Re: FxGenerator duration
Re: FxGenerator duration
- Subject: Re: FxGenerator duration
- From: Darrin Cardani <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:05:55 -0700
You can already do what you want. In Motion, simply apply any filter
to the layer and it will do the same thing as an adjustment layer (as
far as I understand it). In FCP, you can create a nested sequence and
apply the effect to a nested sequence.
I always felt that Adjustment Layers, at least in Photoshop, were a
hack to get around the fact that they didn't have non-destructive
filters and adjustments. And in After Effects it seems to be to get
around the fact that you have to precomp things in order to be able to
apply an effect to several layers at once. Since we don't have any of
those limitations, I don't see the need to add this functionality. Is
there a use-case I'm not seeing for Adjustment Layers?
Darrin
On Mar 27, 2009, at 11:33 PM, Andrew Mees wrote:
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.
--
Darrin Cardani
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