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Vivek Narayan ~ Boris Continuum Complete AVX 5: Unleash Your Avid!
Boris Yamnitsky ~ FCP Titling with Boris: Old-fashioned LED Animation
Marco Solorio ~ Interlacing Progressive Footage
Vivek Narayan ~ Boris Red Tread Secrets
John Lafauce Jr. ~ Using Boris Red 4 Library Browser Effect to Create Broadcast-Worthy News Stories
John Lafauce Jr. ~ Exploring Boris Reds new Motion Path filter
Tim Johnson ~ Class on Demand: Complete Training for Boris Continuum Complete 4
John Lafauce Jr. ~ Keeping Corner Pin Compositing inside Avid with the help of Boris Continuum Complete AVX 4
Timothy Allen ~ NASA Blasts Off with Boris RED
Mark Harvey ~ Boris RED 2.1 -- broadcast designer Mark Harvey reports

	Timothy Allen view bio Boris FX NASA Blasts Off with Boris RED Three Emmy Awards. Four Telly Awards. Three Axiem Awards. Two Communicator Awards of Distinction. Two first place awards in the US International Film and Video Festival. These are just a few of the accolades bestowed on the Video Services Team at NASA's Langley Research Center for productions using Boris RED for their effects, transitions and titling. ''Boris RED has raised the quality level of our productions more than any other product that we used,'' says Timothy J. Allen, who worked on the creation of these projects before recently transferring to the Johnson Space Center in Houston. ''Looking cool adds value, and we can get there faster and easier with Boris RED than with any other tool we use.'' Review back to top

	Rick Gerard view bio Adobe After Effects Faking An Iris: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sphere! Rick Gerard explores some methods of simulating a camera lens. In this tutorial, Rick uses the Boris Sphere Plug-In for After Effects. Tutorial back to top

	Mark Harvey view bio Boris FX Boris RED 2.1 -- broadcast designer Mark Harvey reports Those of you who know editor and fx artist, Mark Harvey, know that he's a big fan of Boris Red. He's used the program for a number of years and has co-hosted the Boris FX forum at Creativecow since day one along with Philip Hodgetts. So when he heard that Borisfx and Philip had joined forces to create a long awaited training DVD for Boris RED, Mark jumped at the chance to take a look at it. Here's his report. Review Boris FX Creating the Aurora Borealis In Boris Red 2.1 This tutorial is in response to a query posted on the Borisfx forum at the COW. Creativecow leader, Mark Harvey decided to go ahead and try and recreate the northern lights, one of nature's most beautiful phenomena. Follow along as he demonstrates how to create the project using only filters that ship with Red 2.1. (No 3rd party plug-ins needed.) Tutorial Boris FX Boris RED 2.1 -- broadcast designer Mark Harvey reports In this article, Mark Harvey explores the latest version of Boris Red, version 2.1. Mark opens by stating that no matter what you know about Boris Red, throw it out because this is a whole new Red -- far beyond anything that Boris & Company have ever released before. In this review, Mark Harvey explains the ins and outs of these new features and why they make this such an important upgrade for Red users. Review back to top

	Tim Johnson view bio Boris FX Class on Demand: Complete Training for Boris Continuum Complete 4 Over the years, some of the most-used After Effects plug-ins on my computer have come from Boris. Recently, Boris Continuum Complete 4.0 came out. Hot on its heels was Class on Demand's latest training on Boris: "Complete Training for Boris Continuum Complete 4," --designed specifically to get people up to speed on those filters. In this article, CreativeCOW's Tim Johnson takes a look at the training and concludes that this training from Class on Demand is a solid training DVD with a couple of nice extras. Review back to top

	John Lafauce Jr. view bio Boris FX Using Boris Red 4 Library Browser Effect to Create Broadcast-Worthy News Stories This tutorial by John Lafauce demonstrates how to apply and customize a new, pre-made lower third graphic from Boris  extensive selection of Keyframe Library Effects. Tutorial Boris FX Exploring Boris Reds new Motion Path filter This tutorial by John Lafauce demonstrates how to easily animate and fly a computer generated navy jet using the Boris Red 4.0 Motion Path filter. Tutorial AVID Editing Keeping Corner Pin Compositing inside Avid with the help of Boris Continuum Complete AVX 4 This all-encompassing tutorial from CreativeCOW contributing editor, John Lafauce introduces you to the new Corner Pin filter in version 4.0 of Boris Continuum Complete AVX (BCC AVX4). Several of Corner Pin's powerful features will be demonstrated, and other BCC AVX filters will be used to help create an integrated, realistic composite. This compositing primer will place emphasis on workflow and techniques. Tutorial back to top

	Kurt Murphy view bio Broadcast Design Preparing a News Open: Introducing the text: Local Coverage Join noted broadcast designer Kurt Murphy as he continues his exploration of the process of re-creating the on-air identity of a local broadcast affiliate in the Pacific Northwest area of the United States. In part five of the series, Kurt adds some text to his sequence. Tutorial back to top

	Vivek Narayan view bio AVID Editing Boris Continuum Complete AVX 5: Unleash Your Avid! Emmy Award-winning editor Vivek Narayan takes a closer look at the latest version of Boris Continuum Complete, a comprehensive set of filters and effects for leading NLEs as well as After Effects. Although it works largely the same in all hosts, Vik digs deepest into BCC operating inside Avid. He finds that the 180 filters here more than give others a run for their money: it beats out some of the industry's favorites. See why he calls buying BCC AVX 5 "a no-brainer." Review Boris FX Boris Red Tread Secrets Longtime COW member Vivek Narayan is the Investigative & Special Projects Editor KNXV/ ABC 15. This project won Vik an Emmy for Editing and, an Emmy for Investigative Report at the 2006 Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards. To create it, he used Boris Red plugged into his Avid Xpress Meridien -- but you can do the same with any of Boris Red's host NLEs. Tutorial back to top

	Tim Rice view bio Boris FX Super Easy 3D logo tutorial in Red 2.1 Tim Rice demonstrates a quick, easy method to turn logos into 3D logos using a simple jpeg and Boris Red 2.1. This comes from a thread Tim posted in the Boris COW about the amazing super powers of RED. Tutorial back to top

	Marco Solorio view bio Adobe After Effects Interlacing Progressive Footage We've all heard of de-interlacing footage, but what about re-interlacing? Marco Solorio of OneRiver Media shows us how -- and why -- to create interlaced footage from a progressive source. The results are picture perfect! Tutorial back to top

	Tim Wilson view bio Boris FX Real Title Animation with Boris Tim Wilson demonstrates how easy real title animation is using Boris RED's Type On Feature. Tutorial back to top

	Boris Yamnitsky view bio Apple Final Cut Pro FCP Titling with Boris: Old-fashioned LED Animation Yes! There's really a Boris! And he really wrote this tutorial for you. It takes advantage of the free Boris FX title generators included with Final Cut Pro, with a little help from the Boris Continuum Complete video effects plug-ins, for titling power you might not known you had available inside FCP. Tutorial