Media 100 or FCP

[Nicholas Bierzonski]

Anything is possible. Maybe it was the setup? Thanks to everyone for your help and suggestions.

-Nicholas Bierzonski
Editor/DVD Author/Java Boy
http://www.finalfocusvideo.com

[Andrew Mehta]

Trying to sound like he knows about Red in OSX, by talking about Boris FX in OS9.

I use Boris FX and Graffeti tonnes because it speeds up my workflow far more than exporting to After Effects and then reimporting, etc, but I often curse the versions I have, for just being arse. For instance, have a 3D sphere, and some 3D text – can you make the text spin around the back of the sphere? No. It just spins in a circle infront of the sphere. Doh!
Set up some wedges/starbursts extending from the centre of the sphere.
Put it all in a 3D container, because you want to move it left or right or something, suddenly everything changes, as all the spin and tumble attributes look different when its in a different position, so you have to go and figure out the z pivot crap (which should theoretically work, but doesn’t in practise), or you have you do some maths to enter new spin and tumble parameters that compensate for the X and Y value shift. Good grief.
That’s why I think Boris FX software is an arse.
But I’m still using it right this minute actually, as although its crudeness can make sophisticated effects a pain in the arse, it’s still quicker than exporting a M100 clip or timeline to a different program, and then reimporting it in. The integration with M100 is top notch. And if I don’t like how it came out, I just double click my composition clip in the timeline and make my adjustments.

I have Adobe After Effects, and believe it’s much better than the Boris products. But since discovering the Boris products (and the fact they can use After Effects filters) I’ve barely used After Effects at all, as it’s so convenient having Boris as a plugin in M100, it always feels like you’re saving time, even if it can be a hassle in other ways, if you’re trying to do something really complex with what’s essentially quite a simple tool.

But hey – put this in perspective:
I’ve been talking about Boris FX 6.1 vs After Effects 5 both in OS9.
I’m sure both Boris Red and After Effects have moved on a bit since then!!!
Well – I should hope(!).
I used my Grafetti 1.x today in Media100i 7.5, and was absolutely shocked I couldn’t put my text in a rectangle with rounded corners. Wtf? That’s one of the most basic features of DTP. Why isn’t it in my titling software? Only square corners were possible, unless I made a rounded corner image file and imported it. =P Pappity pap.

Anyway, I’m oldskool as you can tell. ^_^.

[Nicholas Bierzonski]

Interesting. Thanks for the informative post. I sure do appreciate it!

-Nicholas Bierzonski
Editor/DVD Author/Java Boy
http://www.finalfocusvideo.com