[mikestjean]

What is the ‘home folder’ (to be sure I don’t have things installed in the wrong places)

I will remove the v3 plugin.
I am attempting to drop the quartz patch into Final Cut Pro 7, or whatever the release was before FCP-X.
Quartz patches have been an awesome addition to my videos and in FCP you can just drop them into the timeline and use them like video clips, with some extra changes in terminal to adjust the default resolution and length. So it’s only in FCP and QuickView and VDMX that I am testing these patches… again, they work showing the RE plugin output in QC editor and viewer, but nowhere else..

I will delete the v3 and see if anything changes…

[mikestjean]

From Console after running a patch with plugin v002:

11-11-01 5:49:44.021 PM
Finder: *** <QCNodeManager | namespace = “com.apple.QuartzComposer” | 401 nodes>: Failed instantiating patch with name “QCPlugInPatch:v002_Rutt_Etra_2_0PlugIn”

11-11-01 5:49:44.021 PM
Finder: *** Message from <QCLighting = 0x7fb036f44fb0 “(null)”>:
Cannot create node of class “QCPlugInPatch” and identifier “v002_Rutt_Etra_2_0PlugIn”

11-11-01 5:49:44.021 PM
Finder: *** Message from <QCLighting = 0x7fb036f44fb0 “(null)”>:
Cannot create connection from [“output” @ “Splitter_2”] to [“inputImage” @ “PlugInPatch_v002_Rutt_Etra_2_0PlugIn_1”]

11-11-01 5:49:44.022 PM
Finder: *** Message from <QCLighting = 0x7fb036f44fb0 “(null)”>:
Cannot create connection from [“_protocolOutput_Image” @ “PatchRenderer_1”] to [“inputImageLuma” @ “PlugInPatch_v002_Rutt_Etra_2_0PlugIn_1”]

And oddly enough, from Console after running a patch with Plugin v003:

Finder: *** <QCNodeManager | namespace = “com.apple.QuartzComposer” | 401 nodes>: Failed instantiating patch with name “QCPlugInPatch:v002_Rutt_Etra_2_0PlugIn”

Finder: *** Message from <QCLighting = 0x7fb036a8bc10 “(null)”>:
Cannot create node of class “QCPlugInPatch” and identifier “v002_Rutt_Etra_2_0PlugIn”

Finder: *** Message from <QCLighting = 0x7fb036a8bc10 “(null)”>:
Cannot create connection from [“output” @ “Splitter_2”] to [“inputImage” @ “PlugInPatch_v002_Rutt_Etra_2_0PlugIn_1”]

Finder: *** Message from <QCLighting = 0x7fb036a8bc10 “(null)”>:
Cannot create connection from [“_protocolOutput_Image” @ “PatchRenderer_1”] to [“inputImageLuma” @ “PlugInPatch_v002_Rutt_Etra_2_0PlugIn_1”]

[mikestjean]

Unfortunately it’s still not working for me… (sorry for the delayed reply 🙂

I’ve just installed the plugins, both of them v2 and v3, in Lion, with no other plug-ins installed… the patches render properly in QC but again not in QuickView.. is there a .plist they need to be added to or something?

I just dragged the .plugin files to the QuartComposer Plugins folder this time… didn’t run an Install…

Thoughts?

[mikestjean]

Hi all,

I’m still having a big issue with the RuttEtra plugin… (maybe off topic but I expect it’s the same issue for all the plugins?)

I can see it in Composer, and I can use it and run it / observe it in the Viewer in composer, but when I try to open the file- either QuickView (space bar when file is selected in Finder), or dropping it into VDMX as a patch, nothing comes up…

I’ve run a lot of tests and I really get the impression that its’ the RuttEtra plugin being seen by QComposer but not being found or searched for by OSX proper or VDMX when it’s running the patch…

I’m assuming that I should be able to create a patch with an image and the R/Etra patch.. save that as a patch and drop it into VDMX as a stand-alone patch rendering the contained image with R/Etra effect… Shouldn’t that be possible?

Could it be that it hasn’t been written properly to a .plist or somewhere?

Lastly I read that someone ‘installed’ the new R/Etra 3.0, but all I can find is the plugin, not an ‘install’ .dmg
I dropped it into the same Quartz Composer / Plug-ins folder mentioned above, and it shows up in QComposer, so I can use either R/E 2.0 or R/E 3.0 beta in my QComposer patches BUT I can only see the image that is running through R/E when I’m in QC- looking at it in Finder or VDMX doesn’t seem to render it (or whatever I should be calling that part of the process).

I’ve also created patches with other images and .qtz patches included, and everything renders fine in Finder and VDMX except for anything that is running through R/Etra… even though is shows up in QC

…yeah I write really redundantly.
…yeah, I write really redundantly.

Hope to find some help 🙂 Thanks and amazing plugin !

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