Hiya, I'm and Avid and Boris Red (and soon Blue) user. I just wondered if anyone else here uses these tools as well as it would be great to chat about some of the fab things can can be achieved with this fantastic effects/compositing package.

Ben

I use Boris with a love/hate relationship.

Many of the presets and a few features simply do not work with my machine and editing package.

Regardless of these problems I still use it.

Hi Richard, what's your system?

I'm cutting on Avid Xpress Pro HD on a PC and the only time Boris made me want to put my foot through the monitor has been when one of my sticks of RAM died, leaving me with a grand total of 1Gb.

At that point it would tend to crash quite often - doubly annoying if I'd opened Boris Red from with an unsaved Avid timeline! Now it's all groovy.

Ben

i used Boris(red, fx, continuum) tools on AE in their early days. Now inspired from this thread had a look on their site and must say they've done very big jump further.

For some reason the examples on their site don't really do the software justice. I find it such an uncluttered and streamlined interface compared to AE that I try to use it exclusively.

I've even starting using my fave After Effects plugins within Boris Red (Video Gogh, Twixtor, Knoll Light Factory, Boris CC etc) so if you're an Avid editor it's a great way to use use AE plugins without having to change app and import footage etc.


Ben

I am using Boris FX8 with Vegas 6d on a AMD 4800 x2 with 2 gigs of ram with a Nvidia 7900GT 256.

For some reason, when I render and preview, the 2nd processor is not used, even when I select multiprocessing in the Boris Menu. In fact, it is slower when I select multiprocessing.

With Vegas I can't see the video if I select Boris filter from the vegas timeline. It only brings in a static frame. There are workarounds, but it is annoying.

Also, many of the presets do nothing. I don't know about RED but I imagine it has better support than FX.

Nonetheless, I practically use it every day and I am always digging deeper because Boris FX8 is a powerful tool.

I have had other problems with Boris on my other machine that no one could help me with. They are fixed now that I use the AMD 4800.

I sure wish I could make the 2nd processor accessible.

Ah... I've a) Never used Boris FX, only Red (which is FX plus Graffiti?), CC and Final Effects and b) Never used Vegas. I was all looking forward to offering some cunning advice then. Sorry mate...

I'm running an ancient overclocked single Athlon 64 3000 with a Geforce 7800GT 256mg and with only 1Gb Ram at the mo as my other stick died :-(

That said, aside from some snail's-pace slow rendering when I've done loads of layering of effects, it seems to work like a charm.

Ben

Folks, can someone please explain me what Boris Red 4 has got that AE doesnt or viseversa. I use Red in Vegas 6, mostly for Titles and i tend to like it, way way better than Vegas native titling. But on the compositing front which one has got a functional advantage? Intuitivelly i prefer Boris's UI, although it does look a little archaic but i think its control window is a gem. Anyway can any1 answer my above questions? thanks