Is there a problem with Boris Red and the new ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB Graphics Card?

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi,

While we do our best to keep up with the latest cards and drivers from ATI and Nvidia, and are unaware of any problems or conflicts with the current version of RED (4.3.2), you are using RED 3, which is several years old at this stage. I would like to suggest that you download RED 4.3.2 and see if this works better for you.

Please bear in mind that RED 3 was never designed to be used on the current line of MacPro systems, as the Intel based Macs were not in production at that time. RED 3 was designed for the current systems at the time of the RED 3 release, which was on the Apple platform the PowerPC chip set with up to and including Mac OS 10.4.

Cheers,

Peter.

[Michael Allen]

Sorry, I meant RED 4.3.2 By the way, I am not having problems now. However, I am going to update to a new macpro soon and had read a post where someone thought the 4870 was giving them problems with Red. If that were the case I might consider getting a different card in the new mac that I am about to order.

So I guess the answer to my question is that there are no known issues.

I do have one more question. In the new version of FCP and Red, is there better integration. Currently, I have to apply boris in FCP, park the cti over the area where I want a transition, then access options (i think) in the viewer window to launch boris to find a transition.

I guess, I am asking if there is a way to apply boris filters and/or transitions from within FCP without having to launch boris every time. I am just curious because that is the only way I know how to accomplish this with the older system I have now. I am hoping there might be some improvements with the new version or FCP and Red 4.3.2

Mike

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi,

So regarding the generation of Boris transitions in FCP … if you’re using RED then the workflow that you describe remains the only option. If you’re using BCC, which uses the FCP interface, then you (obviously) don’t need to launch another application to customize the transition. We’re also working on some new transitions (BCE) that will be included in the BCC 6 FxPlug release that you might enjoy using. You can download and try the public beta version of this software for free. It is available on our website here https://www.borisfx.com/fxplug_public_beta.php

Cheers,

Peter.