FCPX 10.0.6 3rd party products. What works and what doesn't work?

Just recently purchased it, although I haven't had a chance to use it yet. Good to know it's working great with x 10.0.6. I had also just purchased MBL like 2 days after the X update only to find out it wasn't working right. It was a little upsetting, but I have confidence that they will be able to fix it quickly (I am holding my breath though).

Their Pluraleyes fix was released only a few days after the 10.0.6 update. The export flashes issue seems to be a little more difficult to cope with, but given Red Giant's good track record with bug fixes I think you won't have to hold your breath too long anymore

Red Giant released an update to magic bullet looks yesterday and seems to be working just fine, albeit slower playback as I remember... could be because I've applied it to a multicam clip. no more time to test it out today-

Initially, after the 10.0.6 update I found intermittent issues with MBL2 not bringing up the on-screen controls, although I did get to to work. However, since I have completely finished grading two projects with MBL2 with no problems whatsoever. Yesterday, I spent 3 hours on a music video in which I tried every single built-in preset for MBL2 as well as my custom presets simply to test the app and everything worked fine. I then exported a range of my project to be sure there were no issues when mastering it, and still had no problems.

So, the MBL2 compatibility with 10.0.6 is either very intermittent, or it may be hardware specific. It seems now to work very well for me. I will keep an eye on things.

EDIT: I wrote this post prior to knowing of the update mentioned above, so I am still using the MBL2 2.08 version.

@ Dan:

It seems to be hardware specific. We don't have it on our MacPros, just on some of our iMacs.

@ ptrush:

Thank you for this information. I haven't received any message yet from Red Giant concerning this fix, nor do I seem to find any mentioning of it on their site right now. Would you have a link to the update page?

Yeah, I don't see anything about an update either. A link would be great.

Argh!! sorry, I updated to what I thought was a later version but actually read the date backwards-
thought it was 11-6, not 6-11. guess i'm one of the lucky ones that MBL works for.
my apologies.

No problem. Thanks for the effort.

Ron, keep holding your breath...

I don't know that there is any "luck" involved, I think it has something to do with your editing system or graphics card used. I don't see the problem with my 2011 Macbook, but do see the problem with my 2011 iMac.

BTW, if you all have Plural Eyes, and don't yet have Magic Bullet Looks, they have a special going on which I think ends tomorrow (Nov 8th) to purchase Looks at half price. I received an email yesterday I think it was making me the offer but I had already bought it last week at full price. Red Giant was gracious enough to extend me a credit of 50% off what I paid, that was pretty sweet of them! So, that helps me to hold my breath a little while longer, I just hope I don't need resuscitation.

"I just hope I don't need resuscitation."

LOL!

Ben agreed.
Used Slice x depth of field plugin the other day and it was pure gold.

mliebergot wrote: Ben agreed.
Used Slice x depth of field plugin the other day and it was pure gold.

Yep, I'm finding all sorts of things I can do now without doubling a clip on top of itself.

It's amazing to have this advanced shape mask option that actually works WITH the built-in color correction controls.

Combined with Nattress Levels I'm doing some great color grading tricks, too.

Very killer plugin. And great "intro" price that won't last.

Just wish the shape points themselves were keyframable.

Just wish the shape points themselves were keyframable.

Oops, that's a bummer.

Making the points keyframable in SliceX would be possible for us to do in theory, we'll consider it for a future release.

CoreMelt wrote: Making the points keyframable in SliceX would be possible for us to do in theory, we'll consider it for a future release.

Do you think maybe you can have that done by Friday?

What? I have to wait until Friday? Really? Geez!

Is it true that Neat works with 10.0.6. ? I read this on their website

"In FCP X 10.0.6: This new version of FCP X may not work correctly if the clip's pixel aspect ratio is different than 1.0. That incorrect behaviour of FCP X may effectively disable Neat Video and it will not produce expected noise reduction in FCP X preview or render. We are currently working with Apple to find a way to avoid the problem. Before a solution is found, we recommend to postpone updating to 10.0.6 and keep 10.0.5 for the time being."[/i][/i]

Yes it works in FCP10.0.6, but it is correct that non-square pixel formats are a problem. This is not only with Neat. FCP10 has always had several issues with anamorphic video. Good to hear they are working on it.

plysat wrote: Couple plugins I've found to be flaky... BG Flicker not Flickr works, but behaves weirdly. Cut Speed Rate Controls don't really do much... Also, TKY 4-Way Assymetric Screen splitter works, but clips selected for the drop zones don't play, they just freeze on a frame. Nothing has caused a crash... yet. :whistle: Other than that, things seem to still work.

Apple have changed the way Drop Zones are implemented. See here for details:

www.fcp.co/forum/7-fcpx-how-to-tutorials...-zones-in-fcp-10-0-6

You will find that using the new technique you will have no problems with TKY 4-way Asymmetric Split Screen. The old ways no longer work.

Unfortunately my Blackmagic Ultra studio 3D doesn't work with fcpx 10.0.6. Even that on output preferences is visible still no image is showing on the sdi monitor.
The output works well with DaVinci Resolve but not with fcpx.
I also had to disable FxFactory plugins because some of them where crushing down fcpx. Noise industries support admitted that some of their plugins don't work with Mountain Lion and promised to update fxfactory soon. The update just arrived (4.0) but no word on improved performance with mountain lion .
I have tried the above on a 15inches rMBP 16MB RAM.
The other setup I have is with 2010 Mac Pro with Matrox MXO2 MAX. Video out doesn't work either even with 3.3 beta driver for the Matrox card
The only one that works is a 2009 Mac PRO with Blacmagic HD Extreme. On this one the image is fine on the SDI control monitor.
Any advice on solving my problems is welcome.
Best,
Eugen