Re: Compound Parameters
Re: Compound Parameters
- Subject: Re: Compound Parameters
- From: Paul Miller <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:41:45 -0500
Yeah and have fun doing that if you have 130+ effects. Oh, and it
doesn't work right if you have image wells.
Groan.
On 8/25/17 3:39 PM, Peter Litwinowicz wrote:
Easy enough to publish a group to FCP X.
Publish a param of the group (you can't publish the group with
MOtion's GUI… as Darrin correctly points out. Feature request!)
Let's say the group has ID of 9 and the param has ID of 25. (I'm
taking this from some actual code I have here, hence the specifics of
the numbers)
Okay, so when you open in FCP, the template will only show the param
with ID 25. Close FCP. Find the motion template (.moef file). Open
with a text editor.
You'll see text like this:
<publishSettings>
<version>2</version>
<target object="10013" channel="./9/25" name="Name of Param of Group"/>
<…. Other params and groups … >
</publishSettings>
Changes in bold to the first line:
<target object="10013" channel=*"./9"* name="*Name of Group*"/>
So you what you are doing is basically publishing the group by taking
off the "/25" off "/9/25" (which says "param with id 25 is part of
group with id 9), and then you have rename the thing being published
to the group name you desire.
As with other FCP groups, you'll need to go to the bar with the group
name, and go the right side to expose "Hide" or "Show" text that is
normally not displayed until the mouse hovers over that area.
Pete
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Date: Friday, August 25, 2017 at 12:48 PM
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Subject: Compound Parameters
Hi Guys,
Two questions please:
1. How to publish compound parameters in Motion 5 (latest version) ?
I am following the instructions at
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH16056?locale=en_US
both the shortcut menu and "animation menu” have the publish option
but it is greyed out.
The long version of the above:
I did a [FxParameterCreationAPI startParameterSubGroup] in my FxFilter
addParameters method. There are some parameters inside the subgroup.
This allows the user to neatly collapse or open the group of
parameters in the inspector part of Motion and FCPX. If I try to
publish the subgroup parameter in Motion, I get the menu as shown in
the first picture of the support page above, but the publish option is
disabled. I don’t want to publish these parameters individually.
The Motion 5 user manual
https://help.apple.com/motion/mac/5.0/help/English/en/motion/usermanual/index.html#chapter=19§ion=7&tasks=true
provides the same instructions as the other page.
2. How to expand a collapsed compound parameter group programatically ?
In my FxFilter parameterChanged method I can set the flag
kFxParameterFlag_COLLAPSED on a parameter subgroup to collapse it, but
setting the parameter flags to kFxParameterFlag_DEFAULT does not
expand it again. I’m pretty sure I tried all the other flags, but did
not get any success.
I am using FxPlug 3.
thanks in advance,
Lyndon Hill
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