Boris RedGL and AEX plugs & VV

filmy wrote on 11/2/2003, 11:49 PM

Subject sort of says it all...here is the run down:

I D/L the demo of Boris RedGL and installed it. Now in the stand alone demo I can get the After Effects plug-ins to come up however in the VV plug-in only the default, included, filters are available. Is this just me or is anyone getting this? (or not getting this as it were)

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PAW wrote on 11/5/2003, 3:01 PM

Fair comment, double edged sword as well.

RED is expensive so you would only buy it if you needed it.

The other edge of the sword is...

3D Studio, Steadyhand, After Effects and other apps we have bought on the way plus the upgrades at different times?

If you add those up RED is not that expensive and is the only one available as a plugin to Vegas :-)

Back to the other edge - you will have all the others and layed out the cash already, so the argument only works for a new user :-(

how are you getting on with the RED demo purely from a functionality point of view

PAW

BillyBoy wrote on 11/5/2003, 4:42 PM

I've resisted using it too much or I probably will buy it. <wink>

Cheesehole wrote on 11/5/2003, 6:32 PM

>>> If Photoshop did all the things the hundreds of plug in developed for do, it would probably cost a couple thousand dollars and very few people would purchase it.

That's exactly the model 3dsmax has grown up on. With every new version that comes out it seems they integrate the most useful 3rd party plug-ins as built in features. They tame the bloat with clever architecture and innovative new interface elements with each new version, placing more and more tools and features within reach, not buried in menus. It's expensive as a result, but it's practically the standard. So the model can work. It's all about having good architecture and interface design whether an app feels bloated or slick.

btw - it seems you don't have the latest version of Opera, because it has a built it news-reader, email client, Flash, Javascript (much like IE's engine), and plays embedded media like QT and WM. And the funny part is, the download binary is *smaller* than the previous version! It doesn't seem to be quite as fast as the previous version though. The interface can get hung up on a lot of tasks.

BillyBoy wrote on 11/5/2003, 7:02 PM

I guess not. Last time I checked out Opera was about 5 years ago. It then was tooted as a sleek, very fast browser devoid of most bells and whistles. Oh well... I wasn't about to pay for a browser anyhow.

Cheesehole wrote on 11/7/2003, 1:19 AM

But you can make web pages look like a they're running on a Commodore 64! That's gotta be worth something! ;)