Re: FXPlug2 looks nice
Re: FXPlug2 looks nice
- Subject: Re: FXPlug2 looks nice
- From: Darrin Cardani <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:14:59 -0700
On Jun 27, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Paul Miller wrote:
>> On Jun 27, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Paul Miller wrote:
>>
>>> On 6/21/2011 8:41 PM, Colin McFadden wrote:
>>>> Amid the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments… FXPlug2 looks pretty nice. Seems to address a number of requests that have been made over the years. Thanks Darrin et al!
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, with no way to expose custom parameters in a Motion rig, there is no way to do custom controls, such as those needed to open a preset browser or special user interface.
>>>
>>> Anyone know of any way around this?
>>
>> Instead of making a preset browser, what about the possibility of just making those presets into Final Cut Effects? That way they show up in the effect browser without the user even needing to apply them! And you can group them together using both groups and themes.
>
> I thought you might suggest that - but we've already spent hundreds of hours fine-tuning a large set of presets, and developed a nice browser (which works in Final Cut Pro) to select them. Further, some of the internal details of some of the presets are hand-coded in an XML file and stored in a hidden custom parameter.
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> If only we had been told earlier about the limitations in the new API. Not for lack of asking though!
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> At the very least, if a plugin has a hidden custom parameter (to which data is stored when another parameter is manipulated), will these at least come over into FCPX and work there if we don't explicitly "export" them?
Yes. All your parameters are still there, they just don't all show up for the user. You will still get -parameterChanged: notifications for them and you can change them using the various parameter APIs.
Darrin
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