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  • 3rd Party plugins with tracking cause viewer to go black

    Posted by Tony Corapi on October 5, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    Hello to all. I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing this. All my third party plugins with built in trackers like (Color Finale Pro 2.2.8 Motion VFX MFlare. Core Melts Slice X etc.) cause the viewer in FCPX 10.4.9 and 10.4.10 to go black. I’ve tried most of the common procedures like deleting preferences. deleting render files, uninstalling ad reinstalling FCPX, even creating a new user. After deleting preferences for example after relaunch of FCPX the plugin works but then when I render it triggers the black screen and breaks all similar plugins. I am on a

    iMac Pro
    4TB SSD
    Intel Xeon W
    Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz
    Number of Processors:1
    Total Number of Cores: 18
    L2 Cache (per Core):1 MB
    L3 Cache: 24.8 MB
    Hyper-Threading Technology:Enabled
    Memory: 128 GB
    Mojave 10.14.6
    I noticed this when I was using a sharpening plugin that has an overall version and then one with a tracker built in. The one without tracking works fine and the one with the tracker breaks everything. Not sure if this is something to do with the Fx Plugin architecture or what.

    Thanks for any feedback.

    Craig Seeman replied 5 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
  • 4 Replies
  • Jeremy Garchow

    October 5, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    Make positively sure that all of your plugins are up to date, including the Coremelt versions.

  • Tony Corapi

    October 5, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    Thank you Jeremy I will check each one. I notice now that once I render and it breaks everything that it it also breaks other 3rd party plugins. Even ones from Ripple Training that have a tracker built in which surprised me a little because I thought their plugins were more Motion 5 built plugins. Fortunately I have an older versions of FCPX in a zip file (10.4.8) so maybe I’ll go back to that and try to import a 1.8 XML of projects and see if the problem goes away. Thanks again.

  • Jeremy Garchow

    October 5, 2020 at 11:53 pm

    Be for you do that, make sure you update all 3rd party plugs.

  • Craig Seeman

    October 6, 2020 at 4:30 am

    Color Finale Pro is at 2.2.12

    Coremelt plugins were updated on September 15th to 512.13

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