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urbeller
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March 13, 2018
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Overlay in comp view

  • March 13, 2018
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Hi,

Time for another noob question ! I want my plugin to draw a sort of HUD (heads-up display) on the comp view while running. It could be a text, path stroke or simply an overlay...pretty much what the tracker in AE does while tracking a footage. Is there something in SDK examples that I have missed ?

thank you,

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Christian Lett
Inspiring
March 21, 2018

Yes there is!

Check out the CCU example in the UI folder of the examples.

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urbellerAuthor
Known Participant
March 21, 2018

Hi there !

thank you for your answer. CCU is not exactly what I want because I don't want the overlay to be part of the final rendering, rather as a HUD info like AE tracker does when it animates the bounding box. I did try to use overlays and combine them with the comp, even though my overlay gets updated, the video image stays on the first frame. is it because the comp thread is not given a chance to refresh ? should i use a sort of wait/pause ? Thx again!

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Christian Lett
Inspiring
March 23, 2018

Hi, the overlay in the CCU example does not render with the effect, nor does it show during RAM preview.

If I recall correctly the CCU example renders an oval, but has overlays (HUD style as you say) with handles for interactively dragging the shape of the oval in the comp/layer window.

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