BorisFX for dummies

vitalforces wrote on 8/28/2004, 6:59 AM
I apologize for giving up looking for the answer to this on the Boris website and the user manual, but since Boris FX 7 is advertised as a good Vegas plug-in I hope it's not too far OT. I am using the demo of FX 7 (I need a snow effect for a digital feature I'm editing on Vegas 5) and debating whether to pay the $199 for it, but when I load about 5 minutes of an avi file, the timeline will only display 2 seconds of it, and I can't figure out how to make the damn file play--I can overlay the snow effect but all I get is moving snow over the first frame of the video. There is a button which purportedly will "show entire timeline," but nothing happens when I click on it.

Can anyone help me troubleshoot this?

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Spot|DSE wrote on 8/28/2004, 8:48 AM
Where is your RAM index set to in Vegas? Should be at zero. Project duration set to?
Have you looked at http://www.borisfx.com/timscorner/index.php#fx for some tips?
We'll shortly have a Boris Red/FX/Grafitti book out in the VASST book series, should be here in another 2 weeks. http://www.vasst.com/printproducts/bookmenu.htm

There is a great tutorial here as well, I realize that's not quite what you were looking for, but it's a tutorial that gets you through some very cool tweaks.
http://www.digitalproducer.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=24700
winrockpost wrote on 8/28/2004, 9:55 AM
Change duration in Boris lower left box from 1.0 second to whatever the length of the clip is. Play the clip from the composite window in the upper right box. If the version you have offers the stand alone I would use that instead of as a vegas plug.
good luck
vitalforces wrote on 8/28/2004, 10:17 AM
Thanx to both. The duration box worked of course, duh. Just as a follow-up to be sure I'm looking at normal behavior: When I first play the clip it seems to be rendering a proxy file, frame by frame, of the whole clip. Right? After than it appear to play normally.

And yes, I'm definitely in line for any reference book that makes Boris FX easier to use. My little company has shot a WWII love story on a DVX100 in 24p and we're editing both picture and sound on Vegas 5--there's scenes needing some snow, some rain, a little "alpha" snow on the ground, and an opening scene of night bombers where the bombardier's-eye view is down at distant explosions through moving clouds--can't wait to see if Boris FX measures up.
winrockpost wrote on 8/28/2004, 10:44 AM
........When I first play the clip it seems to be rendering a proxy file, frame by frame, of the whole clip. Right?
Bloody well right!
vitalforces wrote on 8/28/2004, 10:52 AM
--Aaand the snow is falling. Thanx again.