User manual BORIS FX CONTINUUM 7 FOR SONY VEGAS PRO RELEASE NOTES

[. . . ] BORIS CONTINUUM 7 for SONY VEGAS PRO System Requirements ; - Sony Vegas Pro10, 64-bit (minimum version 10. 0a build 388) - Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit (SP2) or Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit ____________________________________________________ Using Vegas Plug-In Manager to organize BCC Continuum effects for Vegas Pro ; There are many effects included in Boris Continuum 7 for Vegas Pro. Unfortunately, it is currently not possible within Vegas Pro for the Continuum effects to appear within separate categories by default. [. . . ] In order to do more tracking in the effect once the message has been displayed it is necessary to go to the first frame (or another frame where the message is not displayed) and click the "Clear Render Cache" button before Building a Dynamic Ram Preview to begin the tracking analysis. This button will force Vegas Pro to clear it's rendered frame cache for that effect (thereby clearing the overlay message which would be misleading and interfere with tracking if it were still present). - Muted (disabled) video tracks above effect using BCC motion tracking - Currently BCC motion tracking analysis will not work if there is a muted video track in the timeline above the track in which the BCC effect is applied. The workaround is to enable any higher video tracks when using Track On-the-Fly, or to temporarily move the BCC effect track above any muted tracks while using Track On-the Fly. This problem only applies to the analysis phase of motion tracking and once the analysis is finished the motion tracking result will render correctly even if there is a muted video track above the effect. BorisFX is working with Sony to resolve this in a future Vegas Pro update. ____________________________________________________ Using BCC Transitions ; - 1-sided transitions using BCC Transitions - Currently applying a BCC Transition as a 1-sided transition at the head of a video event in the Vegas Pro timeline does not work as expected. This means that when applied as a transition from [empty timeline space] to a video event a transition will not be created, and the image from lower video tracks will not be revealed. The workaround is to apply the wipe as a filter rather than a transition in this case. Applying BCC Transition effects as transitions between 2 video events or as a 1-sided transition at the end of a video event works as expected. ____________________________________________________ Using BCC OpenGL rendering effects ; - BCC Open GL effects applied to an image with alpha channel - Some of the effects in Boris Continuum use OpenGL and the system graphics card to do the processing and rendering of the effect. Some of the BCC OpenGL effects do not preserve the transparency to allow the background to show through when applied to an image with an alpha channel (like a logo, title, key etc. ) The effects which currently have this limitation are ; - Glint - Lens Flare Advanced - Glitter - Lightning - Glare - Prism - Lens Flare For cases where the effect can still appear as desired applied to both foreground and background (like the most common use of Lens Flares for example) the effect can be applied as a Track FX (rather than an Event FX) AFTER the composite node in the effects chain (post-composite), or it can be applied to the parent track if the background video is a compositing child track, or it can be applied as an Event FX to a pre-rendered composite after rendering the alpha effect and background to a new track, etc. BorisFX plans to address this limitation in a future update of Boris Continuum for Vegas Pro. ____________________________________________________ Using the BCC Time effects ; - Muted (disabled) video tracks above BCC Time effects - Boris Continuum for Sony Vegas Pro offers several effects that do processing on the image by accessing the source video at different frames than the current frame. [. . . ] The way they appear when previewing at Full resolution is the way they will appear at final render. To avoid this problem simply make sure to have set the Video Preview Window to Full resolution sometime in the session before working with these effects. [. . . ]