site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com On Feb 8, 2008, at 8:34 AM, Wes Plate wrote: On 2/8/08 4:39 AM, "Kris van Rens" wrote: Sounds like "iSight Live!", an FxFactory plug-in for FCP/Motion. http://www.idustrialrevolution.com/free/fp1/ So to summarize: It is possible, but it's not recommended. Darrin -- Darrin Cardani dcardani@apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/site_archiver%40lists.ap... Well, my device driver appears as a character device (IOKit USB driver with an IOUserClient interface); it can be used to stream video in/ out of the system. So it must be _possible_ to do an FxPlug that takes in an external video signal. Oh yes, it's definitely possible. The questions are - 1) is this useful for users and 2) is there a better way to do it? For "iSight Live!", it's not clear to me from the web page what the purpose is. It says you can pick a color off of a client's brochure. That's certainly useful, but you wouldn't really be using it in a sequence or Motion project that you're going to render later on. You might be able to use it for live VJ stuff with Motion. My point being that to use it as a capture device, you'd need to have the generator sometimes displaying the signal live, and other times playing back what it previously captured. It would be easier for users if you just made a QuickTime component which captured the video data to disk as a QuickTime file and let them edit it however they want in whatever application they want later on. That is, unless there's some other thing you're trying to do that hasn't been explained. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com