Remember the Asymmetrical Dissolve Debate?

[Shawn Miller]

That is just slick.

Shawn

[Charlie Austin]

[Shawn Miller] “That is just slick.”

Yeah, it really is one of the most original plugins I’ve seen in a long time.

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[Tim Wilson]

Well, I think we’ve finally managed to settle one debate around here. It can be done, and there are artistic, creative reasons for doing so.

Having developed, or been part of development teams for, a number of plug-ins over the years, this is one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen. Elegant, practical, powerful, unique, and genuinely transformative.

There hasn’t been a substantive change to our basic visual vocabulary for transitioning between scenes in a very long time, and I think this has the potential to be the biggest since the optical dissolve.

No kidding. This is an insane amount of power, my children. Use it wisely.

Or not. It’s a plug-in. Go crazy. LOL

Another winner from Simon Ubsdell and Hawaiki — not that there was ever any debate about that.

[Shane Ross]

OK, I’m switching to FCX specifically because of this plugin!

Shane
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[David Lawrence]

Wait, how can there possibly be a plug-in for something that DOESN’T EXIST???

Seriously though, great work Simon! 🙂

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[Steve Connor]

Excellent work Simon, looking forward to using it

[Kevin Rag]

Yaaay! Well done Simon:)

Kannan Raghavan
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[Simon Ubsdell]

Wow! Thank you so much, Tim (and others), for your extremely kind words!

I’d really like to step up and take all the credit but really I don’t deserve any of it and it should go to my very talented (and ever so slightly obsessive) Hawaiki development partner, Rob Mackintosh. My only contribution was to come up with fantastical, unreasonable, impossible demands which he then not only turned into reality, but in each case massively improved upon in the execution.

I should also thank Oliver P., Jeremy G., Charlie A. and Walter S. who gave up their valuable time to beta test it and each contributed great ideas for how to improve it.

It should also be obvious to those of you who have been around here for a while, as Charlie alludes to above, that the original inspiration for this came from the many debates that have taken place on this very forum on the subject of dissolves, and of course this recent one in particular. As ever, this place is a great crucible of fascinating discussion and provocative, crazy, brilliant ideas, which it’s hard not to be inspired by, so thanks to all of you for that!

Simon Ubsdell
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[Ricardo Marty]

Is it going to be just an fcpx app?

Ricardo

[Bill Davis]

Since I was pretty much on Charlie’s side of the debate originally, I’ll cop to the fact that I was also wrong about the “a dissolve is a dissolve” thing.

This looks really well conceived and implemented.

Don’t know how many of my corporate type of video clients will appreciate the distinctions – but that’s not the point.

There are (hopefully) legions of editors who will appreciate the control and be delighted to pay for the new capabilities.

Well done.

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