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Live Webinar: Professional VFX and Titles in Sony Vegas Pro 11
When
Thursday, February 16, 2012 @ 1:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time
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Description
Join John Rofrano as he demonstrates how to create professional titles and VFX in Sony Vegas Pro 11 using Boris Continuum Complete 8 and Boris RED 5. Attend this free live webinar and learn how to:
• Create the soft feel of exposed film with BCC Film Glow
• Repair video affected by flickering light or uneven shutter exposure
• Use in-camera effects such as Swish Pan and Lens Blur to create transitions
• Create cool 3D title animations
• Generate audio-driven effects such as a pulsing light or an image wipe that follows the beat of an audio track
About John Rofrano
John Rofrano is the author of several books and DVDs on Sony Vegas Pro and ACID. He has been a trainer for VASST since 2005 and has been editing with Vegas software since 2002. He is also the software engineer for many Vegas plug-ins like VASST Ultimate S Pro, Caption Assistant, GearShift, infinitiCAM, Mayhem, ScatterShot 3D, and Sony's Production Assistant. He is an accomplished musician and songwriter, and is currently the finishing editor for the PBS series "Painting & Travel with Roger and Sarah Bansemer". When not editing, writing software, or playing music, John can be found moderating the Vegas forums at Creative COW.
Webinar Replay: Professional Titles and VFX in Grass Valley EDIUS
When
Thursday, January 26, 2012 @ 1:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time
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Description
Join Philip Hinkle of Frogman Productions as he demonstrates how to create professional titles and VFX in Grass Valley EDIUS 6 using Boris RED 5. The live webinar will cover the following topics:
• Chroma key compositing with Matte Choke and Light Wrap
• 3-way color correction
• Film look effects
• Lower-third titles with text styles
• Title animation and extrusion
• Importing and manipulating subtitles
About Philip Hinkle
Philip runs Madison, Wis-area video production company Frogman Productions. A 2008 EventDV 25 honoree and Grass Valley EDIUS software trainer, he won a 2008 WEVA CEA Gold in the Social Event category.
Webinar Replay: Killer Transitions in Adobe Premiere Pro
When
Thursday, December 15, 2011 @ 1:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time
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Description
Join Adobe Premiere Pro expert Tim Kolb as he demonstrates how to create killer transitions in Adobe Premiere Pro using Boris RED 5 and Boris Continuum Complete 8 AE.
Attend this free live webinar and learn how to:
• Apply Boris RED as a two-channel transitional effect in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Review transitional effects in the Boris RED Library Browser
• Customize preset effects to match your footage and project
• Effectively use Lens Flare, Lens Blur, and Damaged TV as transitions
• Use Boris Continuum Complete 8 AE filters as transitions in Adobe Premiere Pro
About Tim Kolb
Tim Kolb of Kolb Productions is a Emmy, Chicago Film Festival Hugo, and Telly Award-winning director and a 20 year veteran of video and television production. He serves as a program producer and first unit director for video programs, television commercials, live corporate events, CD-ROMs and DVDs.
Tim judges Emmys and Tellys and is an advisor to Adobe Systems and CineForm and a video marketspace consultant for Coleman Research Group, a consulting company serving institutional investment advisors.
Webinar Replay: Professional VFX in Avid Media Composer 6
When
Thursday, November 17, 2011 @ 1:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time
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Description
Join Jeff Greenberg as he demonstrates how to create professional VFX in Avid Media Composer 6 using new Boris Continuum Complete 8 AVX tools such as Videoscope, Film Glow, Beat Reactor, and Flicker Remover.
