Coremelt’s SliceX is awesome

[Chris Harlan]

[Shane Ross] “FCP LEgacy didn’t have a good bezier matte. There was a third party one that was out there…forgot what that was. “

Silhouette. It now exists as a stand-alone, but they used to make an FCP plugin that would let you build masks inside the program. That was back when everyone was incorrectly calling the process rotoscoping.

I worked the 30 day demo, and had it on my list of things to acquire, but before I could, the masking in Motion developed to a point that I liked it better.

https://silhouettefx.com/silhouette/

[Michael Gissing]

I have been using CHV & Paul Crisp bezier mattes in Legacy for years. Crisp’s were freebies and quite good. CHV were part of a huge package of plugins. Nice to know these Coremelt ones are nice and easy to plot without the messy targeting of Legacy.

I presume Pr relies on dynamic linking to Ae for that sort of image manipulation.

[Michael Gissing]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Either you like it or you don’t, the debate is waning”

Well so long and thanks for the fish then. 🙂

[Kai Rankio]

Why not check out Fcpeffetcs.com and their Advanced Masking Tools v.2. It seems to do just the same, with a nicer price tag.

Product link: https://www.fcpeffects.com/collections/new-stuff/products/advanced-masking-tools-2

[Steve Connor]

CoreMelt have said that keyframing points may be possible in a future release

Steve Connor
‘It’s just my opinion, with an occasional fact thrown in for good measure”

[David Cherniack]

“CoreMelt have said that keyframing points may be possible in a future release”

‘Finally’ is sounding more and more less than final. But who needs key frames, anyway. They just complicate things.

David
AllinOneFilms.com

[Andy Field]

without keyframing – is Slice X better than Advance Masking Effects from FCPeffects.com? Masking video without being able to keyframe seems very limited and in many cases, useless

https://www.fcpeffects.com/collections/entire-catalogue/products/advanced-masking-tools-2

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Don Walker]

[Chris Harlan] “[Alan Okey] “I’m very surprised that Apple didn’t simply combine Motion 5 and FCP X into one application. There’s really no reason that Motion’s tools couldn’t be integrated into FCP X, even as separate “rooms,” etc. “
I’m hoping against hope that the reason we haven’t seen round tripping developed to Motion, is that Apple is hard at work integrating it into FCPX…… That’s my dream anyway.

don walker
texarkana, texas

John 3:16

[Jeremy Garchow]

[David Cherniack] “‘Finally’ is sounding more and more less than final. But who needs key frames, anyway. They just complicate things.”

Don’t get me wrong guys, I didn’t say this was a rotoscope tool.

You can key frame the matte position/scale/rotation, you just can’t keyframe the individual points.

I enjoy the custom bezier mattes without the 4,8,10,16.20 or whatever point garbage matte. This plugin is not that and if you have a look at the “freeform shape tool” it’s much better than a fixed point based system.

No, it doesn’t compete with Smoke, DS, or Dynamic Link to Ae, but it is a big step forward in not only FCP NLE capability, but specifically FCPX plugins. And it is available right in the FCPX interface, I don’t have to go to another “room”, application, or section.

I think it’s pretty f*cking awesome, especially when they said things like this couldn’t be done.

Cheers yer beers.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Don Walker] “I’m hoping against hope that the reason we haven’t seen round tripping developed to Motion, is that Apple is hard at work integrating it into FCPX…… That’s my dream anyway.”

I do agree with you and Mr Okey that they could have simply wrapped Motion in to FCPX. They seem to have done it (sort of) with Soundtrack Pro, at least with the heavy lifting filter interfaces.

Jeremy