[quote user="csouza"]I am able to negotiate the AVXATTR_Effect_ModalUI attribute to open a UI using a ACFCompType_ModalUI component. It creates a button on the effect editor panel with a button in it. [/quote] This is the only safe way to display a model UI from the Effect Editor. If you need... (read more)

Hello, I'm trying to localization our AVX plugins at the moment and I'm facing few problems. By looking into the SDK, I found out this: ACFATTR_Definition_Language , which seems to always returns 'en' what ever UI lanagage Im using. Note that I'm using this documentation to change... (read more)

Hi, I'm developing an AVX2 plugin and on a specific time I'd like to create a file under the project directory [1] where my effect is currently applied on. In order to do this I need a way to retrieve the current project directory. I know there is a function GetModuleFileName() for dll's... (read more)

Thank you, Marianna! I will forward the answers to the team. To answer your last question, yes, the plugin we are developing will launch its own UI through Avid's effects control panel, similar to many 3rd-party plugins (Baselight for Avid, Sapphire Builder, NewBlue Titler, etc.) That user interface... (read more)

Thank you, Tom, for this valuable information. I will pass it on to the team and reply with the results or more questions :) Much appreciated! (read more)

You are experiencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_Hell. Media Composer has it's own version of the Qt DLLs & framworks with custom patches to Qt that are not necessarily binary compatible with any externally built Qt-based AVX plugins. Your AVX plugin is loaded into the Media Composer process... (read more)

Hello, We are building a plugin for Avid Media Composer. The plugin will use a custom UI that will be launched through the DoDialog method. We are using Qt for our plugin but we are having a hard time getting it to work. Do you have any run books or documentation specifically for Qt based plugins that... (read more)

Hello, I think a lot of guys know how to do that but I want to include our application as plugin for Media Composer using AVX. Are there some good articles how to start or some best practices which are not commercial? I would be really happy for some infos, recommendations etc. Greetings Jan (read more)