[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Max,

Glad that helped. I’ve responded to your other post – please let me know if any of it is unclear.

Cheers,

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Max,

There are a couple of ways to achieve that look. Here’s one (very easy) way:

• create the 6 second text effect
• open the keyframe palette window and disable Keep Keyframe Time
• change the duration length of the timeline from 6 seconds to 30 seconds
• add a 3D plane shape and set the media to the movie onto which you want to overlay the text

So now you have the 6 second title over the 30 second clip

• select the title shape track and nest (Precomp) it by clicking on the P button in the button array (you can also select the track and select a Precomp from the tracks pulldown menu)
• click on the arrow to twirl up the Precomp
• deselect all tracks by clicking on an empty area beneath the tracks in the timeline
• go to to Filters>Time>BCC Looper
• enable the “Use Loop Layer Track” function in the filter
• twirl down the filter and drag the Precomp onto the Loop Layer
• click the eyeball on the media sub-track of the looper filter to disable the proxy media for this filter
• set the loop length to 180 (6 seconds at 30 FPS)
• drag through the timeline to preview the effect

Please let me know how that works for you.

Thanks,

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

Point well taken.

It won’t be an easy feature to implement but I’ll add it to the list.

Thanks,

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Steve,

Here’s my take on the situation.

Because you’re using computer generated text, you will not have any control over the pair kerning and therefore cannot push the 1 away from the other characters. What you can do though is to eliminate the leading 1 from the title and use the tracking controls to even out the space between the remaining numbers. Then you can add a second text track above the numbers, set the number 1 and position this in front of the other 3 numbers.

If this was not computer generated text you would be able to use the pair kerning function in conjunction with the tracking function to do exactly what you have in mind without the need for the extra steps.

I hope this helps.

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Max,

Glad to hear that you’ve been enjoying the Steve Oakley transitions that ship with the RED Keyframe Library. Because RED features a 100 percent non-destructive workflow, you can change the duration of any element from the Library to suit the project that you are working on. To do this you need to become familiar with the Keep Keyframe Time feature in RED. This feature, when enabled, will maintain the timing of the Library composition regardless of the project that you use it in. For instance if you have a 2 second Library transition that you import into a 10 second project, if you have Keep Keyframe Time enabled, the transition will keep it’s 2 second duration. However, if you disengage this function, the imported transition comp will automatically become stretched from 2 seconds to 10 seconds to fit the length of the project. You control the status of this feature in the Keyframe Palette window. For what you are doing, you should disable this feature.

To replace the media elements in any preset, just click on the media icon and select a replacement image, clip etc.

Boris RED can be used in standalone mode, like other compositing solutions, or it can be used as a plug-in within the host environment. You get both options when you install the product.

To use the Light Zoom as a transition effect you simply add a few keyframes to control the intensity of the light over the region of transition. It’s not difficult at all once you understand the basic foundations of the application and like all other applications in the world, this one requires a little bit of study to understand the interface. The time spend learning how to use this product is well worth it in the end as the effects that you can generate with RED are above and beyond the capabilities of any simple filter package. There are tutorials available on our web site (www.borisfx.com/tutorials) as well as for purchase training DVDs.

I hope this helps.

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Fred,

You might want to download the BCC AVX version of the filter – you can get it from here:

borisfx.com/downloads

Then you register, download the filters, install the product and relaunch the Avid. The BCC Corner Pin filter will then appear as expected. This filter will operate for 2 weeks without a watermark, after which it will render with an X. At any time, you can purchase a key for this software to remove the X watermark.

Cheers,

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi,

The reason the filters were in the screenshot is because they are from the BCC AVX filter set, not the RED (AvidFX) filter set. You can still use the corner pin filter by applying AvidFX to the clip, entering the AvidFX interface, and then selecting the corner pin filter from within AvidFX.

I hope this helps.

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi,

Congratulations on your purchase, however RED 3 does not work with FCP 6 … you’ll have to upgrade to RED 4 for that compatibility. You can still download the trial version of RED 4 from the BorisFX web site (www.borisfx.com/downloads) and use it for two weeks, after which period the software will watermark all renders with an X. After you purchase the unlock code the X disappears.

Cheers,

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Mark,

Yeah, I meant to respond to the general stability post but I just wasn’t sure how to approach the question. You see, we expect that all of the software that we release is good and that there are no problems with instability – once we hear reports of such we immediately go to work on a fix and release a point update. So I guess the answer is that you should expect the software to perform well and if there are issues, as you mentioned, just send us an email and we’ll investigate the situation.

Thanks for using our products and also for hanging in there with us while we fixed the problem that you discovered with regard to clip length.

Cheers,

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

Glad that helped David. Feel free to post any questions you may have regarding use of the software and I’ll help out whenever I can. Just like everything else, there’s a bit of a learning curve but once you get past that it’s all pretty much clear sailing.

Cheers,

Peter.