Re: FxPlug generator templates
Re: FxPlug generator templates
- Subject: Re: FxPlug generator templates
- From: Garrick Meeker <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 13:16:20 -0700
That’s useful information but probably more useful for created complicated templates. For wrapping a plugin, we’d rather support any aspect ratio automatically.
My earlier comment around rendering at 4K was incorrect. Generators and filters are consistent with each other. What seems to happen: if the template is UHD and you apply it to HD, you get an HD frame with render scale of 0.5. That’s often okay, but using parameters in pixels will lead to inconsistent results. For example, a blur radius parameter in pixels instead of some relative percentage. I guess we really should avoid that but sometimes it can’t be helped.
> On Oct 8, 2015, at 12:31 PM, Alex Gollner <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Motion templates can have ‘Display Aspect Ratio’ snapshots.
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> The workflow is that you set up everything at 1920x1080, confirm it works in Final Cut, back in Motion select the Project layer, in the inspector, go to the Project tab and choose the Snapshots sub-tab. Here is where you add at least on DAR snapshot. If everything changes in proportion, you need only add one, the changes between DARs will then be applied in proportion based on the project aspect ratio in Final Cut.
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> When you add a DAR snapshot, you’ll see the aspect ratio change. If you add a 4:3 DAR, the project will change to being 1440x1080 (which is 4:3)
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> Once you add a DAR snapshot, you would select it and click the ‘Edit Snapshot’ button.
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> Say your project was just the Grid generator. Once you go into DAR Snapshot Rig Edit mode, you would change the width of the Grid generator to 1440 (if the DAR is 4:3). Once you click the ‘Stop Rig Edit Mode’ button, the ‘Width’ parameter has now been added to an invisible DAR widget (sadly named ‘Widget’). This widget and its rig aren’t listed in the Motion UI, so are invisible. Any parameters rigged to the DAR widget will now have a value associated with each DAR snapshot.
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> Now the width of the Grid generator (and whatever other parameters you changed while in Rig Edit Mode) is now associated with the aspect ratio of the project the generator is added to in Final Cut.
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> For more information, visit
> https://help.apple.com/motion/mac/5.2/index.html?localePath=en.lproj#motn141bb214
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> As regards the Motion format, use a text editor to change Motion files so their first few lines include
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> <ozml version="5.5">
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> <displayversion>5.0.7</displayversion>
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> It will be usable in older versions of Final Cut. This only works if you don’t use Motion features added in more recent updates. There are so few of them that that shouldn’t be a problem!
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> Alex4D
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