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Sat, 27 Sep 2003 |
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courtesy of the AE list e-mails of Dik Baskerville
[Note: Mostly non-AE FCP filters are reviewed at Los Angeles FCPUG and at Ken Stone's Final Cut Pro.]
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This is a quick test of OS-X plug-in compatibility with FCP 4.0.2. It is being posted to the AE lists and FCP lists only. I am not copying this one to Developers as I did with the AE 6.0 list, since many of the plugs written for AE aren't intended to be FCP compliant anyway.
There are some plugs which are supposed to be supported in FCP which don't work in FCP 4.0.2 though. I've noted where I think Developers are saying they support FCP on the set by set listing. If I've attributed support to any Developers wrongly, please let me know. Note that I am currently assuming that if you supported FCP 3 then you will support FCP 4.0.x at some point, even though you may not have announced this yet.
Note that - like the AE 6 test - this was done quickly with only "light" testing - just the application of the filter and a few quick adjustments to parameters, so this can only really be take as is a rough guide as to what does *not* work.
"No problems found" means just that. It it no guarantee at all that the plugs are bug-free, and even plugs in which I found no problems in these quick tests could well show problems in more comprehensive real-world use.
"You have to start checking somewhere though." If other users find that specific plugs show behaviour which does not agree with my findings, then please let me know and I'll try to incorporate the comments. Likewise, if you get normal behaviour where I have found a problem, please share that too.
Note that the Digital Anarchy site states that they are working with Apple to resolve issues with Aurora Sky running under FCP 4. This may mean that we (optimally) can expect a new 4.0.x release from Apple, to fix problems with plugs that ran OK before. Or it may mean that a patched version will need be put on the DA site once the problem is isolated. Who knows....
Note too that many of the plugs used in the test are the latest downloadable demos. The fact that they are demos could theoretically cause them to crash FCP while the shipping versions don't, of course. Again if anyone has shipping versions and these don't crash, please share, so we can all get an accurate profile.
Preamble:
I believe that in theory Apple did not change the AE effect API (3.1) it uses between 3.0.4 and 4.0.2, but there are still a lot of plugs which ran OK in 3.0.4, which have problems in 4.0.2. Problems range from cosmetic to severe. The same happened even between 3.0 and 3.0.2. So Apple is clearly something of a nightmare for it's plug-in developers and needs serious improvement in this area.
Since FCP's implementation of the AE Effect API is so old, then a lot of Developers who write plugs to take advantage of the more recent features of the AE Effects API have not even tried to make their plug-ins compatible with FCP. So where I have noted that sets crash under FCP, this is not surprising in many cases, since they were never intended to run there. (I just tried them anyway ;-) Apple's error-checking should probably handle plugs like this a bit more elegantly.
These are some typical problems with AE plugs running under FCP:
A lot of plugs just bomb FCP while it is starting up (the name shown in the splash screen is not always the plug which bombs...) A lot of others bomb FCP immediately when they are applied to the layer. The vast majority of these are plugs not intended to run under FCP.
Of more concern is that some plugs seem to be motoring along OK, but then will crash after being used for a while. The parameter causing the crash is often different the next time, so it's more likely to be some deeper memory issue. This is a worry, since you do not know when and if a plug will cause this to happen. It might open happen intermittently (the worst kind of bug.) Note that this again happens mostly for plugs which are not officially supported in FCP 4.x.
Another common failing in AE plugs running under FCP 4.0.2 is that plugs have parameters entirely missing in FCP 4.0.2, although they appear OK in AE.
This esp. tends to happen with sliders (e.g. in some of the Panopticum plugs). This is a concern for testing validity, since unless you run an exact parallel between the AE and FCP implementations, it can sometimes look as if a filter is operating OK during a quick test, whereas in fact you cannot adjust certain parameter values, because the slider is missing. I expect, therefore, that I may well have missed some plugs which look to be operating OK, but which in fact aren't. Yet again these are most likely to be plugs not officially supported in FCP.
Most of the filter About boxes in FCP 4.0 come up with a certain amount of ASCII garbage, but not all of them (e.g. Virtix is OK) - which is odd. BCC 2.0 is all garbage in the About box whereas more typically the plug-in name is garbage and then the version number following is clear. This is almost certainly an FCP 4 bug. I'd be interested to know if other people see this though, since my version of OS-X also has Chinese enabled. While testing though, the selected language was always US English.
