site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com m _______________________________________________ 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... It looks like FxGenerators don't have access to the 3D API -- is this correct? That is correct. It was an oversight. I have fixed it in a future version, but that version won't be available to the public any time soon. Sorry for the inconvenience. As you know, bug fixes have to be tested, and there wasn't time to test this fix for an earlier release. I'm hoping in the future we can seed 3rd party developers earlier to get better feedback. However, even when we've tried, the feedback from 3rd parties has been minimal. It's hard to find bugs in time to fix them when we don't get very much feedback (which admittedly is at least partly our own fault for not getting seeds to developers earlier). In other words, yeah, it sucks, and we're working on it. I've been a lousy 3rd party developer when it comes to beta testing and feedback -- so I can't complain too much. I'm sure I could have found some of these limitations before release. With previews, they are generated automatically for generators and always have been. We can do that with generators because they take no input. But with filters, it's not as easy because any given input may not be appropriate for a preview of a particular filter. For example, a photo with no green in it, won't show a green screen filter very well. And an image with no alpha won't show an effect that does something based on the alpha. I think the idea was that we want to generate a preview when possible so developers have less work to do. But there are cases where we can't do that. Maybe we should check to see if there's a preview movie and show it if it exists, and generate one if it doesn't exist? If you'd like to see that, please file an enhancement request. The logic for Generator movies makes sense -- but our Generators don't create anything by default -- but we'd like to show what it can do. I'll file a request. Thanks for the quick reply, Darrin. We really appreciate how responsive your team is with stuff like this. And we're *really* happy to see our stuff working so well in FCP. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com