Re: Example of AEGP_GetNewText()?

Bruce Bullis · ‎Apr 02, 2007

First, congratulations on trying so many things on your own; nice work! Second, any time the function name contains 'new', AE will allocate the handle to hold the text for you. Try this (works here). AEGP_MemHandle my_cool_textH = NULL; ERR(suites.TextDocumentSuite1()->AEGP_GetNewText(S_my_id, stream_valP.text_documentH, &my_cool_textH)); There's your unicode string.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Mar 19, 2007

You'll need a layer param, set to the current camera. That way, AE knows your effect is dependent upon the camera layer, and will invalidate your results (forcing a redraw) when the camera layer changes. See Checkout for an example of an effect with a layer parameter.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Mar 19, 2007

That's a very generic message. Set breakpoints in your plug-in to see where the problem lies.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Mar 19, 2007

We don't support parsing the .aep file; that's why we provided a full-featured API. See Text Twiddler and Streamie for examples of manipulating the data streams associated with text layers. Also, scripting should serve you well.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Mar 17, 2007

What's the error number? Perhaps you're not releasing something passed to you by the AE API?

Bruce Bullis · ‎Mar 15, 2007

AEIO_MFlag_AUDIO means you support audio in at least some of the files you plan to import. For files that really don't contain any audio, you would zero out the audio settings using AEGP_SetInspecAudio... calls.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Mar 13, 2007

You need to NOT set AEIO_MFlag_AUDIO, and After Effects will never ask you to supply audio. Note that overriding _some_ but not _all_ .AVI files is not supported, and is guaranteed to cause problems.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Mar 09, 2007

Mario, were you checking the pre-processor stuff for the files while your current build config was debug, or release? Glad you got it to work.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Mar 09, 2007

That's a fine workflow. ;) That error message means the OS couldn't load everything upon which your plug-in depends, and/or has problems with the entry point exported in the PiPL.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Feb 14, 2007

If you'd like primitives, check out http://conoa.com/

Bruce Bullis · ‎Feb 01, 2007

Perhaps; it's been feature-requested for a couple of versions now.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Feb 01, 2007

Welcome to the world of supporting the opengl [ahem] "standard"... ;)

Bruce Bullis · ‎Feb 01, 2007

We ripped out the Release configs a long time ago; developers were actually shipping not-terribly-updated sample projects.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Feb 01, 2007

Neither After Effects nor the SDK has been fully tested on 64-bit Windows.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Feb 01, 2007

There's no way to get the version as a string, though both the effect API and AEGP API provide versioning info.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Jan 09, 2007

The answer lies in the Project Properties --> C/C++ --> Code Generation settings. Change your Runtime Library settings to something NON-debug; Multi-threaded DLL usually serves.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Jan 09, 2007

You can't. You'll need to do the translation between OpenGL-ville and AE-town, usually pixel by pixel.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Jan 09, 2007

Nope.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Jan 09, 2007

That's pretty strange. Is the PiPL getting mangled along the way? If you like, you can send me a Stuffit archive of the plug-in, and I'll look further. (Remember to give the attachment a non-threatening extension, like .not_a_virus, or it'll never get past our mail gateway...)

Bruce Bullis · ‎Jan 09, 2007

Take a look at Supervisor; we need to change a COPY of the params, not the original params.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Jan 09, 2007

From an effect?

Bruce Bullis · ‎Dec 07, 2006

Subpixel sampling works correctly in the Shifter sample; what, if anything, are you doing differently?

Bruce Bullis · ‎Dec 04, 2006

I don't think you need to anti-alias yourself, though you can use our subpixel sampling callbacks, if you like.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Dec 04, 2006

We won't be porting the Windows SDK anywhere; it's enough work to keep it running in the environments we use internally, without introducing an external dependency on gcc Windows distributions. Good luck, though, if you choose to pursue that on your own! Regarding attaching: http://blogs.adobe.com/ae_api/2006/03/more_xcode_debugging_details.html As far as helping beginning plug-in developers: http://blogs.adobe.com/ae_api/Head_First_Plug-in_Development.pdf

Bruce Bullis · ‎Dec 01, 2006

That's odd, but more broadly... What are you trying to accomplish by making radical changes to the plug-in, during one session of AE?

Bruce Bullis · ‎Dec 01, 2006

To find a specific pixel, you'll need to do some pixel math. You could MAKE FillMatteSuite2 a member of AEGP_SuiteHandler; it isn't terribly hard. You'll also need to copy the input buffer to the output buffer, before drawing your pixel. Feel free to contact me directly with more specific questions.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Dec 01, 2006

The relevant samples are IO (for video and audio files), and FBIO (for frame-based formats, or stills). NOTE: It is not possible to override AE's file handling for subtypes of supported file formats. So, while you can't take over AVI handling for a specific codec or subtype, you're free to write support for .xyz file format.

Bruce Bullis · ‎Nov 28, 2006

What's telling you it isn't reloaded?

Bruce Bullis · ‎Nov 17, 2006

Is your plug-in an effect? The re-load trick only works for effects (invoked upon application), not AEGPs (which are invoked at run time)

Bruce Bullis · ‎Nov 02, 2006

The plug-in API is written for C plug-ins, although C++ works just fine. Although some developers have integrated Python (Useful Things) and JavaScript (Kuala Lumpur), I haven't heard of anyone using Java.

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