FCP only reads the slider range as the parameter max to min, and cannot accept data numerically which exceeds the parameter range, while staying in the true min-max limits for the parameter (viz. as AE and Boris RED can.) This is a problem for many plugs where the slider range is actually quite narrow (presumably in the expectation that the user will enter values beyond the range or change the slider range by using Edit Value in AE.) Examples of this would be FE Blur, FE Channel Blur and FE Directional Blur where the slider value (maximum for FCP) is 1/20 or 1/10 that of the maximum value in AE.... Of course this is a trade off, since the more you expand the slider range the less apparent sensitive it is. There are several plugs where I think the Developer hasn't allowed enough for FCP use though.
Talking of FEC, 4.0.1 does now allow most plugs to run OK in FCP 4.0.2, but it's not a clean bill of health. See the set-by-set listing for details.
Working with AE-compatible plugs in FCP compared to AE shows how shabby the FCP AE Plug-in API is compared to AE's. Particular problems are:
- the point controls are very substandard. You have to click the Canvas to position them and you can normally only see one at a time. Being able to select and drag points is far, far better, and I think even the AE 3.1 API which FCP has reverse-engineered had that. This severely cuts down the usability of a lot of plugs, including some of Apple's own - like the X-Point Garbage Mattes. For this reason it may well pay you to use certain filters under Boris RED if you have it in FCP 4.0, since RED has draggable points.
- there's also an odd bug with FCP's point controls in that they seem to take the co-ordinates from the timeline dimensions rather than the track dimensions, so if you have a still of non-standard size in - say - a 720*576 rectangular pixel timeline, then it's quite likely to have the points in the wrong place!!
- colour controls can't pick up colours except from the Canvas/Viewer. This means that you can't make 2 swatch colours the same by clicking the other ..... bad.
- I've mentioned the lack of the slider controls' abilities to accept numerical values beyond slider range. There's also no draggable numeric value support in FCP.
- contextual greyout or disabling is used to good effect by many AE plugs, but is not supported by FCP, which often makes life difficult since you don't know what sliders work under certain conditions (e.g. listbox mode alternatives...) I think this was an addition in the AE 4.x Effect API and Apple could open the way to a much greater range of 3rd. Party plugs if they supported this. The 3.1 API is ludicrously old. Note that I believe Boris RED's hosting of AE plugs is written to be compliant with a later AE Effect API (I think 4.x) so it's probable that more AE plugs will run under RED than directly under FCP. I'll be looking at that when time allows. I don't think they support menu contextualization though....
- custom controls are badly supported in FCP . It's apparently hard to make them update the standard control values. This is odd because the internal API used by such things as the Apple 3-Way Colour Corrector is even able to open another pane and still use the visual controls to update the numeric (standard) controls in the Filter pane.
- the way of only selecting second and subsequent layer inputs by dropping on footage from the Browser is not as convenient and clear as in AE, where other layers (tracks) can be selected, so you can position them relative to the layer to which the filter is applied. This may not be easy for Apple to revise, since it means tracking changes in tracks as they change.
- I'm sure Developers could itemise many more problems if they were given free reign to do so.
Add this to the shortcomings of the motion processing (having to position transformations on pixels divisable by 4 or the image goes soft, poor transform animation algorithms, poor control of keyframe curves (better in 4, but still poor) and you can see that FCP has a long way to go to offer the dream of many of us, which is an fully-fledged editor and compositor in one.
