2025: Year Rewind

As we close out 2025, we’re looking back on an incredible year in which we celebrated 30 years of innovation, released more products than months in a year, and added a Pro Audio division to bring video and audio together under one roof. We also introduced tons of AI tools to assist your workflows and highlighted our favorite people (you!). 

Product Releases

Our development and engineering teams helped us deliver 15 product releases this year. We focused our efforts on AI tools that speed up your workflows, leaving you more time to flex your creativity! You'll see our complete list of new AI-driven features below.

• January 2025: Optics 2025
• February 2025: SynthEyes 2025
• May 2025: Sapphire 2025.5, Continuum 2025.5 & SynthEyes 2025.5
• June 2025: Mocha Pro 2025.5 & CrumplePop 2025.5
• July 2025: SynthEyes 2025.5
• August 2025: Samplitude 2025 
• September 2025: Silhouette 2025.5
• October 2025: Continuum 2026
• November 2025: Sapphire 2026 & Boris FX Suite 2026 (now with Pro Audio tools!)
• December 2025: Optics 2026 & Mocha Pro 2026

New Products & Colleagues

Pro Audio Tools: Sequoia, Samplitude & Music Studio

We were — and still are — excited to add a powerful trio of Pro Audio tools: Sequoia, Samplitude, and Music Studio. The DAWs give you a complete audio workflow from live production and recording to mixing and mastering, and are powered by a unique hybrid audio engine with intelligent latency management, delivering uncompromising audio quality. You'll find all three included in the Boris FX Suite! 

Along with our new products, we also welcomed many new team members across development & engineering, along with product specialists Zak Ciotti, Grant Kay, and Christoph Zapletal, who have been tearing it up with new tutorials and friendly, easy-to-follow teaching styles. 

New AI Tools

Face ML: Available in Continuum, Mocha Pro, Silhouette, and Optics

• Sapphire: Object Brush ML & Matte Assist ML, and S_MochaWhip transition
• Continuum: Face ML, Matte Refine ML & Matte Assist ML, Denoise ML in Primatte Studio, Jump Cut Fixer ML, Depth Wipe ML, Matte Assist ML, Depth Map ML, and Frame Fixer ML
• Mocha Pro: Matte Refine ML and Face Detection ML
• Silhouette: AI Object Detection & Masking, and Face ML Node
• SynthEyes: Mask ML and ML Motion Estimation
• CrumplePop: Sound App with Outdoor - Wind (AI model) & Outdoor - Traffic (AI model)
• Optics: Mask ML, Face ML, Depth Map ML, Denoise ML, and UpRes ML 

Want to learn more about our AI tools? See everything new (included above) and previously released.   

Training Series

We pride ourselves on bringing you the best new tools and creative effects — and teaching you how to use them. Whether you’re just starting as a Boris FX user, need a quick refresh, or want to dive deeper into specific elements of our products, our Essentials Training has got you covered with three additional series.

• SynthEyes Essentials
  • 18 videos (3.5+ hours)
  • Taught by Boris FX product specialist Christoph Zapletal
  • 🎁 FREE premium version available until Dec 31st, 2025
• Silhouette Essentials (Paint)
  • 44 videos (7+ hours)
  • Taught by VFX digital paint and roto artist Katie Morris
• Optics Essentials 
  • • 16 videos (40 minutes)
    • Taught by Optics product manager Renee Robyn & director of content Ben Brownlee

We also created a mini Continuum AI Training in Avid series, taught by product specialist Zak Ciotti, and learn How to Create Epic Cinematic Titles with design director John Dickinson. 

Awards 

L-R: Nick Rodrigues, Hugo Ayala, Peter McAuley, Boris Yamnitsky, Mike Escola, and Jason Clement at the Engineering, Science & Technology Emmys

This year will always hold a special place in our hearts. Not only did it mark the 30th anniversary of our first Continuum release (!), but our original, pioneering flagship was also recognized with an Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy® Award for its contributions and lasting impact on television. 🙌 

Find out what the achievement means to our leader and founder, Boris Yamnitsky, along with fellow Continuum honorees Peter McAuley, Jason Clement, and Mike Escola. Get the inside scoop with our fun Q&A. 

Boris FX team at NAB (L-R): Nick Rodrigues, J-P Smith, Boris Yamnitsky, Ben Brownlee, and Brian Fox 

SynthEyes was also honored at NAB with a Best in Show award for its 2025 release. The speedy 3D camera solve toolkit was recognized for its one-click AI masking that revolutionizes garbage mask creation and bolsters object tracking. 

Customer Spotlights

The Electric State (Netflix)

This year, we caught up with visual effects teams, editors, matchmove & 3D tracking artists, and photographers to see how you’re using our products and learn a few tricks. 

Explore the visual effects work of Digital Domain on The Electric State (Netflix) (currently shortlisted for the Oscars visual effects category) and Image Engine on Dune: Prophecy (HBO), both of which relied on Mocha Pro and Silhouette. 

Dune: Prophecy (HBO)

Plus, get to know Adam Bradley, Rotoscope Head of Department at Wētā FX (a longtime Silhouette user), and first-time Emmy Award-winning VFX editor Erin Sullivan discusses Mocha AE on HBO’s The Penguin. 

SNL: What Up With That

Discover how the Emmy Award-winning editors behind SNL:50’s “Physical Comedy” segment combed through over 950 episodes to cut together the most gut-busting physical feats, and which Sapphire effects helped give it a retro vibe. 

Editor Corey Frost chats about how he jumped from NFL Films to docs to his first feature, and why he uses Continuum. Toronto-based production company Viva Media shares why they turn to CrumplePop for quick audio fixes.

Virtual production set (courtesy of Alex Pearce)

We’ve also got two SynthEyes stories that span wildly different applications from stabilizing cars in virtual productions to rebuilding car collisions for forensic reconstructions. 

Photo credit: Curtis Jones

And finally, gasp at the breathtaking photography of outdoor photographer Curtis Jones, environmental photographer Kristopher Andres, landscape photographer Enrico Fossati, and conceptual photographer Joel Robison, as they share why and how they use Optics in their Photoshop workflows.

Thank you for choosing to support our products, and cheers to a successful new year!