Attend this free live webinar and learn how to:
• Create the soft feel of exposed film with BCC Film Glow
• Repair video affected by flickering light or uneven shutter exposure
• Ensure broadcast-legal colors of your final output or any individual element in your project
• Generate audio-driven effects such as a pulsing light or an image wipe that follows the beat of an audio track
About Jeff Greenberg
To the great annoyance of his parents, Jeff left a pre-med program to pursue a degree in film. Since then, he's struggled to explain exactly what his job is to his parents. He's the Owner of JGreenberg Consulting and Senior Instructor for Future Media Concepts. Over the last decade, he's amassed over 20 different certifications and is a Master Adobe, Apple, and Avid Instructor in the areas of editorial, compositing, sound, color correction, and compression. Along the way, he's been well received as a seminar speaker, works as a post production specialist/consultant, and is responsible for the Editors Retreat - a yearly exotic getaway by editors, for editors. Occasionally, he has written books and articles. He also has video teaching materials available from Lynda.com and Vasst.com
Webinar Replay: Streamline Your Editing Workflow
When
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 @ 1:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time
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Description
Join VFX expert Steve Holyhead as he demonstrates how Boris workflow and VFX tools can streamline your workflow when working with video editing applications from Adobe, Avid, and Apple.
Attend this free live webinar and learn how to:
• Use Boris Soundbite to quickly and accurately find any word or phrase spoken in recorded media
• Seamlessly transfer Apple Final Cut Pro or Avid projects to Adobe After Effects for finishing
• Exchange projects between Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid editing and finishing systems
• Easily work with Boris Continuum Complete effects across video editing applications and platforms
About Steve Holyhead
Steve's education began with 16mm film, and he transitioned to videotape when he started his career in television. In Toronto in the mid 1990s, he edited his first TV series using Avid Media Composer. Steve quickly became an expert user of Media Composer and other non-linear editing systems, and he began training others in how to use them. He is known for masterfully synthesizing complex information into a plain-English, user-friendly learning experience.
In 1999, Steve post-produced and edited Wilfred, one of the very first UK 35mm digital intermediate (DI) projects. Since 2000, through his work in the Hollywood and Burbank production communities, Steve has become an expert in HD cameras, film and DI processes, file-based production, and visual effects.
He has worked for world-class media and technology companies, including Autodesk, Avid, BBC, and Discovery Communications, in addition to running his own company BloomCast.
Webinar Replay: Introducing Boris Continuum Complete 8
When
Thursday, October 20, 2011 @ 1:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time
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Description
Join Kevin P. McAuliffe as he introduces Boris Continuum Complete 8, the world's most comprehensive VFX plug-in suite. 200+ filters include 3D Objects such as Extruded Text, 3D particle effects, image restoration tools, lens flares, keys and mattes, 3 Way Color Grading and other color correction tools, time-based effects such as Optical Stabilizer, warp and perspective effects, and blurs, glows, and cinematic effects.
Attend this free live webinar and learn how to:
• Check broadcast-safe composites with BCC Videoscope
• Apply BCC Film Glow to achieve the look of exposed film footage
• Reduce flicker due to uneven shutter speed or fluorescent light
• Create volumetric lights such as car head beams or disco stage lights with smoke
• Create 3D lens flares integrating AE's paths, camera, and lights
• Create compelling broadcast designs with BCC Organic Strands, BCC Particle Emitter, and BCC Card Array
About Kevin P. McAuliffe
Kevin McAuliffe is a Senior Editor at MIJO, in Toronto, Canada, working in HD post production. He has been in the television industry for over 13 years, and cuts on the latest versions of Avid Media Composer and Apple Final Cut Pro. He also spends a chunk of his days in Adobe After Effects, which he has been using since version 3.5. Kevin's HD onlining credit list includes concerts for Coldplay, Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies, Snow Patrol, Sum41, Paul Anka, Il Divo and Pussycat Dolls. Kevin is an instructor of Advanced Final Cut Studio at the Toronto Film College and has worked for Discovery Channel Canada and HGTV Canada as both an offline and online editor.