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Summary List:
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** SUPPORTED BY DEVELOPERS IN FCP **
* No Problems Found (About box errors excepted)*
Boris Continuum Complete 2.0
Boris Boris RED 3.0
Conoa Conoa 3D 1.7
Conoa Conoa Easy Shapes 1.3
Conoa Conoa EasyTinter 1.3
Digital Film Tools DFT 55MM 2.0
Digital Film Tools DFT Composite Suite 3.0
Digital Film Tools DFT Digital Film Lab 1.0
Digital Film Tools DFT Fast Blur 3.0
Digital Film Tools DFT zMatte 1.0
RE:Vision Effects FieldsKit 1.1
RE:Vision Effects RE:Fill 1.0.1
RE:Vision Effects ReelSmart Motion Blur 2.0
RE:Vision Effects Shade/Shape 1.2.1
RE:Vision Effects Twixtor 2.0.2
RE:Vision Effects SmoothKit 2.0
RE:Vision Effects Video Gogh 2.6
Stagetools Moving Picture 4.0
Ultimatte AdvantEdge 1.5.7
* No Problems Found (Reduced features) *
Digital Anarchy Psunami 1.0
* Almost All No Problems Found (no patch)*
Media 100 Inc. Final Effects Complete for OS X
4.0.1
Red Giant Software Knoll Light Factory 2.0
Virtix Effects for AE and FCP 1.0
* All / Some Broke / Errors (patch coming) *
Buena Software Inc. Dissolve Factory 1.0
Digital Anarchy Aurora, Sky 1.0
* Some Broke / Errors (no patch) *
Digital Anarchy Text Anarchy 2.0
Stagetools Moving Parts
Synthetic Aperture Color Finesse 1.0.7
* Some Crash When Applied (patch coming) *
Buena Software Inc. Effect Essentials 1.1 for FCP
* Not Tested (should work) *
Boris Boris FX 6.1
Boris Boris Graffiti 2
Digital Anarchy ColorTheory 1.5
Digital Anarchy Gradient! (version?)
Realviz Retimer 1.1
* In Development *
GenArts Sapphire
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** NOT SUPPORTED BY DEVELOPERS IN FCP **
* Seem to work *
Belle Nuit Montage Mimikri 1.0.4
Profound Effects Swim 1.0.0
Sebastian Mecklenburg Freeware 1.0
Trapcode Shine 1.0.5
* Some Broke / Errors (no patch) *
Red Giant Software Composite Wizard 1.1
* Most/All Broke / Errors (no patch) *
DigiEffects DE Aurorix 2.7
DigiEffects DE Berserk 1.7
DigiEffects DE Delirium 1.5
DigiEffects DE Cinelook 1.5.1
DigiEffects DE Cinemotion
Frischluft fLAIR 1.0.2 (demo)
Frischluft Freeware 1.0.1 (demo)
Harald Heim/Panopticum Plugin Galaxy AE 1.0
Panopticum Engraver 1.0
Panopticum Fire 3.0
Panopticum Lens Pro 3.5 Bundle
Pete Warden's Plugins Freeware 1.4
Trapcode Starglow 1.0.2
Visual Infinity Grain Surgery 2.0
* All / Some Crash When Applied to Layer *
BigFX FilmFX 2.5 for Mac
FAN Grader 1.5
FAN Supressor 1.5
FAN XMult (Free) 1.0
KaZuhiro FuRuhata HeboHebo (version?)
META/DMA ScopoGigio 1.0.2
Panopticum Anima Text 2.0
Panopticum Array 1.6
Panopticum Figure 1.0
Panopticum Grid 1.0
Panopticum Rich Typing 1.3
Panopticum Tools 1.1
Phillip-Spoeth Sinedot/Sinedot II/Retrodots/Shear
Red Giant Software Primatte 1.5.1
RE:Vision Effects RE:Flex 2.0
Trapcode 3D Stroke 2.0.2
Trapcode Sound Keys 1.1.1
Walker Effects Walker Effects 1.1
Zaxwerks Invigorator 3.0.5 Classic
Zaxwerks Invigorator 3.0.5 Pro
* All Give Error at Startup *
Alien Skin Software Eye Candy for AE 3.2
The Foundry Tinderbox 1 1.3V1
The Foundry Tinderbox 2 1.2V1
The Foundry Tinderbox 3 1.0V1
* Some/All Crash FCP at Startup *
Abneil Software Andrew's (Video) Plugins 1.1
Boris Title Toolkit 1.0
Bresnev Shu Expression Effects (version?)
