For my first closure at theNational Association of Broadcasters(NAB ) trade show in Las Vegas , I had a talk of the town with Boris Yamnitsky , founder and president ofBoris FX . He make me a tour of the latest version of Boris Red , the company ’s 3 - D compositing , titling , and effects plug - in for non - linear editors such as Final Cut Pro and Avid products .
edition 4 , which should ship in August 2006 , includes 16 - piece per color channel processing , a new raster paint locomotive engine , the power to exchange bitmap file to vector ( which can then be squeeze out and animated ) , and native compatibility for Intel - found Macs . This will be the company ’s 2d Universal Binary release , since Boris Calligraphy , which is bundled withFinal Cut Pro , was updated to include Intel financial support for inclusion with Apple ’s Final Cut Pro 5.1 update last month .
Yamnitsky also showed me the new Boris Blue ( pictured on the right ) , a hardware - found stand - alone program program with much of the same functionality of Red . But because Blue uses the OpenGL computer hardware acceleration on the GPU of the late programmable Nvidia nontextual matter card — the system CPU and RAM are n’t used to render telecasting — users will see improvements in preview and exporting velocity , as well as higher - timbre on - screen 3 - D playback . Boris Blue is currently only useable for Windows XP , but Yamnitsky aver that the company design to create a Mac version in the future tense . Such a move has become possible because of Apple ’s addition of PCI Express to the Power Mac line , as well as Nvidia ’s germinate supporting for the Mac when it comes to Nvidia ’s high - end nontextual matter cards .
