United States UK / Europe French German Italian Japanese Spanish

Productivity Enhancements

Boris RED 2.5 will help you do more work, better work, with less effort. Some of that comes from core features such as integrated effects creation, vector art, 3D creation and compositing, peerless text capabilities, and the RED Engine. But RED 2.5 offers many features aimed directly at working more productively.

RAM Preview and Frame Caching While you work, all frames are automatically loaded into a RAM cache, making previews to RAM remarkably fast. Only changed frames need to be reloaded. RAM previews can take place within a specified range, and at half or quarter rate.

Audio Both synch and scratch audio tracks are supported. Scrub audio to coordinate effects with music, view waveforms, even animate volume and pan from within RED. There's also an option to play back audio during Preview to RAM.

Project Window/Batch Export Save mutliple versions of compositions as you go to the new Project window. Bring in mutliple files or Project Settings through the Import dialog, or by dragging into the Project window from the desktop. Batch export functions allow multiple projects, or multiple versions of projects to be rendered in different formats or resolutions.

File Formats In addition to new export functions for QuickTime, AVI and SWF formats, RED 2.5 supports the import and export of sequential PICT, Targa, TIFF and JPEG animations. Photoshop files can also be imported as compositions with layers and apply modes intact.

Speed The RED 2.5 interface, including screen redraw times while building effects, now includes Open GL acceleration. RED supports dual-processor rendering for both Windows and Macintosh, and Altivec acceleration for G4 Macintoshes.