Digital Anarchy Anarchy Toolbox 1.0
Digital Anarchy Geomancy 1.1.2
dvGarage dvMatte 2.0
Flam3.com AE Flame 1.1
Fnord Software Power Picker 1.0
Fnord Software Übercolor 1.0
Forge Freeform AE 1.0
Frischluft LensCare 1.1 (demo)
Red Giant Software Orphanage Magic Bullet 1.1
Profound Effects Useful Things 1.5
Sakurai Optical Lab Final Focus 1.0
Sakurai Optical Lab Iris Filter 4
* Not Tested (no usable demo) *
Red Giant Software Image Lounge 1.1
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Set by Set List:
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Abneil Software Andrew's (Video) Plugins 1.1
- (Not supported in FCP) All plugs crash FCP on startup
Alien Skin Software Eye Candy for AE 3.2
- (not supported in FCP) Gives "Cannot find" error on startup and will not load. This is because Alienskin are the only developer who have all filters bundled together in a single file. If that were not the case then Eye Candy would probably be FCP API compliant. AFAIK Alienskin have no intention to do this though.
Belle Nuit Montage Mimikri 1.0.4 (demo)
- (not supported in FCP) If you click "Options" - then it crashes! - but otherwise seems to work. But since it's supposed to upres the colour conversion from SD to HD, then you'd need to nest these in order to apply them to the drop-patches in FCP. Certainly not as good as having layers as in AE. Not tested to verify this works. Verify expensive for what it does anyway.
BigFX FilmFX 2.5 for Mac (demo)
- (not supported for FCP) Loads at startup but crashes FCP when applied to layer
Boris Continuum Complete 2.0
- (supported for FCP) the About box readout comes up as ASCII garbage on my system, but this doesn't affect the performance of the filters. As noted I'm not sure if this is specific to my system or an FCP bug.
Boris Boris FX 6.1 (demo)
Boris Boris Graffiti 2 (demo)
- (supported for FCP) not tested, but probably work since they're subsets of RED
Boris Boris RED 3.0
- (supported for FCP) No problems found
Boris Title Toolkit 1.0 (demo)
- (not supported for FCP) This is designed for AE 5.5 / 6.0 and crashes FCP on startup
Bresnev Shu Expression Effects (version?) (demo)
- (not supported for FCP) This is designed for AE 5.5 / 6.0 and crashes FCP on startup
Buena Software Inc. Dissolve Factory 1.0 (demo)
- (supported for FCP 3.x) Broke - Transition Completion slider missing
Buena Software Inc. Effect Essentials 1.1 for FCP (demo)
- (supported for FCP 3.x) Worked under FCP 3.0.4 and half the filters still seem to have no problems under FCP 4 with full RGB sources. Some *do* have problems though. Buena know about these and when they've stopped tearing their hair and banging their head against the wall, will probably fix them.
- EE Digital Interference - Block stripe draws over alpha, but seems OK when no alpha present
- EE Feedback - Does not have custom control as in AE, but still fully functional and no problems found
- EE Frame Manipulator - Crashed FCP once after adjustment of (Sine) Min
value was raised above zero
- EE HSV Curves - Crashes FCP when applied to layer
- EE Pixel Manipulator - Crashes FCP on application
- EE Super RGB Curves - Crashes FCP on application
Conoa Conoa 3D 1.7 (demo)
Conoa Conoa Easy Shapes 1.3 (demo)
Conoa Conoa EasyTinter 1.3 (demo)
- (supported for FCP) the About box readout comes up with name as ASCII
garbage on my system (version number and rest are OK,) but this doesn't affect the performance of the filters. As noted I'm not sure if this is specific to my system or an FCP bug. Otherwise no problems found.
DigiEffects DE Aurorix 2.7 (demo)
(not supported under FCP 3.0.2ff)
- DE 3D Lighting - Applies, but so slow as to be unusable
- DE Chaotic Noise - Broke. Pattern comes up with wrong scale (far too small,) almost like noise
- DE Chaotic Rainbow - Broke. Pattern comes up with wrong scale (far too small,) almost like noise
- DE Electrofield - Broke: no output
- DE Fractal Noise - Broke: output's a mess. Scale problems
- DE Infinity War - Broke: no effect
- DE Infinity Zone - Broke: comes up as an averaged solid (could be scale issue)
- DE Interferix - Broke. Pattern comes up with wrong scale (far too small,)
almost like noise
- DE Interferoid - Broke. Pattern comes up with wrong scale (far too small,) almost like noise
- DE Interpheron - Oddly this looks right in FCP, but suffers from the wrong scale problem in AE 6.0!
