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Chris Vadnais - Author of "Instant Boris Effects"
hris Vadnais is the author of the recently released "Instant Boris Effects" and the host of Class On Demand's "Boris Basics, Tips, & Tricks" training DVD. He is also a television and radio producer for the U.S. Air Force Broadcasting Service where he uses today's leading NLE systems, including Avid, Adobe Premiere Pro and Sony Vegas Video. He also hosts the Digital Media Network's Boris FX online user forum and serves as a beta tester for Boris FX.
Vadnais creates everything from local news promos, and spots about local safety issues to spots for Commanders that air all over Europe. "I started writing tutorials and hosting the Boris forum at DMN (www.dmnforums.com)," said Vadnais. "As I fielded questions, it seemed that some simple, basic things were tripping people up. I considered that a terrible shame, since the applications are so awesome once you wrap your head around a few basic ideas. I just love helping people, and soon decided to create a DVD training series with Class on Demand (www.classondemand.net). Douglas Spotted Eagle had produced a Class on Demand DVD series for Vegas that really helped me. I wanted to give that kind of help. Writing a reference book was a natural next step. It's just been released (www.cmpbooks.com/product/1260) and I've already received some pretty good feedback."
So what does Chris think Boris adds to Premiere Pro?
"The things that take your standard editing to the "Holy cow, look at that!" level. While Premiere Pro is an advanced NLE, if you really want to WOW people, you're going to need help from Boris to fill in the gaps in the features the NLE either doesn't do so well or doesn't do at all."
Chris looks forward to working with the new Boris Continuum Complete version 3.0.2. "Integrated motion tracking is really exciting. It's like doubling the amount of power the application has -- offering so much more control over what the filters do. Some of the filters, like the witness protection, are not as much new as they are ready to do what you want without much manipulation. They're workflow aides for already super-powerful filters. The workflow improvements are really exciting. The transitions look amazing, and also promise to be quick and easy to use."
RED came with the Avid systems the Air Force bought in 1999. The systems have been upgraded since then, of course. (No official U.S. government endorsement implied.) Today, Chirs has no problem identifying his favorite Red features.
"The vector text and 3D extrusions, right off the bat. Nothing I've ever used creates such powerful, beautiful titles and such awesome 3D extrusions. The list is long, though. I just love the power that Red brings to many of the different NLEs I use. I would hate to go somewhere and have to use Avid Xpress without RED, for example. It makes things like color correction and chroma keying ridiculously simple."
"I don't chroma key without Red anymore. We use Chromatte light rings and surface material to make great evenly-lit backgrounds. Avid somehow still won't key things out as easily and effectively as Red does with the chroma filter and a matte choker. Using the presets I can get almost exactly what I'm after -- instantly. The color correction makes correcting bad shots simple and painless. As far as workflow, the KeyFramer application allows me to work offline work and bring a tiny Red project file to the online machine and render it. I spend less production time perfecting the effect by working offline."
"I have friends who use After Effects exclusively at their jobs. They really like it, I mean they're die-hard AE people -- until I show them the Boris application and how easy it is to composite or manipulate 3D extrusions or or create moving text. They ask, "what did you use for your mattes in that effect?" I tell them that it was all done in Boris Red with little or no attention paid to mattes or masks. Then they want to switch. They read my tutorials and see how easily things happen inside Red and grudgingly go back to their AE workstations. I love that."
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