Re: Reading TC from FCP
Re: Reading TC from FCP
- Subject: Re: Reading TC from FCP
- From: Dave Howell <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:59:19 -0700
FxPlug can get you close to that... You can use the FxTimingAPI to
query the timeline frame rate, and you can determine the current time
(either relative to the timeline or relative to your effect
instance). You can't, however, get the SMPTE format or SMPTE start
time. If you just want to display a frame number, that should be
straightforward. If you want to display a SMPTE timecode string, you
can't quite get all of that information from FxPlug. But you could
add a parameter to let the user specify the SMPTE format and start time.
Out of curiosity, what was the other FxPlug group you posted to? I
don't think I saw your message.
Dave Howell
FxPlug Custodian
Apple
On Jun 7, 2007, at 11:53 AM, email@hidden wrote:
Basically, I want to be able to read the current TC value from the
timeline (dynamically updating in my panel) for the plug-in. Then
I can implement TC calculation functions such as +-/* as well as
convert to feet/frames etc. That kind of thing.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Reading TC from FCP
From: Darrin Cardani <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, June 07, 2007 11:46 am
To: email@hidden
Cc: email@hidden
On Jun 7, 2007, at 11:32 AM, email@hidden wrote:
I posted to another FXPlug group and was told that the FXPlug API
does not expose any of the TC data in the current FCP project. My
intent was to create a simple TC calculator/converter plug in as an
exercise to learn FXPlug. However, I see that Digital Heaven reads
the TC out of FCP with their app "Big Time". Admittedly, it's not
an FXPlug application. Does anyone have a good idea how they might
be doing this?
Mike,
FxPlugs can get some timing information starting with FCP 6 and
Motion 3, but it's not clear what you mean when you say you want time
code data. Can you describe in more detail what you're trying to
accomplish? It may be possible to do what you want.
Looking at DigitalHeaven's website for BigTime (<http://www.digital-
heaven.co.uk/bigtime/>), it appears that it's probably making itself
available as a MIDI device, and rather than sending the data out to
some actual MIDI hardware, it's displaying the information. That's
just speculation on my part, though. It's an interesting idea!
I believe that FCP 6 also has some AppleScript capabilities. I
haven't worked with them, but it may be possible to get some
information out of FCP via that route, too.
But if you're just trying to learn FxPlug, definitely have a look
through the FxPlug sample code, and feel free to ask questions about
what you're specifically trying to do or learn.
Darrin
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