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FxPlug Fx3DAPI - Plug-ins only? No Generators?
by Matt Rhodes 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hey Team. End of rant. Thanks. m _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a… It looks like FxGenerators don't have access to the 3D API -- is this correct? The following has been our experience with Generators (vs. Plug-ins): We have several plug-ins that work more appropriately as Generators, but we keep having to back off from creating Generators because the feature sets for Generators aren't the same as for Plug-ins -- and they should be (from this developer's point of view). We think of Generators as Plug-ins without the need for an input layer. We need all of the features that plug-ins have to offer -- parameter interaction (we had to wait for that to work properly), preview Movies (which still aren't supported, from what I can tell), 3D API's, etc. In the past (and seemingly here as well), the feature set of Generators have taken some time to catch up to Plug-ins. This causes a perpetual cycle of "can't create a Generator because we need the new Plug-in feature." Maybe there aren't a lot of Generator developers out there, but all of our FxPlugs are Generators at heart -- and we hate telling the user to create a dummy layer just to use our Plug-in. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: FxTexture: -textureId returns zero?
by Paul Schneider 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

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FxTexture: -textureId returns zero?
by Steve Christensen 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com steve _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a… I'm calling [[FxTexture alloc] initWithInfo:textureInfo] to create a FxTexture, which succeeds. When I then call -textureId, it returns zero. Yet when I call -textureId on the input texture, I get a non- zero value. Am I missing something? The documentation on FxTexture is pretty much non-existent so I don't know what I'm doing wrong or what more I should be doing. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: FxPlug Fx3DAPI
by Dave Howell 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com Dave _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a… On Mar 23, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Darrin Cardani wrote: That looks correct to me. (And for the record, I believe we've relaxed the requirement that you have to declare which protocols you use. You shouldn't have to do that anymore, if I recall correctly.) Right, that's not needed any more (in current hosts). It's still needed for a plug-in that wants to run in an older host, before that requirement was relaxed. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: FxPlug Fx3DAPI
by Darrin Cardani 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

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Re: FxPlug Fx3DAPI
by Matt Rhodes 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

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DVDSP question
by Andreas Kiel 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi all, DVDSP manual says the proper text file for import should look like: Following is an example of a simple STL subtitle file. $FontName = Arial $FontSize = 65 //The following subtitles are for scene one. 00:00:12:04 , 00:00:14:12 , Lemurs are the bullies of the wild. 00:00:16:14 , 00:00:19:08 , Here we see them bring down a moose. - Andreas _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a… I got a bit involved again with DVDSP and subtitling and run into some problems while thinking about that subtitle handling. This format will bring an extra space in front of any subtitle. The right format would be: 00:00:12:04 , 00:00:14:12 ,Lemurs are the bullies of the wild. 00:00:16:14 , 00:00:19:08 ,Here we see them bring down a moose. Is that expected to behave this way? Should there be an extra space in front of any subtitle? Or is that just a misprint in the manual where all providers of "Spruce Text Lists" followed this suggestion? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: FCP Favorites export
by Morten dotmac 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

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Re: FCP Favorites export
by ProVFX＠aol.com 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

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Re: fxscript bug
by Paul Schneider 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi, Trevor, Thanks, - Paul On Mar 5, 2008, at 6:01 AM, Trevor Anderson wrote: Trevor iMac Core 2 Duo FCP 6.0.2 QT 7.4.1 _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/pschneider%40apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a… The FxPlug SDK should not have any affect on how FXScripts are run in Final Cut. It's possible that something in this area changed in a recent version of Final Cut, perhaps from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2. Are you sure that installing the SDK was the only change you made to your system? If it seems like the SDK is at fault, could you send me your FXScript? You can encrypt it in the EffectBuilder if you would rather keep its contents private. Not sure where else to ask about this... I noticed after installing the FxPlug SDK 1.2.2, FCP started acting strangely. I had a previously created fxscript plugin that was no longer handling the opacity setting of the multiply command correctly. It worked fine before under the same circumstances. The problem seems to be with bringing in content that is not the same size as the timeline. Instead of fading back to the original image the opacity simply fades to black. If the imported image is the same size as the timeline then it works fine. >From looking at what the sdk has installed I don't see a reason for this to change anything in fcp. I've installed nothing else between the time it was working and now. This really isn't that big of an issue as most users won't be using this plugin (which I am porting to fxplug now) on images that don't match the size of the timeline, but it could point to some other underlying problem that may pop up down the road in a worse way. This email sent to pschneider(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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