There are no new features in this version. This is a maintenance release to address several defects.

What’s New in Continuum 2026 (Summary of major changes since Continuum 2025.5):

BCC+ Primatte Studio - New Effect
Fully GPU accelerated update to Primatte Studio with faster renders, a new custom keying window in the FX Editor for consistent UI across all hosts, built-in AI Denoising, new color matching, and full float rendering pipelines.

BCC+ Face ML - New Effect and Pixel Chooser Option
AI powered face detection, using Machine Learning to automatically isolate facial features with control over Skin, Eyes, Eyebrows, Lips, Teeth, etc.

BCC+ Matte Refine ML - New Pixel Chooser Option
AI powered keying/masking companion using Machine Learning techniques to recover fine detail from rough keys/masks, restoring subtle details such as hair/fur.

BCC+ Scanline - New Effect
The new GPU accelerated BCC+ Scanline filter generates rolling RGB scanlines over the source image clip, emulating the effect of a computer monitor which was shot on video tape or film and other corrupted playback looks.

BCC+ Lens Blur - New Effect
Higher quality and more feature-rich version of the classic Lens Blur, with full HDR support, integrated Depth Map ML, and smoother gradient blurs

BCC+ Jump Cut Fixer ML - New Transition
Use AI Machine Learning frame interpolation technology to hide jump cuts, such as edits in interviews, or for more stylized blends between distinct clips.

BCC+ Depth Wipe ML - New Transition
Use AI Machine Learning depth information to wipe from foreground to background, from background to foreground, or to/from the midpoint

BCC+ UpRes ML - New Models
Four new UpRes ML models with improved quality and/or performance. Note the Nvidia model only works on Nvidia GPUs.

BCC+ Depth Map ML - New Model
New V1.0 (Large) model with higher quality edges - available anywhere the Depth Map ML group appears. (Note, this new model is quite GPU intensive and might not work on all hardware.)

BCC+ Depth Map ML - New Temporal Smoothing
Temporal Smoothing for reduced temporal flicker.

Mocha Updates
Face Detection ML is now built into Mocha offering extensive control over fine tuning results with individual mocha layers for each detected face.
Delete false positives or add manual tracks to cover missed faces.
Allow certain faces to remain exposed while others are obscured.
Utilize the face tracks in any filter with a Pixel Chooser.
General Mocha enhancements including advanced controls for tweaking ML masks

BCC+ Face ML in Beauty Studio
Face ML is now added as a top level section in Beauty Studio for easily limiting mask regions to facial features such as skin. Alternatively you can use an invert matte with just eyes, lips, mouth, eyebrows and beard to hold back the effect from those regions while still letting it apply everywhere else.

Apply Pixel Chooser menu in BCC+
All BCC+ filters with the Pixel Chooser now have an Apply Pixel Chooser menu near the top of the Pixel Chooser group. This offers a set of six variations on how to apply the Pixel Chooser mask/matte data.
Post-Effect: The traditional post-effect mask
Pre-Effect: Mask the original alpha, then apply the effect and composite back over the original
Both: Perform the Pre-Effect masking, then the traditional Post-Effect mask at the end.
Stacked Composite: Mask the original alpha (like the Pre option with a composite over the original), but then composite the masked original back on top at the end creating an “effect sandwich”.
Alpha Masked: Mask the original alpha, perform the effect and skip the composite over the background leaving a live alpha channel.
Alpha Composite: Mask the original alpha, perform the effect, then composite underneath the masked original and skip the composite over the background leaving a live alpha channel.

Particle Illusion Features
New “Reverse Animation” option - easily reverse path traversal
New “Advanced Interpolation” option - Results in particle positions exactly following smooth curve shapes all the time, most noticeably with emitters that “write” with particles
New 2026 Emitter Library
Updated Position Path, Color Gradient, and Alpha Gradient presets
UI tweaks
Make sure Camera is selected after loading preset from menu
Make emphasized parameters bold, golden text so they are more visually distinct
Increase size of checkbox params in ParameterView.

BCC+ Color Link - new Diffuse Color Displacement group
Enable the new Displacement map section when using the Diffuse Color source to more convincingly simulate embedding your object in a scene. Reduce Diffuse Color Blur to, say, 20 to more clearly see the result.

Other ML (Machine Learning) Enhancements
(Adobe) BCC+ Retimer ML - Interlaced/Progressive menu for proper conform of media types
BCC+ Motion Blur ML - New Adaptive sample count option which automatically computes the ideal number of samples regardless of blur width
BCC+ Motion Blur ML - New Beat Reactor integration
BCC+ Witness Protection ML - New Feather Bias control
BCC+ License Plate ML - New Feather Bias control
BCC+ Frame Fixer ML - increase max frame number from 9,999 to 99,999 so it doesn’t get clamped on long clips

Other Enhancements
BCC+ Overlay Tool Tip and Widget Refinements
BCC+ Lens Flare - Performance tweaks
FX Editor - new Viewer pane for easier control of view modes (in filters which support them)
BCC+ Pixel Chooser (standalone) - change defaults so Matte channel is None and output is Multiply Alpha for better typical starting settings
New “Silhouette Alpha” blend mode in filters with standard full blend mode set
FX Editor - revised default workspace to give more room to most frequently used controls. (Be sure to choose Reset workspace.)
BCC+ Pixel Chooser - New Feather Bias control in Mask group

