Custom 8-Point Mask effect ending sooner than clip

[Brendan Gibbons]

Do you have motion installed to open the effect up and inspect it?

Sounds like one of the layers in motion has possibly been trimmed a few frames short of the total duration.

There are a couple of 8 point masks floating about:

https://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/free-final-cut-pro-x-effect-mask-8-points-alex4d/

https://f1.creativecow.net/2557/8point-mask

See if either of these two sort out your problem.

Cheers,

Brendan

[Matthew Schickler]

Yeah, I bet I mucked up the length of a layer somewhere. I’ll take a look at it when I get home tonight. Kind of glad someone is actually using it!

[James Culbertson]

Seems like this brings up an issue of versioning and ownership. Should we as a community try to establish a way of identifying effects?

For instance having a text file in the effect folder that identifies the creator, creation date, version number, and even parameters that it includes…

[Brendan Gibbons]

Good idea this. Especially if people go on to sell presets, it would be a good practise to include creator and version details in some sort of readme file in the download.

Version details and any fixes could be outlined, and also installation details of the effect included.

A sample useage of the preset could be outlined as well.

With so many good presets already out there in only one month it is already getting hard to keep a track of them all…tough problem to have I know 😉

I’ve been guilty myself of putting presets out there without much info, but I am looking into tidying it up a bit and including more information.

Cheers,

Brendan

[James Culbertson]

Do you want to confer with some of the other prolific creators of custom effects and come up with some kind of voluntary standard for this?

Then propose it to the community for feedback…?