User Guide

10
Identifying Video Effects in the Find Results Window
If you use the Find command to search for effects, keep in mind that the Find Results
window does not display the Effect Class column, which helps to distinguish between
FXScript and FxPlug plug-ins. If you see duplicate filters in the Find Results window after
using the Find command, you can identify each effect by selecting it in the Find Results
window and then clicking Show in Browser. Final Cut Pro displays the selected filter in the
Effects tab, where you can identify the effect by looking in the Effect Class column.
Moving Projects Between Systems
If you have a project that uses particular FxPlug plug-ins, you need to install those
plug-ins on each machine where you want to open the project. If you open a project
on a system that does not have the necessary FxPlug plug-ins installed, Final Cut Pro
warns you that plug-ins are missing, although it does not specify which ones.
Note: When sending sequence clips from Final Cut Pro to a Motion project, effects are
not preserved.
When moving projects from one system to another, be aware that the capabilities of
each computer’s graphics card may be different, limiting which FxPlug plug-ins you can
render at high resolution and high-precision YUV quality. For more information, see
“Real-Time Playback and Rendering,” next.
Real-Time Playback and Rendering
Unlike FXScript plug-ins, whose performance improves only with increased RAM and
CPU processing power, many FxPlug plug-ins achieve high performance by processing
effects with your computer’s graphics card. Upgrading your graphics card or switching
to a system with a better graphics card can improve FxPlug plug-in performance.
Using very high-resolution clips or turning on high-precision rendering in your
sequence settings may exceed the capabilities of older graphics cards. In these
circumstances, Final Cut Pro displays one of the following warnings:
 Rendering the effect in high-precision requires a graphics card with more
capabilities: Your graphics card does not support high-precision rendering.
 The effect cannot be rendered in a sequence of this size with the current graphics
card: Your graphics card supports high-precision rendering, but the dimensions of
the sequence containing clips with applied FxPlug filters are too large for the
graphics card.
 The effect cannot render this media at full resolution. The media will be scaled in order to
render: Your graphics card has enough memory to store the sequence dimensions,
but the clip with an applied FxPlug filter is too large for the graphics card.