site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com On Jun 30, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Christoph Vonrhein wrote:

Hi Darrin,

While I have now converted my FxPlug plugins to work perfectly with Motion 5, I was trying to create the FCP X templates. There is a big problem: I can't publish "Image wells" and published custom parameters don't work with FCP X.

Am I correctly seeing this that I can ONLY publish checkboxes, sliders and popup menus? No Image wells and no custom parameters?

No. You can only create rigs that have checkboxes, sliders, and popup menus. You can publish most other parameters (angles, color wells, etc.). For image wells, you con't publish them directly. Instead what you need to do is create a drop zone in your project (I believe it can be disabled and this will still work), and drop the drop zone into the image well. Drop zones are automatically published. It's a little roundabout, but seems to do the job.

Am I seeing this correctly that FCP X has no native plugin interface included at all? No FxPlug, no FX-Script, no AE plugin import and no way to simply drop a Quartz Composer file into the timeline?

Do we completely rely on Motion templates with published checkboxes, sliders and popup menus to create an effect for FCP X?

FCP X's plug-in support right now is entirely through Motion Templates. As mentioned above you can publish angle parameters, drop zones that are image wells, color wells, etc. 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... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com