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Photos is a Platform too?
Marcus Moore noticed this, and I think it’s pretty interesting.
To keep to our glorious topic, FCP X was “missing” a lot when it dropped. But 3’rd parties have extended it so that now I can, if I want to, do AAF, EDL, Color Wheels, Planar Tracking, Work with 3D objects and a ton of other stuff without leaving the app. Yes, things are still “missing”. (do me a favor and refrain from listing them here, or defending their absence if you don’t mind) But there’s a lot I can do right in the timeline now. More than any other NLE I use.
I wonder what else is gonna show up to “extend” Photos. 😉 What would yo like to see show up as an Extension?
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Hey Charlie, since I’m an old Luddite who’s afraid of new technology, can you please do me a favor by explaining what an extention is?
I hate to admit it, I’ve see the term used for years in other apps, but I never knew the term, and therefore if I had any use for an extension.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los AngelesDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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[David Roth Weiss] “Hey Charlie, since I’m an old Luddite who’s afraid of new technology, can you please do me a favor by explaining what an extention is? “
Basically it adds the functions from an app, or new functions, into another app. Kind of like Color Finale or mObject in FCP X. A new UI opens up in Photos so you can do stuff without switching to another app.
Check out the demos in the link above… Select a photo in Photos, choose Edit, select an Extension, and all sorts of fun stuff appears. 🙂
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That sounds like a plugin, are they the same, or is there a difference?
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los AngelesDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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[David Roth Weiss] “That sounds like a plugin, are they the same, or is there a difference?”
Kind of. I think the difference is that, rather than just adding something to Photos, it basically hooks another app into Photos. All the Apps listed here are not new, they’re standalone apps. But because of the new Extensions API thingy, they’ve been updated so you can use them from within Photos as well.
EDIT: So I guess my Color Finale/mObject & FCP X example wasn’t really correct, despite their custom UI, they are plugins in that you need to open them from FCP… I dunno what the analog to this is…
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FYI – This requires El Capitan, which adds extensions to Photos. You can buy these through the Mac App Store.
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[David Roth Weiss] “That sounds like a plugin, are they the same, or is there a difference?
“I don’t think there’s anything that actually differentiates a plugin from an extension. It’s just terminology.
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For other “platforms” like browser technology, there does seem to a difference between a plug-in and an extension.
“An extension could contain a plugin, but a plugin can’t contain an extension”
Full article here:
https://colonelpanic.net/2010/08/browser-plugins-vs-extensions-the-difference/
Michael
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[Michael Phillips] “”An extension could contain a plugin, but a plugin can’t contain an extension””
That’s a lot of verbiage to simply express that an extension is merely a sandboxed plugin.
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[Gary Huff] “That’s a lot of verbiage to simply express that an extension is merely a sandboxed plugin.”
In a browser, sure. In the case of OS X, Extensions are not a standalone “thing”, they’re just code to allow Applications to extend parts of their functionality into other apps. Plugins generally don’t do anything without a host app. So far, all the Photos Extensions are built into standalone apps. So… similar to plugins in how they work with other apps, but not the same…
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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~ -
As a heavy Aperture user I need a powerful DAM, Digital Asset Manager, for photos. The dropping of Aperture is my biggest gripe with Apple. I’m sure it had something to do with changes planned in El Capitan, but I’m sticking with it (Yosemite version) until Photos proves it’s worth. I should have at least 5 years with my current hardware.
Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1, Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Pro X 10.2.2, Final Cut Studio 2 & 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1.6, Premiere Pro CS 5 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K, Blackmagic Teranex, Avid MC: 2013 Mac Pro Hexacore, 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM, 2-D500: Helios 2 w 2-960GB SSDs: 2012 Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz, 24Gb RAM, GTX-680, 960GB SSD: Macbook Pro Retina 2015, i7, 500GB, M370X 2GB: Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 16GB RAM 250GB SSD, Multiple OWC Thunderbay 4 TB2 and eSATA QX2 RAID 5 HD systems
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