Looking for an Animatte Plugin

[Lars Fuchs]

Thanks guys for pointing out that I can manually enter a value greater than +/- 100 in the feathering field. That does work.

I had gotten used to After Effects where the full range of a parameter is available to the slider. It’s good that Motion does have more feathering than I realized, but it isn’t very convenient to be have to manually enter all values above 100. If you’re not sure if you want 700, 800, 900, or 1000 pixels of feathering, say, you have to manually enter each value, back and forth, rather than simply dragging the mouse til its right.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Lars Fuchs] “I had gotten used to After Effects where the full range of a parameter is available to the slider.”

See, I find that on certain parameters, AE is just the same. The slider goes to a certain number, but you can manually enter in numbers that are greater or less than what’s available to the slider.

Jeremy

[Jack Bibbo]

Guys it may be more appropriate to have this discussion elsewhere, say a motion forum. However tempting it is to continue the debate I was and I still am looking for a very simple plug in for FCP. No roundtripping desired.

Thanks

[Jeremy Garchow]

[jack Bibbo] “No roundtripping desired. “

Sorry, Jack. You are out of luck. I think you have your answer and hopefully learned something along the way. There’s no direct equivalent to the Animatte plug in for FCP.

[Jack Bibbo]

Tool Farm has some.

https://toolfarm.com/

I tried two:

Tom’s 50pt Bezier Matte 2 – FREE. Although it does the things I want it to do, it is not super intuitive and kind of clunky.

CHV Bezier Garbage Matte Pro. – $49.95 Way Better. Full control of your curves/feathering/animation. This is also a 50point matte, but there are presets for 5, 10, 20pt mattes. Although I wish I could control my points from the canvas, like AE or Illustrator, I quickly got used to manipulating it through the filters windows. I just tried the DEMO version. The free download(watermarked) is at:

https://mac.softpedia.com/progDownload/Bezier-Garbage-Matte-Pro-Download-21599.html

Hope this helps others.

jack