Point controls, parameter groups, and templates (oh my!)
Point controls, parameter groups, and templates (oh my!)
- Subject: Point controls, parameter groups, and templates (oh my!)
- From: Paul Miller <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:14:41 -0500
After spending today getting a basic FxPlup up and running in the
Motion/FCPX "environment" a couple of things jumped out:
1. there doesn't appear to be any way to edit point controls in FCPX
interactively - all I see are type-in numbers and sliders. Is there a
button or overlay I'm missing so I can just drag the point around?
2. I can't publish groups to FCPX. This makes it kind of confusing if I
have a slider called "Amount" in the "Blur" group - it only shows up as
Amount. Amount for what? This is likely to confuse users. But I hesitate
to rename the slider as "Blur Amount" though since the "Blur" is
redundant back in Motion (and FCP 7), where it sits happily inside the
Blur group. I realize having groups of parameters may also confuse
users, but having overly verbose parameter names could annoy other users
(and me). I remember back when earlier FCP versions didn't have groups
and I had to prefix everything with the group names. But now FCP 7 (and
Motion) support them and I'll have to add a bunch of messy code to make
it work both ways.
Suggestions?
3. on the whole template resolution issue, is the current recommendation
to make templates at 1080P still the "right" one? Most of my effects are
CPU based, and I don't like the idea of having the source footage always
uprezzed to 1080P and processed at that size, if the source footage is
only 720P or even wide DV. Adding multiple templates at different common
resolutions is likely to confuse users. Having my effects take twice as
long to render as they should is likely to annoy them. And then they'll
rant that my effects are "slow", which annoys me.
Thoughts?
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