Hi,
Glad to hear that you’re enjoying the application. It’s a very powerful and comprehensive toolset and there are many free tutorials available on our web site at http://www.borisfx.com/tutorials.
So, to prevent the football and brick wall from appearing every time you launch, you need to set a preference. Here’s how:
• launch RED
• go to edit>preferences
• click on the behavior tab
• enable the “Start with Empty Timeline” function
• close the preferences window
• exit RED
• relaunch RED – viola – no more football!
One thing to note is that the football is the only proxy image that is in the application and for this reason, if you create a new shape track, it will show the football. Obviously you can change that immediately by setting the media to solid color etc.
I hope this helps.
Peter.