great find, yoo hoo

blk_diesel wrote on 2/1/2005, 6:31 AM
I bought this computer at an office auction for $350.00. It came with a celeron 1.8 ghz cpu, 256 megs of memory, 120 gig hd and a top of the line video card. When I got it home to check it out, I discovered that it had v4 installed(I already have it) Avid and check this out, Boris Red 3.0 and Boris FX 7. I opened Boris up, but when I saw the interface, thought I was reading something in another language, do anyone here use it? I don't know anything about it except that it's supposed to be a big time titler.

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busterkeaton wrote on 2/1/2005, 7:06 AM
http://www.borisfx.com/html/products/RED/tour_21/toc.html

Here's a list of video tutorials. It's way more than just tites. Check out keying, 3D, spline brushes and Vector paint. You will probably want to get a Boris Red training product if you are going to keep it. It's not an easy learning curve.

Is it a real licensed copy of RED and not a demo? It seems very, very odd that they would put that on a Celeron computer. You may have just got very, very lucky.
busterkeaton wrote on 2/1/2005, 7:19 AM
Here's a cool tutorial on rotoscoping in RED.


Here's some more great tutorials by the same author


PS. Yoo-Hoo is the delicious chocolate drink. Woo-hoo is what Homer yells when he finds a sandwhich behind the couch.

Mandk wrote on 2/1/2005, 7:29 AM
Chris also has a book and a video tutorial available. Book through Vaast and video through Class on Demand.

I had worked with boris FX and graffitti for a few months but did not understand it until I saw Chris do a few things on his video. An example you can see really explains a lot more than the 800 page manual that comes with the program.

His book is also an excellent reference although I learn better watching.

Good luck with the computer you saved a lot more than the $350 you spent.

Chienworks wrote on 2/1/2005, 8:24 AM
Be careful though. Just because you bought the computer doesn't mean you bought the licenses for the software installed on it. If the seller didn't surrender the license codes (and all originals and copies of the discs), you don't have permission to use the software! I hate to say it, but probably the honorable thing to do at this point is to format the drive and forget there was ever anything on it.
blk_diesel wrote on 2/1/2005, 11:25 AM
Well I'm not going to format it. It's not a demo, it's licensed to the business that was auctioning the computer. Thanks to all who pointed me to tutorials. In the end, I may never use it, but I'm going to fiddle around with it just see what I can do. At this stage, I'm just a hack and I'm happy with the DVDA menu interface.