- DE LightZoom - Either an endless beachball or too slow to be useless
- DE NoiseBlender - Broke. Pattern comes up with wrong scale (far too small,) almost like noise
- DE SoapFilm - Broke. Pattern comes up with wrong scale (far too small,) almost like noisee
- DE SpotLights - Broke: no output
- DE Turbulent Flow - Broke: no output
- DE VideoLook - slower than AE
- DE Warpoid - Broke: no effect
- DE Whirlix - Broke. Pattern comes up with wrong scale (far too small,) almost like noise
- DE WoodMaker - Broke. Pattern comes up with wrong scale (far too small,)
almost like noise
DigiEffects DE Berserk 1.7
(not supported under FCP 3.0.2ff)
- DE BumpMaker - Broke: looks very different to AE
- DE Crystallizer - Broke: no output
- DE GravityWell - Broke: no output
- DE Newsprint - Too slow to be usable
- DE NightBloom - Broke: no output
- DE Pearls - Broke: no output
- DE Ripploid - Broke: no effect
- DE Spintron - Broke: no effect
- DE StarField - Broke: no effect
- DE VanGoughist - Broke: no output
DigiEffects DE Cinelook 1.5.1 (demo)
(not supported in FCP, but DE site says it should work)
- DE CineLook - Broke: Presets don't work
DigiEffects DE Cinemotion (demo)
(not supported in FCP, but DE site says it should work)
- DE Adaptive Noise - Broke: presets don't work
- DE Banding Reducer - Broke: presets don't work
- DE Film Motion - Broke: no effect
- DE Grain Reducer - Broke: presets don't work
- DE Interface Aliasing Reducer - Broke: presets don't work
- DE Letterbox - Crashes FCP on application
DigiEffects DE Delirium 1.5
(not supported under FCP 3.0.2ff)
- DE BlurZone - Processes but no output
- DE Bubbles - Processes but no output
- DE COP Blur - Processes but no output
- DE Camera Shake - Presets don't work, otherwise no problems found
- DE Channel Delay - Presets don't work, no problems found (on AE too)
- DE Day for Night - Presets don't work, else no problems found
- DE Electrical Arcs - Broke: no output
- DE Fairy Dust - Broke: no output
- DE Film Flash - Presets don't work, otherwise no problems found
- DE Fire - Broke: no output
- DE FireWorks - Broke: no output
- DE Flicker And Strobe - Presets don't work, otherwise no problems found
- DE Flow Motion - Processes but no output
- DE Fog Factory - Broke: comes up grained
- DE Framing Gradients - Presets don't work, otherwise no problems found
- DE Glower - Broke: no effect
- DE Grayscaler - Presets don't work, otherwise no problems found
- DE HLS Displace - Broke: no effect
- DE Hyper Harmonizer - Broke: no effect
- DE Lens Flares - Broke: no effect
- DE Loose Sprockets - Broke: no effect
- DE MultiGradient - Presets don't work, otherwise no problems found
- DE Muzzle Flash - Broke: no effect
- DE Nexus - Broke: no effect
- DE Puffy Clouds - Too slow to be usable
- DE RainFall - Crashes FCP on application
- DE Retinal Bloom - Broke: no effect
- DE Schematic Grids - Broke: comes up as white overlay
- DE Show Channels - Presets don't work, otherwise no problems found
- DE Sketchist - Broke
- DE Smoke - Broke: no effect
- DE SnowStorm - Presets don't work, otherwise no problems found
- DE Solarize - Presets don't work, otherwise no problems found
- DE Sparks - Broke: no effect
- DE Specular Lighting - Broke: has light but no bumpmapping
- DE Thermograph - Presets don't work, otherwise no problems found
- DE Turbulent Noise - Presets don't work, otherwise no problems found
- DE Video Malfunction - Presets don't work, otherwise no problems found
- DE Visual Harmonizer - Broke: no effect
- DE Wave Displace - Broke: no effect
Digital Anarchy Anarchy Toolbox 1.0 (demo)
(Gradient Path and Path Distortion not supported in FCP. Others aren't supported either but site says they "should work" (in FCP 3 presumably)
- Color Sampler - Crashes FCP on startup
- Designer Blur - Crashes FCP on application
- Gradient Path - Doesn't crash FCP but path selector does not appear to the filter is inoperable (as you'd expect as FCP doesn't support paths.)
