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Re: iMovie and QC fx

Steve Christensen wrote: 
On Jan 31, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Lawson English wrote:

Is there a documented way to use QC to roll your own video FX for iMovie?

iMovie uses plug-ins to implements its various effect types. If you wanted to use QC inside iMovie, you'd have to write a C, C++ or Obj-C plug-in that would control the QC composition. I've never heard of a way to directly specify a QC composition in iMovie and have it "just work."
Thanks for the response, but I don't think it is quite accurate. When I dragged copies of the GC filters out of the iMovie HD.app folder, I found consistent controls for the .qtz files showing up in GC and apparently a consistent hierarchy of macros (2 sub-macros were always present in the Effects_filters that I looked in). I just haven't figured out if these are special custom interface patches, or just a generic one with custom settings. Either way, it looks to be possible to "roll my own" QC filters for iMovie HD, but I was hoping that someone could give pointers as to how to proceed, preferably "official" pointers.

Hopefully, with the next release of iLfie, QC, etc., this won't be necessary, and a template for adding custom filters (at least) to iMovie will be provided. Just adding a home-grown .qtz file (without any attempt at providing the right interface) not only didn't work, but attempting to use it eventually crashed iMovie, so obviously there's a stability issue here. It would be kool if such filters could be tweaked to work with Final Cut express/pro, of course.


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 >Re: Unable to Import QC Composition into iMovie or iDVD (From: Iain Anderson <email@hidden>)
 >iMovie and QC fx (From: Lawson English <email@hidden>)
 >Re: iMovie and QC fx (From: Steve Christensen <email@hidden>)



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