Webinar Replay: Boris RED 5 and Media 100 Suite
When
Thursday, August 11, 2011 @ 1:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time
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Description
Join Floh Peters as he demonstrates 4K workflow, native RED Digital Cinema camera support, cool title animations, and 3-way color grading with Media 100 Suite v2 and Boris RED v5.
About Floh Peters
Floh Peters is a post-production workflow specialist, VFX artist, digital media specialist, and instructor with 17 years of post-production experience. As the Technical Director and Editor of his company, Magic Eye Videoproduktion, he has worked on several award-winning TV shows for the largest German TV stations.
Webinar Replay: Hollywood-Style Effects in Apple Final Cut Pro
When
Thursday, July 21, 2011 @ 1:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time
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Description
Join Vik Narayan as he demonstrates how to create Hollywood-style effects with Boris RED 5. Learn how to paint with clone brushes over images, vector-trace and extrude images, and animate on custom paths.
About Vik Narayan
Vik Narayan has over 17 years of experience as a director, editor, compositor, and mograph artist working on everything from TV commercials to long form documentaries. Over the years, he has worked on Avid, Quantel, and Final Cut Pro systems - using After Effects and Boris RED for the cool stuff. Currently, Vik is the Post Production Supervisor at Arizona Highways Television. He has won a George Foster Peabody Award, 2 Emmy Nominations, and 16 regional Emmy Awards. When he is not hard at work, or hard at play with his family, he loves to write product reviews and tutorials, offer workshops, and try new creative techniques.
Webinar Replay: Professional Compositing and Titles in Avid Media Composer
When
Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 1:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time
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Description
Join Jeff Greenberg as he shows you how to create professional composites and titles in Avid Media Composer using Boris RED 5. Jeff's presentation will cover:
• Boris RED's Text Tool and Style Palette
• Lower Thirds, Type on Text, and Text on a Path
• EPS Import and Extrusion
• Color Correcting with Custom Masks
• Chroma Key Composites with Custom Spline Mattes and Filtering
About Jeff Greenberg
To great annoyance from his parents, Jeff left a pre-med program to pursue a degree in film. Since then, he's struggled to explain exactly what his job is to his parents.
He's the Owner of JGreenberg Consulting and Senior Instructor for Future Media Concepts. Over the last decade, he's amassed over 20 different certifications and is a Master Adobe, Apple, and Avid Instructor in the areas of editorial, compositing, sound, color correction, and compression.
Along the way, he's been well received as a seminar speaker, works as a post production specialist/consultant, and is responsible for the Editors Retreat - a yearly exotic getaway by editors, for editors.
Occasionally, he has written books and articles. He also has video teaching materials available from Lynda.com and Vasst.com
Feel free to bug him at jeffg@fmctraining.com
Webinar Replay: Custom Effects and Titles with Boris RED 5
When
Thursday, May 19, 2011 @ 1:00 PM Eastern Time
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Description
Join John Rofrano as he demonstrates how to create custom effects and titles with Boris RED 5 in Sony Vegas Pro 10. Boris RED is the only integrated 3D compositing, titling, and effects application to deliver unparalleled performance to video editing software from Adobe, Apple, Avid, Grass Valley, Media 100, and Sony. An indispensable tool for post-production and broadcast professionals, RED offers a wide range of features right on your NLE timeline and adds a standalone engine for effects creation and rendering. RED integrates broadcast-quality text generators, paint, rotoscoping, a full suite of tools to create and extrude vector objects, true 3D shapes and animation, and the industry’s most comprehensive image processing filter suite.
About John Rofrano
John Rofrano is the author of several books and DVDs on Sony Vegas Pro and Sony ACID software. He has been a trainer for VASST since 2005 and has been editing with Sony Vegas software since 2002. He is also the software engineer for many Vegas plug-ins like VASST Ultimate S Pro, Caption Assistant, GearShift, infinitiCAM, Mayhem, ScatterShot 3D, and Sony's Production Assistant. He is an accomplished musician and songwriter, and is currently the finishing editor for the PBS series "Painting & Travel with Roger and Sarah Bansemer". When not editing, writing software, or playing music, John can be found moderating the Sony Vegas forums at the Creative COW.
