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Invalidating preview cache in Motion
by Eberhard Ammelt 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hello, Thanks for any help, Eberhard Ammelt - Pixlock _______________________________________________ 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 have a problem with custom parameters in Motion (3.0.2). After creating a RAM preview in Motion (3.0.2), Motion ignores value changes of custom parameters, and does not invalidate the preview cache. I've tried a workaround with changing hidden and visible standard parameters programmatically, but it doesn't help. Is there any way to force Motion to re-render and invalidate the preview cache upon changes of custom parameter values? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: plugin unexpectedly available in Motion
by Steve Christensen 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

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Re: FCP doesn't like NSView drag&drop (FxPlug render problem culprit found)
by Paul Schneider 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi Pauli, - Paul On Mar 12, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Pauli Ojala wrote: http://lacquer.fi/FCPCocoaDragProblemDemoPlugin_binary_20090312.zip http://lacquer.fi/FCPCocoaDragProblemDemoPlugin_source_20090312.zip -- Pauli Ojala Lacquer oy/ltd pauli(a)lacquer.fi _______________________________________________ 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… Thanks for the sample plugin! This is an interesting and unexpected problem. It looks like the trick to "reset" Final Cut is to initiate a drag from within FCP's UI. Clicking in the Viewer will actually start a drag (you can drag the clip into the timeline that way). If I start a drag in the Timeline or Browser, it looks like FCP's canvas starts updating again, as well. I'm not sure what's causing this, although an odd interaction between Cocoa drag and drop and FCP's Carbon event handling is a plausible explanation. I'll look into it a little more. If your dragging happens entirely in one window, it might be possible to do some "fake" dragging of your own, but it would be nice if you didn't have to resort to such extreme measures. Ever since about FCP 6.0.2, I've been having strange and difficult- to-reproduce problems with FCP failing to render in response to events from my FxPlug plugin's Cocoa user interface. (I posted about it last year, and Paul Schneider was kind enough to make the "FloatingWindow" sample plugin as a barebones test case of a custom Cocoa window owned by an FxPlug, which was very helpful.) Now it looks like I've finally found the culprit: it's Cocoa drag & drop. More specifically, it appears that initiating a drag operation from an NSView in a Cocoa window is enough to put FCP in a state where its Canvas window is prevented from updating. There's a way to bring it back to life: one has to open the Video tab in the Viewer and click within the viewer's image (which is also unable to update and will thus contain pieces of the previous tab's view contents). I've modified the FloatingWindow sample as a test case for this problem. Here's the FxPlug and its source project: FWIW, the problem doesn't seem to occur on FCP 5.1.4, or any version of Motion. I'll file a bug report as well. For now I'm still stuck, as my plugin relies heavily on drag&drop (the user needs to be able to drag nodes into the effect composition view)... Can anyone think of a workaround? Would it perhaps be possible to use Carbon drag&drop between Cocoa views? This email sent to pschneider(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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FCP doesn't like NSView drag&drop (FxPlug render problem culprit found)
by Pauli Ojala 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com http://lacquer.fi/FCPCocoaDragProblemDemoPlugin_binary_20090312.zip http://lacquer.fi/FCPCocoaDragProblemDemoPlugin_source_20090312.zip -- Pauli Ojala Lacquer oy/ltd pauli(a)lacquer.fi _______________________________________________ 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… Ever since about FCP 6.0.2, I've been having strange and difficult-to- reproduce problems with FCP failing to render in response to events from my FxPlug plugin's Cocoa user interface. (I posted about it last year, and Paul Schneider was kind enough to make the "FloatingWindow" sample plugin as a barebones test case of a custom Cocoa window owned by an FxPlug, which was very helpful.) Now it looks like I've finally found the culprit: it's Cocoa drag & drop. More specifically, it appears that initiating a drag operation from an NSView in a Cocoa window is enough to put FCP in a state where its Canvas window is prevented from updating. There's a way to bring it back to life: one has to open the Video tab in the Viewer and click within the viewer's image (which is also unable to update and will thus contain pieces of the previous tab's view contents). I've modified the FloatingWindow sample as a test case for this problem. Here's the FxPlug and its source project: FWIW, the problem doesn't seem to occur on FCP 5.1.4, or any version of Motion. I'll file a bug report as well. For now I'm still stuck, as my plugin relies heavily on drag&drop (the user needs to be able to drag nodes into the effect composition view)... Can anyone think of a workaround? Would it perhaps be possible to use Carbon drag&drop between Cocoa views? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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how to flag qt-moovie to inport as anamorphic into FCP
by Christof Halasz 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com 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/site_archiver%40lists.a… 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 site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Relative paths for media
by Bruce Sharpe 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

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Re: Relative paths for media
by Helena Ju 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com Is it possible to make it work the way I want? Bruce _______________________________________________ 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/hju%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… Hi Bruce, I think the easiest way to do this is to make a disk image which the users can mount. Then you can control the path to the media files. Cheers, Helena On Mar 11, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Bruce Sharpe wrote: I'd like to distribute a sample Final Cut Pro project along with the media files to my customers. The project will be in XML format to avoid version issues. The media files are in the same directory as the project. I want to specify the location of the media (pathurl) in the project so that when the user imports the XML the project can find it. Everything I try results in warnings about media not being found and requires the user to reconnect it. This email sent to hju(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Relative paths for media
by Bruce Sharpe 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

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Re: plugin unexpectedly available in Motion
by Micah Sharp 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

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Re: plugin unexpectedly available in Motion
by Paul Schneider 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

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