Video Editing Plugins

[Azphyxia]

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Hey Guys !

I was wondering if anyone here knows about FCPX SDK or Premier Pro SDK 
There are no tutorials available on Youtube or Internet. Can anyone help me ?

Please !

[Franck]

15 hours ago, Azphyxia said:

There are no tutorials available on Youtube or Internet. Can anyone help me ?

Welcome to the world of an API dev. You need to work with only 2 things most of the time :

1 - Documentation

2 - Company Support

 

For Adobe you can forget about the second one if you are not one of the big first party tech company like Microsoft. for Final cut i cannot say.

 

For API you will get much more help such as tutorial with Open Source project.

As an example for video editing i used to work with OpenShot like 12+ years ago.

[Azphyxia]

On 5/5/2023 at 5:06 PM, Franck said:

Welcome to the world of an API dev. You need to work with only 2 things most of the time :

1 - Documentation

2 - Company Support

 

For Adobe you can forget about the second one if you are not one of the big first party tech company like Microsoft. for Final cut i cannot say.

 

For API you will get much more help such as tutorial with Open Source project.

As an example for video editing i used to work with OpenShot like 12+ years ago.

Thank you for telling me details.
Can you give me a small roadmap on how to learn things ?

I want to make plugins like auto scene detection for Final Cut Pro.
Also how much time will it take if you could give me an estimation ?

[Franck]

On 5/6/2023 at 4:20 PM, Azphyxia said:

Thank you for telling me details.
Can you give me a small roadmap on how to learn things ?

I want to make plugins like auto scene detection for Final Cut Pro.
Also how much time will it take if you could give me an estimation ?

 

If it's about Finaly Cut itself i can't help you i never used it. I only used OpenShot to replace video editor from major brand back in the day.

 

What you need to learn is manipulate images. Know how bits are arranged.

Other than that mask is useful to know how it works but again it is just image manipulation.

All color calibration are image bit manipulation. All cut, stitching, encoding are taken care by the API.

A zoom or transition is again just image manipulation.

 

If you have done any image manipulation in the past in programming you already know 90% of how things works.

Although everything is to be implemented by hand. Some algorithm are very easy but very long to write.

If you have worked with ImageMagick you are pretty much golden. They go well together.

 

We made as a 2 man team full time a tool for a company making tv ad for different brands that allow them to do transition and stitching many video together.

We had color calibration and encoding and projet saving loading. We did not do any audio as these where always recorded on other device and were added after the video was completed. Took us about 4 months to complete the project and had very few update and bug fix over a year after.

[Azphyxia]

4 hours ago, Franck said:

 

If it's about Finaly Cut itself i can't help you i never used it. I only used OpenShot to replace video editor from major brand back in the day.

 

What you need to learn is manipulate images. Know how bits are arranged.

Other than that mask is useful to know how it works but again it is just image manipulation.

All color calibration are image bit manipulation. All cut, stitching, encoding are taken care by the API.

A zoom or transition is again just image manipulation.

 

If you have done any image manipulation in the past in programming you already know 90% of how things works.

Although everything is to be implemented by hand. Some algorithm are very easy but very long to write.

If you have worked with ImageMagick you are pretty much golden. They go well together.

 

We made as a 2 man team full time a tool for a company making tv ad for different brands that allow them to do transition and stitching many video together.

We had color calibration and encoding and projet saving loading. We did not do any audio as these where always recorded on other device and were added after the video was completed. Took us about 4 months to complete the project and had very few update and bug fix over a year after.

Thanks for the info !

But I just want the plugin to put already defined elements in timeline. Elements which already exist just need to be rearranged