Webinar Replay: Introducing Media 100 Suite Version 2
When
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 @ 1:00 PM Eastern Time
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Description
Media 100 Suite v2 will introduce support for RED Camera workflows including 4K and 2K video formats, REDCODE media, and the RED ROCKET hardware for accelerated rendering. Other new features will include a revamped Motion Editor for Pan and Scan and DVE effects, improved media search capabilities, and a streamlined, modeless ColorFX window for fast access to all ColorFX options. In addition, Media 100 Suite v2 will integrate the new Boris RED v5 plug-in for text, transitions, and advanced composites. RED v5 adds 60+ new filters and user interface and workflow enhancements such as ergonomic panels and a curve editor.
About the Presenter
Floh Peters is a post-production workflow specialist, VFX artist, digital media specialist, and instructor with 17 years of post-production experience. As the Technical Director and Editor of his company, Magic Eye Videoproduktion, he has worked on several award-winning TV shows for the largest German TV stations. Floh is a moderator for the Media 100 and Apple Color forums at Creative COW.
Webinar Replay:
Must-Have Effects in Apple Final Cut Pro
When
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 @ 1:00 PM Eastern Time
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Description
Join Larry Jordan as he demonstrates must-have Boris Continuum Complete effects in Apple Final Cut Pro:
• Chroma key compositing with Matte Choker and Light Wrap
• Matching color and grain to achieve high-quality composites
• Fixing problems with Wire Remover
• Erasing objects with Motion Key
• Creating Lens Blur and Motion Blur effects
One lucky attendee will win a Boris Box Set ($1,995 value)
About Larry Jordan
Larry Jordan is a producer, director, editor, consultant, and Apple-Certified trainer with over 25 years video production and post-production experience. He is currently using his award-winning skills in training editors to use Final Cut Studio. He is the Executive Producer and Host of Creative Planet's Digital Production BuZZ, as well as author of five books on Final Cut Studio, along with a monthly on-line newsletter covering Final Cut Studio - now in its sixth year of publication.
Learn more about Larry at the Larry Jordan & Associates web site .
Webinar Replay: Killer Titles in Sony Vegas Pro
When
Thursday, February 17, 2011 @ 1:00 PM Eastern Time
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Description
Join John Rofrano as he shows you how to create killer titles in Vegas Pro using Boris Continuum Complete!
Attend the Webinar and learn how to:
• Create type-on and jitter animations
• Create highly-stylized text effects with glows, rays, and strokes
• Extrude 3D text
• Import and extrude EPS logos
• Use 3D deformers to bend and explode text in 3D
Raffle Prizes
• One lucky attendee will win a copy of Sony Vegas Pro ($599.95 value)
• Another lucky attendee will win a Boris Box Set ($1,995 value)
About John Rofrano
John Rofrano is a musician, vocalist, songwriter, author, VASST trainer, videographer, and software architect. John spent 10 years back in the 1970s as a working rock musician paying his dues in nightclubs and studios in the New York tri-state area. His interest in the early days of electronic music and MIDI programming ultimately led to a career in the field of computer science. After discovering his new passion for videography in 2000, John has come full circle back to his roots of music composition and scoring music for video. When not making music or editing video, you can find John hanging out at Creative COW where he is a moderator for the Sony Vegas Pro forum, at the Digital Media Network forums where he is a moderator for the Sony ACID and Vegas Pro Scripting forum, and on the Sony Creative Software Vegas Pro forums.
