Peter Mcauley
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Something’s clearly wrong – the arrow should pierce the target. Can you please send me your settings file and I’ll diagnose the problem? Choose save-as and give it a unique (short) name. Then zip the file and sent it to me at peterm@borisfx.com.
Thanks,
Peter.
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Hi,
I’m not quite sure which tutorial you are working with but if you need objects to intersect in 3D space in RED then you need to make sure that both objects are nested in the same 3D container and that the renderer on the 3D Container control panel is set to either Z-Space Composite or 3D Model, with the former being a faster render than the latter. There are other caveats so please let me know if this does not work for you.
Cheers,
Peter.
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Hi,
Here are a couple of pieces of information that may help:
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Hi Tim,
We’ll have a more definitive answer for you pending the results of some in-house testing that we are currently engaged in but for now, the short answer is that if you are using the RED 4 PPC install option then the effects from RED 3 are not going to show up as RED 4 effects and will require RED 3 in order for them to work (or you can run the apple script that we have on our site which enables RED 3 effects to come forward as RED 4 effects), however if you use the RED 4 Universal install option then the RED 3 effects should show up as RED 4 effects.
As I said, we’re still waiting for the results of a couple of tests that we are running, at which point we will post to the list. We should have that complete by tomorrow.
Thanks,
Peter.
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Hi,
The chroma keyers that are included in BLUE and RED are essentially the same thing. The advantage of using BLUE is of course that it’s real time due to the fact that the processing is done on the video card GPU as opposed to the CPU on the motherboard. The advantage of the RED keyer is that there are additional accessories such as the matte choker that assist in cleaning up and refining the matte result. I can only suggest that you download the try and buy versions of both applications and seeing which one works best for your situation.
Cheers,
Peter.
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Hi,
My advice to you would be to wait until the next release of FCP before making the upgrade to RED, as transitions are not working in the latest version combination of FCP (5.1.4) / RED (4.1). The problem is not on the Boris side but on Apple’s – they have told us that the problem has been fixed and that the fix for this will be included in the next upcoming major release of FCP. Once you upgrade old projects will come forward without error.
I hope this helps.
Cheers,
Peter.
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Hi,
I posed this question that you have to engineering and they tell me that the icons don’t show up from legacy projects because the older version of the software is not on the system and the newer version of the software for some reason can’t read the icon type. It’s unclear to me whether or not this will be fixed but I’d like to know if there are others that are also experiencing this phenomena. I’ll ask around engineering some more to see if it’s something that we can fix in an upcoming point release.
Cheers,
Peter.
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Our support team told me that they are currently working with you on resolving the issue.
Cheers,
Peter.
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Hi,
We’re going to take a look this afternoon to see if this is something that we can reproduce in our labs. I’ll let you know what we discover after we complete the test process.
Cheers,
Peter.
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Yes, that’s correct – and that would explain why you are having problems. The current revision for Avid Xpress is I think 5.6 so you would have to upgrade the host in order for RED 4 to work. Sorry.
Cheers,
Peter.