Scroll down for details on each feature, or select one of the following to learn more about a particular feature: Integration | Productivity | Keyframer
Every effects application offers appealing features. The real question is, are they accessible where you need them? Other applications talk about their integration with other software, but they don't mean what we do when we talk about the power of Boris FX 6.1 for integrated effects creation: its availability directly inside your editing application.
By integrating advanced 2D and 3D compositing and the industry-leading software DVE technology in a single application, you need learn only one interface to accomplish a wide range of special effects. Many leading plug-ins developed for Adobe¨ After Effects are now supported in Boris FX 6.1: they appear in the Boris FX Filters menu and behave like any other Boris filter.
Boris FX 6.1 supports Adobe Premiere, Apple Final Cut Pro, Canopus Rex/Raptor/Storm Edit, DPS Velocity, Fast studio.DV, IMC Incite, in-sync Speed Razor, Ulead Media Studio Pro, United Media Online Express, Avid Xpress, Avid Xpress DV, Avid Media Composer, Avid Symphony, Discreet edit*, Fast purple, Fast silver, Media 100 i, Media 100 iFINISH, Panasonic DV Edit, newsbyte, and Postbox, and Sony ES-3.
Top, Sparks with Motion Blur. Bottom, a Boris Sphere combined with Stars.
Boris FX 6.1 will help you do more work, better work, with less effort. Many of the new features in FX 5 are in fact aimed directly at increasing your productivity. A very short list of these includes:
RAM Preview and Frame Caching While you work, all frames are automatically loaded into a RAM cache, making previews to RAM remarkably fast. Only changed frames need to be reloaded. RAM previews can take place within a specified range, and at half or quarter rate. Boris FX is the only application that allows previews to be cached to a mixture of RAM and disk for maximum performance.
Audio Both synch and scratch audio tracks are supported. Scrub audio to coordinate effects with music, view waveforms, even animate volume and pan from within RED. There's also an option to play back audio during Preview to RAM.
Smart View dynamically updates views of animated parameters in the timeline.
Slip and Slide of clips on the Boris timeline.
Speed The FX 6.1 interface, including screen redraw times while building effects, now includes Open GL acceleration. FX 6.1 supports dual-processor rendering for both Windows and Macintosh, and Altivec acceleration for G4 Macintoshes.
Keyframer is a stand-alone utility designed to create video effects off-line using any computer, allowing workstation-grade effects to be built on non-workstation computers. The Keyframer has all of the same capabilities of the Boris plug-in, except that the KeyFramer cannot render effects.
When the Keyframer is launched, you see the same user interface as in the plug-in when entered from your host application. The default video images are proxy images that you can use to create effects when your media is unavailable. You can also import still images or movie files, or create solid color or gradient media in the Keyframer.
Keyframer can be duplicated and distributed free of charge and is fully cross-platform: effects created on a Macintosh can be opened and rendered on a PC, and vice versa. Effects rendering requires a host application with the Boris plug-in installed.
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