Webinar Replay: Make Your Avid Footage Look Its Best
When
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 @ 1:00 PM Eastern Time
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Description
Join Future Media Concepts Instructor Jeff Greenberg as he shows you how to make your footage look its best with Avid Media Composer and Boris Continuum Complete 7 AVX. Attend the Webinar and learn how to:
• Revive SD clips for HD projects
• Solve camera or lens defects
• Remove HD noise and compression artifacts
• Create a convincing "Day For Night" effect
• Add in-camera effects such as Rack Defocus and Motion Blur
• Perform selective color correction
• Emulate the distortion effect of shooting with a super wide angle lens
• Smooth blemishes while maintaining detail contrast and highlight integrity
About Jeff Greenberg
Teaching internationally for Future Media Concepts, Jeff specializes in post production. Clients include all four major networks, Letterman, Conan O'Brien, ESPN, This Old House, all four branches of the military, and many Fortune 500 clients. He's certified to teach solutions by Adobe, Apple, Avid, Boris, and Autodesk.
Speaking at over fifty seminar sessions a year at various conferences, Jeff is consistently rated as one of the best presenters. He’s often involved in the design of the conferences as well as the marketing. The Editor’s Retreat, a yearly exotic getaway focused on both the aesthetics and technology of editing, is his favorite. In addition to speaking at the Editor's Retreat, he is the host and Program Manager.
Jeff's work has been shown in festivals, on DVD, and on television. From industrial documentary to commercial and film, he has a love of the visual medium.
Jeff has performed tech editing on a number of books and has written technical articles for TidBITS, Macworld, and Post Magazine. Training DVDs by Jeff include Avid Media Composer, Avid Marquee, Apple Color (Intro), and Apple Color (Advanced) from Vasst.com and Compressor 3.5 Essentials from Lynda.com.
Webinar Replay:
VFX in Adobe Premiere Pro with Tim Kolb
When
Thursday, December, 16, 2010 @ 1:00 PM Eastern Time
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Description
Join Emmy, Hugo, and Telly Award-winning director Tim Kolb as he demonstrates the comprehensive VFX power of Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE in Adobe Premiere Pro. Webinar attendees will experience:
• Simulated in-camera effects such as BCC Lens Blur and BCC Motion Blur
• Image retouching techniques with BCC Smooth Tone
• Matching Grain in composites
• Recreating Film Process on footage
• Designing sophisticated transitions with BCC Lens Blur and BCC Swish Pan
Presenter
Tim Kolb of Kolb Productions is a Emmy, Chicago Film Festival Hugo, and Telly Award-winning director and a 20 year veteran of video and television production. He serves as a program producer and first unit director for video programs, television commercials, live corporate events, CD-ROMs and DVDs.
Tim judges Emmys and Tellys and is an advisor to Adobe Systems and CineForm and a video marketspace consultant for Coleman Research Group, a consulting company serving institutional investment advisors.
Webinar Replay:
Killer Titles in Apple Final Cut Pro
When
Tuesday, November, 16, 2010 @ 1:00 PM Eastern Time
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Description
Explore the Boris Calligraphy titling plug-ins that are included with Apple Final Cut Pro. Then, learn how to take your titles to the next level using Boris Continuum Complete 7 FxPlug's 3D Objects filters.
Webinar attendees will experience:
• Boris Calligraphy's styles, style palette, multiple strokes, and professional typography
• Creating a credit roll and generating random text with Boris Calligraphy
• Applying Boris Continuum Complete's rays and glows filters to text
• BCC Extruded Text with professional typography, materials, bevels, and deformers
• Importing and extruding EPS files with BCC Extruded EPS
• BCC Extruded Type-On Text to complement Apple Motion's type-on text
Presenter
Larry Jordan is a producer, director, editor, consultant and Apple-Certified trainer with over 25 years video production and post-production experience. He is currently using his award-winning skills in training editors to use Final Cut Studio. He is the Executive Producer and Host of Creative Planet's Digital Production BuZZ, as well as author of five books on Final Cut Studio, along with a monthly on-line newsletter covering Final Cut Studio - now in its sixth year of publication. Learn more about Larry at the Larry Jordan & Associates web site.
