Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 1025)

240 Part II Effects
Plug-in Restrictions and Troubleshooting
The following section explains plug-in limitations you should be aware of before
incorporating plug-ins into a particular workflow.
FxPlug Plug-in Restrictions
When using FxPlug plug-ins with Final Cut Pro, the following restrictions apply:
 Onscreen controls, such as point controls that appear directly in the Viewer and Canvas,
are not supported.
 Motion allows filters to render beyond the bounds of the Canvas, but Final Cut Pro
does not. Some effects have parameters, such as Crop and Expansion Amount, that
control this behavior. These parameters will not have an effect in Final Cut Pro.
 Effects that result in subtle gradations (such as a Gradient generator or Gaussian Blur
filter) can cause colored vertical banding after rendering. This kind of banding is
likely an artifact of rendering in a low-resolution codec (such as DV) and not an issue
with the filter. Try setting your sequence settings to an Uncompressed 8- or 10-bit
sequence preset instead.
 FxPlug plug-ins that render in RGB color space may cause clipping, especially when
applied to Y’C
B
C
R
clips with high chroma or luma values. This may be particularly
noticeable when applying an FxPlug filter to a range of a clip instead of an entire clip.
 If your computer has a graphics card with 64 MB or less of video RAM (VRAM), some
FxPlug plug-ins installed with Motion are not available in Final Cut Pro.
After Effects Plug-in Restrictions
You can use some Adobe After Effects filters in Final Cut Pro, but there are limitations.
When working with After Effects filters, keep the following in mind:
 Final Cut Pro does not support After Effects plug-ins on Intel-based Macintosh computers.
 After Effects filters may use more memory than Final Cut Pro filters.
 Not all After Effects filters are supported. If you install a set of filters and then begin
to have problems, take them out of the Plugins folder.
 For After Effects filters that have clip parameters, you can use the clip itself as the
parameter for the input clip. To do so, Control-click the clip parameter and choose
Self from the shortcut menu.
To install After Effects filters:
m Copy the filters into one of two locations, depending on where you are saving other files:
 /Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Plugins/
 /Users/username/Library/Preferences/Final Cut Pro User Data/Plugins/