Набор инструментов предоставляет достаточно большой спектр различных эффектов, выполняемых в реальном времени, включая импорт 3D-моделей и анимации, более сложный 2D и 3D композитинг, титрование, слежение за движением.

Для работы программы обязательно необходима современная видеокарта NVIDIA или ATI.

В этой версии представлены следующие нововведения:
- интеграция с программами от Adobe;
- Blue 2.5 может использоваться как плагин для Avid или Adobe. Плагин имеет все те же возможности, что и самостоятельное приложение;
- Сохранение созданных вручную эффектов в папки Avid;
- Поддержка видеокарт ATI (ранее программа работала только с картами NVIDIA).

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Boris BLUE - 3D Creativity with Real-Time Performance. Now available as both a plugin for Avid systems and as a standalone. Perfect for post facilities with client-supervised sessions or demanding deadlines, Blue uses the latest generation NVIDIA GPU-based graphics cards to provide an interactive effects design experience. Blue delivers real-time processing of 2D and 3D effects as well as real-time playback of video and audio media.

Users can adjust effect parameters during playback, a "front room" capability that is ideal for working side by side with clients. The fast export to disk, including hardware rendered anti-aliasing, motion blur, and 3D shadows, provide significant time savings.

Boris Blue is available as both an AVX 2 plugin for Windows based Avid editors and as a standalone 3D compositor for Windows XP. Based on the familiar Boris interface, Blue is designed for video editors and compositors who want to create stunning 3D looks without the complex learning curves and render times associated with 3D applications.

Boris Blue Key Features:

Particles - Use any 3D object as a particle, including extruded shapes and imported 3D Models. Multiple attractors and repellers provide dynamic particle interaction. Sprite-based particles simulate Fire, Smoke and Sparks.

Enhanced Extrusions - Create custom bevels by defining a curve with spline drawing tools. Extrude text, spline primitives, free hand spline drawings and imported EPS files. Import 3D models in the .3ds and .obj formats, preserving individual geometry groups.

Deformers, Image Processors and Generators - Vertex Deformers provide true 3D warping of 3D objects. Blue's Deformers, Image Processors and Generators are fully hardware accelerated for blazing speed.

Materials including Bump Maps and Reflections - Materials include per pixel lighting controls and texture, bump and reflection mapping. They are also are fully hardware accelerated for blazing speed.

Sophisticated Animation Made Fast and Easy - Blue includes some new tools such as Type On Containers and the Motion Path filter for more convenient creation of complex 3d animations. Combined with full hardware acceleration these high quality effects can be designed and exported with amazing speed.

New features in version 2.5

• Plugin Integration for Windows Avid and Adobe systems
- Blue 2.5 can be used as an Avid or Adobe plugin on Windows XP systems
- Plugin has all the same effect features as the standalone including 2D and 3D text, imported 3D models, powerful particle emitters and more ; all available within Avid
- Fast and convenient single track transitions, titles, animated backgrounds and other graphic elements right in the Avid timeline
- Single or multi-input filter, realtime preview, effects and transitions
- Save custom Blue effects to Avid bins for quick and easy re-use
- using the Blue plugin avoids export / import workflow, simplifies offline / online workflow
- Now supports ATI based as well as NVIDIA based graphics boards
• More Tools for Faster and Easier Composition of Sophisticated 3D Effects
- Split Views in Comp Window
- Including orthographic views for easier alignment of objects in 3D space
- Improved 3D interactors for 3D objects and Lights
- 3D interactors for Cameras
- A camera can be set to stay focused on a particular object or 3D point in the scene while moving through 3D space
- Cameras and lights can be placed and animated along on a user-defined bezier path
- Built-in 3D Transformations for Motion Path filter
• New 3D Deformers
- Curl
- Flatten
- Mesh Chaos
- Mesh Shatter
- Model Displacer
- Pre-Transform
- Pulse
- Slice-Stretch
- Un-Deform
• New Image Processor Effects
- Film Grain
- Film Process
- Glow Edge
- Glow Light
- Glow Light Replace Color
- Glow Remove Color
- Mist
• Continuum OpenGL filters included
- Glare
- Glint
- Glitter
- LED
- Lens Flare
- Lens Flare Advanced
- Prism
- Scanline
- Damaged TV
- Lightning

System Requirements:
- Windows XP SP2, Vista
- Intel Pentium IV or AMD Athlon or higher processor
- Apple QuickTime version 6.5 or higher

Graphics Boards
BLUE 2 requires one of the following NVIDIA based graphics boards:
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500, 3450, 3500, 3700, 4500, 5500, 4600, 5600
- NVIDIA GeForce 6800, 7800, 7900, 7950, 8600, 8800
- ATI FireGL V3300 and up, V5200 and up, V7200 and up, V8600 and up
- ATI Radeon x1900, x1950

Avid Support
The BLUE 2.5 AVX plugin is supported for running on the following Avid release versions:
- Avid Media Composer 2.7 or later
- Avid Xpress Pro 5.7 or later
- Avid Newscutter 6.7 or later

Adobe support:
The BLUE 2.5 product includes plugins supported for running on the following Adobe product versions:
- Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, CS4
- Adobe After Effects CS3, CS4

NOTE: like the Blue 2.5 standalone application, the Blue plugins are also subject to the Windows XP, Quicktime, and Graphics board/driver requirements listed previously

Название: Boris BLUE 2.5 (v2.5.2.582)
Разработчик: BORIS FX, Inc
Домашняя страница: www.borisfx.com/product/blue/
Интерфейс: Multilingual
Система: Win XP, Vista
Лекарство: присутствует
Размер: 150Mb

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