Boris continuum in after effects

I have just started using after effects, and want to use BCC to stabilise video.
I loaded the BCC plugins, and although all the BCC plugins show under the effects tab, they are
all greyed out so I cannot use them. Do I have to reach a certain stage in the workflow process
for these to become active, or could it be something else?

I don't know what you mean when you say "effects tab". Could you post a screenshot?
Are you seeing this same greyed-out appearance for other effects? Do you have a layer selected?
Also, why are you using an expensive third-party plug-in suite for motion stabilization if you just started using After Effects? Did you already try the built-in tracker and mocha-AE and determine that they couldn't do the job?
If you're just starting out with After Effects, I strongly recommend that you begin here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2010/01/getting-started-with-after-eff.html

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Hello folks, I was checking those Boris Continnum Filters / Effects, and I managed to get
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As far as I know they all got the aef or something like that extension, that is normally
used with After Effects.
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Hello,
Thank you for your assistance.
This is what I get:
Récipient d’erreurs 94339929, type 20
Nom d’événement : APPCRASH
Réponse : Non disponible
ID de CAB : 0
Signature du problème :
P1 : AfterFX.exe
P2 : 13.2.0.49
P3 : 54816501
P4 : ole32.dll
P5 : 6.1.7601.17514
P6 : 4ce7c92c
P7 : c0000005
P8 : 000000000001022a
P9 :
P10 :
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C:\Users\boris\AppData\Local\Temp\WERBBC.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
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C:\Users\boris\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_AfterFX.exe_84ea 3ab61a3a59da95acc755aefa5d1f85cabd91_f84a3e6f
Symbole d’analyse :
Nouvelle recherche de la solution : 0
ID de rapport : 2ab812a5-dd4f-11e4-b42f-989096bad523
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screen grabs to illustrate my point.
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