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Re: setting keyframes?
by Darrin Cardani 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Mar 23, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Micah Sharp wrote: Darrin -- Darrin Cardani dcardani(a)apple.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… I feel like this has come up several times, and I manage to keep forgetting the answer. Is it possible to set keyframes at different times? Is the FxParameterSettingAPI intended to be used for this purpose? It seems to always set a keyframe only at the first frame, so I feel like maybe not. This would be both a Motion and FCP question. There's no API available for setting keyframes at this time. We keep saying we should add it, but we never get around to it. Feel free to send us a description of how you'd use it so that if we ever do get around to it, we do it right. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: FCP 5.14 + Quicktime 7.6 + 10.5.6 = Problems?
by Darrin Cardani 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Mar 23, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Brad Wright wrote: FCP 5.14 Quicktime 7.6 Mac OS X 10.5.6 Darrin -- Darrin Cardani dcardani(a)apple.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… Has there been any reports of problem with the following configuration? I'm having some strange reports in the field of problem with the configuration: The customer in question swears that everything worked fine until moving from Quicktime 7.55 to Quicktime 7.6. Anybody else hearing strange reports from the field. It's kind of difficult to answer a question like that with such a vague description. In what way did things stop "working fine?" Is the customer seeing minor gamma differences in output, or are the apps crashing his machine and starting a fire? :) Without more information about what's not working correctly, it's almost impossible to give any help on such an issue, or even say, "Yeah, me too!" or "Not over here!" This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Reference Image parameters in a FxGenerator
by Darrin Cardani 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com Brian, Darrin On Mar 23, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Brian Gardner wrote: Just as a sanity check.... I'm writing an FxGenerator plugin for FCP/Motion. It has a reference image parameter, and the parameter shows up okay. I can assign a source video to the parameter okay in FCP & Motion. But, when I try to access the image in renderOutput, the request fails. Can I access a reference image in an FxGenerator? (Or is that forbidden) If I can, do I use the same parmsApi request as I would in a Filter or Transition type plugin... or is there something different required in a Generator plugin? -- Brian PS: Small code clippette looks like: FxBitmap * controlImageMap; double offsetX = 0, offsetY = 0; BOOL isControlImageAssigned = [parmsApi getBitmap:&controlImageMap layerOffsetX:&offsetX layerOffsetY:&offsetY requestInfo:renderInfo fromParm:kControlImageParamID atTime:renderInfo.frame]; _______________________________________________ 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/dcardani%40apple.com -- Darrin Cardani dcardani(a)apple.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… As Paul said, it would help to have more information. But I wanted to point out one small problem with your code snippet below. The value returned by -getBitmap::::: is not whether or not the control has an image assigned to it. It's whether or not the call was successful. There may be no image assigned to the image well, and the call will still return YES if no errors occur (which should be always). If you're using that variable to determine whether to use the returned FxBitmap, you will likely crash before there's anything in the image well. This email sent to dcardani(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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setting keyframes?
by Micah Sharp 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

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Re: FCP 5.14 + Quicktime 7.6 + 10.5.6 = Problems?
by Paul Schneider 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi Brad, Thanks, - Paul On Mar 23, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Brad Wright wrote: FCP 5.14 Quicktime 7.6 Mac OS X 10.5.6 Brad Wright _______________________________________________ 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… We're not aware of anything. Can you be more specific about the nature of these strange reports? Has there been any reports of problem with the following configuration? I'm having some strange reports in the field of problem with the configuration: The customer in question swears that everything worked fine until moving from Quicktime 7.55 to Quicktime 7.6. Anybody else hearing strange reports from the field. This email sent to pschneider(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Reference Image parameters in a FxGenerator
by Paul Schneider 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi Brian, - Paul On Mar 23, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Brian Gardner wrote: Just as a sanity check.... I'm writing an FxGenerator plugin for FCP/Motion. It has a reference image parameter, and the parameter shows up okay. I can assign a source video to the parameter okay in FCP & Motion. But, when I try to access the image in renderOutput, the request fails. Can I access a reference image in an FxGenerator? (Or is that forbidden) If I can, do I use the same parmsApi request as I would in a Filter or Transition type plugin... or is there something different required in a Generator plugin? -- Brian PS: Small code clippette looks like: FxBitmap * controlImageMap; double offsetX = 0, offsetY = 0; BOOL isControlImageAssigned = [parmsApi getBitmap:&controlImageMap layerOffsetX:&offsetX layerOffsetY:&offsetY requestInfo:renderInfo fromParm:kControlImageParamID atTime:renderInfo.frame]; _______________________________________________ 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… What you're doing should work. Can you be more specific about how the request fails? Does the routine return NO, or does it return a nil bitmap, or crash? Does the failure occurs in Motion, in FCP, or in both? This email sent to pschneider(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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FCP 5.14 + Quicktime 7.6 + 10.5.6 = Problems?
