First time using boris Fx anf getting error

[Frenchie29]

Anybody???? I just want to know how to use Boris Fx with Vegas!!! Doesn’r seem to be the regular way with plugins

[Edward Troxel]

Just click on it so the cursor is over it.

Edward Troxel

[Frenchie29]

Click on what???

how come Boris doesn’t open like other plugins???
this is very frustrating there’s only one cursor and one place to click on the boris effect

thanks

[Jim Prisby]

On your timeline, click on your video event so your cursor is on top of it, then you can open the BorisFX plugin. Note, BorisFX will not play your video in it’s viewer. It will only show you the single frame you have placed your cursor on in the timeline. You have to exit the plugin to see any applied effects in motion while previewing it from the timelime. This is a quirk of Vegas because it does play the video of other NLEs. There are work arounds for this. I suggest you purchase the training DVD, “Complete Training for Boris Red”, which is on sale at the BorisFX online store for $64.99 until 3/5. Boris RED is a combination of BorisFX and Graffiti with a few more filters and features added so most of what is taught will apply to the stand alone BorisFx as well. I also suggest, “RED 3GL – Boris Basics, Tips, & Tricks”. You can purchase this from videoguys.com for $80. The instructor actually shows how to work around the Vegas quirk I mentioned. I have both of these DVDs and another one called, “Boris Red 3GL Traing DVD”. This one is taught at a very fast pace and is much harder to follow as a newbie. I have been trying to learn both BorisFX and Graffiti and these DVDs have helped tremendously.

Good Luck.

[Jay Allen]

I struggled with this for a while until i found you need to apply graffiti and fx as a filter.
I put a text clip on the timeline, delete “sample text”, open the filters from the text clip, select graffiti or fx,
Click on the graffiti or Borisfx logo, The boris interface comes up, select the effect you want, change the duration to what you want, hit apply, now in the vegas timeline and you can preview.
If you try to do the above, but as an fx rather than a filter you wont be able to adjust duration.( I wasted a week on this)

I hope this helps.
Jay Allen

[Frenchie29]

I tried all of the above and still get the same error message I think i will re-install Boris

[Frenchie29]

[Jay Allen] “open the filters from the text clip”

Can’t find that

[Jay Allen]

On the Text clip – to the right side of the clip there are 3 icons, clik on the bottom one to open the filters folder and select Boris grafitti or boris fx.
J.

[Jim Prisby]

Jay,
I’m a little confused about your problem with setting the duration. I have BorisFX 9.1 and I can add an Fx the a video event by clicking and dragging Boris 9 from the video FX tab on to the video event or by clicking on the appropriate icon at the end of the event clip to open the the Video FX window and choosing Boris 9. Boris 9 always defaults to a 1 second duration and doesn’t match the video event duration in Vegas as it does in other NLEs. If you then choose a filter from Boris 9 it will apply a default setting of that filter to the whole clip regardless of the 1 second duration indicated. If you then set the filter to change over time in Boris then you want to make sure the interpolation boxes are set to linear or something else other than constant or hold. You can then change your duration from 1 second to any length you want and the filter will change over that duration only.

Hope this helps

[Frenchie29]

[Jay Allen] “On the Text clip – to the right side of the clip there are 3 icons, clik on the bottom one to open the filters folder and select Boris grafitti or boris fx.”

I don’t see any Boris Fx in that window…. all i see is the regular stuff and heroglyph 9wich is working fine) also in my plugin chooser window Boris Fx 8 and Boris Grafiti 4 has a yellow tab instead of the regular blue aqua one