If you edit films digitally and/or work on visual effects, you must have heard of Borix FX. It’s a company that is famous for its Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects plug-ins. Its product Boris RED is a stand-alone application similar to After Effects. Boris RED is used for motion effects. It’s available for Windows and Mac OS (PPC and Intel Macs). Compared with After Effects, Boris RED is somewhat oriented for 3D visual effects.

Let me first mention that Boris RED is not so cheap. It’s priced at US$995. It’s as expensive as Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional, which is priced at US$999. Good news is that Boris has a free trial version, which is fully functional for 2 weeks. In order to use it on a trial basis, you need to register to get a trial license and then download the installer. The installer will let you install the stand-alone application (Boris RED Engine) plus plug-ins for Avid and Final Cut Pro if you want. Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Microsoft’s new office suite for Mac Universal Binaries is scheduled for release in January, 2008. Today, we have confirmed that a beta version of Microsoft 2008 with a serial number appears to have leaked and is available at some popular torrent websites.

We don’t know how many audio editing applications for Mac are out there. If you are new to audio editing and need an affordable shareware title, try Amadeus Pro. Software developer HairerSoft made a major upgrade in May, 2007. Their flagship application was previously known as Amadeus II before the upgrade. Now, it’s called Amadeus Pro, which can be used by both PowerPC and Intel-based Mac computers. Continue reading →

Around 1992 to 1993, there was a Mac application title something like, I think, Morph. When you start off, you have two windows. In one window, you add numerous points on a picture. Then you move those points with a different picture in the other window. I personally grabbed a copy. It was something totally new. Afterwards, there were several similar freeware and shareware titles.

So what does Morpheus Photo Warper do for us? Unlike its sister application Morpher, Morpheus Photo Warper doesn’t exactly do the conventional morphing job. Rather, it will let you animate a distorted image. And you can export the animation in Animated GIF, QuickTime, Flash (SWF), Uncompressed AVI and so forth. Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Microsoft Corporation has released a new updater which will fix

“a vulnerability in Word 2004 that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.” Continue reading →