RED Tutorials

Creating subtitles with RED 4.3

How do you make hundreds of lower-thirds without going mad? Follow the easy steps in this tutorial to generate any number of subtitles automatically.

Light Painting

Did you know that your NLE has a powerful paint system capable of creating colored glowing light strokes? But only if you run Boris RED or Avid FX as a plug-in.

Creating a Title Paint-On Effect

One of the more interesting text animation techniques is a paint-on effect where brush strokes reveal a title on the screen. To create this effect I chose Boris RED 4.2 for its comprehensive paint features.

From Business Card to Extruded Logo

If your client is asking for a 3D extruded logo animation in his video and all he has for company graphics is his business card you better dig deep into your toolbox. And you better find a copy of BORIS RED in it because that is what you?ll need to get this tough job done.

The Chromakey Effect

How does the chroma key work? The foreground object has to be separately filmed in front of an evenly colored and lit backing. The footage is brought in the compositing or editing system to be combined with the new background video or still.

Paint System

Watch a video tutorial on how to use the powerful BORIS RED Paint System.

Vector Trace Tutorial

Watch a video tutorial on how to create a extruded 3D logo from an imported 2D image file.

"Tread Secrets"

With the help of some 'RED Magic,' create a visual illustration that helped Vivek Narayan win an Emmy for Editing and also bagged the Emmy for Investigative Report at the 2006 Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards.

Optical Stabilizer

Watch a video tutorial on how to remove unwanted motion so your clip appears to be shot with a lock down camera.

Motion Path

Watch a video tutorial on how to automated the process of animating objects along a bezier path in 3D space.

Motion Key

Watch a video tutorial on how to remove a moving forground object from a clip.

Custom Wedding Transitions with RED

Summer is packed with weddings. Wedding bells ring across the country and this is where we draw the inspiration for our next tutorial. This tutorial includes free preset effects

Subtitle Generator

Watch a video tutorial on how to import industry standard subtitle files directly into the timeline.

Clone Paint Part 1

Watch a video tutorial on how to clone part of one image clip onto itself to fill out the image.

Clone Paint Part 2

Watch a video tutorial on how to clone part of one image clip onto itself and then and then apply a motion tracker to the clone so that the clone moves with the original clip.

Clone Paint Part 3

Watch a video tutorial on how to clone part of one image clip onto a second clip.

Designing a Broadcast Ski Report with RED

In no time at all, John Lafauce from BORIS FX will walk you through the steps necessary to create a broadcast-worthy ski report that just might make you want to head for the slopes!

16 bit Color

This tutorial demonstrates how to easily animate and fly a computer generated navy jet using the Boris Red 4.0 Motion Path filter.

Exploring RED's Motion Path Filter

This tutorial demonstrates how to easily animate and fly a computer generated navy jet using the Boris Red 4.0 Motion Path filter.

Creating Lower Thirds Using the RED 4 Library Browser Effect

This tutorial demonstrates how to apply and customize a new, pre-made lower third graphic from Boris' extensive selection of Keyframe Library Effects.

Creating an Animated Mask

BORIS FX, Graffiti and RED all offer numerous masking options. This tutorial uses a Spline Object to create an animating custom mask. You can use any media that you like to complete this tutorial.

Working with the Library Browser Template Mode

Beginning with RED version 3.02, you can use the Library Browser in a special Template mode. Template mode allows you tocreate effects directly in the Library Browser.

Creating 3D Text with a Bump Map

In addition to reflection maps and textures, both RED and Graffiti allow you to apply bump maps to to 3D text and shapes.

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Wiggling Titles

RED and Graffiti let you animate the splines that make up each character in your text. Let’s start by creating some text...

Pie Chart Tutorial

We all know how boring business graphics can be to create (and to watch). In the old days, Boris FX had a tag line: "In Video Effects There Is Boring and There Is Boris." The goal of the 3D Chart generator is to live up to this old motto...

Fun with EPS Files and 3D Logos, part 2

The "Animating EPS Files in RED tutorial detailed animating an Adobe Illustrator EPS file using RED's vector animation tools. It was clearly something that a lot of users wanted to know, as the response was overwhelming. A number of questions came up more than once, so lets address them.

Creating a Text Generator Effect

Graffiti and RED's Generator tab lets you generate random text or numbers. You can lock each letter or number in position regardless of changes made to neighboring characters...

Animating EPS Files in RED

Native vector text, a library of spline primitive shapes, powerful control over border and fill, and true vector masks are just a very few of the elements that make Red the most extensive vector animation application ever offered.

Engrossing Paint, part 1: Paint-on Animation with RED

RED's vector paint is very fast and easy to use, even though it offers a wide variety of features not found in other vector paint tools. These include fill, multiple strokes, and a much wider range of animatable parameters, such as color, brush size and opacity.

Engrossing Paint, part 2: Engrossing Particles

Adding the advanced 3D Particle System filter to RED's vector paint offers titling possibilities you never imagined you'd have in your NLE. It's fast and it's easy....but doesn't look like it.

Extreme Overshoot

Among RED and Graffiti's Overshoot features is an easy way to add "bounce" to your titles.

Motion Tracking

Create a very frequently requested effect, tracking a Mosaic filter over someone's face. This effect can be achived using Boris RED thanks to Motion Tracking technology.

Motion Stabilizer

The same improvements to Motion Tracker have been added to the Motion Stabilizer filter. Combined with Red's vector paint and exceptionally powerful masking, you can salvage some of the worst footage imaginable...which we just happened to have handy for this tutorial.

Corner Pin Tracker

Four trackers in one filter mean even more possibilities. Even better news? It's just as easy to use as the other motion filters.

Real Title Animation with Boris

See how easy it is to build great-looking Type On animations, which is one of BORIS RED's most powerful features. Courtesy of The Creative COW.

Confessions of a Two-Dimensional Man

RED lets you build elegant 3D animations without becoming a 3D expert. When you have one interface for every effects task, right in the middle of your workflow, that's when this whole convergence thing starts to be any fun at all.