- Path Distort - Doesn't crash FCP but path selector does not appear to the filter is inoperable (as you'd expect as FCP doesn't support paths.)
- Resizer - Gives non-fatal error "requested unsupported feature" - no effect - Smooth Tiler - Crashed FCP on application
Digital Anarchy Aurora, Sky 1.0 (demo)
(Supported under FCP 3.x)
- Aurora - The DA site says this currently doesn't work and they are working with Apple to fix it.
Digital Anarchy Geomancy 1.1.2
(Not supported under FCP)
- Digital Anarchy GridLines - No problems found but V. slow
- Digital Anarchy GridSquares - No output at default values.
- Digital Anarchy HairLines - Crashes FCP
Digital Anarchy Psunami 1.0
(Supported under FCP)
- Works, but preset handling missing which cuts plug-in usefulness exponentially. Better to prerender stiff like seascapes in AE anyway
Digital Anarchy Text Anarchy 2.0 (part demo)
(Supported in FCP 3.x - no patch announced for 4.0)
- Font Changer - Crashed FCP after fonts selected and options box quit
- Type On - Crashes FCP on application
Digital Anarchy ColorTheory 1.5 (demo)
(Supported under FCP)
- ColorTheory - does not load
- CT Color Correct - Gives Cannot Find error on startup and when applied to layer
- This is likely to be a demo problem. Having run the demo installer a second time, all the demo files seemed to be stuffed up. In the several years I've tried to load this demo I've never managed to run it for more than one day! But then I have a knack of breaking things....
Digital Anarchy Gradient! (version?) (demo)
(Supported in FCP)
- The demo seems only to have a Classic installer for some reason. Not tested.
Digital Film Tools DFT 55MM 2.0 (demo)
Digital Film Tools DFT Composite Suite 3.0 (demo)
Digital Film Tools DFT Digital Film Lab 1.0 (demo)
Digital Film Tools DFT Fast Blur 3.0 (demo)
Digital Film Tools DFT zMatte 1.0 (demo)
- (supported for FCP) the About box readout comes up with name as ASCII garbage on my system (version number and rest are OK,) but this doesn't affect the performance of the filters. As noted I'm not sure if this is specific to my system or an FCP bug.
dvGarage dvMatte 2.0 (demo)
- dvmatte pro - Crashes FCP on application to layer
FAN Grader 1.5 (demo)
FAN Supressor 1.5 (demo)
FAN XMult (Free) 1.0
- Grader - Crashes FCP after controls adjusted
- Supressor - Crashes FCP after controls adjusted
- XMult - Crashes FCP on application to layer
Flam3.com AE Flame 1.1
- AEFlame - Gives "Requires AE 5.5+" Error and does not load
Flaming Pear PS Plug-ins
- (Not supported in FCP) Ignored by FCP at startup
Fnord Software Power Picker 1.0 (demo)
- (Not supported in FCP) Crashes FCP on application
Fnord Software Übercolor 1.0 (demo)
- (Not supported in FCP) - ?
Forge Freeform AE 1.0 (demo)
- (Not supported in FCP) Freeform AE - Crashes FCP on startup
Frischluft LensCare 1.1 (demo)
- Depth of Field - Crashes FCP on application
- Out of Focus - Crashes FCP on application
Frischluft fLAIR 1.0.2 (demo)
Frischluft Freeware 1.0.1 (demo)
- Amiga Rulez - Has an odd effect on layer size
- BoxBlur - Slider parameters missing!
- FieldFixer - Has an odd effect on layer size
- Glas Sphere - Slider parameters missing!
- Glow - Slider parameters missing!
- Highlight - Some slider parameters missing!
- Hsl Selection - Slider parameters missing!
- Mosaic Plane - Some slider parameters missing!
