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  • boris red 5 vs boris blue 2.5 vs boris fx 9.3

    Posted by Hector Herrera on May 9, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    if you purchase boris red 5, do you still have any use for boris blue or boris fx?

    are boris blue and boris fx simply a stripped down version of boris red? thanks.

    Peter Mcauley replied 15 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Peter Mcauley

    May 10, 2011 at 12:47 pm

    Hi,

    Here’s the breakdown:

    FX is a subset of RED
    Graffiti is a subset of RED
    RED can do everything that can be done in FX and Graffiti plus a whole lot more. While all of these applications can use he video card for preview, they all rely on traditional scan-line rendering for the final result. Just like all other compositing and animation applications such as After Effects, Nuke etc. Also, all of these applications are cross platform – Mac and Win.

    Blue is slightly different – it’s really designed for real-time 3D titling and animation. It uses the video card for both preview and the final render. If you need a lot of 3D titling then Blue is a fast way to get results. Plus Blue includes vertex and pixel shaders, which makes possible some pretty cool looking title animation effects. Blue is Windows only.

    I hope this helps.

    Peter.

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