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Boris FX takes ed iting video on the desktop to a new dimension with Boris FX 4.1
How often do you get to know a product on a first-name basis? Although the name Boris might suggest a bit of villainy, particularly for those who grew up watching Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons on the television, Boris FX 4.1 has been developed with an attention to the needs of the desktop editor. And this latest version (4.1) has been developed with particular attention to the program's user-friendliness.
The original Boris was conceived as an emulation of the traditional on-line DVE for use with Adobe Premiere and the Media 100, which was then a Data Translation product. Boris FX is no longer your parents' DVE. Today, Boris FX is overflowing with features that will round out the capabilities of most current nonlinear editing systems. In fact, Boris FX has been designed to work seamlessly with more than a dozen different host applications - from in:sync's SpeedRazor to Avid's Symphony - at all levels.
I am still working with my trusty Media 100 XS, and so the following discussion of this latest version will be based from this point of view, and you need to keep in mind that the features of Boris FX are consistent across both platforms and applications.
The foremost reason I purchased the Boris FX program probably was because it increased the number of video tracks available to the Media 100 from four (one effects, one graphics, and two video tracks) to a nearly unlimited number of tracks. Though this is still a very enticing feature, Boris FX has upped the ante and now functions much like a smaller version of AfterEffects that operates inside its host application.
With its new interface, Boris FX will feel familiar to Adobe AfterEffects users, but at the same time it uses...