The new 16-bit color options on FX 9 provide you with literally trillions of colors to use when customizing your color correction on a project. Boris FX 9 has an updated user interface. It allows you to customize your keyboard quick keys and use them in the timeline. More machine controls are available when you have an image in the composite window. According to Boris FX, it also offers "magnetic and sticky windows" in the new package. FX 9 has a more extensive help reference system. The help system covers every aspect of FX 9. According to Boris FX, it will ensure "that you spend more time creating effects, and less time figuring out how to do it."
FX 9 offers more than 115 effect filters. These filters serve a variety of purposes, such as stabilizing a shaky shot or just changing the colors. Boris FX separates its effects into eight sections. Colors and Blurs do exactly that: they allow you to adjust the color or add a blur effect to the image. Distortion and Perspective allow you to distort an image by applying a filter effect like a twirl or a ripple. The Effects and Final Effects filters allow you to manipulate the image by overlaying a filter over the image. The options include the spray paint noise, which makes the image like it was spray painted, or the glass, which makes the image look like it is a piece of glass. The Generators are another set of filters that don't so much manipulate the image as much as they lay an effect over them. Key and Matte filters not only allow you to more drastically adjust the colors but they also allow you to superimpose another image into the image. One example is the chroma key function, which allows you to put another moving image over the original image. The Light filters simply allow you to refocus the light of an image in a variety of ways. The Motion filters allow you to either stabilize an image or adjust its movement.
Aside from the upgrades and the filters, FX 9 still has a lot of other features for you. FX 9 will allow you to layer an unlimited amount of different media. This makes the possibility of what you are able to construct in the program virtually indescribable. It will also allow you to import alternate audio files to beef up a current audio track. The new FX 9 will support plug-ins from other effect programs like After Effects. The Library Browser option allows you to preset hundreds of your favorite effects, making them easier to track down and use.