Re: FxGenerator duration
Re: FxGenerator duration
- Subject: Re: FxGenerator duration
- From: Andrew Mees <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:33:06 +0800
Hi there Darrin
My thinking is that by allowing a call that returns the current
composite frame then you essentially open up to developers and users
alike the wide and wonderful world of adjustment layers. I'd agree
that a user can workaround the lack of current facility for this, but
its not without significant interaction. As a pro FCP user myself, it
would be nice to see intrinsic support for adjustment layers directly
in the app, simply by allowing filters to be dragged to an empty
track, but given that such a capability is possibly outside the bounds
of the aging code base and/or its development direction, it does seem
that the functionality could handily be incorporated via expansion of
the FxPlug SDK. Another call that might offer significant advantages
that could be leveraged by developers would be one that directly
returns an image buffer representing the original clip source rather
than its timeline instance. Currently one can apply a filter to a clip
and thereafter access the original clip source only by adding it as
such to an image well within the filter ... doable but hardly sleek :-)
I'm just thinking out loud Darrin, I'll bet you've heard all this
before many times.
Best
Andy
On Mar28 , 2009, at 5:44 AM, Darrin Cardani wrote:
As for your request - can you be more specific about this:
How about a call that returns to a generator an image buffer for
the timeline at the given track and frame. Hoo boy, now that would
be something worth writing home about :-)
Can't you simply create an image well and put something from the
timeline into it (such as a group in Motion)? You can get the image
input's start time and duration, so you could offer the user a
control for an offset from the beginning of the clip, or something
like that, if you needed to.
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