Intro to discussion:
I've had Vegas 5 loaded and functioning on a Dell 8400, 2 GigHz, 1 Gig RAM, 120 Gig HD computer for almost 1 year. V5 works well with this configuration, although if I try to open it too soon after closing Photoshop 2 or Toon Boom Studios, the V5 invariably crashes while trying to open. A reasonably small irritation; since I don't know how to fix it I work around it.
Just got Boris Red because I wanted the oft-raved-over titling capabilities and the ability to design and implement my own VideoFX and transtions.
Now that I have Red, I'm a little bit intimidated. It's been slow going but I got through the first Boris tutorial exercise alive and still sane. I then figured out how to make the Boris Red GL choice appear in Vegas's VideoFX menu and transitions menu. I figured out how to launch Boris Red from within Vegas, but right about there I became somewhat overwhelmed. The interface between V5 and Boris Red is not intuitive (not yet, at least!) and the two pages of Boris documentation relevant to Vegas users is, while helpful, not enough. Somebody with sufficient experience might be able to make a little money by writing some good tutorials directed specifically at the Vegas-Boris Red user.
Rather than ask a bunch of specific techno-questions in my first post on this subject, I'd like to first try to elicit general experience and/or advice from the dedicated Vegas (3, 4, or 5) users who also use Boris Red. I know there must be some folks who use this combo enthusiastically because a search of the site turned up lots of fairly specific technical discussion. Boris Red's own forum is not very active and is spread over the needs of ~20 different NLE users--not too helpful to those of us who have made the Vegas choice and now the Vegas-Boris Red choice.
Hoping to hear from you.
Best regards,
Lee
I've had Vegas 5 loaded and functioning on a Dell 8400, 2 GigHz, 1 Gig RAM, 120 Gig HD computer for almost 1 year. V5 works well with this configuration, although if I try to open it too soon after closing Photoshop 2 or Toon Boom Studios, the V5 invariably crashes while trying to open. A reasonably small irritation; since I don't know how to fix it I work around it.
Just got Boris Red because I wanted the oft-raved-over titling capabilities and the ability to design and implement my own VideoFX and transtions.
Now that I have Red, I'm a little bit intimidated. It's been slow going but I got through the first Boris tutorial exercise alive and still sane. I then figured out how to make the Boris Red GL choice appear in Vegas's VideoFX menu and transitions menu. I figured out how to launch Boris Red from within Vegas, but right about there I became somewhat overwhelmed. The interface between V5 and Boris Red is not intuitive (not yet, at least!) and the two pages of Boris documentation relevant to Vegas users is, while helpful, not enough. Somebody with sufficient experience might be able to make a little money by writing some good tutorials directed specifically at the Vegas-Boris Red user.
Rather than ask a bunch of specific techno-questions in my first post on this subject, I'd like to first try to elicit general experience and/or advice from the dedicated Vegas (3, 4, or 5) users who also use Boris Red. I know there must be some folks who use this combo enthusiastically because a search of the site turned up lots of fairly specific technical discussion. Boris Red's own forum is not very active and is spread over the needs of ~20 different NLE users--not too helpful to those of us who have made the Vegas choice and now the Vegas-Boris Red choice.
Hoping to hear from you.
Best regards,
Lee