Red Alert Presets available in Log and Transfer

[Derek Devine]

Thanks for developing this Reinhart. This is a great upgrade to FCP workflow.

Not to be greedy, but if there is a way to organize and access Presets in sub-folders that would be a nice addition.

[Derek Devine]

I was excited as you probably were when those presets worked.

Very excited!!

[Uli Plank]

Having presets in the wrong folder is an error I've seen in some places where I was asked for help. But once the preset is showing up in the list in L&T, it should be applied when chosen. There must be a different problem in the case mentioned.

[Reinhart]

Thanks for developing this Reinhart. This is a great upgrade to FCP workflow.

Not to be greedy, but if there is a way to organize and access Presets in sub-folders that would be a nice addition.

give me a detailed example of what you're looking for

[Derek Devine]

Sure.

Right now if I save say 20 Red Alert Camera presets in the designated preset folder, I will see all 20 Camera presets show up in the FCP log and transfer drop down. What would be nice would be to have the option of creating folders in the designated preset folder to help organize these presets by project. So, the FCP L&T drop down would have a folder structure. That way I don't have to sift through lots of presets if I'm only playing around with 2 or 3 presets.

Short of that, my plan is to just store my presets in a project archive and pull them into the RED Alert Preset folder when I need them.

Just a cool feature. Again, awesome plug-in

[Reinhart]

Sure.

Right now if I save say 20 Red Alert Camera presets in the designated preset folder, I will see all 20 Camera presets show up in the FCP log and transfer drop down. What would be nice would be to have the option of creating folders in the designated preset folder to help organize these presets by project. So, the FCP L&T drop down would have a folder structure. That way I don't have to sift through lots of presets if I'm only playing around with 2 or 3 presets.

Short of that, my plan is to just store my presets in a project archive and pull them into the RED Alert Preset folder when I need them.

Just a cool feature. Again, awesome plug-in

I like this idea too, but the problem I have is that the UI for the L&T plugin
is predefined, and somewhat limited. Well, quite limited. Actually, very limited.
I have to stick everything you want into that single menu. I don't even get sub-menus. In the meantime, I *might* be able to allow you to put the presets in subfolders (under the place where REDAlert puts them) and place some sort of numeric designator in front of the name so at least they'll be grouped. Would that help?

[Derek Devine]

How limited is it?:clown2:


That solution sounds great. I'm not sure how you'll pull it off, but yeah, that would be nice.


OK, reality check here folks. HOW many times has any of us received an email or message from a software developer offering to even attempt to build the application "just the way we want it".

[Uli Plank]

Only from one-man-bands, never from a developer in a company selling 5000 cinematic cameras in two years!

A simple solution on the users side would be swapping all the presets in or out of the preset folder on a per-project basis, if this is what's needed. Or, since we are generating the presets in REDAlert anyway, what about having some elegant mechanism there to re-arrange the content of that folder?

Keep the good work going Reinhart, you are great, I know the limitations are from Apple's side. Even if you can only make curves carry over, that would be a giant leap for (camera)mankind. (Not excluding camerawomen)

Thank you in advance!

[Reinhart]

Even if you can only make curves carry over, that would be a giant leap for (camera)mankind. (Not excluding camerawomen)

It's on the radar screen...

[Derek Devine]

Hi Reinhart,

Any chance we could get an import with Metadata setting in the L&T drop down menu?