Boris Blue is now available as an effect that can be applied directly within Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects timelines.
This new integration lets Adobe CS3 users take advantage of Blue's great-looking 3D effects in their projects. Blue's 3D effects include high quality, fast-rendered 3D titles, 3D model import, particle effects, transitions, and more. In Premiere Pro, Boris Blue is available as a filter and as a single track transition effect; Blue can also be used to generate a composition clip. In After Effects, Blue is available as an After Effects filter - capable of utilizing up to seven tracks from the After Effects time-line as video inputs. Boris Blue continues to be available as a standalone application and as an Avid AVX plug-in for Windows XP.
Significant new features in version 2.5
- Plugin Integration for Windows Avid and Adobe systems
- Blue 2.5 can be used as an Avid or Adobe plugin on Windows XP systems
- Plugin has all the same effect features as the standalone including 2D and 3D text, imported 3D models, powerful particle emitters and more ; all available within Avid
- Fast and convenient single track transitions, titles, animated backgrounds and other graphic elements right in the Avid timeline
- Single or multi-input filter, realtime preview, effects and transitions
- Save custom Blue effects to Avid bins for quick and easy re-use
- using the Blue plugin avoids export / import workflow, simplifies offline / online workflow
- Now supports ATI based as well as NVIDIA based graphics boards
More Tools for Faster and Easier Composition of Sophisticated 3D Effects
- Split Views in Comp Window
- Including orthographic views for easier alignment of objects in 3D space
- Improved 3D interactors for 3D objects and Lights
- 3D interactors for Cameras
- A camera can be set to stay focused on a particular object or 3D point in the scene while moving through 3D space
- Cameras and lights can be placed and animated along on a user-defined bezier path
- Built-in 3D Transformations for Motion Path filter
New 3D Deformers
- Curl
- Flatten
- Mesh Chaos
- Mesh Shatter
- Model Displacer
- Pre-Transform
- Pulse
- Slice-Stretch
- Un-Deform
New Image Processor Effects
- Film Grain
- Film Process
- Glow Edge
- Glow Light
- Glow Light Replace Color
- Glow Remove Color
- Mist
Continuum OpenGL filters included
- Glare
- Glint
- Glitter
- LED
- Lens Flare
- Lens Flare Advanced
- Prism
- Scanline
- Damaged TV
- Lightning
Boris BLUE 2.5 System Requirements and Setup
BLUE 2.5 requires Microsoft WINDOWS XP SP 2 running on an Intel Pentium IV or AMD Athlon or higher processor, with Apple Quicktime version 6.5 or higher installed. Quicktime software is not included with the Blue installer. If necesssary, Quicktime can be downloaded for free at apple.com ; www.apple.com/quicktime/
Graphics Boards and Drivers
- BLUE 2.5 requires one of the following NVIDIA or ATI based graphics boards:
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500, 3450, 3500, 3700, 4500, 5500, 4600, 5600
- NVIDIA GeForce 6800, 7800, 7900, 7950, 8600, 8800
- ATI FireGL V3300 and up, V5200 and up, V7200 and up, V8600 and up
- ATI Radeon x1900, x1950
When using an NVIDIA graphics board, BLUE 2.5 requires one of the following NVIDIA graphics drivers:
Quadro FX board drivers
- NVIDIA driver version 91.85 - www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_91.85
- NVIDIA driver version 169.61 - www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_169.61
GeForce board drivers
NVIDIA driver version 169.21 - www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_169.21
When using an ATI graphics board, BLUE 2.5 requires one of the following ATI graphics drivers:
FireGL board drivers
Catalyst version 8.44 http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/previous/firegl/fireglv-8-44-xp.html
Radeon board drivers
Catalyst version 8.2 http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/previous/radeon/radeonxip-cat82-xp.html
Avid Support
The BLUE 2.5 AVX plugin is supported for running on the following Avid release versions:
- Avid Media Composer 2.7 or later
- Avid Xpress Pro 5.7 or later
- Avid Newscutter 6.7 or later
Adobe Support
The BLUE 2.5 product includes plugins supported for running on the following Adobe product versions:
- Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 (Premiere Pro 3.1)
- Adobe After Effects CS3 (AE 8)
NOTE: like the Blue 2.5 standalone application, the Blue plugins are also subject to the Windows XP, Quicktime, and Graphics board/driver requirements listed previously
NOTE: The current version of the Blue 2.5 Avid AVX plugin does not support Avid Symphony Nitris at this time. Check back for updates on any changes to Blue requirements (including status Symphony Nitris support)
DualView display mode on a dual monitor NVIDIA based configuration
To run using the DualView display mode on a dual monitor configuration, BLUE 2.5 (standalone or plugin) requires the following NVIDIA driver Performance and Quality settings:
- nView Display set to DualView
- Hardware Acceleration set to Single Display mode
- Unified Back Buffer turned OFF (Quadro only setting, not relevant to GeForce boards)
NOTE: using DualView with Hardware Acceleration set to Single Mode allows the system to treat the 2 monitors as individual monitors while focusing the OGL Hardware Acceleration to the primary monitor. It is necessary to work with your video display windows on the primary monitor for them to update during playback using these NVIDIA settings.
Monitor configuration limitation for working in 1080i HD size on NVIDIA based system
In the current Blue 2.5 release it is necessary to set nView Display to Horizontal Span in the NVIDIA Control Panel or run the system in a single monitor configuration for working with 1080i HD size projects (1920 x1080 pixels) – meaning the NVIDIA card must be set to treat the 2 monitors as a single wide monitor or it must be driving only one monitor rather than two to successfully render Blue 2 effects at that resolution. Blue 1080i effect output (plugin or standalone) will be cropped when running 2 monitors in DualView configuration.
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