150+ New Presets
BCC+ Beauty Studio
BCC+ Color Link
BCC+ Face ML
BCC+ Lens Blur
BCC+ Pixel Chooser
BCC+ Primatte Studio
BCC+ Scanline
BCC+ Audio Visualizer
BCC Organic Strands
BCC Particle Array 3D
BCC Particle Emitter 3D

Fixes and Tweaks in Continuum 2026.0.0 v19.0.0 for OFX:
BCC+ Lens Flare, BCC+ Borders, BCC+ Film Grunge - Fixes to randomization guarantee that mac and win randomization patterns match identically and are 100% consistent when re-rendering the same project multiple times.
BCC+ Motion Blur - Fix resolution conform for Limit Low Motion and Limit Max Motion (same relative effect regardless of image size)
BCC+ Stencil Alpha Blend Mode - incorrect results on alpha clips
BCC+ FX Editor - Eyedropper color picker is not working in some effects
BCC+ FX Editor - Fix overlay widgets in side-by-side A/B view. You can now adjust widgets in either view
Particle Illusion - Ignore World Offset when in Preview
Mocha how runs on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and 11 (Big Sur), although the ML features require macOS 12 (Monterey) or higher
BCC+ Pixel Chooser (standalone) - does not correctly save mocha data in OFX
BCC+ Transitions - Resolve Fusion crash applying transition effects to mixed resolution media

Fixes in Continuum 2026.0.0 for Adobe:
BCC+ Retimer ML - Image shifted by a half frame temporally if you conform progressive 30p into interlaced 29.97 in Premiere
BCC+ Lens Flare, BCC+ Borders, BCC+ Film Grunge - Fixes to randomization guarantee that mac and win randomization patterns match identically and are 100% consistent when re-rendering the same project multiple times.
BCC+ Motion Blur - Fix resolution conform for Limit Low Motion and Limit Max Motion (same relative effect regardless of image size)
BCC+ Stencil Alpha Blend Mode - incorrect results on alpha clips
BCC+ FX Editor - Eyedropper color picker is not working in some effects
BCC+ FX Editor - Fix overlay widgets in side-by-side A/B view. You can now adjust widgets in either view
Particle Illusion - Ignore World Offset when in Preview
Mocha how runs on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and 11 (Big Sur), although the ML features require macOS 12 (Monterey) or higher
BCC+ FX Editor - Premiere Pro - FX Editor UI is always behind host if PP windows are floating / undocked
BCC Video Morph - Filter is causing AE to become unresponsive
BCC+ AE - Fix rare crash in AE when AE adding/deleting/undo a filter

What’s New
Depth Generator - A brand new depth estimation tool for After Effects produces depth maps of your footage and images with advanced isolation and refinement controls.
Drag and Drop Published controls in Studio! Now when making your own Capsule you can move any published parameters simply by dragging them in the controls section.

Bug fixes
Studio - Fixed an issue where adding an effect to a layer during the create capsule process would exit the create menu.
Studio - fixed and issue so Show in Timeline for effect capsule should select the layer it is applied to
Studio - Fixed an issue where AE could crash on apply of a capsule that contained colorista
Studio - Fixed an issue for capsules imported/saved into a OneDrive Document folder
Studio - Fixed an issue with Geo Capsule Material Surface Presets not saving/applying right.
Studio - Fixed an issue where capsules deleted in timeline are still visible on Edit page
Studio - Fixed an issue where hitting reset button for placeholder footage does not reset the loaded footage
Studio - Fixed an issue RLF Preset/ARB Data not getting saved in Studio Capsules
Studio - Fixed an issue where precomposing a layer during Modify workflow will cancel capsule modify
Studio - Fixed an issue where dropping a parameter from a different layer than the source layer should not be permitted for an effect capsule
Studio - Added a scroll bar to the modal dialog when studio is too small
Particular - Fixed an issue where orient to Motion was broken for sprites with Face Camera turned off on Win
Particular - Fixed an issue where Mask & Layer Emitters were Jittery when Layer Sampling set to Current Frame
RLF - Fixed an issue where there could be flickering elements when using 4090 or 5090 cards.
Colorista - Fixed an issue where Presets pop-out window would show blank presets
Tao - Fixed an issue where plugin crashed when launching PPro 25.6
Form - Fixed an issue where sprites overlap in unexpected ways
Form - Fixed an issue where shading wasn’t working
Primate 6 - Fixed an issue where "Core Matte Erode" and "Shrink Matte" did not function on Win Adobe
Spot Clone Tracker - Fixed an issue where the generated null doesn't respect offset in position or time

Bug Fixes
Universe - Fixed an installer issue which could cause the Universe Dashboard to not load.
Universe - Fixed Texturize Motion to show up in the right RG category
Universe - Fixed Texturize to show up in the right RG category
Universe - Fixed a broken threshold parameter in Quantum
Universe - Fixed unmult migration issue which could corrupt some older projects
Universe - Fixed a crash on quit in AE for some older Universe plugins
Universe - Fixed an issue where Error Diffuse Dither did not apply to the full image in abnormal comp sizes