• Boris FX

  Boris Red sluggish

  Posted by Jeremy Doyle on April 29, 2005 at 4:01 pm

  I’ve just started using red the last couple of days in FCP and I’ve found it to be brutally slow to work in. Especially the 3-D text. I make one little move and I get a spinning beach ball for 10-15 seconds. It shouldn’t work this way should it?

  dual 2 g5
  4 gig ram
  kona 2

  Any thoughts on what settings I have screwed up? By the way BCC works just fine its only Red that I’m having problems with.

  Jeremy Doyle replied 21 years ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Stephen L. noe

  April 29, 2005 at 4:14 pm

  Try going into your preferences and selecting software render instead of the default OpenGL. It may speed it up.
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  Steve Pankow

  May 1, 2005 at 3:14 am

  Switching to half or quarter resolution while you’re doing basic stuff also helps with operating speed.
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  Jeremy Doyle

  May 2, 2005 at 1:31 pm

  I’m already working in quarter resolution. But even when I’m outside of boris in my FCP timeline it will start a spinning ball when I try to scroll through it. The update is really slow.
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  Jeremy Doyle

  May 2, 2005 at 1:57 pm

  So I have discovered that when I use Boris as a stand alone it works as I think that it probably should. When I use Red as plug in for FCP it is significantly slower.

  2 3-D type layers 1hr 4 mins as a plug in for FCP. 5 minutes in Red stand alone. Rendering as animation codec with alpha.

  What do I need to do in FCP to make it work?

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