- RadialBlur - Some slider parameters missing! Has odd effect on layer size
- Volumetrics - Some slider parameters missing! Has odd effect on layer size
Harald Heim/Panopticum Plugin Galaxy AE 1.0 (demo)
- (Not supported in FCP) All plug-ins broke - process, but sliders missing
KaZuhiro FuRuhata HeboHebo (version?)
- (Not supported in FCP) All plugs crash AE on layer application
Media 100 Inc. Final Effects Complete
- 4.0 does not work in FCP 4. There is a free downloadable update (4.0.1) on the Media 100 > Support site. Note that Time Blend and Time Blend FX are not installed into FCP as they aren't compatible.
- With the new version installed there are not many problems with the filters, but there may be or are some:
- FE Blur / FE Channel Blur - Work but max levels only go to 50 (slider range) in FCP compared to 1000 in AE. Slider range should probably be adjusted in code to give more flexibility under FCP
- FE Directional Blur - Works but max length is 1/10 that of that in AE. Not much use
- FE Sharpen - Works but max sharpening is 100 compared to 4000 in AE. AE Slider range is 100 in AE and this is what FCP sees. It may just be adequate here.
- FE Soften - Seems to subtle even at max value that one wonders if it's working right
- FE Ripple Pulse - Can see greyscale map working but distortion not applied? Only 2 sec timespan max
- FE Slant / Slant Matte - Cuts off at frame edges. Did it always do that? AE Transform doesn't
- FE Advanced 3D - Position and rotation scrubbers don't work
- FE Cylinder - Position and rotation scrubbers don't work
- FE Blobbylize - Some weirdness where alpha touches upper edge
- FE Repetile - Cuts off at frame boundaries. Did it always do that?
META/DMA ScopoGigio 1.0.2 (demo)
- (Not supported in FCP) Gives Error "Cannot acquire AEFX Suite" when applied to layer. See header but no parameters
Panopticum Anima Text 2.0
Panopticum Figure 1.0 (demo)
Panopticum Grid 1.0 (demo)
- (Not supported in FCP) Crashes FCP on application
Panopticum Fire 3.0 (demo)
- (Not supported in FCP) Processes, but only at alpha edges and discoloured (unlike AE)
-Panopticum Array 1.6 (demo)
- (Not supported in FCP)
- Array - Applied OK and native objects seem OK, but continued use of layer inputs crashed FCP, and next time it crashed straight off
- Other 3 - Work but have controls missing (sliders)
Panopticum Engraver 1.0 (demo)
- (Not supported in FCP) Seems to work, but sliders missing so no control!
Panopticum Lens Pro 3.5 Bundle (demo)
- (Not supported in FCP) All filters worked for some while, although rendering mode selector and menu contextualization didn't. Eventually crashed, but it was close! ;-0
Panopticum Rich Typing 1.3
- (Not supported in FCP)
PAN Digitalizer - Crashes FCP on application
PAN Morphing - Crashed FCP when parameters adjusted
PAN Rich Typing - Crashes FCP when applied to layer
Panopticum Tools 1.1
- (Not supported in FCP)
PAN Echo - Seems to have no effect
PAN Resizer - Error: requested a non-supported feature Speed Custom - Crashes FCP on application
Pete Warden's Plugins Freeware 1.4
- (Not supported in FCP)
- Chromium - Crashed. Before was OK at supersample 1x, but gave "Verify filter params" error at Supersample 4 or when xfer mode applied.
- Others - OK at supersample 1x, but gave "Verify filter params" error at Supersample 4 or when xfer mode applied.
Phillip-Spoeth Freeware
1.1/1.2
- (Not supported in FCP)
- Sinedots II - Crashes FCP when applied to layer
- Others - Have odd effect on image size
Profound Effects Swim 1.0.0 (demo)
- (Not supported in FCP) No problems found
Profound Effects Useful Things 1.5
- (Not supported in FCP) Crashes FCP on startup
RE:Vision Effects RE:Flex 2.0
- (Not supported in FCP) For obvious reasons, since it requires AE Path inputs to work. Crashes FCP on layer application
RE:Vision Effects FieldsKit 1.1
RE:Vision Effects RE:Fill 1.0.1 (demo)
RE:Vision Effects ReelSmart Motion Blur 2.0 (demo)
RE:Vision Effects Shade/Shape 1.2.1 (demo)
RE:Vision Effects Twixtor 2.0.2 (demo)
RE:Vision Effects SmoothKit 2.0 (demo)
RE:Vision Effects Video Gogh 2.6
- (Supported in FCP) No problems found. Refill was lightly tested since I didn't have any bad keys to hand to repair ;-) It's likely to be OK though.