by Brad Wright 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com FCP 5.14 Quicktime 7.6 Mac OS X 10.5.6 Brad Wright _______________________________________________ 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… Has there been any reports of problem with the following configuration? I'm having some strange reports in the field of problem with the configuration: The customer in question swears that everything worked fine until moving from Quicktime 7.55 to Quicktime 7.6. Anybody else hearing strange reports from the field. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Reference Image parameters in a FxGenerator
by Brian Gardner 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=Y3FUBNGQTeRxh1ZY3m+F3XLiinVCn1+uupxoSdLMHXQ1jSsfvpDGYOFJHYya4DAW; h=Received:Message-Id:From:To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Subject:Mime-Version:Date:X-Mailer:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Just as a sanity check.... I'm writing an FxGenerator plugin for FCP/Motion. It has a reference image parameter, and the parameter shows up okay. I can assign a source video to the parameter okay in FCP & Motion. But, when I try to access the image in renderOutput, the request fails. Can I access a reference image in an FxGenerator? (Or is that forbidden) If I can, do I use the same parmsApi request as I would in a Filter or Transition type plugin... or is there something different required in a Generator plugin? -- Brian PS: Small code clippette looks like: FxBitmap * controlImageMap; double offsetX = 0, offsetY = 0; BOOL isControlImageAssigned = [parmsApi getBitmap:&controlImageMap layerOffsetX:&offsetX layerOffsetY:&offsetY requestInfo:renderInfo fromParm:kControlImageParamID atTime:renderInfo.frame]; _______________________________________________ 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… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Deduced attributes of items
by Martin Baker 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date :x-mailer; bh=WD/Gfa5I16ROKbmY0/9zVtFAc9rZ2y665yoTPEnQDV8=; b=n+5bYpEmuTr6xfvtimYCQqIk3CG/nNASu3LjbSjHXutM5NzudZms6WD3d4Jz6GBljp 3sRzHxFQReCtZid0h4IiuHFXQAuuoVTVumnY/MptwCkFcLHPtDLYMjxGXhSj+LWbL/5t 9Z9nedZbJnXWe1isUXBM6tAux9ysdPkcO23ko= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version:subject:date:x-mailer; b=WKJHMLvuWmx25tHLifMlfwzBuGV8TF6DUXDcrWOmG0UbyhuNK/Pmg80jslSFd/yyi3 B5zQehHlMkjnfGQ5RePAASF9ISJczA2DooYnZ0UD7CQzgfly4w0LCSQxIELjlIbYpSw+ RryYUhjDSCkgmce78Toz2mQfStbCvjqdOqNJ0= thanks Martin Baker www.digital-heaven.co.uk www.twitter.com/digitalheaven www.videospaceonline.com www.funkycloud.com/lifeshaker ------------------------------------------------------ Digital Heaven Ltd is registered in England and Wales Company registration number: 3628396 Registered address: 55 Lynwood Drive, Worcester Park, Surrey KT4 7AE VAT registration number: GB 736 0989 03 _______________________________________________ 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… Is there a list of attributes that aren't deduced by FCP if they're missing in the XML? One of our customers has pointed out that when dragging an image that has an embedded alpha channel into our Loader app that the alpha is "missing" when the file is sent to FCP. What's happening is that FCP doesn't seem to be guessing the alpha mode of the item (as it does when normally importing the file) and it sets the mode to "None/Ignore". This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: how to flag qt-moovie to inport as anamorphic into FCP
by Paul Schneider 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi Christoff, - Paul On Mar 12, 2009, at 6:13 AM, Christof Halasz wrote: thanks, chris _______________________________________________ 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… If your footage is DV, then you'll have to set the 16:9 flag in the compressed DV stream. The DV format documentation should describe how to do that. Since your footage appears correctly in QT Player, it sounds like you are tagging it correctly with the pasp / clap QT atoms. Final Cut does not currently support these tags, but we are aware of this shortcoming and hope to address it in a future version. If your footage is not DV, or if setting the flag in the compressed DV stream is impossible, you'll have to tell FCP that the footage is anamorphic after the import, by checking the "anamorphic" box in the FCP browser. hy all ! my partners are currently writing an ingestsolution and seem to have a problem regarding 16:9 footage. if they capture using their 16:9 setting it shows up right in quicktime player (1024x576), but doesn ´t show up flagged anamorphic in fcp when drag & dropped into the browser. can somebody please tell me what flag has to be set in the quicktimefile to make this happen !? This email sent to pschneider(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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