[Peter Mcauley]

Hi,

You can use the built-in pixelchooser in the Glow filter to matte out the areas of interest and the filter will only apply to that portion of the clip. This should generate the desired effect.

Or you could use the Film Process filter and select the shadow diffusion preset from the preset pop-up. It’s a slightly different effect but worth a look nonetheless.

I hope this helps.

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

Hello,

You might want to take a look at this section of the BorisFX web site, which explains how to make some interesting custom transitions:

https://www.borisfx.com/tutorials/burntfilm.php

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Tim,

It’s in the final phase of testing and we expect to have that ready and uploaded to our web site really soon. When it’s up there I’ll send a note to the list.

Thanks,

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

Actually we may have something available that will fix this issue sooner rather than later … stay tuned for more info.

Cheers,

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

Okay … we believe that we have discovered the source of the problem and we will work on a patch for BCC, RED, Graffiti and FX. I’ll keep you posted as we make progress but I expect it’ll take a few weeks at least given the other high priority items that we have in the works.

Cheers,

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

And we just heard from another user (Jonathan) who had a problem moving a project with BCC filters from Motion into FCP 5.1 – seems as though they are experiencing the same black media and crashing that you are seeing.

Red will indeed be next and is currently in Beta with many major improvements. That’s all I can say about it as it’s a work in progress but suffice it to say that I think everyone will be really happy with Red 4. 🙂

Cheers,

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

Hello,

Once you have completed tracking, the filter that you used to track the object will contain all of the X Y transform data and can control the X Y position of any clip in the timeline by dragging this filter onto the clip in question. So the workflow is:

[Peter Mcauley]

Ugh! I wish I had a magic wand and could make BCC 4 work with the FCP 5.1 without the problems that you reported but alas … I have not. 🙁 We are currently working on this though and BCC will be the first product that we release from development which will support Macintosh Universal.

Thanks,

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Tim,

FCP 5.1 was not certified as working with BCC 4, or any other version of our products, which is the reason why you are experiencing a compatibility issue. We were unaware of a problem until we heard from you on Friday and to be quite honest it will take weeks for us to arrive at a solution, test, and release a patch to solve this issue. I’m sorry to hear that you are having these troubles but you are using a non-supported configuration. All that I can suggest is going back a step in the FCP software if that is a possibility, or rendering this project on a different machine which has the previous version of FCP installed. We are working on a solution for the Universal FCP release but as I mentioned above, it’s going to take us a while to make this work.

Thanks,

Peter.

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Jeff,

My understand is that BCC AVX V3 is not supported on that version of Mac OSX. BCC 4 should work though – what happens when you try using BCC AVX V4?

Cheers,

Peter.