[Tim Goodwin]

After further inspection I’ve discovered that only the BCC Generators & Wipe Transitions are duplicated in Motion

BTW, Anyone been able to get either BCC 4 Trails or Trails Basic to work in Motion ?

Thanks.
Tim

[Tim Goodwin]

Hi
Ok, I did the upgrade to BCC 4.1 as per the instructions above. Now,in my FCP plugins folder I have the original BCC 4 folder created by the CD installer & all of the new updated plugins. In FCP v5.1.2 there are now two of every plugin in the menu & no way to differentiate between the two.

So,I dragged the original BCC 4 folder out & thus far everything seems to be working ok.

However, Motion no longer recognizes the new updated plugins so I set a path in Motion prefs. to the the folder which contains the original plugins installed from the CD. Now I have dupicates of almost every BCC 4 plugin listed in Motion.

Did I miss something obvious here ?

Thanks for any help and/or suggestions.

Tim

[Tim Goodwin]

Hello Christopher

Have you tried deleting your FCP 5.1.1 preferences (3 files) then doing the Caps Lock drill ?

Tim

[Tim Goodwin]

Launch FCP with Caps Lock engaged and quit immediately.

Re-launch FCP with the Caps Lock disengaged.

This will initialize the BCC filters within FCP.

Tim

[Tim Goodwin]

[Christopher Wright] “If you have upgraded FCP to the Universal binary, it breaks anything but the default effect behaviour in FCP. I also found this out after upgrading. None of the Continuum or Bortis filters allow you to adjust parameters any more after the upgrade.”

There is a patch available on the BorisFX website that fixes this. If, after you install the patch you upgrade to FCS 5.1.1 you will need to trash your FCP preferences (users/*you*/library/preferences/Final Cut Pro User Data) and do the Caps Lock thing again.

Tim

[Tim Goodwin]

Hi Tim

Both seem to be working fine on my system ok. PPC G5 2.0 Dual, OSX 10.4.6.

After upgrading to OSX 10.4.6 I did have to trash the FCP 5.1 preference files but that was to resolve a problem with the controls not showing up in the Filters tab.

Tim

[Tim Goodwin]

Hello Brian

Thank you so very much!! That did it.

Thanks again
Tim

[Tim Goodwin]

Thanks Brian. Hopefully a solution will be found shortly.

FWIW, the plugins seem to work fine in Motion 2.1.1 which was upgraded to resolve a compatibility problem with OSX v10.4.6.

Thanks again
Tim

[Tim Goodwin]

Hello Brian

I’ve got the exact same problem now after upgrading from OSX 10.4.5 to 10.4.6. Everything was working beautifully under OSX 10.4.5.

Did you ever resolve this ?

Thanks
Tim

[Tim Goodwin]

Hello drarsky

Ok, I was able to at least get something that resembles a pane of glass passing over a clip.

First I needed to understand that a comp in AE is a Layer in Motion and that a layer in AE is essentially an Object in Motion. (sorry if that is simply stating the obvious)

I went ahead and created the Glass Effect comp as described in the tutorial. I used a Basic 3D filter to “spin” the color solids on the Y axis. I then imported my footage and duplicated it. I applied an Image Mask to the duplicate and dropped the Glass Effect layer in the image well. I also added a Glass Distortion, Refraction, and Gaussian Blur to the duplicated object. All this is in the top Layer with Blend Mode set to Combine. The original clip is contained in a second layer with the blend mode also set to combine.

It doesn’t look very good at this point but it is at least a start. If anyone else has any insight as to how to improve upon this basic concept or an alternative way of going about creating this effect I would sincerely appreciate your input.

Thanks
Tim