Peter Mcauley
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As far as Graffiti and FX are concerned, the transition to 64 bit Vista should be seamless and I would anticipate no problems as a result of the change.
Cheers,
Peter.
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Hmmm … well if the problem is not apparent in RED 4 then it could be an issue that we fixed with RED 3 and certain types of fonts. RED 3 is so old now that I couldn’t tell you if this is indeed the case though.
P.
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Hi Steve,
Have you tried to see if the RED standalone has the same problem with the font or whether this is isolated to when using RED within the host?
This type of problem might warrant an email to support to see if they have heard of the issue before. You can contact them here: support@borisfx.com.
Cheers,
Peter.
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Hi Tim,
You are almost there.
• Apply the filter to the topmost clip in the timeline (this ensures that the cube is always on top of the other layers). This can be a blank slug or a piece of video.
• Set the Faces pop-up to Independent (you have already done that)
• Then pull the media that you wish to appear on each independent face to the desired clip from the timeline. The clips must be available in a stack beneath the filter layer. The timeline stack should be … the filtered layer on top of (up to) 6 other media layers.
• make sure that you follow the pop-ups – there is a separate pop-up for each face of the cube and you need to set the media for each cube in each of these pop-ups.I hope this helps.
Peter.
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They are indeed the current versions of the software. I suggest that you send an email to the support group at support@borisx.com explaining the situation. They should be able to resolve this issue for you.
Cheers,
Peter.
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Hi Curt,
Please send me a simplified FCP project where you see this happening and I’ll take a look at it for you. You can send that to me at peterm@borisfx.com.
Cheers,
Peter.
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Hi,
Are you using the latest version of Graffiti and FX?
Thanks,
Peter.
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Hi,
Can you please send us a screenshot of the Avid UI where you have the SD clip in the HD sequence before you apply the UpRez filter? You can send that to me at peterm@borisfx.com.
Thanks,
Peter.
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Hi,
I copied this from the help page that I wrote for this filter, which you can access by clicking the “Launch Help File” button at the top of the filter controls.
I hope this helps.
Peter.
We’ll start by creating an HDTV 1920 x 1080 project. Into this new project, we’ll import an SD 720 x 480 clip, and drag the clip into the timeline. It is important to import the media at it’s native size, so you should click on the options button and select the “Maintain, non-square” option from the Avid Import Settings window. Select the clip in the timeline, then in the Avid plug-ins window click on the BCC Distortion and Perspective group and then drag the BCC UpRez filter onto the clip.
In the UpRez filter go to the source parameter group and set the source pixel aspect ratio to Square Pixels and set the Source Size to NTSC D1. Next we go to the transform parameter group in the UpRez filter. Click on the disclosure triangle to reveal the parmeters within this group and set the framing pop-up to Fill Frame. The SD image now fills the HD frame.
By default, the filter is set to use an algorithm that was designed to take the least amount of time to render while still offering an improved image result over the host transform scale alone, however the sharpening value defaults to 0 so no additional image sharpening will occur until we enter a higher value in the sharpening parameter. Set the Sharpening parameter to 50 percent and review the image result. Although this result is indeed better than the host scale result, the UpRez filter can deliver more image detail and we’ll enhance it further by selecting the Magic Sharp algorithm from the Filter pop-up menu. Observe that now the image appears much clearer and closer to the original untransformed clip.
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Hi,
Did you go to the BorisFX web site? There are lots of free tutorials up there …
14 on this page (click on the Graffiti link): https://www.borisfx.com/tutorials/#null
and 36 on this page (click on the RED link – although because this is for RED some of these may not be applicable to Graffiti) https://www.borisfx.com/tutorials/#null
and there are training DVD’s available here:
https://www.borisfx.com/training/dvd.php
I hope this helps.
Peter.