Re: Final Cut Pro - Plugin Authoring - Get Text Generators
Re: Final Cut Pro - Plugin Authoring - Get Text Generators
- Subject: Re: Final Cut Pro - Plugin Authoring - Get Text Generators
- From: Eryk Vershen <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 18:32:59 -0800
Look at the FinalCutPro_AppleEvents sample code. You can have your
external app, get the XML from FCP and then send XML to FCP. Main
limitation is you need to known the FCP project in your external app
- you can't ask FCP for it.
-eryk
On Mar 2, 2007, at 6:09 PM, Adam Venturella wrote:
Ya I figured I could just export the XML from Final Cut, write a
parser to pull out the text I needed. I was trying to do it all
while in FCP.
Now I am new to Plugin development, so in my mind my workflow would
be:
FCP: Export XML
Cocoa: open XML and parse accordingly, as far as what I want to do.
Cocoa: Write new XML
FCP import new XML
It may be that I can tell FCP to export XML in the background, and
open that via stdout, etc etc etc... I have no idea yet how FCP
talks, what hooks are available, etc etc.. I am assuming FxPlug
will enlighten me as to what is available.
I want to be able to grab all of the Generated Text in the timeline
so I can modify it. XML is definitely one way, I shall crack open
the ol' SDK and see what she's got.
Thanks!
Adam
On Mar 2, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Andreas Kiel wrote:
Adam,
You should learn about XML first if you want to edit some text
generators into a timeline, try with with some build in generators
like "Text". Look at those and how they are 'build' with the FCP
FXBuilder and try to modify for your own needs and then look at
the XML again. Finally look at the 'little bit odd' implementation
of AE for FCP 5.1.x to directly place some stuff.
Can you explain in more detail what you're trying to do?
That would be helpful to help.
Regards
Andreas
On 02.03.2007, at 22:52, Darrin Cardani wrote:
On Mar 2, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Adam Venturella wrote:
Can someone point me in the direction of a good tutorial on FCP
Plugin Authoring and Getting text-generators on the timeline?
I don't know of a tutorial, but you can download the FxPlug SDK
from here:
<http://developer.apple.com/appleapplications/fxplugsdk.html>
You can learn about how FCP exports XML from here:
<http://developer.apple.com/appleapplications/fcpxml.html>
That can be useful for writing tools to modify or convert FCP
documents. There's sample code for sending AppleEvents to FCP here:
<http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/FinalCutPro_AppleEvents/
index.html>
I'm not sure what you mean by getting text generators on the
timeline. Can you explain in more detail what you're trying to do?
Darrin
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