering options than any other titling application, including powerful animated blurs, ripple, wave, and particle effects. Graffiti 2 adds support for leading third-party Adobe After Effects filters. Once installed, compatible third-party AE plug-ins appear in the Boris Graffiti filters menu, where they are applied as easily as any other Boris filter. Supported filters include Media 100 Final Effects Complete, DigiEffects Cinelook, Trapcode Shine, and many others that have not previously been available inside nonlinear editing applications. |