Instant Boris Effects

Editor’s Note

The name alone should be enough to make anyone want to try this software. I know that did the trick for me. That and the fact that it came bundled free with our new Avid Xpress somewhere back around the turn of the century.

Before opening Boris, I’d thought of myself only as an editor. I wasn’t even familiar with the term “motion graphics artist,” and if I had, it would have just conjured up nightmares of multiple effect bank switchers and a four-channel Abekas digital video effects black box that few really knew how to fly.

I’m still primarily an editor, but as in A Clockwork Orange, I’m an editor-plus, thanks to Boris. Being an editor today means being able to a lot of things that used to be somebody else’s job… effects, color ...