Boris FX has released a free standalone version of Particle Illusion, the GPU-accelerated 2D particle generator that forms part of its Continuum suite of effects plugins.
The standalone edition, which can be used with any compositing application, including After Effects, Fusion and Nuke, lacks Mocha planar tracking, but is otherwise a pretty fully featured product.
What can’t you do in Boris FX Particle Illusion the free edition?
Unlike the commercial version, it isn’t possible to import a background video layer, but you can render particles in a format like ProRes 4444 with an alpha channel, in order to combine them with the source footage in their compositing software.
