site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:subject:mime-version :content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding :message-id:references:to:x-mailer; bh=kPd8K3II+A89n3QqT66OlVr4+iXQGz0oWhpP4Js0WIE=; b=HTHBLC52BagMmcPCIFg7sNi4ogK8LCFr48+hJ5hMenIYfgg74UPpeAyHeGtfTSLL9n dvXEQepksY7NWzDN6r55DjaE4iAJ9eGJSnw7hkAQtW5dLj1ZjWN1pmOSUCVxkWf8NGB+ QixSfU8hqwdORSnAyvOmEohP1rrVXQk6ouiAY= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; b=swnZdSrTkqKtC0+dvcIFKkBkV+dgMOsRDSVuSuG7YLRygYhrEbVAKcQjRccaR6Anj6 GvYf9Y9ysPw0aANA37YVVPU0hAfmV+e0m3/8wU/02toDf6leFPrtLOS86N9mW1obQYMK PnIxckKGNgNXEUbG2P0BTSJwHFmLdjP4SJR9c= I came across the same situation for Loader and unfortunately if an alpha channel exists in the file (still or QT) FCP expects to see the alphatype is set in the XML. If it doesn't exist in the XML then the alpha mode is set to None which understandably freaks end users out. As you say, it would be useful if FCP auto detected the alphatype by default when it isn't specified (as it does with regular file import). I filed a feature request so you might want to do the same. For simplicity's sake, what we ended up doing is providing a popup in preferences for the alphatype (set to default of Black which seems to be most common) and there haven't been any customer complaints. Martin Baker www.digital-heaven.co.uk www.twitter.com/digitalheaven www.videospaceonline.com www.finalcutters.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 On 8 Apr 2010, at 20:42, Rainer Standke wrote:
Hello,
I am working on something that imports stills into FCP via XML. These stills are exclusively tga's for now. It turns out that FCP seems to know a couple of different alpha types: none, straight, black, or white. Straight is most likely not pre-multplied, black is probably pre-multiplied black, and white is premultiplied white. I have seen FCP guess both black and white for tga's, and the FCP user manual says:
"When you import a still image file, Final Cut Pro identifies the type of alpha channel and sets the imported clip’s Alpha property appropriately."
Only in the case of an XML import it doesn't guess, even if the alphatype tag is omitted.
Is there any way to have FCP guess upon XML import the same way that it does when the user simply drags a file into the project?
Or, how can I find out programmatically if the the alpha is premultiplied?
Thanks,
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