Realviz Retimer 1.1 (demo)
- (Supported for FCP) Doesn't crash. Don't know enough about this plug to see whether it's working right or not
Red Giant Software Composite Wizard 1.2
- (Not supported under FCP) Actually the majority of these plug-ins seem to work OK under FCP. This set could probably be made to work with a little effort from the Publisher. These are the plugs with problems:
- CW Composite Color Matcher - Works manually but since the Sample Source and Sample target controls are hyperlinks, FCP does not show them and so there is no auto adjustment (the normal method)
- CW Smooth Screen - Crashes FCP on application
- CW Spill Killer - Crashes FCP on application
- CW Spill Killer EZ- Crashes FCP on application
- CW Wire/Rig Zapper - Doesn't show custom overlay. Doesn't crash though
Red Giant Software Image Lounge 1.2 (demo)
- (Not supported in FCP) Not tested. There appears to be no OS-X demo.
Red Giant Software Knoll Light Factory 2.0
- (Supported for FCP 3 - the Red Giant only says that a patch will be available late Sept for AE 6. No mention is made about FCP 4 Compatibility.) Mostly no problems found except:
Unmult - Gives "Verify filter parameters" error. Not that you really need unmult now.
Red Giant Software Orphanage Magic Bullet 1.5 (demo)
- (Not supported for FCP) Crashes FCP on start
Red Giant Software Primatte 1.5.1 (demo)
- (Not supported in AE) Crashes AE on application
Sakurai Optical Lab Final Focus 1.0 (demo)
Sakurai Optical Lab Iris Filter 4 (demo)
- (Not supported in FCP) Crashes FCP on startup
Sebastian Mecklenburg Freeware 1.0
- (Not supported in FCP) Mostly work switcher - Current image doesn't work, but others do
Stagetools Moving Picture 4.0 (demo)
- (Supported in FCP) No problems found
Stagetools Moving Parts (demo)
- (Supported in FCP) Crashed FCP once on clicking options, but couldn't repro and then no probs found
Synthetic Aperture Color Finesse 1.0.7
- (Supported in FCP 3.x) UI very sluggish, then when settings applied, don't appear in FCP unless compatibility slider is moved. Setting compatibility to zero loses settings though.
The Foundry Tinderbox 1 1.3V1
The Foundry Tinderbox 2 1.2V1
The Foundry Tinderbox 3 1.0V1
- (Not supported for FCP) Will not license even with original CD in drive. Then causes FCP to issue Foundry license errors even for other plugs!
Trapcode 3D Stroke 2.0.2
Trapcode Sound Keys 1.1.1 (demo)
- (Not supported in FCP) Crashes FCP when applied
Trapcode Shine 1.0.5
- (Not supported although expected to work) No problems found
Trapcode Starglow 1.0.2 (demo)
- (Not supported although expected to work) Presets don't work else OK
Ultimatte AdvantEdge 1.5.7 (demo)
- (Supported in FCP) About box doesn't operate, otherwise no probs found
Virtix Effects for AE and FCP 1.0 (demo)
- (Supported under FCP 3) Effects seem to work other than
- Laser - Broke? No effect
- Laser (Point to Point) - Start-End radius seems not to work
- Lightning - Broke? No effect
Visual Infinity Grain Surgery 2.0 (demo)
- (Not supported in FCP) These could probably be made to work in FCP
- Match Grain - No preview box or output
- Remove Grain - No preview box or output
Walker Effects Walker Effects 1.1
- (Not supported in FCP) Most or all plugs crash FCP on layer application or after parameters adjusted.
Zaxwerks Invigorator 3.0.5 Classic
Zaxwerks Invigorator 3.0.5 Pro
- (Not supported in FCP) Crashes FCP after file selected
