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FCP: Source Movie Reference
by Nirosh Gunaratne 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

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Generator oddity
by Andreas Kiel 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi all, I've an fx script generator which does wrap text into a user given box. Any ideas out there? Thanks 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… The way it works (in rough) is that an empty 'final text' variable is set first. Then a loop starts, it steps thru the given text entry character by character (or better word by word), adds this to a temp paragraph and uses the 'measureString'/'measureStringPlain'. If the result is beyond the bounds it steps back 1 character/word and adds this 'captured stuff' as a paragraph to the 'final text'. Works fine so far. But under some conditions, which obviously are related to sequence settings, selected font and tracking FCP adds an leading empty paragraph to the 'final text'. There is no piece of code in the script which would cause the 'final text' to be changed that way. Changing the tracking value slightly does fix it, regardless whether 'auto kern' is checked or not. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: [Q] Is the documentation wrong? or How AppleEvents behave for FCP is changed?
by Helena Ju 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi JongAm, OS versions should have nothing to do with the AppleEvents in FCP. In Final Cut Pro 7.0 we did add more default behaviours so you should get 'something' back. So the first decsription you mention is the newer one. Older FCPs older than will get you nothing. So to make sure you always get something back, regardless of FCP version, you should specify what you want. The online documentation is for the newest version of FCP and as such says the first of these. I hope that explanation helps. Regards, Helena On 2010-08-17, at 11:37 PM, JongAm Park wrote: > For some AppleEvent for FCP, the description for how they work is changed. For example, on a document which is included in Snow Leopard, it says : > > Get Project XML (kFCPGetDocumentXML 'eXML') Description Requests the XML representation of a Final Cut project. If the project file is closed, it is first opened. The project is always brought to the foreground in Final Cut. If no project file is specified, Final Cut Pro returns XML for the front-most project. > > So, when the project file is not specified, the XML for the front-most project is returned. > > However, if you open the same document for pre-Snow Leopard ( let's say it is Leopard ), you will see : > > Get Project XML (kFCPGetDocumentXML 'eXML') Description Requests the XML representation of a Final Cut project. If the project file is closed, it is first opened. The project is always brought to the foreground in Final Cut. If a project file is not specified, no XML is returned. > > So, which one is correct? Is "How it works" just changed? Or either one of them are wrong? > > Thank you, > JongAm Park _______________________________________________ > 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 > > This email sent to hju(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… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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[Q] Is the documentation wrong? or How AppleEvents behave for FCP is changed?
by JongAm Park 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

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Re: addCustomParameterWithName doesn't work in a FxPlug filter?
by Paul Schneider 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

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Re: addCustomParameterWithName doesn't work in a FxPlug filter?
by Steve Christensen 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

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Re: Gamma issue?
by Darrin Cardani 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com Ben, We've done some testing here and it does appear that Motion displays things too lightly, though our tests indicate that it's not as severe as what you're seeing below. Improving the color handling of all the apps in the suite is definitely something we're discussing a lot these days. But I can't say what the end result will be, or when users will see it, unfortunately. Darrin On Aug 7, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Ben Syverson wrote: > Apologies if this has already been covered... > > Images in Motion appear too light, as if they're being rendered to 1.8 gamma instead of 2.2. This can be easily verified by opening a standard sRGB JPEG into Motion and also opening it in Preview. DigitalColor Meter will verify that the values displayed are quite different. > > It's an issue if you want to do anything color-related in Motion, because as soon as you roundtrip back to FCP, the image gets darker. I've found myself applying a Gamma of 0.89 to my entire project in Motion, and then turning it off when I'm ready to render. > > I understand that Motion is probably bypassing ColorSync to improve speed. But maybe we should have a "Display Gamma" slider in Motion's preferences? Running under 10.6, it would default to 2.2, otherwise 1.8, and it would be manually adjustable if you knew what you were doing... > > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > This email sent to dcardani(a)apple.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… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: plugin for FCP motion tab
by Darrin Cardani 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Aug 7, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Dado Valentic wrote: > I have been following this list for few years, living in hope that one day I will be writing my own fxplugs. However, the reality is that due to my work load this will probably never happen and I hope that there is somebody out there who might have some time and enthusiasm in working with us. > > We are working on several Stereoscopic 3D projects and cutting on FCP. Unfortunatelly none of already available 3D editing solutions really cut it for us and we have some serious issues in terms of their architecture that make it impossible for us to use it on real life jobs. > However, we have found workarounds by using two layers of video in FCP and motion tab settings that do everything for us, much faster and better than any other plug in. > The problem is that this process, at the moment, is very manual and I was wondering if anyone on this list would be interested in working with us and helping us develop 3D editing plug in, understand the way we use motion tab at the moment and figure how to link some of the parameters. > > Looking forward hearing from you Dado, Some other avenues you might want to pursue, too: 1) Having a tool which generates FCP XML with the appropriate motion tab settings. I'm not sure how well this would fit into your workflow, though. 2) Using parameter linking in Motion.app. You can link a layer's transform parameters to another layer's transform parameters (or some other parameter) by using the Link behavior. Let me know if you need more information on how to do that. 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… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: addCustomParameterWithName doesn't work in a FxPlug filter?
by Robert Monaghan 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

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Re: addCustomParameterWithName doesn't work in a FxPlug filter?
by Paul Schneider 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

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