Webinar Replay: VFX and Compositing in Sony Vegas Pro 10
When
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 @ 1:00 PM Eastern Time
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Description
Turn Sony Vegas Pro 10 into an effects and compositing powerhouse with Boris Continuum Complete 7!
Attend this webinar and learn how to:
• Create precise, realistic keys with a minimal amount of adjustment
• Achieve the warm organic look of film in seconds
• Selectively apply BCC filters to video via region or channel-based mattes
• Use BCC's built-in motion tracker to track an image and apply an effect to the tracked image
Featured Boris Continuum Complete 7 effects will include BCC Chroma Key, BCC Matte Choker, BCC Light Wrap, BCC Witness Protection, BCC Wire Remover, and BCC Correct Selected Color.
Presenter
Dirk de Jong has been in the video software industry for more than 13 years, working for companies that serve the film and video post production market. He is currently a product manager at Boris FX and has worked at Boris FX for over 10 years, primarily involved in the development of titling and 3D-related products.
Webinar Replay: VFX for Avid Editors, with Kevin P McAuliffe
When
Tuesday, August 31st at 1:00pm Eastern Time
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Description
This webinar will show Avid editors why they don't need to leave the comfort of Media Composer for all their effects and titling work.
The webinar will include demonstrations of the following:
- Transferring FCP sequences to Media Composer with Boris AAF Transfer
- Creating jaw-dropping titles inside Media Composer
- Creating film looks with Boris Continuum Complete 7 AVX
- Creating realistic-looking chroma keys
- "Witness protection" effect with automated motion tracking
- Making SD footage shine in HD with BCC UpRez
- Simulating camera lens effects with BCC 7 AVX's new Lens Blur filter
Presenter
Kevin P. McAuliffe is currently a freelance senior level video editor working in HD postproduction in Toronto, Canada. He has been in the television industry for 12 years, and cuts on Avid Media Composer 5 and Apple's Final Cut Pro 7. He also spends a chunk of his days in Adobe's After Effects, which he has been using since version 3.5. Kevin's high definition onlining credit list includes concerts for Coldplay, Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies, Snow Patrol, Sum41, Paul Anka, Il Divo, and Pussycat Dolls, to name a few. Kevin is an instructor of Advanced Final Cut Studio at the Toronto Film College and has worked for Discovery Channel Canada and HGTV Canada as both an offline and online editor.
Webinar Replay: Boris Continuum Complete's 3D Objects
3D Design in Adobe After Effects using Boris Continuum Complete
When
Wednesday, July 28th at 1:00pm Eastern Time
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Description
More and more motion graphics designers are using Adobe After Effects to build compositions which define a clear visual 3D space in which to create compelling animated graphics. In the Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE filter package, Boris FX provides several extremely useful generator-style filters for creating sophisticated 3D graphic elements that integrate tightly into After Effects 3D comps.
In this webinar, we'll take a close look at the Boris Continuum Complete filters offering integration with the After Effects 3D environment: BCC Extruded Text, BCC Type On Text, BCC Extruded Spline, BCC Extruded EPS, BCC Layer Deformer, BCC Pin Art 3D, and BCC Particle Array 3D. And we'll be showing some tips and techniques for working with these filters in AE in order to best exploit them in AE 3D compositions. Since these filters can also be used in NLEs such as Final Cut Pro and Avid, we'll also take a look at how they translate to that environment and how it's possible to use BCC filter effect presets created in After Effects within the NLE versions of these plug-ins.
Though primarily looking at the plug-ins in Adobe After Effects, much of the information is applicable to the Final Cut Pro and Avid versions of the plug-ins, and we will spend some time in Final Cut Pro to see an example of the filters in that environment.
Presenter
Dirk de Jong as been in the video software industry for more than 13 years, working for companies that serve the film and video post production market. He is currently a product manager at Boris FX and has worked at Boris FX for over 10 years, primarily involved in the development of titling and 3D-related products.
