Re: applied effects can make layer vanish - with no parameters altered...

Hi Mark,

I am sorry to hear that you have not been able to create the plug-in you desire. Clearly, it is a challenge to create plug-ins for FxPlug. FxFactory we think does a good job at making this process a whole lot easier than programming them from scratch. FxFactory in combination with QC makes this process much easier than any other path we know of. Clearly, there is still a lot one has to learn about how things work in QC, FxFactory and the host applications (FCP/Motion etc,) to successfully build plug-ins. We deliver lots of examples that work and can be examined (134 plug-ins in the Pro Pack) as well as tutorials. If you look at what it takes to write GPU accelerated plug-ins from scratch, I think you would feel different about FxFactory, as an aid to make this process more efficient and easier.

We have released multiple updates to FxFactory in the last year. To be exact, FxFactory 2 is not even a year old yet. Every version is better than the last, there have been lots of improvements that have been inspired by plug-in development partners. Obviously, it is in our interest to make the plug-in development process as easy as possible, and we work very hard to achieve that. We will continue to improve the process to make it even easier, but because creating a gpu accelerated plug-in for FCS is inherently a complex task, there is only so much one can do, to create a layer of abstraction that eases the process.

Over the past years we have found multiple partners, some of them who had no programming experience at all, who successfully built beautiful plug-ins, which are being used by editors and compositors around the globe.

I do hope you will give FxFactory another shot at some point in the future.



Regards,

Niclas


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